Hemingway, race, and art : bloodlines and the color line / Marc K. Dudley. by Dudley, Marc K., 1971-

Full text (Emerson users only)

Conversations with Jay Parini / edited by Michael Lackey.

Full text (Emerson users only)

Neo-segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature / Brian Norman. by Norman, Brian, 1977-

Full text (Emerson users only)

In our own words : extraordinary speeches of the American century / edited by Robert G. Torricelli and Andrew Carroll ; foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Bootlegger of the soul : the literary legacy of William Kennedy / edited by Suzanne Lance & Paul Grondahl.

Full text (Emerson users only)

Conversations with Barry Hannah / edited by James G. Thomas Jr. by Hannah, Barry

Full text (Emerson users only)

Darwin in Atlantic cultures : evolutionary visions of race, gender, and sexuality / edited by Jeannette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp.

Full text (Emerson users only)

Sons and daughters of self-made men : improvising gender, place, nation in American literature / Mary Paniccia Carden. by Carden, Mary Paniccia

Full text (Emerson users only)

Reading rape : the rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990 / Sabine Sielke. by Sielke, Sabine, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…: styles and hyperboles of seduction, rape, and incest in Djuna Barnes's Ryder -- "That little hot ball inside you that screams": rape's resistance to representation, the resistance to rape, and the transgression of boundaries in William Faulkner's Sanctuary -- "Not what one did to women": enacting projections and constructing the racial border in Richard Wright's Native Son -- Fighting "forced relationship": rape and manslaughter in Ann Petry's The Street -- Voicing sexual violence, repoliticizing rape: post modernist narratives of sexuality and power. …”
Full text (Emerson users only)

History, metaphors, fables : a Hans Blumenberg reader / Hans Blumenberg ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Hannes Bajohr, Florian Fuchs, and Joe Paul Kroll by Blumenberg, Hans

Table of Contents: “…The Mythos and Ethos of America in the Work of William Faulkner (1958)…”
Full text (Emerson users only)

Writing Los Angeles : a literary anthology / edited by David L. Ulin.

Table of Contents: “…Cain -- Golden land / William Faulkner -- Pacific village ; A thing shared / M.F.K. …”

Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation : Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections. by Vechinski, Matthew James

Full text (Emerson users only)

Bearing witness to African American literature : validating and valorizing its authority, authenticity, and agency / Bernard W. Bell. by Bell, Bernard W.

Full text (Emerson users only)

100 American crime writers / edited by Steven Powell.

Table of Contents: “…Eberhart -- James Ellroy -- Janet Evanovich -- William Faulkner -- Kenneth Fearing -- Rudolph Fisher -- Kinky Friedman -- Jacques Futrelle -- Erle Stanley Gardner -- William Campbell Gault -- David Goodis -- Sue Grafton -- Davis Grubb -- Frank Gruber -- Dashiell Hammett -- Thomas Harris -- Carl Hiaasen -- Patricia Highsmith -- George V. …”
Full text (Emerson users only)

The best American short stories of the century / John Updike, editor ; Katrina Kenison, coeditor ; with an introduction by John Updike.

Table of Contents: “…Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt -- Little selves / Mary Lerner -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- The other woman / Sherwood Anderson -- The golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Double birthday / Willa Cather -- Wild plums / Grace Stone Coates -- Theft / Katherine Anne Porter -- That evening sun go down / William Faulkner -- Here we are / Dorothy Parker -- Crazy Sunday / F. …”

Minding the South / John Shelton Reed. by Reed, John Shelton

Full text (Emerson users only)

Elvis Presley : a southern life / Joel Williamson with Donald L. Shaw ; foreword by Ted Ownby. by Williamson, Joel

Full text (Emerson users only)

The Norton anthology of short fiction / [compiled by] R.V. Cassill.

American speeches.

Table of Contents: “…Truman -- Declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith -- Nobel Prize address / William Faulkner -- Address to Congress/ Douglas MacArthur -- "Checkers" speech / Richard M. …”

Southern bound : a Gulf coast journalist on books, writers, and literary pilgrimages of the heart / John S. Sledge ; foreword by Walter Edgar. by Sledge, John S. (John Sturdivant), 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Famously, It Seems -- Mississippi's Victorian Treasures Get Their Due -- Alabama's Architecture Gets Some Overdue Respect -- William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha -- Matrana Shows Pride and Ruin of Plantations -- Historian Upends Ideas on American Architecture -- Scholar-Town Houses Have Many Tales to Tell -- Legacy Presents a Detailed Look at Rayfield's Work -- Fallingwater Study Cuts Myths, Affirms Merits -- The Architect of America -- New Orleans Takes Shape in an Architect's Memoir -- Stumbling on a Fossil of a Southern Dinosaur -- McMurtry's Hometown a Paradise for Collectors -- Drama of Story Comes Alive in Monroeville -- A Night in the Library -- Finding Cahaba: New Book Rekindles Fascination with Alabama's First Capital -- Looking Past Midnight -- A Literary Ramble through Old New Orleans -- Oxford, Mississippi: A Literary Profile -- A Small City of Literary Giants: Greenville, Mississippi -- Visit to Library Is a Return to Childhood -- Images from the Literary Side of Paris, with a Personal Touch -- Walter-Inspired Dream an Affirmation of Creativity -- A Tale Worthy of the Centuries: Looking into Chapman's Iliad -- Plato's Ancient Words Inspire the Modern Mind -- Old Story, New Life: Heaney Makes Epic Worth the Wait -- Decline and Fall Stands Test of Time -- Last of the Mohicans Was First of Its Kind -- Omoo a Showcase for Melville's Lighter Side -- Slowly, Beautifully: That's How the Cookie Crumbles -- Revisiting a Classic at the Water's Edge -- Joseph Conrad's Typhoon Shows Power of Storm -- One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Pleasure -- Pride and Prejudice Run Deep in Memoir -- Old Soldier Sahib a Rare Chronicle of Bygone Empire -- Cather's Look Westward Broke New Literary Ground -- Shane Stands as Classic of Western Genre -- Book behind Classic Wayne Film Still Holds Up -- Pacific Battleground Is More Than a Memory -- A Shadowed Friendship: Book Looks Back on Broken Bond between Two Powerful Writers -- Quirky Italian Novel Shines in Recent Reissue -- "Just an adventurer": An Aid Worker's Strange Path -- Cuba in Mind Brings Island Near Enough to Touch -- Events Make Brick Lane a Timely Volume -- Long Way Gone a Tribute to Human Spirit -- My Forbidden Face Drives Home Sufferings of Women under Taliban -- Márquez Classic Still Rewards Reader's Effort -- Istanbul, Not Constantinople, Gets the Works from a Nobel-Winning Native Son -- Iconic AK47 Assault Rifle Subject of Far-Ranging Biography -- Plagiarism Charges Pull Prize-Winner from Shelves -- Alexandria's Library Rises from the Ashes-but Fires Still Burn -- George and Lennie Feeling the Squeeze -- Proposed Book Ban Deserves Firm Rebuttal -- America Flap Puts Mississippi in Spotlight -- Writer Takes Clear-Eyed Look at Battle Flag's Past and Present -- Without Sanctuary Confronts an Ugly Past -- Poe Folks Perturbed by Graveyard Guest -- Breach of Faith Offers Incisive Critiques -- An Open Letter to Louisiana's Governor -- School's Switch Alarms Book Lovers -- Old Writings Preserve Sense of Beaches' Beauty -- My First Gun Became a Boy's Rite of Passage -- The Reader: A Quieter Side of Michael Jackson -- Politics Aside, Spanish Opens Rich Literary Terrain -- In Changing Times, It's Hard to Turn the Page -- Southern Writers Save the Style for the Page -- Oscar Wilde: One Fine Figure of a Writer -- Everybody Has a Story, but Who Wants to Read It? …”
Full text (Emerson users only)