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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
by Francis Matthiessen  Publisher Comments This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centering the discussion around five literary giants of the mid-nineteenth century-Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman...
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A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
by Christopher Benfey Publisher Comments A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought. At the close of the Civil War, the United States took a deep breath to lick wounds and...
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The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860
by Jonathan Arac Publisher Comments In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville produced works of fiction that even today, centuries later, help to define what American literature means. In this work of innovative literary history, Jonathan Arac...
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A Journey Into the Transcendentalists' New England (Artplace)
by R Todd Felton Publisher Comments The New England towns and villages that inspired the major figures of the Transcendentalism movement are presented by region in this travel guide that devotes a chapter to each town or village famous for its relationship to one or more of the...
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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
by Megan Marshall Publisher Comments Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes. The story of these remarkable sisters — and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day — has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making...
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Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
by Richard H Brodhead Publisher Comments Using a variety of historical sources, Richard H. Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the...
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Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America
by Jennifer J Baker Publisher Comments Securing the Commonwealth examines how eighteenth-century American writers understood the highly speculative financial times in which they lived. Spanning a century of cultural and literary life, this study shows how the era's literature commonly...
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The School of Hawthorne
by Richard H Brodhead Publisher Comments In The School of Hawthorne, Brodhead uses Hawthorne as a prime example of how literary traditions are made, not born. Under Brodhead's scrutiny, the Hawthorne tradition opens out onto a wide array of subjects, many of which have received little previous...
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The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing
by Robert E Belknap Publisher Comments “I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. In creating this list, and many...
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Contributions in Ethnic Studies, #60: Artistic Voyagers: Europe and the American Imagination in the Works of Irving, Allston, Cole, Cooper, and Hawthorne
by Joy S. Kasson Review "Kasson's study explores the question of European influences on the works of five figures, each of whom helped create the first art and literature to be recognized universally as American. Three literary works and two paintings are specifically examined.....
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Captivity and Sentiment (Reencounters with Colonialism--New Perspectives on the Ameri)
by Michelle Burnham Publisher Comments In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular 18th- and 19th-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, using Homi Bhabha's concept of interstitiality as a base, provides a valuable redescription of...
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Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications, #131: Style and the "Scribbling Women": An Empirical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
by Mary P. Hiatt Publisher Comments Derogation of nineteenth-century women novelists was often the immediate response to their works. While modern feminist scholarship has repudiated this view of "scribbling women," many critics and academics remain uninformed and continue to present a...
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Fifty Southern Writers Before 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook
by Robert Bain Publisher Comments "This collection deserves a long review in order to get the attention it has earned. But how would a reviewer do rounded justice in, say, five hundred words to fifty entries by fifty different scholar-critics on `Southerners whose careers ended before...
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The Cambridge Introduction to the Nineteenth-Century American Novel (Cambridge Introductions to Literature (Paperback))
by Gregg Crane Publisher Comments Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period...
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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture #150: Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
by Arthur Riss Publisher Comments This book raises controversial questions about the intersections between race, literature and American intellectual history....
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Ideology and Classic American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture)
by Sacvan Bercovitch Publisher Comments This volume of essays brings together some of the best work by Americanists concerned with the problem of ideology and its bearing upon American literature and culture. It projects neither a particular ideological view nor a particular view of ideology...
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American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures
by Joanna Brooks Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index....
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Sentiment & Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame
by Thomas N. Baker Publisher Comments How did the stately, republican literary world of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper give way to the sensationalist, personality-saturated mass market society of the late nineteenth century? In answering this question, Sentiment and Celebrity...
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Authority and Reform: Religious and Educational Discourses in Nineteenth-Century New England Literature
by Mark G Vasquez Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-382) and index....
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Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms)
by Laura Hanf Korobkin Publisher Comments What kinds of stories win cases, and why? Drawing on trial transcripts and appellate court opinions in civil adultery cases, and on literary examples from Mark Twain, E.D.E.N Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others, Laura Korobkin sheds new light on...
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