Strange Cases is the story of the mutual influence of the case historyand the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Fictions from Defoe's Roxana to James's The Turn of the Scre
This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines
In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity-what Zora Neale Hurston called "the real Negro"-in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern
A coincidence of wants, explains Lewis (Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri) is a technical economic term for when each of two parties happens to have what the other wants, so they can barter direct
