American category: 24906 books
Mania for Freedom
American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841. While this statement may read like an innocuous truism today, the claim would have been controversial in the antebellum United States when enthusiasm was a hotly contested term associated with religious fanaticism...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Saul Bellow is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American literature. Bellow's work explores the most important cultural and social experiences of his era: the impact of the Holocaust, the urban experience of European immigrants from a Jewish perspective, the fraught failures...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students...
by Rachel Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term's application to the study of contemporary American fiction. In doing so, it makes two critical interventions. Firstly, it maps the neglected history of quiet fictions, arguing...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural...
by Stephen Knadler
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th century...
American Slavery: A Historical Exploration of Literature
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.
• Helps students understand classic works of American literature from the slavery era by...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction
"An Almost Theatrical Innocence"
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
"Fitzgerald’s work has always deeply moved me," writes John T. Irwin. "And this is as true now as it was fifty years ago when I first picked up The Great Gatsby. I can still remember the occasions when I first read each of his novels; remember the time, place, and mood of those early...
by James Phelan
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrative form.
Includes a valuable overview of twentieth-...
by Sandra A. Zagarell, Margaret A. Amstutz, Paul Crumbley
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Elizabeth Stoddard was a gifted writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicenter of New York's literary world. Nonetheless, she has been almost excluded...
American Slavery As It Is
Selections from the Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The stories of hundreds of African-Americans who lived in bondage are preserved in this powerful 1839 chronicle. Compiled by a prominent abolitionist, the accounts include personal narratives from freed slaves as well as testimonials from active and former slave owners, presenting a condemnation of...
Set in Motion
Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Set in Motion collects for the first time the prose writings of A. R. Ammons, one of our most important and enduring contemporary poets. Hailed as a major force in American poetry by such redoubtable critics as Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler, Ammons has reflected upon the influences of luminaries...
Playing with Expectations
Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques. This book examines novels...
Disciplining Girls
Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
At the heart of some of the most beloved children’s novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century. Joe Sutliff Sanders traces this debate as it began in the sentimental tales of the mid-nineteenth century and continued in the classic...