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• Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Mitchum Huehls (PDF at Ohio State)
• Where the World is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Kim Savelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Margo Natalie Crawford (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by James C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Sharon Stockton (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2005), by John R. Eperjesi (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Carlo Rotella (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1972 (followup volume to a 1974 survey; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Jackson R. Bryer, contrib. by Walter B. Rideout, James Leslie Woodress, Brom Weber, James L. W. West, Stuart Y. McDougal, Philip G. Cohen, David Krause, Karl F. Zender, Reginald Lansing Cook, John P. McWilliams, Bruce Stark, John Henry Raleigh, John J. Espey, Ellsworth Barnard, Warren G. French, Joseph N. Riddel, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Richard S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2016), by Jimmy Fazzino
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-century U.S. Literature and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter Caster (PDF at Ohio State)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)
• Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1924), by Paul Rosenfeld, illust. by Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Boughton, Paul Strand, and Dana Desboro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Henry Seidel Canby
  • multiple formats at archhive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
• Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Fred L. Gardaphé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature and Reality (New York: International Publishers, c1950), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forum (Ball State University) (full serial archives)

• Psychological Politics of the American Dream: The Commodification of Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Lois Tyson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Thomas Vernon Reed (HTML at UC Press)
• Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Paula M. L. Moya (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Act Like a Man: Challenging Masculinities in American Drama (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Robert Vorlicky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Leslie Elaine Frost (PDF at Ohio State)
• Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by William B. Worthen (HTML at UC Press)
• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)
• Arena (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, c1940), by Hallie Flanagan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Abigail G. H. Manzella (PDF at Ohio State)
• A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Sue-Im Lee
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by James Goodwin (PDF at Ohio State)
• Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Beth Widmaier Capo (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Jerome Klinkowitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1986), by Barbara Foley (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977-1993 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Michael D. Hill (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Novel in Motion: An Approach to Modern Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1983), by Richard Pearce (PDF at Ohio State)
• Neodomestic American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Kristin J. Jacobson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), ed. by Dana A. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Escape Motif in the American Novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Sam Bluefarb (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lisa Yaszek (PDF at Ohio State)
• Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Stanley Orr (PDF at Ohio State)
• Witness Through the Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by S. Lillian Kremer (multiple formats at Wayne State)
• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)
• After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Allen F. Stein (PDF at Ohio State)
• Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Tyrus Miller (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex) Soviet and American Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Susan Hardy Aiken, Adele Marie Barker, M. M. Koreneva, and E. A. Stetsenko (page images at HathiTrust)

• After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by Vernon Lionel Shetley (page images at HathiTrust)
• ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Christopher Beach (HTML at UC Press)
• At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1980), by Kathleen M. Woodward (PDF files at Ohio State)
• Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Elizabeth Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Looking for Native Ground: Contemporary Appalachian Poetry (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1989), by Rita Sims Quillen (PDF at appstate.edu)
• Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Nadia Nurhussein (PDF at Ohio State)
• I Made You to Find Me: The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Jane Hedley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), by Kevin Stein (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Giant Hours with Poet Preachers, by William L. Stidger, ed. by Edwin Markham
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Amy Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century, by William Lyon Phelps (Gutenberg text)
• Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)

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