Political Companions to Great American Authors – serie
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Political Companion to Henry Adams
Inbunden, 2010
930 kr
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Henry Adams, great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning The Education of Henry Adams, is often overlooked as a serious political thinker. Many scholars have dismissed his writings as cynical and bitter while others regard him as a mere …
Political Companion to Walt Whitman
Av John E Seery
Inbunden, 2011
930 kr
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The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet arguments about the extent to which Whitman could or should be considered a political poet have yet to be fully confronted. Some scholars disregard Whitman's …
Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Av Alan M Levine, Daniel S Malachuk
Inbunden, 2011
930 kr
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From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned -- and renounced -- as one of the United States' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation's liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson's political activism and …
Political Companion to John Steinbeck
Av Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Simon Stow
Inbunden, 2013
930 kr
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Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902--1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck's novels, stories, and plays …
Political Companion to Herman Melville
Av Jason Frank
Inbunden, 2014
930 kr
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Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau …
Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau
Av Jack Turner
Häftad, 2014
595 kr
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The writings of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) have captivated scholars, activists, and ecologists for more than a century. Less attention has been paid, however, to the author's political philosophy and its influence on American public life. Although Thoreau's doctrine of civil disobedience has …
Political Companion to Walt Whitman
Av John E Seery
Häftad, 2014
595 kr
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The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet arguments about the extent to which Whitman could or should be considered a political poet have yet to be fully confronted. Some scholars disregard Whitman's …
Political Companion to Henry Adams
Häftad, 2014
595 kr
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Henry Adams, great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning The Education of Henry Adams, is often overlooked as a serious political thinker. Many scholars have dismissed his writings as cynical and bitter while others regard him as a mere …
Political Companion to John Steinbeck
Av Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Simon Stow
Häftad, 2014
595 kr
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Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902--1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck's novels, stories, and plays …
Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Av Alan M Levine, Daniel S Malachuk
Häftad, 2014
595 kr
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From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned -- and renounced -- as one of the United States' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation's liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson's political activism and …
Political Companion to Saul Bellow
Av Gloria L Cronin, Lee Trepanier
Häftad, 2014
595 kr
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Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century's most influential, respected, and honored writers. His novels The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet won the National Book Award, and Humboldt's Gift was awarded the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In addition, his plays …
Political Companion to Walker Percy
Av Peter Augustine Lawler, Brian A Smith
Häftad, 2014
595 kr
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In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat …
Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson
Av Shannon L Mariotti, Joseph H Lane
Inbunden, 2016
930 kr
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Marilynne Robinson is arguably one of the most important writers of our time. Her voice resonates across the richly imagined American landscapes within which she grounds her stories of love and loss, alienation and belonging, injustice and redemption. Robinson's award-winning body of work -- …
Political Companion to Flannery O'Connor
Inbunden, 2017
930 kr
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Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important …
Political Companion to James Baldwin
Inbunden, 2017
896 kr
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In seminal works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and The Fire Next Time, acclaimed author and social critic James Baldwin (1924--1987) expresses his profound belief that writers have the power to transform society, to engage the public, and to inspire and channel …
Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois
Av Nick Bromell
Inbunden, 2018
858 kr
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Literary scholars and historians have long considered W. E. B. Du Bois (1868--1963) an extremely influential writer and a powerful cultural critic. The author of more than one hundred books, hundreds of published articles, and founding editor of the NAACP journal The Crisis, Du Bois has been widely …
