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Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated
Av Mick Gidley
Häftad, 2000
842 kr
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For three decades from the 1890s onwards, Edward S. Curtis took thousands of photographs of Native Americans all over the West. These were published (1907-1930) in twenty volumes of illustrated text and twenty portfolios of photographs; the project was supported by Theodore Roosevelt and funded in …
Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos
The Literature and Culture of U.S. Transiency 1890-1940
Av Owen Clayton
Häftad, 2025
579 kr
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The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the established order while reinforcing conservative messages about American exceptionalism, …
Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature
Av Gregg D. Crane, Albert Gelpi
Häftad, 2002
804 kr
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In this broad ranging and powerful study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Crane recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law into line with the moral consensus that slavery and racial …
Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Av Cindy Weinstein, Albert Gelpi
Häftad, 2006
750 kr
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In Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature in the United States. She argues that these novels are far more complex than critics have suggested. Rather than confirming the …
Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940
Häftad, 2007
640 kr
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Why did the figure of the girl come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalized for the girl reader the ways of achieving a powerful social and …
The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature
Av Mary Esteve
Häftad, 2007
916 kr
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Mary Esteve provides a study of crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Esteve examines a range …
Henry James and Queer Modernity
Häftad, 2007
640 kr
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In Henry James and Queer Modernity, first published in 2003, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein …
The Ethnography of Manners
Hawthorne, James and Wharton
Häftad, 2007
897 kr
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This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to produce an unstable but powerful master discourse of …
Fictions of Labor
William Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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Fictions of Labor considers William Faulkner's representation of the structural paradoxes of labour dependency in the Southern economy from the antebellum period through to the New Deal. This book seeks to link stylistic aspects of Faulkner's writing to a generative social trauma which constitutes …
Penelope's Web
Gender, Modernity, H. D.'s Fiction
Häftad, 2008
916 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 …
Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race
Häftad, 2008
654 kr
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Edith Wharton feared that the 'ill-bred', foreign and poor would overwhelm what was known as the American native elite. Drawing on a range of turn-of-the-century social documents, unpublished archival material and Wharton's major novels, Jennie Kassanoff argues that a fuller appreciation of …
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature
Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Häftad, 2008
640 kr
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The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature juxtaposes representations of labour in fictional texts and non-fictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. Both allegory and the new forms of labour produced a …
American Catholic Arts and Fictions
Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics
Av Paul Giles
Häftad, 2008
804 kr
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Paul Giles describes how secular transformations of religious ideas have helped to shape the style and substance of works by American writers, filmmakers and artists from Catholic backgrounds such as Orestes Brownson, Theodore Dreiser, Mary McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alfred Hitchcock and Robert …
The American Abraham
James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch
Häftad, 2008
710 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 Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story
Av Andrew Levy
Häftad, 2008
695 kr
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The Culture and Commerce of the Short Story is a cultural and historical account of the birth and development of the American short story from the time of Poe. It describes how America - through political movements, changes in education, magazine editorial policy and the work of certain individuals …
William Carlos Williams and Alterity
The Early Poetry
Av Barry Ahearn
Häftad, 2008
710 kr
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Many critics have noticed the paradoxes and contradictions in the work of William Carlos Williams, but few have analysed them in detail. Professor Ahearn argues that Williams criticism has not gone far enough in recognizing the uses Williams saw for contradiction. He contends that Williams began to …
Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy
Häftad, 2008
767 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 …
Faulkner's Subject
A Cosmos No One Owns
Häftad, 2008
767 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, …
Fictions of Capital
The American Novel from James to Mailer
Häftad, 2008
654 kr
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Fictions of Capital situates manners and writing about manners in the context of American capitalism between 1880 and 1960, a period that runs from the onset of the sales culture to its war-prompted crisis point in the 1960s. The work of various economic theorists and historians is used to …
Representative Words
Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865
Häftad, 2008
898 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 …
The Color of the Sky
A Study of Stephen Crane
Häftad, 2008
898 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 …
American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition
Häftad, 2008
787 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 …
American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940
Häftad, 2008
692 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.
Reimagining Thoreau
Häftad, 2008
710 kr
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Reimagining Thoreau synthesises the interests of the intellectual and psychological biographer and the literary critic in a reconsideration of Thoreau's career from his graduation from Harvard in 1837 to his death in 1862. The purposes of the book are threefold: to situate Thoreau's aims and …
Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America
The World Turned Upside Down
Häftad, 2008
860 kr
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This book attempts an interpretation of Revolutionary American culture. It argues that the cultural identity of the United States, like its political identity, emerged from a quarrel with the Old World. Europeans believed that the Revolution had 'turned the world upside down'. American …
The Making of Racial Sentiment
Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance
Av Ezra Tawil
Häftad, 2008
714 kr
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The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine 'race' for an emerging national culture. The novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Maria Sedgwick and others described the 'races' in terms of emotional rather than …
Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks
Häftad, 2008
710 kr
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Richard Grusin's study investigates how the establishment of national parks participated in the production of American national identity after the Civil War. The creation of America's national parks is usually seen as an uncomplicated act of environmental preservation. Grusin argues, instead, that …
The Sacred Game
Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630-1860
Häftad, 2008
654 kr
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This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. With careful attention to the historical context, it identifies in the expressions of writers before the Civil War certain qualities of self-doubt and defensiveness, certain perceptions of displacement and decline, so …
Conspiracy and Romance
Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville
Häftad, 2009
748 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 …
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
Häftad, 2009
677 kr
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In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley argues that although scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by …
