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22 produkter
Facing America
Iconography and the Civil War
E-bok, 2004
1265 kr
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Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. To conjure a face for the nation, author Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a …
The Culture of Sentiment
Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth Century America
Inbunden, 1993
2547 kr
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This collection of critical essays develops the study of nineteenth-century sentimentality by examining it in light of the so-called `women's culture' and of issues of race.
Romances of the Republic
Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation
Av Shirley Samuels, Shirley Samuels
Inbunden, 1996
1155 kr
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Samuels looks at the relations among sexual, political, and familial rhetoric in American writing from 1790 to the 1850s. With a special focus on the depictions of the American Revolution and the use of the family as model and instrument of political forces, she examines how the historical novel …
Facing America
Iconography and the Civil War
Inbunden, 2004
1935 kr
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Facing America investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. Drawing on the literature as well as the photographs and political cartoons of the period, Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the …
Facing America
Iconography and the Civil War
E-bok, 2004
1265 kr
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Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. To conjure a face for the nation, author Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a …
Romances of the Republic
Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation
E-bok, 1996
717 kr
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Romances of the Republic contributes to the lively field of scholarship on the interconnection of ideology and history in early American literature. Shirley Samuels illustrates the relations of sexual, political, and familial rhetoric in American writing from 1790 to the 1850s. With special focus …
Culture of Sentiment
Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th-Century America
E-bok, 1992
1476 kr
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Samuels''s collection of critical essays gives body and scope to the subject of nineteenth-century sentimentality by situating it in terms of "women''s culture" and issues of race. Presenting an interdisciplinary range of approaches that consider sentimental culture before and after the Civil War, …
Companion to American Fiction, 1780 - 1865
E-bok, 2008
3223 kr
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This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction Relates the fiction of the period to conflicts …
The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln
Häftad, 2012
523 kr
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Abraham Lincoln's stature as an American cultural figure grows from his political legacy. In today's milieu, the speeches he delivered as the sixteenth president of the United States have become synonymous with American progress, values and exceptionalism. But what makes Lincoln's language so …
The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln
Inbunden, 2012
1554 kr
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Abraham Lincoln's stature as an American cultural figure grows from his political legacy. In today's milieu, the speeches he delivered as the sixteenth president of the United States have become synonymous with American progress, values and exceptionalism. But what makes Lincoln's language so …
Companion to American Fiction, 1780 - 1865
Inbunden, 2004
2767 kr
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This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fictionRelates the fiction of the period to conflicts …
Haunted by the Civil War
Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Inbunden, 2025
323 kr
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How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracyIn Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others …
Haunted by the Civil War
Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States
E-bok, 2025
450 kr
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How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy In Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others …
Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln
E-bok, 2012
506 kr
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Abraham Lincoln''s stature as an American cultural figure grows from his political legacy. In today''s milieu, the speeches he delivered as the sixteenth president of the United States have become synonymous with American progress, values and exceptionalism. But what makes Lincoln''s language so …
Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln
E-bok, 2012
506 kr
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Abraham Lincoln''s stature as an American cultural figure grows from his political legacy. In today''s milieu, the speeches he delivered as the sixteenth president of the United States have become synonymous with American progress, values and exceptionalism. But what makes Lincoln''s language so …
Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865
E-bok, 2013
715 kr
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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. Offers …
Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865
E-bok, 2013
1540 kr
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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. Offers …
Companion to American Fiction, 1780 - 1865
Häftad, 2006
713 kr
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This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fictionRelates the fiction of the period to conflicts …
Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Häftad, 2023
471 kr
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Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, …
Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865
Häftad, 2014
477 kr
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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. Offers …
Reading the American Novel 1780–1865
2011
1181 kr
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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. * …
