University of North Carolina Press, 2003. — 312 p. Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to place themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in From the Fallen Tree . Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, as territorial expansion got under way in earnest, and ending with the era of Indian dispossession, the author demonstrates...
Dissertation submitted for the degree of MA in Literary Studies: Literature in the Modern Age. — Utrecht: Utrecht University, 2007. — 129 p. This thesis is concerned with the way in which Emily Dickinson’s poetry responds to the numerous, unsettling developments that were changing the nineteenth-century society in which she lived. While it is still somewhat customary to...
London: Longman, 1986. — 254 p. An Outline of American Literature provides lower intermediate level students with a complete survey of English prose, poetry and drama of the US from colonial times to the 1980s.
New York: Manly Inc., 2008. — 1313 p. America, where people do not inquire concerning a Stranger, What is he? but, What can he do? If he has any useful Art, he is welcome; and if he exercises it, and behaves well, he will be respected by all that know him; but a mere Man of Quality, who, on that Account, wants to live upon the Public, by some Office or Salary, will be despis’d...
Greenwood, 2015. — (Historical explorations of literature). — ISBN: 978-1-61069-668-5. This one-stop reference to the "Jazz Age" - the period that began after the First World War and ended with the stock market crash of 1929 - digs into the cultural, historical, and literary contexts of the era. Author Linda De Roche examines the writing of the time to look beyond the common...
Ph.D. Thesis. 2014. — 287 p. This dissertation investigates the relationship between transport and representation in Henry James’s fiction.1 In its chapters, the social, cultural, and literary associations of different modes of transport are brought to bear on their recruitment by James to enhance key ideas in his texts. I hope thereby to draw attention to a significant and...
Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 2006. — 303 p. — ISBN10: 1587295083; ISBN13: 978-1587295089 — (Contemporary North American Poetry) In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era’s impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930s through the emergence of the new social movements...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 217 p. Although the impact of works such as Common Sense and The Rights of Man has led historians to study Thomas Paine’s role in the American Revolution and political scientists to evaluate his contributions to political theory, scholars have tacitly agreed not to treat him as a literary figure. This book not only redresses this omission,...
Tutorial. — Tashkent: Uzbek State World Languages University, 2006. — 44 p. This course of lectures is designed to acquaint students with the main outlines of American literature and provides an overview of its evolution covering several centuries, from the time of America’s discovery to modern time. The thematic structure should assist students of Bachelor Departments in their...
University of Nevada Press, 2009. — 512 p. The wolf is one of the most widely distributed canid species, historically ranging throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere. For millennia, it has also been one of the most pervasive images in human mythology, art, and psychology. Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature examines the wolf’s importance as a figure in literature...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 247 p. Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights lay the groundwork for American...
University of North Georgia Press, 2015. — 775 p. Late Romanticism (1855-1870). Learning Outcomes. Walt Whitman. Chapter 2: Realism (1865-1890). Mark Twain. William Dean Howells. Ambrose Bierce. Henry James. Sarah Orne Jewett. Kate Chopin. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Chapter 3: Naturalism (1890-1914). Learning Outcomes. Frank...
Belknap Press, 2001. — 519 p. The story of New England writing begins some 400 years ago, when a group of English Puritans crossed the Atlantic believing that God had appointed them to bring light and truth to the New World. Over the centuries since, the people of New England have produced one of the great literary traditions of the world--an outpouring of poetry, fiction,...
Wiley Blackwell, 2014. — 332 p. Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. An exploration and defense of the prominence of New England's literary tradition within...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 417 p. — ISBN: 978-1-405-19231-6. A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking...