Randall Fuller: 3 books
The Book That Changed America
How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
**A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race
“A lively and informative history.” – The New York Times Book Review**
Throughout its history America has been torn...
Emerson's Ghosts
Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
It is increasingly commonplace to find scholars who circle back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his intellectual heirs as a way of better understanding contemporary social and aesthetic contexts. Why does Emerson's cultural legacy continue to influence writers so forcefully? In this innovative study, Randall...
From Battlefields Rising
How The Civil War Transformed American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
When Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--the bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its political, racial, and social landscape. Prior...