Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Gleaning in Europe : France
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Gleanings in Europe, France
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Gleanings in Europe
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Strange Nation
Author: J. Gerald Kennedy
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Anonyms
Author: William Cushing
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag AG
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag AG
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Gleanings in Europe
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873953689
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
France (1837) was the third volume published in Cooper's Gleanings in Europe series, but first in the chronology of his European experience. Less sequential than his other travel narratives, France distills his impressions of French and European culture during his first two years abroad. Exhibiting many qualities of the familiar essay, it considers a wide range of topics of interest to Cooper, his friends, and potential readers in the United States. As a celebrity thoroughly at home in the brilliant society of Bourbon Paris, Cooper was able to provide fascinating glimpses of personalities, spectacles, institutions, and manners--from his distinctly American perspective. Indeed, as Professor Philbrick remarks, "No other of Cooper's works, perhaps, brings us closer to his speaking voice or puts us more directly in contact with the man himself, with all his idiosyncratic preoccupations, his quick resentments, his restless curiosity, his surprising humor, and his nobility of principle." The reader of this edition is brought even closer to Cooper in the draft of a hitherto unpublished letter, probably intended for this book, which illustrates Cooper's grasp of the still finer points of French customs and attitudes.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873953689
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
France (1837) was the third volume published in Cooper's Gleanings in Europe series, but first in the chronology of his European experience. Less sequential than his other travel narratives, France distills his impressions of French and European culture during his first two years abroad. Exhibiting many qualities of the familiar essay, it considers a wide range of topics of interest to Cooper, his friends, and potential readers in the United States. As a celebrity thoroughly at home in the brilliant society of Bourbon Paris, Cooper was able to provide fascinating glimpses of personalities, spectacles, institutions, and manners--from his distinctly American perspective. Indeed, as Professor Philbrick remarks, "No other of Cooper's works, perhaps, brings us closer to his speaking voice or puts us more directly in contact with the man himself, with all his idiosyncratic preoccupations, his quick resentments, his restless curiosity, his surprising humor, and his nobility of principle." The reader of this edition is brought even closer to Cooper in the draft of a hitherto unpublished letter, probably intended for this book, which illustrates Cooper's grasp of the still finer points of French customs and attitudes.
France
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Catalogue of the Apprentices' and De Milt Libraries, New York ... July 1, 1855
Author: Apprentices' Library (N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York ...
Author: Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
American Literature Before 1880
Author: Robert Lawson-Peebles
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317870387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intended both as an introduction for undergraduates to the richness and variety of American Literature, and as a contribution to the debate about its distinctive nature. The book therefore begins with a lengthy survey of earlier histories of American Literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317870387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intended both as an introduction for undergraduates to the richness and variety of American Literature, and as a contribution to the debate about its distinctive nature. The book therefore begins with a lengthy survey of earlier histories of American Literature.