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  • Literary Cultures of the Civil War

    by Samuel Graber, Coleman Hutchison, Jillian Spivey Caddell, Faith Barrett, James Berkey, Shirley Samuels, Kathleen Diffley, Christopher Hager, Jeremy Wells, John Ernest, Jane E. Schultz ...
    Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism. The Civil War reshaped existing literary cultures or enabled new ones. Ensembles of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Visions of Glory

    The Civil War in Word and Image

    by James Berkey, Julia Stern, Jillian Spivey Caddell, Elizabeth Duquette, Eric Gardner, Sarah Gardner, Aston Gonzalez, Samuel Graber, Nathan Grant, Christopher Hager, Christopher Hanlon, Jeffrey Insko, Cody Marrs, Barbara McCaskill, Timothy Sweet, Kristen Treen, Jane E. Schultz, Martin T. Buinicki ...
    Series Book 15 - UnCivil Wars
    Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, a census graph published in the New York Times, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • Love & Theft

    Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

    by Eric Lott ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

    by Julia A. Stern ...
    A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated ... Read more

    $48.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edited by Joel Myerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Joel Porte, Saundra Morris ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Uncle Tom

    From Martyr to Traitor

    by Adena Spingarn ...
    Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Writing Deafness

    The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Christopher Krentz ...
    Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American society. Krentz demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Word by Word

    Emancipation and the Act of Writing

    by Christopher Hager ...
    Consigned to illiteracy, American slaves left little record of their thoughts and feelings—or so we have believed. But a few learned to use pen and paper to make sense of their experiences, despite prohibitions. These authors’ perspectives rewrite the history of emancipation and force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

    Edited by Katharine Capshaw, Anna Mae Duane ...
    Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Literary Executions

    Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925

    by John Cyril Barton ...
    "Rich with historical detail . . . examines the figure and theme of the death penalty in imaginative literature from Cooper to Dreiser." —Gregg Crane, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of MichiganDrawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain

    Edited by Forrest G. Robinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book is a collaborative project, assembled by scholars who have played crucial roles in the recent explosion of Twain criticism. Accessible enough to interest both experienced specialists and students new to Twain criticism, the essays examine Twain from a ... Read more

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