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Book Synopsis Love in the Time of Revolution by : Andrew Cayton
Download or read book Love in the Time of Revolution written by Andrew Cayton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1798, English essayist and novelist William Godwin ignited a transatlantic scandal with Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." Most controversial were the details of the romantic liaisons of Godwin's wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, with both American Gilbert Imlay and Godwin himself. Wollstonecraft's life and writings became central to a continuing discussion about love's place in human society. Literary radicals argued that the cultivation of intense friendship could lead to the renovation of social and political institutions, whereas others maintained that these freethinkers were indulging their own desires with a disregard for stability and higher authority. Through correspondence and novels, Andrew Cayton finds an ideal lens to view authors, characters, and readers all debating love's power to alter men and women in the world around them. Cayton argues for Wollstonecraft's and Godwin's enduring influence on fiction published in Great Britain and the United States and explores Mary Godwin Shelley's endeavors to sustain her mother's faith in romantic love as an engine of social change.
Download or read book Ormond written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown is often called the first American novelist. Originally published in 1799, Ormond was inspired by enlightenment philosophers and Gothic writers. The novel engages with many of the period’s popular debates about women’s education, marriage, and the morality of violence, while the plot revolves around the Gothic themes of seduction, murder, incest, impersonation, romance and disease. Set in post-revolutionary Philadelphia, Ormond examines the prospects of the struggling nation by tracing the experiences of Constantia, a young virtuous republican who struggles to survive when her father’s business is ruined by a confidence man, and her friends and neighbors are killed by a yellow fever epidemic.
Book Synopsis Sentimental Bodies by : Bruce Burgett
Download or read book Sentimental Bodies written by Bruce Burgett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentimentalism, sex, the construction of the modern body, and the origins of American liberalism all come under scrutiny in this rich discussion of political life in the early republic. Here Bruce Burgett enters into debates over the "public sphere," a concept introduced by Jurgen Habermas that has led theorists to grapple with such polarities as public and private, polity and personality, citizenship and subjection. With the literary public sphere as his primary focus, Burgett sets out to challenge the Enlightenment opposition of reason and sentiment as the fundamental grid for understanding American political culture. Drawing on texts ranging from George Washington's "Farewell Address" and Charles Brockden Brown's Clara Howard to Hannah Foster's The Coquette and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Burgett shows that the sentimental literary culture of the period relied on readers' affective, passionate, and embodied responses to fictive characters and situations in order to produce political effects. As such, sentimentalism located readers' bodies both as prepolitical sources of personal authenticity and as public sites of political contestation. Going beyond an account of the public sphere as a realm to which only some have full access, Burgett reveals that the formation of the body and sexual subjectivity is crucial to the very construction of that sphere. By exploring and destabilizing the longstanding distinction between public and private life, this book raises questions central to any democratic political culture.
Book Synopsis Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century by : Christine Gerhardt
Download or read book Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century written by Christine Gerhardt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America‘s most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks ― including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.
Book Synopsis The Novels of Charles. Brockden Brown by : Charles Brockden Brown
Download or read book The Novels of Charles. Brockden Brown written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Major Writers of Early American Literature by : Everett H. Emerson
Download or read book Major Writers of Early American Literature written by Everett H. Emerson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding collection of original critical essays by distinguished specialists, this book is both a chronological survey of nearly 200 years of American literature and an exciting reappraisal of the major figures of that period. Includes works from Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, William Bryd, Anne Bradstreet, William Bradford, and others.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Writers and their Works by : Christopher Riches
Download or read book A Dictionary of Writers and their Works written by Christopher Riches and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 1431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Book Synopsis The Portrait and the Book by : Megan Walsh
Download or read book The Portrait and the Book written by Megan Walsh and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, new image-making methods like steel engraving and lithography caused a surge in the publication of illustrated books in the United States. Yet even before the widespread use of these technologies, Americans had already established the illustrated book format as central to the nation’s literary culture. In The Portrait and the Book, Megan Walsh argues that colonial-era author portraits, such as Benjamin Franklin’s and Phillis Wheatley’s frontispieces; political portraits that circulated during the debates over the Constitution, such as those of the Founders by Charles Willson Peale; and portraits of beloved fictional characters in the 1790s, such as those of Samuel Richardson’s heroine Pamela, shaped readers’ conceptions of American literature. Illustrations played a key role in American literary culture despite the fact there was little demand for books by American writers. Indeed, most of the illustrated books bought, sold, and shared by Americans were either imported British works or reprinted versions of those imported editions. As a result, in addition to embellishing books, illustrations provided readers with crucial information about the country’s status as a former colony. Through an examination of readers’ portrait-collecting habits, writers’ employment of ekphrasis, printers’ efforts to secure American-made illustrations for periodicals, and engravers’ reproductions of British book illustrations, Walsh uncovers in late eighteenth-century America a dynamic but forgotten visual culture that was inextricably tied to the printing industry and to the early US literary imagination.
Book Synopsis The Early American Novel by : Lillie Deming Loshe
Download or read book The Early American Novel written by Lillie Deming Loshe and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fiction, a Finding List of Novels, Stories and Other Forms of Prose Fiction in English for Adults in the Chicago Public Library, January 1, 1921 by : Chicago Public Library
Download or read book Fiction, a Finding List of Novels, Stories and Other Forms of Prose Fiction in English for Adults in the Chicago Public Library, January 1, 1921 written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Ames Free Library, North Easton, Massachusetts by : Anonymous
Download or read book Catalogue of the Ames Free Library, North Easton, Massachusetts written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Ames Free Library, North Easton, Massachusetts by : Ames Free Library (Easton, Mass.)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Ames Free Library, North Easton, Massachusetts written by Ames Free Library (Easton, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Books in the Boston Library, June, 1830 ... in Franklin Place by : Boston Library
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Boston Library, June, 1830 ... in Franklin Place written by Boston Library and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the United States of America by : Henry William Elson
Download or read book History of the United States of America written by Henry William Elson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Uncanny American Fiction by : Allan G Lloyd-Smith
Download or read book Uncanny American Fiction written by Allan G Lloyd-Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-02-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis American Literary Autographs, from Washington Irving to Henry James by : Herbert Cahoon
Download or read book American Literary Autographs, from Washington Irving to Henry James written by Herbert Cahoon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawthorne, Thoreau, Twain, Whitman, 68 other authors. Also full transcript of each, commentary; Morgan Library checklist. 136 illus.