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As usual, I rushed through, and only went to the second link, and not the first (till now). How about:

Title: 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance
Author: Thomas Harrison
Published: University of California Press, 1996
Subjects: Literature | Comparative Literature | European Literature | Art History
Publisher's Description: The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. In this perceptive interdisciplinary analysis, Thomas Harrison addresses the extraordinary intellectual achievement of the time., or

Title: ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition
Author: Christopher Beach, or

Title: Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance
Author: Randall Knoper
Published: University of California Press, 1995
Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Twain | American Studies
Publisher's Description: The phenomenon of performance is central to Mark Twain's writing and persona. But Twain's performative aspects have usually been dismissed as theatrical and discounted as lowbrow burlesque. Randall Knoper takes Twain's theatricality seriously and shows how Twain's work both echoes and engages, or

Title: Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982
Author: M. Hassan Kakar
Published: University of California Press, 1997
Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | History | Middle Eastern History
Publisher's Description: Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979...and many more? There are 517 books listed.