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  • A History of American Literature

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Evolution of American Literary Tradition

    by Percy Holmes Boynton, Blake Rees ...
    In "A History of American Literature," Percy Holmes Boynton offers a comprehensive and thoughtful examination of the evolution of American literary expression from colonial times to the early twentieth century. Boynton's literary style is characterized by a rich, analytical prose that intricately weaves biographical sketches of authors with the socio-cultural contexts that shaped their works. The ... Read more

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  • A History of American Literature

    by Percy Holmes Boynton ...
    "A History of American Literature" by Percy Holmes Boynton offers a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of American literary traditions. Boynton meticulously examines the contributions of various authors and movements, highlighting the cultural and historical contexts that shaped their works. The book delves into the complexities of American identity as reflected in literature, from early ... Read more

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  • A History of American Literature

    by Percy Holmes Boynton ...
    In its beginnings American literature differs from the literatures of most other great nations; it was a transplanted thing. It sprang in a way like Minerva, full-armed from the head of Jove,—Jove in this case being England, and the armor being the heritage which the average American colonist had secured in England before he crossed the Atlantic. In contrast, Greek, Roman, French, German, English, ... Read more

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  • A History of American Literature

    by Percy Holmes Boynton ...
    In "A History of American Literature," Percy Holmes Boynton offers an exhaustive and insightful examination of the evolution of American literary expression from its inception to the modern era. Reflecting a scholarly rigor rooted in his expertise, Boynton employs a comprehensive literary style that marries rigorous analysis with accessibility, making complex themes and literary movements ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

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    An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materialsThe preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, ... Read more

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  • The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

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    A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017.The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, ... Read more

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  • Clotel

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    by William Wells Brown ...
    The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown fills the novel with daring escapes and encounters, as well as searing depictions of the American ... Read more

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  • Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times i

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  • History of American Literature

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Evolution of American Literary Tradition

    by Reuben Post Halleck, Owen Bradshaw ...
    In "History of American Literature," Reuben Post Halleck offers a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of literary expression in the United States from its early colonial days to the late nineteenth century. Employing a meticulous chronological narrative, Halleck integrates critical analysis and biographical sketches of key authors, highlighting the socio-political contexts that shaped their ... Read more

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  • Walt Whitman

    A Life

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    The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author "gives us flesh and blood Whitman in this fine and sensitive biography" ( The Boston Globe).A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America's greatest poet—his genius, his passions, his androgynous sensibility—an exuberant life entwined with the turbulent history of mid-nineteenth century America. In vivid detail, Justin Kaplan, ... Read more

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