Author: Louise Clarkson Whitelock
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385319641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author: James Russell Lowell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Author: Adam W. Sweeting
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653141
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Indian summer, the succession of warm, fair days gracing New England in autumn, is at once a flourishing period signaling the end of fall, a meteorological event, a vernacular cultural construction, and a literary metaphor. In this appealing and elegant book, Sweeting plumbs Indian summer's use in literature as a symbol of second chance, rebirth, or reprieve before the onset of a harsher season. Well researched and charmingly written, Beneath the Second Sun is the first book to systematically treat the history and uses of Indian summer imagery in American life. The author focuses on the ways in which New Englanders have embraced the season, and he places the celebration of the season's beauty and its melancholy qualities within the context of Anglo-Native American relations. Sweeting does not try to locate the original definition of Indian summer, rather he explores the far more interesting ways in which the season has been imagined and described in American culture. Popular authors including Philip Freneau, Susan Cooper, Lydia Sigourney, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis Parkman Oliver, Wendell Holmes, and, especially, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and William Dean Howells freely employ Indian summer imagery in their works. In the context of modern American Studies, Sweeting's study is part of a "post-modern" scholarly discussion of how tangible realities such as climate are mediated, even forged, by social needs. Sweeting further investigates the imaginative, early-nineteenth-century "invention" of New England regional identity and integrates traditional American Studies literary and historical concerns with a contemporary interest in the environment and sense of place. Sweeting's graceful, lively, and accessible style beckons not only scholars of American literature and the nineteenth century but any traveler seeking the glories of autumn in New England.

Author: Edith Granger
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1086

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Author: James Russell Lowell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
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Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: James Russell Lowell
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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The Vision of Sir Launfal is a collection of entertaining and elegant poems about God and Randall Parrish's life. Excerpt: "God makes sech nights, all white an' still Fur 'z you can look or listen, Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, All silence an' all glisten. Zeke crept up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, With no one nigh to hinder."

Author: James Russell Lowell
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: James Russell Lowell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Author: Harold Melvin Stanford
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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