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  • American Literature Before 1880

    by Robert Lawson-Peebles ...
    Series series Longman Literature In English Series
    American Literature Before 1880attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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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

    $9.99 USD

  • The Machine in the Garden

    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    by Leo Marx ...
    For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • From Puritanism to Postmodernism

    A History of American Literature

    by Richard Ruland ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • 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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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Edited by Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • American Literature in Context to 1865

    by Susan Castillo ...
    American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses the issues and events that engaged American writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaningCovers a range of genres including the myths, chants and songs of indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and the novels and poetry to 1865Designed to ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • American Literature from 1600 Through the 1850s

    by Adam Augustyn ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to World Literature
    Fiercely nationalistic, the first prominent American writers exhibited a profound pride in the territory that would come to be known as the United States. Predating even the Declaration of Independence, much early American writing entailed commentary on the newly developing American society. This volume examines the literature of the country in its nascence and writers such as Poe, Hawthorne, and ... Read more

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  • Mortal Remains

    Death in Early America

    Edited by Nancy Isenberg, Andrew Burstein ...
    Mortal Remains introduces new methods of analyzing death and its crucial meanings over a 240-year period, from 1620 to 1860, untangling its influence on other forms of cultural expression, from religion and politics to race relations and the nature of war. In this volume historians and literary scholars join forces to explore how, in a medically primitive and politically evolving environment, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Birth-mark

    Essays

    by Susan Howe ...
    Susan Howe's classic groundbreaking exploration of early American literature.In this classic, groundbreaking exploration of early American literature, Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts interpreters and editors eager for settlement. Howe approaches Anne Hutchinson, Mary Rowlandson, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

    Edited by Greg Clingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and intellectual life of one of the most challenging and wide-ranging writers in English literary history. Compiler of the first great English dictionary, editor of Shakespeare, biographer and critic of the English poets, author both of the influential journal Rambler and the popular fiction ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • 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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