Author: Walter M. Hill (Firm)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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19th and 20th Century English and American Literature
Author: Walter M. Hill (Firm)First Editions, 19th & 20th Century English and American Literature
Author: Paulette Greene, Rockville CentrePublisher:
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Languages : en
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War
Author: Cody MarrsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107109833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Nineteenth-century American literature is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took shape across the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms for decades after 1865.
Fernando Pessoa and Nineteenth-century Anglo-American Literature
Author: George MonteiroPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813132709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : pt
Pages : 216
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John Neal and Nineteenth-century American Literature and Culture
Author: Edward WattsPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611484200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is a critical reassessment of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal, arguing for his importance to the ongoing reassessment of the American Renaissance and the broader cultural history of the Nineteenth Century. Contributors (including scholars from the United States, Germany, England, Italy, and Israel) present Neal as an innovative literary stylist, penetrating cultural critic, pioneering regionalist, and vital participant in the business of letters in America over his sixty-year career.
19th Century American Literature
Author: Rowland HughesPublisher: York Notes Companions
ISBN: 9781408266632
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume examines the literature and culture of 19th-century America, covering genres such as the early American novel, realist fiction and historical romance, short stories and poetry.
American Literature from the 1850s to 1945
Author: Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, LiteraturePublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1615301321
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the American literary canon from the end of the nineteenth century through the first half of the twentith.
Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author: Hsuan L. HsuPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521197066
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces, from the single-family home to the globe. It focuses on how nineteenth-century authors drew on literary tools including rhetoric, setting, and point of view to mediate between individuals and different spaces, and re-examines how local spaces were incorporated into global networks.
20th Century American Literature
Author: Andrew BladesPublisher: York Notes Companions
ISBN: 9781408266649
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism
Author: Jennifer A. WilliamsonPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813562996
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Today’s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the modern era. By examining working-class literature that adopts the rhetoric of “feeling right” in order to promote a proletarian or humanist ideology as well as neo-slave narratives that wrestle with the legacy of slavery and cultural definitions of African American families, she explores the ways contemporary authors engage with familiar sentimental clichés and ideals. Williamson covers new ground by examining authors who are not generally read for their sentimental narrative practices, considering the proletarian novels of Grace Lumpkin, Josephine Johnson, and John Steinbeck alongside neo-slave narratives written by Margaret Walker, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison. Through careful close readings, Williamson argues that the appropriation of sentimental modes enables both sympathetic thought and systemic action in the proletarian and neo-slave novels under discussion. She contrasts appropriations that facilitate such cultural work with those that do not, including Kathryn Stockett’s novel and film The Help. The book outlines how sentimentalism remains a viable and important means of promoting social justice while simultaneously recognizing and exploring how sentimentality can further white privilege. Sentimentalism is not only alive in the twentieth century. It is a flourishing rhetorical practice among a range of twentieth-century authors who use sentimental tactics in order to appeal to their readers about a range of social justice issues. This book demonstrates that at stake in their appeals is who is inside and outside of the American family and nation.