Author: ForbesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Trip to Mexico
Author: ForbesThe Critic
Author: Hoosiers and the American Story
Author: Madison, James H.Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871953633
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.
Harriet Martineau's Autobiography
Author: Harriet MartineauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Recollections and Reflections
Author: Wharton Jackson GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Reading Fiction in Antebellum America
Author: James L. MachorPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801899338
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-century Americans shaped not only the experiences of these writers at the time but also the way the writers were received in the twentieth century. What Machor reveals is that these authors were received in ways strikingly different from how they are currently read, thereby shedding significant light on their present status in the literary canon in comparison to their critical and popular positions in their own time. Machor deftly combines response and reception criticism and theory with work in the history of reading to engage with groundbreaking scholarship in historical hermeneutics. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.
A Journey Through Texas
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Social Life in Old New Orleans
Author: Eliza RipleyPublisher: New York ; London : D. Appleton and Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Historic Residential Suburbs
Author: David L. AmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description