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17 produkter
Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790–1876
Inbunden, 2007
2904 kr
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This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers …
Sacred Uncertainty
Religious Difference and the Shape of Melville's Career
Inbunden, 2015
1576 kr
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Herman Melville’s oeuvre sustains a fundamental tension among self, society, and others. Sacred Uncertainty explores religious difference that arises from these many voices, both within American culture and around the world. Melville’s work is notably shot through with allusions to other writers …
Sacred Uncertainty
Religious Difference and the Shape of Melville's Career
Häftad, 2015
450 kr
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Herman Melville’s oeuvre sustains a fundamental tension among self, society, and others. Sacred Uncertainty explores religious difference that arises from these many voices, both within American culture and around the world. Melville’s work is notably shot through with allusions to other writers …
Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876
E-bok, 2016
956 kr
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This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers …
Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876
E-bok, 2016
935 kr
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This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers …
Benito Cereno
Av Herman Melville, Brian Yothers
Häftad, 2019
378 kr
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“Benito Cereno,” a story of atmospheric Gothic horror and striking political resonance, represents Herman Melville’s most profound and unsettling engagement with the horrors of New World slavery. Narrating the story of a slave revolt using materials drawn from Amasa Delano’s non-fictional account …
Reading Abolition
The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass
Inbunden, 2016
1440 kr
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A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literature.Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass represent a crucial strand in nineteenth-century American literature: the struggle for the abolition of …
Above the American Renaissance
David S. Reynolds and the Spiritual Imagination in American Literary Studies
Av Harold K. Bush, Brian Yothers
Häftad, 2018
709 kr
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Above the American Renaissance takes David S. Reynolds's classic study Beneath the American Renaissance as a model and a provocation to consider how language and concepts broadly defined as spiritual are essential to understanding nineteenth-century American literary culture. In the 1980s, …
Melville's Mirrors
Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author
Häftad, 2019
385 kr
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An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. Until now, however, …
Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now
Inbunden, 2023
1502 kr
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This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history.The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial …
Animals in the American Classics
How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction
Av Susan F. Beegel, John Bird m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
510 kr
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As defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditions.” Seldom is this idea so clearly reflected as in classic works of American fiction of the …
Long Journey
Exploring Travel and Travel Writing
Av Maria Pia Di Bella, Brian Yothers
Inbunden, 2020
1921 kr
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Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, …
Long Journey
Exploring Travel and Travel Writing
Av Maria Pia Di Bella, Brian Yothers
Häftad, 2020
511 kr
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Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, …
Long Journey
Exploring Travel and Travel Writing
Av Brian Yothers, Maria Pia Di Bella
E-bok, 2020
316 kr
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Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, …
Melville's Mirrors
Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author
Inbunden, 2011
307 kr
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An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. Until now, however, …
Billy Budd, Sailor
Inbunden, 2017
1367 kr
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In-depth critical discussions of Herman Melville's novel - Plus complimentary, unlimited online access to the full content of this great literary reference. Critical Insights: Billy Budd will delve into Herman Melville’s short masterpiece. A frequently assigned and relatively brief work, Billy Budd …
Scarlet Letter
Inbunden, 2018
1367 kr
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In-depth critical discussions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's famous novel - Plus complimentary, unlimited online access to the full content of this great literary reference.This volume examines how The Scarlet Letter brings together many vital strands in American literature and culture. Puritanism and …
