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From the beloved author of Rook, a brilliant, genre-bending exploration of truth and memory, love and loss in this #1 NYT bestseller about a society that undergoes collective forgetting.

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At his death, Henry Thoreau left the majority of his writing unpublished. The bulk of this material is a journal that he kept for twenty-four years. Sharon Cameron's major claim is that this private work (the" Journal") was Thoreau's primary work, taking precedence over the books that he published in his lifetime. Her controversial thesis views Thoreau's "Journal "as a composition that confounds the distinction between public and private--the ...

Thinking in Henry James" identifies what is genuinely strange and radical about James's concept of consciousness--first, the idea that it may not always be situated within this or that person but rather exists outside or "between, " in some transpersonal place, and second, the idea that consciousness may have power over things and people outside the person who thinks. Examining these and other counterintuitive representations of consciousness,...

The Corporeal Self argues that questions about identity, conceived in bodily terms, are not only relevant for Melville and Hawthorne, the two nineteenth-century authors whose works are positioned at opposite extremes of the consideration of human identity, but lie at the heart of the American literary tradition, and have, in that tradition, their own revisionary status.

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Although Emily Dickinson copied and bound her poems into manuscript notebooks, in the century since her death her poems have been read as single lyrics with little or no regard for the context she created for them in her fascicles. Choosing Not Choosing is the first book-length consideration of the poems in their manuscript context. Sharon Cameron demonstrates that to read the poems with attention to their placement in the fascicles is to obse...

In 1852, when 17-year-old Katharine is sent to her family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families, but strange occurrences soon have her doubting her own sanity.

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The thrilling sequel to "The Dark Unwinding." After Katharine Tulman foils a kidnapping attempt on her uncle, she realizes Stranwyne Keep is no longer safe for Uncle Tully and his genius inventions. She flees to Paris, where she hopes to remain undetected and also find the mysterious and handsome Lane, who is suspected to be dead.

Who needs a wedding ring when you can pick up a sword? A remarkable and utterly inventive novel from Sharon Cameron, author of The Dark Unwinding, which USA TODAY called "spellbindingly imaginative.

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Lyric Time" offers a detailed critical reading of Emily Dickinson, a particularly difficult poet, an analysis of the dominance of temporal structures and concerns in the body of her poetry, and finally, an important original contribution to a theory of the lyric. Lightning Print On Demand Title

From beloved author of Rook comes a brilliant and genre-bending exploration of truth and memory, love and loss in this remarkable story of a civilization that undergoes a collective forgetting.

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Rigby ist eine New Yorker Fotografin, die kurz vor einem Karrieresprung steht und sich entscheiden muss, ob sie Mutter werden will. Denn gerade als sich beruflich eine Top-Chance bietet, erfährt sie, dass sie schwanger ist. Der Erzeuger hat sie soeben verlassen. Soll sie das Kind bekommen oder die Schwangerschaft abbrechen? Sie beginnt, sich mit der Kamera für Mütter und Töchter zu interessieren. So entstehen die fünf Geschichten, die in diese...

Rigby ist eine New Yorker Fotografin, die kurz vor einem Karrieresprung steht und sich entscheiden muss, ob sie Mutter werden will. Denn gerade als sich beruflich eine Top-Chance bietet, erfährt sie, dass sie schwanger ist. Der Erzeuger hat sie soeben verlassen. Soll sie das Kind bekommen oder die Schwangerschaft abbrechen? Sie beginnt, sich mit der Kamera für Mütter und Töchter zu interessieren. So entstehen die fünf Geschichten, die in diese...