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      Speaking of Duke: Leading the Twenty-First-Century University

      Richard H. Brodhead

      As President of Duke University, Richard H. Brodhead spoke at numerous commencement ceremonies, community forums, and faculty meetings, and even appeared on the Colbert Report. Speaking of Duke collects dozens…

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      New Essays on Moby-Dick

      The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. In Moby-Dick, this collection of essays focuses on various aspects…

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      Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-century America

      Richard H. Brodhead

      Using a variety of historical sources, Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the domestic culture of letters; mass-produced cheap reading; the culture of post-emancipation black…

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      The Good of This Place

      Richard H. Brodhead

      This eloquent collection of essays and speeches by Richard H. Brodhead addresses issues of importance to institutes of higher learning and to those who participate in them. As the popular…

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      The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni

      Nathaniel Hawthorne

      This novel tells the story of Donarells, an Italian Count bearing an uncanny resemblance to the faun of Praxiteles, the sculptor Kenyon and two young art students, Miriam and Hilda…

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      The School of Hawthorne

      Richard H. Brodhead (Professor of English, Professor of English, Yale University)

      In this intelligent and sensitive study, Brodhead uses Nathaniel Hawthorne as a prime example of how literary traditions are made, not born. The author shows how writers as varied as…

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      The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales

      Charles W. Chesnutt

      Reassembles the Charles W Chesnutt’s work in the conjure tale genre. This work allows the reader to see how the original volume was created, how an African American author negotiated…

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      The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt

      Charles W. Chesnutt

      Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center…

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