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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Selected Poems

    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ...
    Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works—Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha—as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Environmental Imagination

    Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Henry David Thoreau

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of U. S. literary emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social thinker, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard

    by Ellen Weinauer, Sandra A. Zagarell, Margaret A. Amstutz, Paul Crumbley, Julia Stern, Susanna Ryan, Jaime Osterman Alves, Jennifer Putzi, Lisa Radinovsky, Lawrence Buell0, Robert McClure Smith2 ...
    Reconsiders the centrality of a remarkable American writer of the ante- and postbellum periodsElizabeth Stoddard was a gifted writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicenter of New York’s literary world. Nonetheless, she has been almost excluded from ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Henry David Thoreau

    Thinking Disobediently

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of U. S. literary emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social thinker, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Emerson

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote--and in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson himself has cast, and at his role and significance as a truly American institution. On the occasion of Emerson's 200th birthday, Lawrence Buell revisits the life of the nation's first public intellectual and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • "The Morgesons" and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished

    by Elizabeth Stoddard ...
    "Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."—from the IntroductionThe centerpiece of this volume is The Morgesons (1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • "The Morgesons" and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished

    by Elizabeth Stoddard ...
    "Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."—from the IntroductionThe centerpiece of this volume is The Morgesons (1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Henry David Thoreau

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    Narrated by Kyle Tait ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 47 min

    Henry David Thoreau was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of US literary emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social thinker, naturalist-environmentalist, and sage. Thoreau's Walden, an autobiographical narrative of his two-year sojourn in a self-built lakeside cabin, is one of the most widely studied works of American literature. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Literary Transcendentalism

    Style and Vision in the American Renaissance

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail.Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication, ... Read more

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  • Gravity's Century

    From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes

    by Ron Cowen ...
    "This gracefully written history of twentieth-century gravity research" brings to life the discoveries and developments that confirmed the theory of relativity ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Albert Einstein did nothing of note on May 29, 1919, yet that is when he became immortal. On that day, astronomer Arthur Eddington and his team observed a solar eclipse and found something extraordinary: ... Read more

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