Author: John Atlee KouwenhovenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Adventures of America, 1857-1900
Author: John Atlee KouwenhovenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes
Author: Jill B. GidmarkPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567507700
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
The sea and Great Lakes have inspired American authors from colonial times to the present to produce enduring literary works. This reference is a comprehensive survey of American sea literature. The scope of the encyclopedia ranges from the earliest printed matter produced in the colonies to contemporary experiments in published prose, poetry, and drama. The book also acknowledges how literature gives rise to adaptations and resonances in music and film and includes coverage of nonliterary topics that have nonetheless shaped American literature of the sea and Great Lakes. The alphabetical arrangement of the reference facilitates access to facts about major literary works, characters, authors, themes, vessels, places, and ideas that are central to American sea literature. Each of the several hundred entries is written by an expert contributor and many provide bibliographical information. While the encyclopedia includes entries for white male canonical writers such as Herman Melville and Jack London, it also gives considerable attention to women at sea and to ethnically diverse authors, works, and themes. The volume concludes with a chronology and a list of works for further reading.
An American Album
Author: Lewis H. LaphamPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Contains primary source material.
The Beer Can by the Highway
Author: John A. KouwenhovenPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801836534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
First published in 1961, The Beer Can by the Highway takes a provocative, wide-ranging look at America's ever-changing physical and intellectual landscapes, from advertising and jazz to Manhattan's skyline and the prairies of the Midwest. The Johns Hopkins edition features a foreword by Ralph Ellison, who praises the work as "one that springs from deep within that rich segment of the American grain which gave us the likes of Emerson and Whitman, Horatio Greenough and Constance Rourke—yes, and Mark Twain."
Looking Past the Screen
Author: Jon LewisPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822338215
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
DIVA collection of essays illustrating new methods and theories of film history./div
Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture
Author: Sumiko HigashiPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520085574
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
On Cecil B. de Mille - his life and works.
Thomas Nast
Author: Fiona Deans HalloranPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807837350
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Nast's legacy also includes a trove of other political cartoons, his successful attack on the machine politics of Tammany Hall in 1871, and his wildly popular illustrations of Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly magazine. Throughout his career, his drawings provided a pointed critique that forced readers to confront the contradictions around them. In this thoroughgoing and lively biography, Fiona Deans Halloran focuses not just on Nast's political cartoons for Harper's but also on his place within the complexities of Gilded Age politics and highlights the many contradictions in his own life: he was an immigrant who attacked immigrant communities, a supporter of civil rights who portrayed black men as foolish children in need of guidance, and an enemy of corruption and hypocrisy who idolized Ulysses S. Grant. He was a man with powerful friends, including Mark Twain, and powerful enemies, including William M. "Boss" Tweed. Halloran interprets Nast's work, explores his motivations and ideals, and illuminates Nast's lasting legacy on American political culture.
Library Accessions
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration. Research LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Five Centuries of American Costume
Author: Ruth Turner WilcoxPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486436101
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Depictions of everyday wear of Vikings, Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, and principal North American Indian tribes, plus the varied costumes of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German, and Scandinavians who settled on the American continents. Military uniforms from the 16th to the mid-20th century are also portrayed. 404 black-and-white illustrations.
City Reading
Author: David M. HenkinPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231107440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role reading played in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. The "ubiquitous urban texts"--from newspapers to paper money, from street signs to handbills--became both indispensable urban guides and apt symbols for a new kind of public life that emerged first in New York.