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American Sophistication
How the Casual Became Cool
Av Ross Posnock
E-bok, 2026
492 kr
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The fascinating story of sophistication in the United States, from the founding to the presentIs there such a thing as ';American sophistication'or is it a contradiction in terms? Those questions have been up for grabs since America's founding. The idea of sophistication has always left Americans …
Trial of Curiosity
Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity
Av Ross Posnock
E-bok, 1991
1666 kr
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In this important revisionist study, Posnock integrates literary and psychological criticism with social and cultural theory to make a major advance in our understanding of the life and thought of two great American figures, Henry and William James. Challenging canonical images of both brothers, …
Penelope's Web
Gender, Modernity, H. D.'s Fiction
Av Susan Stanford Friedman, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1333 kr
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Penelope's Web should appeal to a wide spectrum of readers interested in twentieth-century modernism, women's writing, feminist criticism, post-structuralist theory, psychoanalysis, autobiography, and women's studies. Published in 1991, it was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly …
Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry
Av Charles Altieri, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry is an inquiry into the cultural roles lyric poetry does and can play in our age. Charles Altieri first establishes a dominant mode in 'serious' American poetry by identifying current assumptions inherent in the teaching of creative writing and …
Hawthorne Melville and the American Character
A Looking-Glass Business
Av John McWilliams, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
654 kr
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This book considers the portrayal of the American national character in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. It examines Hawthorne's abiding concern with the development of New England from colony to province to republic, and analyses Melville's changing evocation of 'the new …
The Puritan Conversion Narrative
The Beginnings of American Expression
Av Patricia Caldwell, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
654 kr
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In the mid-seventeenth century, persons on both sides of the Atlantic wishing to join a Puritan church had to appear before all of its members and tell the story of their religious conversion - in effect, to give convincing verbal evidence that their souls were saved. New England's Puritans widely …
American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940
Av Brenda Murphy, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1987
1489 kr
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The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.
The American Abraham
James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch
Av Warren Motley, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
1722 kr
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In this book Warren Motley offers an original interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's career. Whereas most studies of Cooper have centered on the figure of the Leatherstocking - that solitary model of the self-sufficient American hero untrammeled by civilization - this book examines Cooper's …
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
A Disciplinary History of American Writing
Av John Limon, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1910 kr
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In this 1990 book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction (and justified that writing) in an age increasingly dominated by science. He focuses in particular on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne - three highly …
In Respect to Egotism
Studies in American Romantic Writing
Av Joel Porte, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1816 kr
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In this 1991 book, Joel Porte examines nineteenth-century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its varying modalities of self-creation, self-display, self-projection, and self-concealment. The book begins by exploring the status of the 'text' in …
The Color of the Sky
A Study of Stephen Crane
Av David Halliburton, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
1985 kr
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David Halliburton's book is a richly textured study of the complete writings of Stephen Crane, including Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage, and the less well-known fiction, newswriting, and poetry. Offering close readings of the works within a broad framework, Halliburton sets …
Conspiracy and Romance
Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville
Av Robert S. Levine, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
1947 kr
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Robert Levine has examined the American romance in a historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the republic and the Civil war. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties …
The Divided Mind
Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917
Av Peter Conn, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
667 kr
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The Divided Mind examines the debate between innovation and tradition in American culture of the early years of the twentieth century. Peter Conn discusses literature, painting, music, architecture and politics, using illustrations of the artwork, buildings and popular graphics of the period. The …
New England Literary Culture
From Revolution through Renaissance
Av Lawrence Buell, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
746 kr
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This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century. Professor Buell explores the foundations, growth and literary results of the professionalization of the writing vocation. He pays …
A House Undivided
Domesticity and Community in American Literature
Av Douglas Anderson, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1797 kr
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A whole range of major American writers have focused on images of the household, of domestic virtue, and the feminine or feminized hero. This important 1990 book examines the persistence and flexibility of such themes in the work of a tradition of classic writers from Ann Bradstreet through …
The American Historical Romance
Av George Dekker, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
916 kr
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This book traces the tradition of American historical fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to the eve of World War II. It examines the historical novel's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history; with the rise of literary regionalism; with the ambitions of …
Faulkner's Subject
A Cosmos No One Owns
Av Philip M. Weinstein, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
1834 kr
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Faulker's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns offers a reading of William Faulkner by viewing his masterpieces through the lens of current critical theory. The book addresses both the power of his work and the current theoretical issues that call that power into question. Drawing on poststructuralist, …
American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition
Av Russell B. Goodman, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1910 kr
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Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the work of twentieth-century analytical positivists such as Quine. Russell Goodman expands on the revisionist position developed by Stanley Cavell, that the …
Representative Words
Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865
Av Thomas Gustafson, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
2065 kr
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's dictum - 'The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language' - belongs to a long tradition of writing connecting political disorders and the corruption of language that stretches back in Western culture. Representative Words, which gives an account of the …
Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature
Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville
Av Brook Thomas, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
538 kr
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In Cross Examinations of Law and Literature Brook Thomas uses legal thought and legal practice as a lens through which to read some of the important fictions of antebellum America. The lens reflects both ways, and we learn as much about the literature in the context of contemporary legal concerns …
Disjunctive Poetics
From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe
Av Peter Quartermain, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
1910 kr
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Disjunctive Poetics examines some of the most interesting and experimental contemporary writers whose work forms a counterpoint to the mainstream writing of our time. Peter Quartermain suggests that the explosion of non-canonical modern writing is linked to the severe political, social and economic …
Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels
Interpretative Strategies
Av Susan K. Harris, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
748 kr
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This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in the nineteenth century read subversively, 'processing texts according to gender based imperatives'. Beginning with Susannah Rowson's best-selling seduction novel Charlotte …
H. D. and Hellenism
Classic Lines
Av Eileen Gregory, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
2060 kr
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H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle): a lifelong engagement with hellenic literature, mythology and art. H. D.'s hellenic intertextuality is examined in the context of classical fictions operative at the …
Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy
Av Victoria Harrison, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1863 kr
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By offering a fresh look at Bishop criticism that has moved from purely formal concerns and post-modern interpretations to more recent feminist analysis, Victoria Harrison traces Elizabeth Bishop's career, dividing her work into three chronological periods of activity: her early work, her writing …
A Grand Army of Black Men
Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861-1865
Av Edwin S. Redkey, Edwin S. Redkey m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
467 kr
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The Civil War stands vivid in the collective memory of the American public. There has always been a profound interest in the subject, and specifically the participation of black Americans in and reactions to the war and the war's outcome. Almost 200,000 African-American soldiers fought for the …
Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism
Av Thomas Strychacz, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1778 kr
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In Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism Thomas Strychacz argues that modernist writers need to be understood both in their relationship to professional critics and in their relationship to an era and ethos of professionalism. In studying four modernist writers - Henry James, Theodore …
The Grounding of American Poetry
Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition
Av Stephen Fredman, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1797 kr
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Stephen Fredman asserts in his work that American poetry is groundless - that each generation of American poets faces the problem of identity anew and has to discover fresh meaning for itself. His argument focuses on four pairs of poets - Eliot/Williams, Thoreau/Olson, Emerson/Duncan and …
Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre
Av Rena Fraden, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
2135 kr
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In the 1930s, the Work Progress Administration funded a massive Federal Theatre Project in America's major urban centres, presenting hundreds of productions, some of the most popular and memorable of which were produced in the highly controversial and avant garde 'Negro Units'. This experiment in …
Emerson and the Conduct of Life
Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work
Av David M. Robinson, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1797 kr
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'I like not the man who is thinking how to be good,' Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, 'but the man thinking how to accomplish his work'. The ethical emphasis on work and activity signals the shift in his thinking that is the subject of Emerson and the Conduct of Life. In this book, David M. Robinson …
The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson
Av Cary Wolfe, Albert Gelpi m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1816 kr
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In The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson, Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound. The main purpose of the book is to demonstrate that any form of …
