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• Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by LuMing Mao (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations?: Learning to Teach Underprepared Writers Across the Curriculum (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (New York: New York University Press, c1998), by Michael Bérubé (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Lynne Tatlock (PDF at Ohio State)
• An American Body-Politic: A Deleuzian Approach (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2010), by Bernd Herzogenrath (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Distancing English: A Chapter in the History of the Inexpressible (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Page Richards (PDF at Ohio State)
• Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Renata R. Mautner Wasserman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Amy Schrager Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Shelley Streeby (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter West (PDF at Ohio State)
• Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c1957), by David Brion Davis (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co., 1854), by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia
  • simpler HTML at Virginia
• A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work (Boston, MA: J.P. Jewett and Co.; et al., 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)
• 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)
• Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Sharon O'Dair (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era (c2000), ed. by Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1995), ed. by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham and Carol Maier (page images at Pitt)
• English Composition as a Happening (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Geoffrey Michael Sirc (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Linguistics and Anthropology (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1977; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1977), ed. by Muriel Saville-Troike (PDF at Georgetown)

• Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2002; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2004), ed. by Philip LeVine and Ronald Scollon (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language, and the Real World: Discourse and Beyond (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2003), ed. by Deborah Tannen and James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language, Communication, and Social Meaning (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1992; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1992), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics and Language Pedagogy: The State of the Art (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1991; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1991), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language Spread and Language Policy: Issues, Implications, and Case Studies (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1987; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1988), ed. by Peter H. Lowenberg (PDF at Georgetown)
• Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1984; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1984), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics and Anthropology (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1977; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1977), ed. by Muriel Saville-Troike (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics: Teaching and Interdisciplinary Relations (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1974; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1974), ed. by Francis P. Dinneen (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language, and the Professions: Education, Journalism, Law, Medicine, and Technology (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2000; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2002), ed. by James E. Alatis, Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton, and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1996; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1996), ed. by James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Maggie Ronkin, and Brent Gallenberger (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics and the Education of Language Teachers: Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Aspects (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1995; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1995), ed. by James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Brent Gallenberger, and Maggie Ronkin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language Teaching and Language Acquisition: The Interdependence of Theory, Practice and Research (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1990; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1990), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2008; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2010), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina, and Anastasia Nylund (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language in Public Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1979; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1979), ed. by James E. Alatis and G. Richard Tucker (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Sixteenth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1965), by Charles W. Kreidler (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Seventh Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1956), ed. by Paul L. Garvin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1954), ed. by Hugo J. Mueller (PDF at Georgetown)

• The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Selma K. Sonntag and Mark Turin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Early Bardic Literature, Ireland, by Standish O'Grady (Gutenberg text)
• Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, Delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, During the Sessions of 1855 and 1856 (Dublin: W. Hinch and P. Traynoe, 1878), by Eugene O'Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish, by Lady Gregory, contrib. by Douglas Hyde (Gutenberg text)

• Language, Values and the Slovak Nation (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1994), ed. by Tibor Pichler and Jana Gapariková (multiple formats at Google)
• Buying Into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2008), by Catherine Prendergast (page images at Pitt)

• Imdeduya: Variants of a Myth of Love and Hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2017), by Gunter Senft (PDF and Epub with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and Anthropological Linguistic Analyses of Tales Told by Trobriand Children and Adults (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2015), by Gunter Senft (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Can Language be Planned? Sociolinguistic Theory for Developing Nations (originally published 1971; this edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), ed. by Joan Rubin and Björn H. Jernudd
  • PDF and Epub at Hawaii
  • HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE
• The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)
• Speech and Respect (Hamlyn Lectures, #44; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1994), by Richard L. Abel (PDF in the UK)
• Fatwas and Court Judgments: A Genre Analysis of Arabic Legal Opinion (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Ahmed Fakhri (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by LuMing Mao (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

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