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Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
A History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. 3
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
Author: Josiah BuntingPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805069496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
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The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. III
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. II
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Author: James D. HartPublisher:
ISBN: 0195047710
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
This concise version contains brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era.
American Literature Before 1880
Author: Robert Lawson-PeeblesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317870379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intended both as an introduction for undergraduates to the richness and variety of American Literature, and as a contribution to the debate about its distinctive nature. The book therefore begins with a lengthy survey of earlier histories of American Literature.
A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Literature of the republic. pt. 4. 1861-1889
Author: Edmund Clarence StedmanPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A Library of American Literature: Literature of the republic, pt. 4, 1861-1888 (continued) Additional selections, 1834-1889. Short biographies of all authors represented in this work, by Arthur Stedman. General index
Author: Edmund Clarence StedmanPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
A Brief History of American Literature
Author: Richard GrayPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444392468
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller and science fiction Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past twenty years Offers students an abridged version of History of American Literature, a book widely considered the standard survey text Provides an invaluable introduction to the subject for students of American literature, American studies and all those interested in the literature and culture of the United States
A Victorian Holocaust
Author: Mohammad Gholi MajdPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761870156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
The death by famine of tens of millions of human beings in Asia and Africa during the Victorian era (1837–1901) is “the secret history of the nineteenth century” about which Western history books contain nothing. The Great Famine of 1869–1873 in Iran took 10–12 million lives, or two-thirds of the population, and is part of this secret history. While the famines that ravaged China and India during 1876 to 1902 have received some recent scrutiny, the precursor of these cataclysmic famines, the Great Famine of 1869–1873 in Iran, has remained practically unknown. This study is the first monograph on the subject in the English language. This famine in Iran killed on a scale similar to the 1876–79 famine in China, which has been called the worst to afflict the human species. This study is based on British diplomatic reports and semi-official sources, European travel accounts, Persian documents and writings, British and American newspapers, and the reports by American missionaries who witnessed the famine. These sources enable one to provide a chronological and numerical account of the death and suffering as the famine spread from the southern and central regions to the rest of the country. The population statistics and rich micro-level data on famine losses in rural and urban areas indicate that during the nearly five years of famine, two-thirds of the population had perished. Not until 1910 did Iran come close to recovering its 1869 population. Soon after, Iran was plunged into the Great Famine of 1917–19, which claimed another 8–10 million, and again the 1942–43 famine and typhus epidemic that carried off an additional 4 million persons. In the seventy-five year span of 1869–1944, Iran had suffered three famines that had taken 25 million lives. Iran’s 1944 population of 10–12 million was unchanged from 11 million recorded in 1841, a perfect case of a Malthusian catastrophe. It is difficult to find another country in which a century of population growth had been wiped out by famine. Having previously described and quantified the 1917–19 and 1942–43 famines, Majd does the same for the 1869–73 famine. This book is the third of a trilogy on famines in Iran during the last 150 years.