Author: Caroline Lee HentzPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Linda; Or, The Young Pilot of Belle Creole
Author: Caroline Lee HentzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Linda; Or, The Young Pilot of the Belle Creole
Author: Caroline Lee HentzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plantation life
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Domestic Novelists in the Old South: Defenders of Southern Culture
Author: Elizabeth MossPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807141243
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Freedom in a Slave Society
Author: Johanna Nicol ShieldsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107013372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study views that tragic reality through the lens of eight authors - representatives of a South that seemed, to them, destined for greatness but was, we know, on the brink of destruction. Exceptionally able and ambitious, these men and women won repute among the educated middle classes in the Southwest, South and the nation, even amid sectional tensions. Although they sometimes described liberty in the abstract, more often these authors discussed its practical significance: what it meant for people to make life's important choices freely and to be responsible for the results. They publicly insisted that freedom caused progress, but hidden doubts clouded this optimistic vision. Ultimately, their association with the oppression of slavery dimmed their hopes for human improvement, and fear distorted their responses to the sectional crisis.
Strange Nation
Author: J. Gerald KennedyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190491280
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized narratives of the nation and U.S. social reality lay a grotesque discontinuity: vehement conflicts over slavery, Indian removal, immigration, and territorial expansion divided the country. Authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child wrestled uneasily with the imperative to revise history to produce national fable. Counter-narratives by fugitive slaves, Native Americans, and defiant women subverted literary nationalism by exposing the plight of the unfree and dispossessed. And with them all, Edgar Allan Poe openly mocked literary nationalism and deplored the celebration of "stupid" books appealing to provincial self-congratulation. More than any other author, he personifies the contrary, alien perspective that discerns the weird operations at work behind the facade of American nation-building.
The Earl of Mayfield
Author: Thomas P. MayPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Madame Pompadour's Garter
Author: Gabrielle De St. AndrePublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Markof, the Russian Violinist
Author: Henry GrévillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Author: Henry Gréville
Author: Henry Gréville