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Book Synopsis Castle Dismal by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book Castle Dismal written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic tale set in South Carolina and sometimes compared to Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." Molly Boyd notes in Studies in the Novel (Summer 2003): "Castle Dismal contains two narrative strands, the frame story of Frank Ashley, Ned Clifton, and their Christmas celebrations, and an internal ghost story in which Ned Clifton becomes inadvertently involved during his stay at Castle Dismal."
Book Synopsis Castle Dismal: Or the Bachelor's Christmas by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book Castle Dismal: Or the Bachelor's Christmas written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reading William Gilmore Simms by : Todd Hagstette
Download or read book Reading William Gilmore Simms written by Todd Hagstette and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging approaches to the vast output of South Carolina's premier man of letters William Gilmore Simms was the best known and certainly the most accomplished writer of the mid-nineteenth-century South. His literary ascent began early, with his first book being published when he was nineteen years old and his reputation as a literary genius secured before he turned thirty. Over a career that spanned nearly forty-five years, he established himself as the American South's premier man of letters—an accomplished poet, novelist, short fiction writer, essayist, historian, dramatist, cultural journalist, biographer, and editor. In Reading William Gilmore Simms, Todd Hagstette has created an anthology of critical introductions to Simms's major publications, including those recently brought back into print by the University of South Carolina Press, offering the first ever primer compendium of the author's vast output. Simms was a Renaissance man of American letters, lauded in his time by both popular audiences and literary icons alike. Yet the author's extensive output, which includes nearly eighty published volumes, can be a barrier to his study. To create a gateway to reading and studying Simms, Hagstette has assembled thirty-eight essays by twenty-four scholars to review fifty-five Simms works. Addressing all the author's major works, the essays provide introductory information and scholarly analysis of the most crucial features of Simms's literary achievement. Arranged alphabetically by title for easy access, the book also features a topical index for more targeted inquiry into Simms's canon. Detailing the great variety and astonishing consistency of Simms's thought throughout his long career as well as examining his posthumous reconsideration, Reading William Gilmore Simms bridges the author's genius and readers' growing curiosity. The only work of its kind, this book provides an essential passport to the far-flung worlds of Simms's fecund imagination.
Book Synopsis Simms: a Literary Life (p) by : John Caldwell Guilds
Download or read book Simms: a Literary Life (p) written by John Caldwell Guilds and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompasses ante-colonial America, the English colonies, the Revolutionary War, and the rampaging frontier and constitutes a unique national literary treasure. Guilds's Simms restores Simms to his proper place as a major figure in American letters and reintroduces the man and the author to the reading public.
Book Synopsis Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850–1925 by : Katherine V. Snyder
Download or read book Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850–1925 written by Katherine V. Snyder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little-recognised figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford and Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literary discourse as threshold figures who, by crossing the shifting, permeable boundaries of bourgeois domesticity, highlighted the limits of conventional masculinity. The very marginality of the figure, Snyder argues, effects a critique of gendered norms of manhood, while the symbolic function of marriage as a means of plot resolution is also made more complex by the presence of the single man. Bachelor figures made, moreover, an ideal narrative device for male authors who themselves occupied vexed cultural positions. By attending to the gendered identities and relations at issue in these narratives, Snyder's study discloses the aesthetic and political underpinnings of the traditional canon of English and American male modernism.
Book Synopsis Christmas in America by : Penne L. Restad
Download or read book Christmas in America written by Penne L. Restad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions-- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event--if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed--and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full- fledged national holiday had materialized, forged out of borrowed and invented custom alike, and driven by a passion for gift-giving. In the twentieth century, Christmas seeped into every niche of our conscious and unconscious lives to become a festival of epic proportions. Indeed, Restad carries the story through to our own time, unwrapping the messages hidden inside countless movies, books, and television shows, revealing the inescapable presence--and ambiguous meaning--of Christmas in contemporary culture. Filled with colorful detail and shining insight, Christmas in America reveals not only much about the emergence of the holiday, but also what our celebrations tell us about ourselves. From drunken revelry along colonial curbstones to family rituals around the tree, from Thomas Nast drawing the semiofficial portrait of St. Nick to the making of the film Home Alone, Restad's sparkling account offers much to amuse and ponder.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Books Relating to America by : Joseph Sabin
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Americana by : Joseph Sabin
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wigwam and the Cabin by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book The Wigwam and the Cabin written by William Gilmore Simms and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Helen Halsey: a Tale of the Borders (c) by : William Gilmore Simms
Download or read book Helen Halsey: a Tale of the Borders (c) written by William Gilmore Simms and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1845 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of James Hammond's Circulating Library, Newport, R.I. by : James Hammond (of Newport.)
Download or read book Catalogue of James Hammond's Circulating Library, Newport, R.I. written by James Hammond (of Newport.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Prose Writers of America by : Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Download or read book The Prose Writers of America written by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prose Writers of America by : Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Download or read book Prose Writers of America written by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The prose writers of America with a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country by : Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Download or read book The prose writers of America with a survey of the intellectual history, condition, and prospects of the country written by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Prose Writers of America with a Survey of the History, Condition, and Prospects of American Literature by : Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Download or read book The Prose Writers of America with a Survey of the History, Condition, and Prospects of American Literature written by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handy Book of American Authors by : Louis Harman Peet
Download or read book Handy Book of American Authors written by Louis Harman Peet and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Who's the Author? by : Louis Harman Peet
Download or read book Who's the Author? written by Louis Harman Peet and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
