Historical Guides to American Authors – serie
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A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman
Inbunden, 2000
2983 kr
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Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to …
A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman
Häftad, 2000
608 kr
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Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to …
A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Av Joel Myerson
Inbunden, 2000
2108 kr
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There is no question that Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) has maintained his place as one of the seminal figures in American history and literature. His poetic legacy, education ideals, and religious concepts are integral to the formation of American intellectual life, and scholarly interest in him …
A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Av Joel Myerson
Häftad, 2000
448 kr
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There is no question that Emerson has maintained his place as one of the seminal figures in American history and literature. In his time, he was the acknowledged leader of the Transcendentalist movement and his poetic legacy, education ideals, and religious concepts are integral to the formation of …
A Historical Guide to Henry James
Av John Carlos Rowe, Eric Haralson
Häftad, 2012
691 kr
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The New York City-born Henry James (1843-1916)-eminent novelist, amateur psychologist, inveterate bachelor-epitomizes, to many, the turn-of-the-century literary observer of social mores. His shrewd portraits of upper-class Anglo American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries …
A Historical Guide to Henry James
Av John Carlos Rowe, Eric Haralson
Inbunden, 2012
1935 kr
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The New York City-born Henry James (1843-1916)-eminent novelist, amateur psychologist, inveterate bachelor-epitomizes, to many, the turn-of-the-century literary observer of social mores. His shrewd portraits of upper-class Anglo American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries …
A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe
Inbunden, 2001
2080 kr
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), son of itinerant actors, holds a secure place in the firmament of history as America's first master of suspense. Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literary …
A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe
Häftad, 2001
935 kr
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), son of itinerant actors, holds a secure place in the firmament of history as America's first master of suspense. Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literary …
A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway
Inbunden, 2000
2156 kr
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The 1999 centennial of Ernest Hemingway's birth marks a time for the reevaluation of his position as America's premier modernist writer. The previously unpublished essays in this collection plumb unexplored details of Hemingway's life to illuminate new and unexpected dimensions of the force of his …
A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway
Häftad, 2000
1175 kr
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The 1999 Hemingway centennial marks the perfect time for the reevaluation of his position as America's premier modernist writer. These essays, all written specially for this collection, plumb unexplored historical details of Hemingway's life to illuminate new and often unexpected dimensions of the …
A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Inbunden, 2001
3021 kr
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Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of the most widely read and taught of American authors. This Historical Guide collects a number of original essays by Hawthorne scholars that place the author in historical context. Like other volumes in the series, A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne includes …
A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Häftad, 2001
1347 kr
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Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of the most widely read and taught of American authors. This Historical Guide collects a number of original essays by Hawthorne scholars that place the author in historical context. Like other volumes in the series, A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne includes …
A Historical Guide to Mark Twain
Häftad, 2002
504 kr
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Mark Twain remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide to Mark Twain addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Mark Twain's work including religion, commerce, race, gender, …
A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton
Inbunden, 2003
3390 kr
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A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton provides scholarly and general readers with historical contexts that illuminate Wharton's life and writing in new, exciting ways. The essays in this volume expand our sense of Wharton as a novelist of manners and reflect the latest developments in new historicism …
A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton
Häftad, 2003
654 kr
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Edith Wharton, arguably the most important American female novelist, stands at a particular historical crossroads between sentimental lady writer and modern professional author. Her ability to cope with this collision of Victorian and modern sensibilities makes her work especially interesting. …
A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau
Inbunden, 2000
3021 kr
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As an essayist, philosopher, ex-pencil manufacturer, notorious hermit, tax protester, and all-around original thinker, Thoreau led so singular a life that he is in some ways a perfect candidate for the historical and biographical treatments made possible by the Historical Guides to American Authors …
A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau
Av William E. Cain, William E. Cain
Häftad, 2000
1410 kr
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As an essayist, philosopher, ex-pencil manufacturer, notorious hermit, tax protester, and all-around original thinker, Thoreau led so singular a life that he is in some ways a perfect candidate for the historical and biographical treatments made possible by the Historical Guides to American Authors …
A Historical Guide to Herman Melville
Av Giles Gunn, Giles Gunn
Häftad, 2005
987 kr
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This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville's relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated …
A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes
Häftad, 2004
804 kr
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Langston Hughes has been an inspiration to generations of readers and writers seeking a passionate, intelligent, and socially responsible art. In this volume, Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad range of critics to produce an interdisciplinary approach to the important historical and cultural …
A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson
Häftad, 2004
1227 kr
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One of America's most celebrated women, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her own time and unknown to the public at large. Today her poetry is commonly anthologized and widely praised for its precision, its intensity, its depth and beauty. Dickinson's life and work, however, remain in …
A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison
Av Steven C. Tracy, Steven C. Tracy
Inbunden, 2004
1399 kr
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The essays in this collection treat the whole of Ralph Ellison's body of work, including his famous novel Invisible Man. The volume confronts Ellison the man of ideas, essayist, and short story writer, as well as the material in his posthumously published novel Juneteenth, in order to provide …
A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison
Av Steven C. Tracy, Steven C. Tracy
Häftad, 2004
635 kr
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Ralph Ellison has been a controversial figure, both lionized and vilified, since he seemed to burst fully formed on to the national literary scene in 1952 with the publication of Invisible Man. In this volume Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad range of critics who look not only at Ellison's …
A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Häftad, 2004
1324 kr
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Although perceived in his own day as a lightweight chronicler of 1920s trends and fads, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is now recognized as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Whether for his classic novels (The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night), his frequently …
A Historical Guide to James Fenimore Cooper
Häftad, 2007
805 kr
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A Historical Guide to James Fenimore Cooper features new critical essays by noted American literature scholars, Gerald Kennedy, John P. McWilliams, Dana Nelson, and Barbara Mann, as well as a brief biography by authorized Cooper biographer Wayne Franklin and a survey of Cooper scholarship and …
A Historical Guide to James Baldwin
Av Douglas Field, Douglas Field
Inbunden, 2009
3179 kr
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With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of Baldwin's varied body of work that …
A Historical Guide to James Baldwin
Av Douglas Field, Douglas Field
Häftad, 2009
823 kr
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With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of Baldwin's varied body of work that …
