Lonely Books in American Literature

These books are "lonely" because they've never been checked out, despite strong reviews in Choice and ratings of "Highly Recommended" or "Essential." Take a look and see what you've been missing. Books appear in rough Library of Congress Classification order.

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Cosmopolitan vistas : American regionalism and literary value	PS25 .L88 2004
Roman fever : domesticity and nationalism in nineteenth-century American women's writing	PS147 .F67 2004
Women and authorship in revolutionary America	PS149 .V54 2005
Literary gestures : the aesthetic in Asian American writing edited by Rocio G. Davis and Sue-Im Lee.	PS153.A84 L58 2005
Sucking salt : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival	PS153.C27 G33 2006
Caribbean crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance	PS153.C27 T87 2005
Tongue ties : logo-eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic literature	PS153.H56 .P47 2003
Killing Spanish : literary essays on ambivalent U.S. Latino/a identity	PS153.H56 S36 2004
Native American literatures : an introduction	PS153.I52 L86 2004
The Cambridge companion to Jewish American literature	PS153.J4 C36 2003
Free within ourselves : the development of African American children's literature	PS153.N5 B526 2007
Cultural sites of critical insight : philosophy, aesthetics, and African American and Native American women's writings	PS153.N5 C85 2007
Ulysses in Black : Ralph Ellison, classicism, and African American literature	PS153.N5 R34 2006
The world next door : South Asian American literature and the idea of America	PS153.S68 S73 2004
The poetics of national and racial identity in nineteenth-century American literature	PS217.N38 K47 2003
Democratic discourses : the radical abolition movement and antebellum American literature	PS217.S55 B46 2005
Vanishing moments : class and American literature	PS217.W66 S36 2006
Breaking the rule of cool : interviewing and reading women beat writers	PS228.B6 B74 2004
Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance	PS228.E84 E54 2004
Writing together, writing apart : collaboration in Western American literature	PS271 .K37 2002
The tangled roots of feminism, environmentalism, and Appalachian literature	PS286.A6 E54 2003
Melodies unheard : essays on the mysteries of poetry	PS305 .H43 2003
The modernist response to Chinese art : Pound, Moore, Stevens	PS310.A76 Q53 2003
A concise companion to twentieth-century American poetry	PS323.5 .C574 2005
Everyday and prophetic : the poetry of Lowell, Ammons, Merrill, and Rich	PS323.5 .H35 2003
The resistance to poetry	PS325 .L67 2004
American drama 1945-2000 : an introduction	PS352 .K73 2006
Inexpressible privacy : the interior life of antebellum American literature	PS368 .S43 2006
Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940	PS371 .D69 2008
The anxiety of obsolescence : the American novel in the age of television	PS371 .F58 2006
Managing literacy, mothering America : women's narratives on reading and writing in the nineteenth century	PS374.B67 R63 2004
At home in the city : urban domesticity in American literature and culture, 1850-1930	PS374.D57 K57 2005
Civil wars : American novelists and manners, 1880-1940	PS374.M33 G66 2003
Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American fictions : gender, culture, and nation building	PS374.M53 R67 2004
Male sexuality under surveillance : the office in American literature	PS374.O34 T48 2003
Rumors of war and infernal machines : technomilitary agenda-setting in American and British speculative fiction	PS374.S35 G36 2005
The syntax of class : writing inequality in nineteenth-century America	PS374.S68 L36 2003
A companion to American fiction, 1865-1914	PS377 .C665 2005
Introduction to contemporary American fiction	PS379 .B54 2003
Hecho en Tejas : an anthology of Texas-Mexican literature	PS508.M4 H43 2006
The new anthology of American poetry	PS586 .N49 2003
Ebony rising : short fiction of the greater Harlem Renaissance era	PS647.A35 E24 2004
What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction	PS647.J4 A15 2005
Mark Twain : the complete interviews	PS1331 .A2 2006
Mark Twain and Orion Clemens : brothers, partners, strangers	PS1332 .F26 2003
The complete stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar	PS1556 .A4 2005
William Dean Howells : a writer's life	PS2033 .G66 2005
The complete letters of Henry James, 1855-1872	PS2123 .A4 2006
Longfellow redux	PS2281 .I76 2006
Melville : his world and work	PS2386 .D44 2005
Exiled royalties : Melville and the life we imagine	PS2386 .M487 2006
Frank Norris : a life	PS2473 .M339 2006
Prodigal daughters : Susanna Rowson's early American women	PS2736.R3 Z86 2008
Elizabeth Stoddard : stories	PS2934.S3 A6 2003
Uncle Tom mania : slavery, minstrelsy, and transatlantic culture in the 1850s	PS2954.U6 M44 2005
A companion to Walt Whitman	PS3238 .C57 2006
Looking into Walt Whitman : American art, 1850-1920	PS3242.A66 B64 2006
Walt Whitman and the earth : a study in ecopoetics	PS3242.N2 K57 2004
Southern woman of letters : the correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson	PS3333 .A44 2002
Sherwood Anderson : a writer in America	PS3501.N4 Z773 2006
Faulkner the storyteller	PS3511.A86 Z8735 2005
The collected prose of Robert Frost	PS3511.R94 A6 2007
The poem that changed America : "Howl" fifty years later	PS3513.I74 H6356 2006
I celebrate myself : the somewhat private life of Allen Ginsberg	PS3513.I74 Z748 2006
Windblown world : the journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954	PS3521.E735 Z478 2004
The letters of Robert Lowell	PS3523.O89 Z48 2005
Mencken : the American iconoclast	PS3525.E43 Z79 2005
The poems of Marianne Moore	PS3525.O5616 A17 2003
The borderlands of culture : Americo Paredes and the transnational imaginary	PS3531.A525 Z88 2006
Reader's guide to Wallace Stevens	PS3537.T4753 Z62295 2007
Where the wild grape grows : selected writings, 1930-1950 / Dorothy West	PS3545.E82794 A6 2005
Edmund Wilson : a life in literature	PS3545.I6245 Z594 2005
Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her	PS3545.I774 Z874 2005
Ralph Ellison : a biography	PS3555.L625 Z8725 2007
Understanding Charles Johnson	PS3560.O3735 Z86 2004
Conversations with Audre Lorde	PS3562.O75 Z464 2004
Philip Roth : new perspectives on an American author	PS3568.O855 Z835 2005
Philip Roth's rude truth : the art of immaturity	PS3568.O855 Z845 2006
Due considerations : essays and criticism	PS3571.P4 D84 2007
Rabbit (un)redeemed : the drama of belief in John Updike's fiction	PS3571.P4 Z54 2006