Author: William Wells BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Sketches of Places and People Abroad
Author: William Wells BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature
Author: John ErnestPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034725
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature
Author: Lydia G. FashPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081394399X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States’ past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.
To Tell a Free Story
Author: William L. AndrewsPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of black America's most innovative literary tradition -- the autobiography -- from its beginnings to the end of the slavery era.
Handbook of the American Short Story
Author: Erik RedlingPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110585324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.
From Bondage to Liberation
Author: Faith BerryPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826418142
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Unfolds a multifaceted literary history of race relations in the United States. This book features narratives on such well-known figures as Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, and others.
Second Catalogue of the Holton Library of Brighton
Author: Holton Library (Brighton, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Sketches of Foreign Travel and Life at Sea
Author: Rockwell Charles RockwellPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142902187X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Library of Brookline
Author: Public Library of BrooklinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Tim YoungsPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843317699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Long popular with a general readership, travel writing has, in the past three decades or so, become firmly established as an object of serious and multi-disciplinary academic inquiry. Few of the scholarly and popular publications that have focused on the nineteenth century have regarded the century as a whole. This broad volume examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans and Australasia.