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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: Parables, Fantasies, Fragments

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
    Here for the first time Hawthorne’s mind-bending short parables, fantasies, and fragments have been collected by an eminent Hawthorne scholar, culled from the author’s massive notebooks.Nathaniel Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825 and returned home to Salem, Massachusetts. Over the next nearly twenty years, he mostly resided at the family home, with his mother and sisters, and worked ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Failed Promise

    Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    by Robert S. Levine ...
    Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal ... Read more

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  • The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

    Edited by Russ Castronovo, Robert S. Levine ...
    Series series Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
    The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In eclectic fashion, it presents a wide range of new approaches in such areas as print and material culture, Black studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, postsecular studies ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • Israel Potter

    His Fifty Years of Exile

    by Herman Melville, Robert S. Levine ...
    The authoritative edition of Melville's only historical novelBased on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of Israel Potter's fall from Revolutionary War hero to peddler on the streets of London, where he obtained a livelihood by crying "Old Chairs to ... Read more

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  • Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity

    by Robert S. Levine ...
    The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity. He explores their debates over issues like abolitionism, emigration, and nationalism, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Dislocating Race and Nation

    Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism

    by Robert S. Levine ...
    American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment by exploring the conflicted, multiracial, and contingent dimensions present in the works of ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Martin R. Delany

    A Documentary Reader

    Edited by Robert S. Levine ...
    Martin R. Delany (1812–85) has been called the “Father of Black Nationalism,” but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political theorist. Despite his enormous influence in the nineteenth century, and his continuing influence on black nationalist thought in the twentieth century, Delany has ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Lives of Frederick Douglass

    by Robert S. Levine ...
    Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relationships during his journey from slavery to freedom. Nevertheless, when these differing self-presentations are put side by side and consideration is given individually to their rhetorical strategies and historical moment, what emerges is a fascinating ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

    by Robert S. Levine ...
    Inspired by Toni Morrison's call for an interracial approach to American literature, and by recent efforts to globalize American literary studies, Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies ranges widely in its case-study approach to canonical and non-canonical authors. Leading critic Robert S. Levine considers Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, Melville, and other nineteenth ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs

    by Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren, Caroline Levander, Finnie Coleman, Hanna Wallinger, John Cullen Gruesser, John Ernest, M. Fabi, Andreá Williams0, Robert S. Levine1 ...
    Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

    Edited by Robert S. Levine ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and provide a complete overview of Melville's career. Melville's major novels are discussed, along with a range of his short fiction and poetry, including neglected works ripe for rediscovery. The volume includes essays on such new ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville

    Essays in Relation

    Edited by Robert S. Levine, Samuel Otter ...
    Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; the roles of race, gender, and sexuality; and the place of the United States in the world. Yet they are rarely discussed together, perhaps because of their differences in race and social ... Read more

    $28.49 USD