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  • The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Michael C. Cohen ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Poetry occupied a complex position in the social life of nineteenth-century America. While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the enjoyment of linguistic complexity, many others turned to poems for spiritual and psychic wellbeing, adapted popular musical settings of poems to spread scandal and satire, or used poems as a medium for asserting personal and family ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Michael C. Cohen ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Poetry occupied a complex position in the social life of nineteenth-century America. While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the enjoyment of linguistic complexity, many others turned to poems for spiritual and psychic wellbeing, adapted popular musical settings of poems to spread scandal and satire, or used poems as a medium for asserting personal and family ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    de Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

    A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

    de David Waldstreicher ...
    A New York Times notable book of 2023 | A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography | Winner of the 2024 George Washington Prize“[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher’s] interpretations equal Wheatley’s own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement.” —Tiya Miles, The Atlantic“Thoroughly researched, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Black Box

    Writing the Race

    de Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book • Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Award for Outstanding Books in Literary Scholarship“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Love & Theft

    Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia

    de Richard Francis ...

    $12.99 USD

  • From Puritanism to Postmodernism

    A History of American Literature

    de Richard Ruland ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Edición de Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Uncle Tom

    From Martyr to Traitor

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD