Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387332467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
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The Vision of the Fountain, and Fancy's Show-Box, and Beneath An Umbrella; From "Twice Told Tales"
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387332467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387332467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature
Author: Lydia G. Fash
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081394399X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081394399X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
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.
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Early national literature: pt. II. Later national literature: pt. I
Author: William Peterfield Trent
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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A History of American Literature: Early national literature: pt. 2. Later national literature: pt. 1
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: C. E. Frazer Clark
Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Hawthorne and Women
Author: John L. Idol
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In 25 (mostly) original contributions, professors, authors, and independent scholars critique how women readers, critics, and writers--including Hawthorne's wife--have responded to the author of The Scarlet Letter, and Hawthorne's ambivalence toward the "damnd [sic] mob of scribbling women." Appended are additional reviews by two female critics, an 1869 letter by Harriet Beecher Stowe citing Hawthorne's American Notebooks as a model of writing for women, and a 1904 letter relating to a 100th anniversary celebration of Hawthorne's birth. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In 25 (mostly) original contributions, professors, authors, and independent scholars critique how women readers, critics, and writers--including Hawthorne's wife--have responded to the author of The Scarlet Letter, and Hawthorne's ambivalence toward the "damnd [sic] mob of scribbling women." Appended are additional reviews by two female critics, an 1869 letter by Harriet Beecher Stowe citing Hawthorne's American Notebooks as a model of writing for women, and a 1904 letter relating to a 100th anniversary celebration of Hawthorne's birth. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Hawthorne Among His Contemporaries
Author:
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Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Publisher:
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Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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The Night Circus
Author: Erin Morgenstern
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385534647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385534647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst
Author: James Hearst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.
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ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description