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The Lay of the Land
Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity (as Mother, as Virgin,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the "stories of stories," plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took...
by Thomas Vance
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The essential mind-mysteries are the subject of Vance's poems. Themes of mutability, maturation, discovery, and delight are projected through brilliant archetypal imagery controlled and perfected by a striking technical assurance. The poems are concentrated and sometimes demanding, but they are never...
The Elusive Quest
America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Leffler argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets. Leffler bridges the gap between revisionist and traditionalist...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 1: Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United States in recent decades, however, religious culture...
Divine Hierarchies
Class in American Religion and Religious Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Placing the neglected issue of class back into the study and understanding of religion, Sean McCloud reconsiders the meaning of class in today's world. More than a status grounded in material conditions, says McCloud, class is also an identity rhetorically and symbolically made and unmade through...
In Quest of Identity
Patterns in the Spanish American Essay of Ideas, 1890-1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book examines an important type of Spanish-American essay--one that deals with the problems of a developing civilization--and places its focus on the history of ideas rather than on literature per se, pointing up the hemispheric pattern of intellectual development in most of the major Spanish-American...
Finding Your Roots
The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the PBS documentary series seen by 30 million people. As Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows us, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical...
Finding Your Roots, Season 2
The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. clearly demonstrates, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research...
by Anne Shelby
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Combining traditional Appalachian folktale plots with a contemporary sensibility, writer and storyteller Anne Shelby creates fourteen lively, original stories of a funny, magical, yet familiar world.Many of the stories feature a girl named Molly Whuppie, who is clever, brave, and strong. Encountering...
A German Women's Movement
Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880-1933
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Nancy Reagin analyzes the rhetoric, strategies, and programs of more than eighty bourgeois women's associations in Hanover, a large provincial capital, from the Imperial period to the Nazi seizure of power. She examines the social and demographic foundations of the Hanoverian women's movement, interweaving...
by Archie Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Archie Green--shipwright, folklorist, teacher, and lobbyist--was a legendary figure in the field of American folklore and vernacular culture studies. An inspiration to a generation of students and scholars, Green was known for the remarkable passion, intelligence, and curiosity he brought to his explorations...
by Bertram D. Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Disillusioned by communism as a young man, Wolfe devoted his life to the study and writing of Russian history. These essays show how clearly he understood the precious quality of freedom and the durability of despotism as it is experienced under totalitarian governments. His analyses of the contemporary...
Mirror and Veil
The Historical Dimension of Spenser's Faerie Queene
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Spenser not only dedicated The FAerie Queene to Queen Elizabeth but asserted that his romantic epic was in some sense about her rule and her realm. The informed attention that O'Connell gives to the relationship between Spenser's reflections on contemporary history and his moral design makes this...