Author: American Antiquarian Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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The Plight of Feeling
Author: Julia A. Stern
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226773094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling, Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hate, anger, fear, and grief that tormented the Federalist era. Stern argues that these novels gave voice to a collective mourning over the violence of the Revolution and the foreclosure of liberty for the nation's noncitizens—women, the poor, Native and African Americans. Properly placed in the context of late eighteenth-century thought, the republican novel emerges as essentially political, offering its audience gothic and feminized counternarratives to read against the dominant male-authored accounts of national legitimation. Drawing upon insights from cultural history and gender studies as well as psychoanalytic, narrative, and genre theory, Stern convincingly exposes the foundation of the republic as an unquiet crypt housing those invisible Americans who contributed to its construction.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226773094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling, Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hate, anger, fear, and grief that tormented the Federalist era. Stern argues that these novels gave voice to a collective mourning over the violence of the Revolution and the foreclosure of liberty for the nation's noncitizens—women, the poor, Native and African Americans. Properly placed in the context of late eighteenth-century thought, the republican novel emerges as essentially political, offering its audience gothic and feminized counternarratives to read against the dominant male-authored accounts of national legitimation. Drawing upon insights from cultural history and gender studies as well as psychoanalytic, narrative, and genre theory, Stern convincingly exposes the foundation of the republic as an unquiet crypt housing those invisible Americans who contributed to its construction.
Antiquarian Bookman
Author:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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The History of Printing from Its Beginnings to 1930
Author: Columbia University. Libraries
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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The Narragansett Planters
Author: Edward Channing
Publisher:
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Category : Narragansett Region (R.I.)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
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Category : Narragansett Region (R.I.)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism
Author: Laurie Lanzen Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and other creative writers who lived between 1800 and 1900, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations.
Publisher:
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and other creative writers who lived between 1800 and 1900, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations.
Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers
Author: Sarah Churchwell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441145885
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn their attention to bestsellers, they seem only to be interested in the same handful of blockbusters, when so many books that were once immensely popular remain under-examined? Addressing those and other equally pressing questions about popular literature, Must Read is the first scholarly collection to offer both a survey of the evolution of American bestsellers as well as critical readings of some of the key texts that have shaped the American imagination since the nation's founding. Focusing on a mix of enduring and forgotten bestsellers, the essays in this collection consider 18th and 19th century works, like Charlotte Temple or Ben-Hur, that were once considered epochal but are now virtually ignored; 20th century favorites such as The Sheik and Peyton Place; and 21st century blockbusters including the novels of Nicholas Sparks, The Kite Runner, and The Da Vinci Code.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441145885
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn their attention to bestsellers, they seem only to be interested in the same handful of blockbusters, when so many books that were once immensely popular remain under-examined? Addressing those and other equally pressing questions about popular literature, Must Read is the first scholarly collection to offer both a survey of the evolution of American bestsellers as well as critical readings of some of the key texts that have shaped the American imagination since the nation's founding. Focusing on a mix of enduring and forgotten bestsellers, the essays in this collection consider 18th and 19th century works, like Charlotte Temple or Ben-Hur, that were once considered epochal but are now virtually ignored; 20th century favorites such as The Sheik and Peyton Place; and 21st century blockbusters including the novels of Nicholas Sparks, The Kite Runner, and The Da Vinci Code.
William Rimmer: Appendixes: Bibliography
Author: Jeffrey Weidman
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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St. Wulstan Society
Author: St. Wulstan Society (Worcester, Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category : Worcester (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Worcester (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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