Book Series
Studies in American Popular History and Culture
New & Published Titles:
The Factory Girl and the Seamstress
Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction
This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3620-4 (Routledge)
The Clubwomen's Daughters
Collectivist Impulses in Progressive-era Girl's Fiction, 1890-1940
The author provides an interdisciplinary cultural study of the evolution of Progressive-era girls' peer groups, their representation in popular girls' fiction, and the influence of… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3537-5 (Routledge)
Tales of Liberation, Strategies of Containment
Divorce of the Representation of Womanhood in American Fiction, 1880-1920
This book examines six Progressive Age novels of marital discord which specifically focus upon narratives of divorced and divorcing women within the context of their… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3804-8 (Routledge)
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Reading Comics
Language, Culture, and the Concept of the Superhero in Comic Books
This study explores how the definition of the medium, as well as its language, readership, genre conventions, and marketing and distribution strategies, have kept comic… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3344-9 (Routledge)
Public Lives, Private Virtues
Images of American Revolutionary War Heroes, 1782-1832
Public Lives, Private Virtues surveys portraits of American Revolutionary heroes in books, magazines, and school texts from 1782 to 1832 and relates these sketches to… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3482-8 (Routledge)
Hollywood's Frontier Captives
Cultural Anxiety and the Captivity Plot in American Film
The captivity narrative, the earliest genre of American popular literature, continues to be of cultural significance in late 20th-century Hollywood. Many popular films of… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3116-2 (Routledge)
Writing the Public in Cyberspace
Redefining Inclusion on the Net
Popular claims that new information technology will expand democratic and public spaces are problematic given the exclusive history of the "public" and the restriction of… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3265-7 (Routledge)
The Lyrics of Civility
Biblical Images & Popular Music Lyrics in American Culture
This book is the first comprehensive scholarly study of religious images in popular music. Examining bestsellers from 1906 to 1971, the work explores the… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3193-3 (Routledge)
Gynecology and Textuality
Popular Representations of Reproductive Technology
This book investigates the rhetorical impact of the American gynecological case history, the favored form of popularizing the technologies created by gynecological science for intervening… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3222-0 (Routledge)
Understanding Elvis
Southern Roots vs. Star Image
Although the importance of Elvis Presley's Southern heritage has long been recognized, few have considered the complex connection between the performer's career and his Southern… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3164-3 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State
By Michael Stancliff
To be published April 15th 2010