Author: Ralph Thompson
Publisher: New York : The H.W. Wilson Company
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the anxious eyes of his parents.

Author: Lydia G. Fash
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081394399X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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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.

Author: Ralph Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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Author: Alexandra Socarides
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198855524
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Studies why the poetry of nineteenth-century American women has all but disappeared from literary history, with the exception of the works of Emily Dickinson. Exploring works by little-known poets, it illustrates that the means by which the poetry came to be written and read contributed to and determined its eventual erasure.

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Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Claudia Stokes
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812253531
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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We celebrate innovation and experimentation, but Claudia Stokes reminds us that nineteenth-century American writers instead valued familiarity and traditionalism, which provided reliable markers of literary quality. Old Style examines the varied uses and expressions of unoriginality, which helped credential marginalized writers.

Author: Brenda Haugen
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781404801929
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Briefly discusses the history and customs connected to the celebration of Christmas.

Author: Alexandra Urakova
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030932702
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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This book explores the dark, unruly, and self-destructive side of gift-giving as represented in nineteenth-century literary works by American authors. It asserts the centrality and relevance of gift exchange for modern American literary and intellectual history and reveals the ambiguity of the gift in various social and cultural contexts, including those of race, sex, gender, religion, consumption, and literature. Focusing on authors as diverse as Emerson, Kirkland, Child, Sedgwick, Hawthorne, Poe, Douglass, Stowe, Holmes, Henry James, Twain, Howells, Wilkins Freeman, and O. Henry as well as lesser-known, obscure, and anonymous authors, Dangerous Giving explores ambivalent relations between dangerous gifts, modern ideology of disinterested giving, and sentimental tradition.

Author: Ralph Thompson
Publisher: Thompson Press
ISBN: 1443727563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.