American category: 24906 books
Transatlantic Dialogue
Selected American Correspondence of Edmund Gosse
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The mauve life and times of Edmund Gosse glow warmly in these letters, delightful to even the most casual reader, engrossing to one with an interest in the distinguished correspondents or in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras. An obscure figure today to all but literary connoisseurs, Gosse was,...
by Michael J Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800–1865 argues that to truly understand the short story form, one must look at how it was shaped by the lively, chaotic, and deeply politicized world of 19th-century transatlantic theater and performance culture. By resurrecting long-neglected theatrical...
The African American Theatrical Body
Reception, Performance, and the Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to African American literature, including preaching, dancing, blues and gospel, and theatre itself, showing how these performance traditions create...
Kindred by Choice
Germans and American Indians since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates, that preoccupation is rooted in an affinity for American Indians that has permeated German cultures for...
Inhuman Bondage
The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill,...
The Native South
New Histories and Enduring Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
In The Native South, Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Spanning such subjects as Seminole–African American kinship...
by Elizabeth Renker
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The terms 'poetry' and 'realism' have a complex and often oppositional relationship in American literary histories of the postbellum period. The core narrative holds that 'realism', the major literary 'movement' of the era, developed apace in prose fiction, while poetry, stuck in a hopelessly idealist...
The American Counterfeit
Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century
Focusing on texts written between 1880 and 1930, Mary McAleer Balkun explores the concept of the “counterfeit,” both in terms of material goods and invented identities, and the ways that...
Fallen Forests
Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "Man's warfare on the trees is terrible." Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability, resource wars, globalization, voluntary simplicity, Christian ecology, and environmental justice. Illuminating the foundations for...
American Hieroglyphics
The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol, language, and meaning. Through fresh readings of...
Thinking Its Presence
Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own...
The Editing of American Literature, 1890-1930
Essays and Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Since the 1960s, Donald Pizer has been writing about late-19th-century American literature, with an emphasis on the major fiction of Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane. Most academics whose interests lie primarily in the preparation of scholarly editions are attracted to the paradoxical mix of adherence...
by G. R. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period.
Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context
Offers fresh...
by Julianne Newmark
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The first three decades of the twentieth century saw the largest period of immigration in U.S. history. This immigration, however, was accompanied by legal segregation, racial exclusionism, and questions of residents’ national loyalty and commitment to a shared set of “American” beliefs and...