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The School of Hawthorne
Häftad, 1990
915 kr
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Where does a literary reputation originate and why are so many writers' reputations subject to the caprices of academic or critical fashion? Basing his arguments on the tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who has survived long periods in the literary wilderness to become one of America's most …
School of Hawthorne
E-bok, 1990
506 kr
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In The School of Hawthorne , Brodhead uses Hawthorne as a prime example of how literary traditions are made, not born. Under Brodhead''s scrutiny, the Hawthorne tradition opens out onto a wide array of subjects, many of which have received little previous attention. He offers a detailed account of …
Cultures of Letters
Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 1995
334 kr
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Using a variety of historical sources, Richard H. Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of …
Good of This Place
Häftad, 2010
424 kr
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This eloquent collection of essays and speeches by Richard H. Brodhead addresses issues of importance to institutes of higher learning and to those who participate in them. As the popular Dean of Yale College from 1993 to 2004, Brodhead was involved in every aspect of undergraduate …
New Essays on Moby-Dick
Häftad, 1986
523 kr
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The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction by giving details of the novel's composition, publication history and contemporary reception. The group of essays, each specially commissioned from a leading …
Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
Av Charles W. Chesnutt, Richard H. Brodhead
Häftad, 1993
330 kr
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The stories in The Conjure Woman were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 they have come to be seen as some of the most remarkable works of African American literature from the Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance. Lesser known, …
Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt
Av Charles W. Chesnutt, Richard H. Brodhead
Häftad, 1993
539 kr
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Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his modest beginnings and forlorn surroundings, …
Speaking of Duke
Leading the Twenty-First-Century University
Inbunden, 2017
442 kr
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Over the course of his thirteen years as president of Duke University, Richard H. Brodhead spoke at numerous university ceremonies, community forums, and faculty meetings, and even appeared on The Colbert Report. Speaking of Duke collects dozens of these speeches, in which Brodhead speaks both to …
Speaking of Duke
Leading the Twenty-First-Century University
E-bok, 2017
633 kr
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Over the course of his thirteen years as president of Duke University, Richard H. Brodhead spoke at numerous university ceremonies, community forums, and faculty meetings, and even appeared on The Colbert Report . Speaking of Duke collects dozens of these speeches, in which Brodhead speaks both to …
Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
Av Charles W. Chesnutt, Richard H. Brodhead
E-bok, 1993
414 kr
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The stories in The Conjure Woman were Charles W. Chesnutt''s first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 they have come to be seen as some of the most remarkable works of African American literature from the Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance. Lesser known, …
Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt
Av Charles W. Chesnutt, Richard H. Brodhead
E-bok, 1993
536 kr
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Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his modest beginnings and forlorn surroundings, …
