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Author : Ruth Miller Elson
Publisher : New York : Garland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Myths and Mores in American Best Sellers, 1865-1965 written by Ruth Miller Elson and published by New York : Garland. This book was released on 1985 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur T. Vanderbilt
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786406630
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Making of a Bestseller written by Arthur T. Vanderbilt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's career itself is a metaphor for the vagaries of book publishing. If Fitzgerald would have had his way, we would today refer to The Great Gatsby as either Gold-Hatted Gatsby, Trimalchio in West Egg, or The High-Bouncing Lover. A few years before Gatsby, Fitzgerald had become a literary sensation at the age of 23; Helen Hooven Santmyer, a contemporary of Fitzgerald's, would not have a successful novel published until she was 88 and living in a nursing home. In this book, the author explores that mysterious place in publishing where art and commerce can either clash, mesh, or both. Along the way, a wide range of authors--from the literary greats to today's commercial superstars--editors, agents and publishers share their thoughts, insights and experiences: What inspires writers? (John Steinbeck, for example, wrote every novel as if it were his last, as if death were imminent.) Why are some books successful and appreciated, while others fall into oblivion? The answers are often elusive, never absolute, but the stories and anecdotes are always fascinating.
Author : Daniel Horowitz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807821411
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Vance Packard & American Social Criticism written by Daniel Horowitz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the influence of Packard's early life on his works on social criticism and notes his viewpoints in the context of a writer lacking academic affiliation
Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806130316
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Gunfighter Nation written by Richard Slotkin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing
Author : Kate Bowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190876735
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Blessed written by Kate Bowler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gospels -- Faith -- Wealth -- Health -- Victory -- American blessing -- Megachurch table -- Naming names.
Author : Karen Hinckley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Best Sellers written by Karen Hinckley and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists and analyzes the best-selling hard cover fiction from 1965-1985.
Author : Charles L. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299225739
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America written by Charles L. Cohen and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mingling God and Mammon, piety and polemics, and prescriptions for this world and the next, modern Americans have created a culture of print that is vibrantly religious. From America’s beginnings, the printed word has played a central role in articulating, propagating, defending, critiquing, and sometimes attacking religious belief. In the last two centuries the United States has become both the leading producer and consumer of print and one of the most identifiably religious nations on earth. Print in every form has helped religious groups come to grips with modernity as they construct their identities. In turn, publishers have profited by swelling their lists with spiritual advice books and scriptures formatted so as to attract every conceivable niche market. Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America explores how a variety of print media—religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary “Bible-zines”—have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War. Edited by Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer, whose comprehensive historical essays provide a broad overview to the topic, this book is the first on the history of religious print culture in modern America and a well-timed entry into the increasingly prominent contemporary debate over the role of religion in American public life. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association
Author : Manly, Inc.
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140770
Total Pages : 4512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Literature written by Manly, Inc. and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 4512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S.
Author : Kirsten Twelbeck
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839434653
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Civil War Hospital written by Kirsten Twelbeck and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural production. By treating selected texts from that era as multifaceted contributions to Reconstruction's »mental adaptation process« (Leslie Butler), Kirsten Twelbeck diagnoses individual conflicts between the »heart and the brain« only partly compensated for by a shared concern for national healing. By tracing each text's unique adaptation of the healing trope, she identifies surprising disagreement over racial equality, women's rights, and citizenship. The book pairs female and male white authors from the antislavery North, and brings together a broad range of genres.
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Author : Sara E. Quay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313071675
Total Pages : 1083 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Cultural History of Reading [2 volumes] written by Sara E. Quay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 1083 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.
Author : Charles H. Lippy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317462742
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Pluralism Comes of Age written by Charles H. Lippy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed work surveys the varied course of religious life in modern America. Beginning with the close of the Victorian Age, it moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Catholicism and into the intense period of immigration and pluralism that has characterized our nation's religious experience.
Author : M. Catherine Downs
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910239
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Becoming Modern written by M. Catherine Downs and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is one thing to report a news story and another to use the same material in one's art - and Cather did intend that her literary works become "art" and that they achieve lasting fame. This volume details how Cather came to transform the office routine of memos and deadlines, linotypes and the business trip, into the artistry of her early stories, poems, biographies, and novels."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anne Bower
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817358145
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Epistolary Responses written by Anne Bower and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters - a most traditional and old-fashioned form of discourse - continue to offer special opportunities for writers and readers in the postmodern era. Bower explores the way letters shape the act of writing and writing as act.
Author : Crawford Gribben
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199716838
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Writing the Rapture written by Crawford Gribben and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past twenty years, evangelical prophecy novels have been a powerful presence on American bestseller lists. Emerging from a growing conservative culture industry, the genre dramatizes events that many believers expect to occur at the end of the age - the rapture of the saved, the rise of the Antichrist, and the fearful tribulation faced by those who are "left behind." Seeking the forces that drove the unexpected success of the Left Behind novels, Crawford Gribben traces the gradual development of the prophecy fiction genre from its eclectic roots among early twentieth-century fundamentalists. The first rapture novels came onto the scene at the high water mark of Protestant America. From there, the genre would both witness the defeat of conservative Protestantism and participate in its eventual reconstruction and return, providing for the renaissance of the evangelical imagination that would culminate in the Left Behind novels. Yet, as Gribben shows, the rapture genre, while vividly expressing some prototypically American themes, also serves to greatly complicate the idea of American modernity-assaulting some of its most cherished tenets. Gribben concludes with a look at "post-Left Behind" rapture fiction, noting some works that were written specifically to counter the claims of the best-selling series. Along the way, he gives attention not just to literary fictions, but to rapture films and apocalyptic themes in Christian music. Writing the Rapture is an indispensable guide to this flourishing yet little understood body of literature.
Author : Roy M. Anker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313018219
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Self-Help and Popular Religion in Modern American Culture written by Roy M. Anker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book continues chronologically where the first left off. As with the first volume, this work focuses on the intersection of American history and popular religion and is intended as an introductory interpretive guide to major self-help figures and movements with origins in popular religious movements. This volume spans from Romanticism, the Gilded Age, and the history of Christian Science, with discussions of Mary Baker Patterson, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, and Mary Baker Eddy, through Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller. Peale and Schuller, with the exception of Evangelist Billy Graham, constitute the public face of mainstream American Protestantism and bring this two-volume study to its conclusion in the second half of the 20th century. This reference will serve as a valuable research tool for American religion and popular culture scholars. Together with the first volume, Self-Help and Popular Religion in Early American Culture, these two meticulously researched volumes clearly define and present the broad scope of the self-help tradition as it pervades American culture and as it developed and was influenced by popular religion. An extensive bibliography is included.
Author : Dr. Pushkala Prasad
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452262330
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Managing the Organizational Melting Pot written by Dr. Pushkala Prasad and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1997-05-06 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the troublesome and disturbing aspects of workplace diversity that tend to be glossed over in most management literature, Managing the Organizational Melting Pot covers key issues such key as: individual and institutional resistance, the effectiveness of diversity change efforts, and the less visible ways in which exclusion and discrimination continue to be practiced in the workplace. To assist the reader in understanding some of these dilemmas, the contributors to this collection adopt an array of theoretical frameworks, that are all striking departures from traditional and more functional perspectives on diversity. The volume also employs a variety of theoretical perspectives, including intergroup relations theory, critical theory, Jungian psychology, feminism, post-colonial theory, cultural history, postmodernism, realism, institutional theory, and class analysis. Further, the authors examine a multitude of organizational situations in which the complications of diversity surface-many of which cross race, gender, ethnic and other socially constructed boundaries. Managing the Organizational Melting Pot draws examples not only from the United States , but also looks at situations from Canada, Britain, and the Middle East. Students, scholars, and managers who want to prepare themselves to deal with the challenges presented by a multicultural workforce will find this beneficial reading. In addition, researchers interested in conducting research in diversity management will find this an up-to-date, thought-provoking resource.
Author : Gabrielle Watling
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Cultural History of Reading: American literature written by Gabrielle Watling and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2009 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores what people have read and why they have read it at different times and in different places in America and around the world ... Links key cultural changes and events to the reading material of the period ... Traces reading trends through an exploration of types of texts as well as specific examples of books, magazines, and political treatises that were influential and/or widely read ... Each chapter includes a timeline of events and an introduction to the region/time period that point out major events of the time or region that would have influenced what and how people read. An overview of reading trends and practices traces key trends in reading practices, including the development of lending libraries, the rise of the novel, and the impact of technology. The book also explores the relationship between popular reading materials and cultural change"--From Intro., p. [xi].
