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  • Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

    by Helen R. Deese, Eric Gardner, Laura Dassow Walls, Sarah Ann Wider, Susan M. Stone, Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, Sterling Delano, Katherine Adams, Noelle Baker, Dorri Beam, Mary De Jong, Monika Elbert, Ivonne Garcia, Daniel Malachuk, Jeffrey A. Steele, Gary Williams ...
    Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction

    by Neal Salisbury, Rosalind J. Beiler, Gary L. Hewitt, John Shy, Gary B. Nash, Laura McCall, Donna L. Akers, George R. Price, Helen Deese, John Mayfield, Steven E. Woodworth, Ethan S. Rafuse, Lesley J. Gordon, Richard Lowe, Marilyn Westerkamp, Marla R. Miller, Anya Jabour, Robert J. Allison ...
    Series series The Human Tradition in America
    The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction is a collection of the best biographical sketches from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America Series. Compiled by Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, this book brings American history to life by illuminating the lives of ordinary Americans. This examination of common individuals helps personalize the ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Read more

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  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

    by Julia A. Stern ...
    A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated ... Read more

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  • American Transcendentalism

    A History

    by Philip F. Gura ...
    The first comprehensive history of the nineteenth-century American intellectual movement.American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the America Civil War. Philip F. Gura masterfully traces their ... Read more

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    Black and White Women of the Old South

    by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
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  • Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Essays on the Writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe

    by Sylvia Mayer, Martin T. Buinicki, Jennifer Cognard-Black, Maria I. Diedrich, Christiane E. Farnan, Faye Halpern, Joseph Helminski, Monika Mueller, William P. Mullaney, Astrid Recker, Sarah Robbins ...
    Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the 1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased. Rediscovery and ultimate canonization, however, have concentrated to a large extent on her major novelistic achievement, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Only in recent years have critics begun to focus more seriously on ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edited by Joel Myerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals ... Read more

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  • LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION

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    Edited by Janice M. Alberghene, Beverly Lyon Clark ...
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  • Literary Transcendentalism

    Style and Vision in the American Renaissance

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    Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail.Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication, ... Read more

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