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  • Reimagining the Republic

    Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée

    by Sandra M. Gustafson, Robert Levine, Molly Ball, Nancy Bentley, Tess Chakkalakal, Sarah E. Chinn, Mark Elliott, John Ernest, Annemarie Mott Ewing0, Jennifer Rae Greeson1, Mary Hale2, DeLisa D. Hawkes3, Christine Holbo4, Carolyn Karcher5, Almas Khan6, Gregory Laski7, Alex Zweber Leslie8, Brook Thomas9, Kenneth Warren0 ...
    Series series Reconstructing America
    Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Children's Table

    Childhood Studies and the Humanities

    by Annette Ruth Appell, James Marten, John Wall, Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Lesley Ginsberg, Lucia Hodgson, Lynne Vallone, Robin Bernstein, Roy Kozlovsky, Sarah E. Chinn, Sophie Bell, Susan Honeyman, Carol J. Singley ...
    Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies—a transcript of what is being said ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Spectacular Men

    Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage

    by Sarah E. Chinn ...
    In Spectacular Men, Sarah E. Chinn investigates how working class white men looked to the early American theatre for examples of ideal manhood. Theatre-going was the primary source of entertainment for working people of the early Republic and the Jacksonian period, and plays implicitly and explicitly addressed the risks and rewards of citizenship. Ranging from representations of the heroes of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Our Sisters' Keepers

    Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women

    by Sarah E. Chinn, Mary Templin, Whitney A. Womack, Terry D. Novak, James Salazar, Karen Tracey, Lori Merish, Monika Elbert ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty reliefAmerican culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

    by Sarah E. Chinn ...
    Series Book 194 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were injured, and underwent amputation of hands, feet, limbs, fingers, and toes. As the war drew to a close, their disabled bodies came to represent the future of a nation that had been torn apart, and how it would be put back together again. In her authoritative and engagingly written new book, Sarah Chinn claims that amputation spoke both ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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    A Historian Looks at Early America

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  • Strange Nation

    Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe

    by J. Gerald Kennedy ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • 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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  • People of Paradox (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization

    by Michael Kammen ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In this major interpretive work Mr. Kammen argues that most attempt to understand America’s history and culture have minimized its complexity, and he demonstrates that, from our beginnings, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust is the dynamic interaction of the imported and the indigenous. He shows now, during the years of colonization, ... Read more

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  • Toward an Intellectual History of Women

    Essays By Linda K. Kerber

    by Linda K. Kerber ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    As a leading historian of women, Linda K. Kerber has played an instrumental role in the radical rethinking of American history over the past two decades. The maturation and increasing complexity of studies in women’s history are widely recognized, and in this remarkable collection of essays, Kerber’s essential contribution to the field is made clear. In this volume is gathered some of Kerber’s ... Read more

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  • The Captive Stage

    Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

    by Douglas A. Jones Jr. ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    In The Captive Stage, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, even though chattel slavery had virtually disappeared from the region by the turn of the nineteenth century—and that northerners cultivated their proslavery imagination most forcefully in their performance practices. Jones explores how multiple ... Read more

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  • Slavery

    A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life

    by Stanley M. Elkins ...
    "Bold and original . . . [This book] fearlessly employs the methods and materials of history, economics, anthropology, and social psychology." —John Hope Franklin, Massachusetts ReviewThis third edition of Stanley M. Elkins's classic study offers two new chapters by the author. The first, "Slavery and Ideology," considers the discussion and criticism occasioned by this controversial work. Elkins ... Read more

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