Books from Northwestern University Press
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The Secret in the Wings: A Play
By Mary ZimmermanThe framing story concerns a child and the frightening babysitter with whom her parents leave her.
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"Better Living": Advertising, Media and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955
By William L. Bird134 , 182-185 , 189-190 ; Graebner , The Engineering of Consent , pp . 81-85 ; Gillespie , Manufacturing Knowledge , pp . 229-230 . 24. A disclaimer at the film's conclusion stated “ Resemblance of characters in this picture to actual ...
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The House of Breath
By William GoyenThis fiftieth anniversary edition includes an afterword by Reginald Gibbons, professor of English at Northwestern University and the former editor of TriQuarterly magazine.
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Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler
By William Merrill DeckerFor his purposes, Rushdy develops a fairly narrow definition of “neo-slave narrative”; interestingly, he brings William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner into his discussion of four principal texts: Flight to Canada, Dessa Rose, ...
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Moral Emotions: Reclaiming the Evidence of the Heart
By Anthony J. SteinbockAuthor Anthony J. Steinbock finds personhood analyzing key emotions, called moral emotions.
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All Blue So Late: Poems
By Laura Swearingen-SteadwellHeather McHugh. A. Van Jordan. David Haynes. M Mark. Gregory Pardlo. Maya Marshall. Jericho Brown. Patricia Smith. Andy Thigpen. Rob Sturma. Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady. Christina Olivares. Evie Shockley. Martha Rhodes.
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Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage
By Jacob Gallagher-RossTheaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage reveals a vital but little-recognized current in American theatrical history: the dramatic representation of the quotidian and mundane.
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The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy
By Juliet GuzzettaManovich, Lev, 161 Marco Cavallo: Un'esperienza di animazione in un ospedale psichiatrico (Scabia), 142 Marelli, Michela, 76 Maritain, Jacques, 128 Martin, Carol, 38, 39 Martinengo, Paola, 155–56 Martoglio, Nino, 99 Marxist, 19, 63, 64, ...
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Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature
By Laura Chiesawaiting for many years—the sentence that wholly defined the miracle that the Madeleine—not the Proustian madeleine, but the real one—had been from the first moment I saw it: in winter the Madeleine is a great furnace that warms the rue ...
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Solidarity with the Other Beings on the Planet: Alice Walker, Ecofeminism, and Animals in Literature
By Pamela B. JuneNew York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002. Silliman, Jael, and Ynestra King. Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development. A Project of the Committee on Women,
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Dimensions of the Holocaust
By Elie Wiesel, Lucy Dawidowicz, Dorothy RabinowiczThe great majority of Einsatzgruppen officers were professional men, including an opera singer, a Protestant pastor, an architect, a physician, and many lawyers. Most were intellectuals. They brought skills and training to their task, ...
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Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville Vol. 11
By Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, Robert Charles RyanPresents a collection of the writings of Herman Melville.
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The Confidence-man: His Masquerade
By Herman MelvilleThe book was published on April 1--the very day of its title character's April Fools' Day masquerade on a Mississippi River Steamboat.
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Redburn: Works of Herman Melville Volume Four
By Herman MelvillePresents a collection of the writings of Herman Melville.
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Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville
By Herman MelvilleAs with the other volumes in the Northwestern-Newberry series, the aim of this edition of Published Poems is to present a text as close to the author’s intention as surviving evidence permits.
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Pierre, or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition
By Herman MelvilleThis text of Pierre is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
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Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight, Scholarly Edition
By Herman Melville" This came as a relief, for his previous novel, Pierre, had shocked readers and brought down universal castigation. This edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
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Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition
By Herman MelvilleIn this new edition of The Piazza Tales, the editors of the acclaimed Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville have used the original magazine versions for five of the six stories in order to present the most ...
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Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight, Scholarly Edition
But Melville could not resist the chance to show Captain Paul in his full , rakish pretentiousness paying court to the Lady , while Israel makes strictly Yankee jokes on Scotch armor , the family plate , and inevitably “ Mr. Selkirk ...
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Tolstoy: Plays
By graf Leo TolstoyThe creation and fate of Tolstoy's next play , The Fruits of Enlightenment , were in marked contrast to The Realm of Darkness . In 1889 Tolstoy's eldest daughter asked her father to write a play to be performed at home by her friends ...