{"product_id":"michigan-salvage-the-fiction-of-bonnie-jo-campbell-9781611864526","title":"Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell","description":"\u003ci\u003eMichigan Salvage \u003c\/i\u003eis the first scholarly collection on celebrated writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, the author of two novels and three short story collections, including National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eAmerican Salvage \u003c\/i\u003e(2009). Her writing captures a diverse and bustling rural America, brimming with complex characters who struggle with addiction, poverty, and land degradation--issues that have become, undeniably, part of the southwestern Michigan landscape that she calls home. The essays in this volume demonstrate many rich ways to approach Campbell's writing, from historical and cultural overviews to essays examining the class and gender implications of her stories and novels, to teaching essays highlighting how to use her work in the classroom and beyond. Along with each essay, \u003ci\u003eMichigan Salvage \u003c\/i\u003ealso features lesson plans and writing prompts meant to spark discussion and encourage further investigation into these stories and novels. This essential and teachable collection makes plain Campbell's contributions to contemporary American literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa DuRose\u003c\/b\u003e is an English faculty member at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota, where she teaches courses in composition, the novel, and the short story. She has published essays in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of College and Character\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wallace Stevens Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eProspects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work on Bonnie Jo Campbell has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMidwestern Miscellany\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi, \u003c\/i\u003e and with Macmillan Learning. She is currently preparing a biography of Campbell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoss K. Tangedal \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor of English and director of the Cornerstone Press at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he specializes in American print and publishing culture. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eEditing the Harlem Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). His articles have been published in multiple journals, including \u003ci\u003eThe Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouth Atlantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHemingway Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAuthorship\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMidAmerica\u003c\/i\u003e, and in numerous essay collections. He serves on the editorial team of the Hemingway Letters Project. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndy Oler\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eOld-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and the editor of\u003ci\u003e Pieces of the Heartland: Representing Midwestern Places\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eHyped on Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Territory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEssay Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCleveland Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e College Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eQueering the Countryside\u003c\/i\u003e. He is departments editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Territory\u003c\/i\u003e, where he edits the online series Literary Landscapes, publishing contributors' personal stories about sites of Midwestern literature. He is associate professor of humanities at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michigan State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50454435856658,"sku":"9781611864526","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ac69eb1-5269-4b0f-bfd7-99b1a4e1c2e2.jpg?v=1729867977","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/michigan-salvage-the-fiction-of-bonnie-jo-campbell-9781611864526","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}