Author: James Holman RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
JAMES KIRKE PAULDING, A STUDY IN LITERARY NATIONALISM.
Author: James Holman RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
A Critical Edition and Study of James Kirke Paulding's The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan
Author: Dennis Duane GartnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
James Kirke Paulding
Author: Larry J. ReynoldsPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Encyclopedia of American Humorists
Author: Steven H. GalePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317362276
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Dissertations in English and American Literature
Author: Laurence F. McNameePublisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Proceedings of the Board of Regents
Author: University of Michigan. Board of RegentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
Commencement Programs
Author: University of MichiganGeneral Register
Author: University of MichiganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Announcements for the following year included in some vols.
American Dissertations on the Drama and the Theatre
Author: Fredric M. LittoPublisher: Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
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.