Book Series

Studies in American Popular History and Culture

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Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789-1919

By Amy Dunham Strand

Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender…

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September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99193-3 (Routledge)

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The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe

By Jonathan Hartmann

Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's…

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February 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96354-1 (Routledge)

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The Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, 1872-1915

Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Anti-Comstock Operations

By Janice Ruth Wood

Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials from the mail without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts that were hostile…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96246-9 (Routledge)

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Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century

By Holly Berkley Fletcher

During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96312-1 (Routledge)

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The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York

'An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail'

By Stephan Cohen

Between 1966 and 1975 North American youth activists established over 35 school- and community-based gay liberation youth groups whose members sought control over their own…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95799-1 (Routledge)

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Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By Mary McCartin Wearn

Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98104-0 (Routledge)

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US Textile Production in Historical Perspective

A Case Study from Massachusetts

By Susan Ouellette

This book explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America. Immediately after the end of the Great Migration into the Massachusetts Bay…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97988-7 (Routledge)

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Women Workers on Strike

Narratives of Southern Women Unionists

By Roxanne Newton

Gender, class, and culture merge in the lived experiences of women on strike in the South. This book examines women unionists’ life histories through the…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98147-7 (Routledge)

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Hollywood and Anticommunism

HUAC and the Evolution of the Red Menace, 1935-1950

By John J. Gladchuk

There have been numerous works produced in recent years dealing with the era commonly known as McCarthyism. There have been few, if any, however, that…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95568-3 (Routledge)

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"The First of Causes to Our Sex"

The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848

By Daniel S. Wright

The First of Causes to Our Sex is a study of the first movement in the United States for social change by and for women.…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97910-8 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Media and the Creation of Babe Ruth
By Patrick Adam Trimble
To be published May 1st 2009

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State
By Michael Stancliff
To be published May 1st 2009

John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation
By Michael Stoneham
To be published April 30th 2009

Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama
By Megan Sanborn Jones
To be published April 1st 2009

Black Women in American Literature of the South
By Sherita L. Johnson
To be published March 15th 2009

Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
By Jaime Osterman Alves
To be published March 4th 2009

Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa
By Jermaine O. Archer
To be published December 29th 2008