American category: 24906 books
Dragoons in Apacheland
Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in southern New Mexico, the homeland of Mescalero, Mimbres, and Mogollon bands of the Apache Indians. From the army’s perspective, the Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region—newly...
Nat Turner
A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Nat Turner's name rings through American history with a force all its own. Leader of the most important slave rebellion on these shores, variously viewed as a murderer of unarmed women and children, an inspired religious leader, a fanatic--this puzzling figure represents all the terrible complexities...
Sex and War on the American Stage
Lysistrata in performance 1930-2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
American adaptations of Aristophanes’ enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century. Unlike almost any other play circulating in contemporary theatres, Lysistrata has outlived its classical origins in 411 BCE and continues to shock and delight...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.
The Mirror Diary
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.
The Mirror Diary tracks the emergence of an original poetic voice and a learned...
Conjuring Moments in African American Literature
Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories, blues music, and collections of African American folklore.
On Henry James
The Best from American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of discipline to the best...
by Shirley Samuels
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States from the late 18th century until the Civil War, and helps introductory students to interpret and understand the fiction from this popular period.
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Before the West Was West
Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 “western” texts and asks what we mean by “western” American literature in the first place and when that designation originated.
Calling into question the implicit temporal boundaries of...
Imagining Home
American War Fiction from Hemingway to 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
War has often been seen as the domain of men and thus irrelevant to gender analysis, and American writers have frequently examined war according to traditional gender expectations: that boys become men by going to war and girls become women by building a home. Yet the writers discussed in this book...
Our Conrad
Constituting American Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to America's conception of itself and its place in the world....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940 gathers together in a single volume preeminent critics and historians to offer an authoritative, analytic, and theoretically advanced account of the Depression era's key literary events. Many topics of canonical importance, such as protest literature,...
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Art, Faith, Race, and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Over the last forty years, renewed interest in the career of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937) has vaulted him into expanding scholarly discourse on American art. Consequently, he has emerged as the most studied and recognized representative of African American art during the nineteenth century. In...
by Dr Robin Beck
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
This book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding how the Indian nations of the early American South emerged from the ruins of a precolonial, Mississippian world. A broad regional synthesis that ranges over much of the Eastern Woodlands, its focus is on the Indians of the Carolina Piedmont...