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The Death of Adam

Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466866535
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Adam written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Picador. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson repeatedly sends her reader back to the primary texts that are central to the development of American culture but little read or acknowledged today. A passionate and provocative celebration of ideas, the old arts of civilization, and life's mystery, The Death of Adam is, in the words of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., "a grand, sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book."

The New Salmagundi Reader

Author : Robert Boyers
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603849
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The New Salmagundi Reader written by Robert Boyers and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The New Salmagundi Reader' comprises forty-three pieces in subject categories such as the Sense of the Past; Homelands; Writers; The Art Scene; Politics; and Varieties.

Puritans and Prigs

Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Henry Holt
ISBN 13 : 9780805049190
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Puritans and Prigs written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination

Author : Kenyon Gradert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022669402X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination written by Kenyon Gradert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Puritan” is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade. Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the leaders of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement—from landmark figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson to scores of lesser-known writers and orators—drew upon the Puritan tradition to shape their politics and personae. In a striking instance of selective memory, reimagined aspects of Puritan history proved to be potent catalysts for abolitionist minds. Black writers lauded slave rebels as new Puritan soldiers, female antislavery militias in Kansas were cast as modern Pilgrims, and a direct lineage of radical democracy was traced from these early New Englanders through the American and French Revolutions to the abolitionist movement, deemed a “Second Reformation” by some. Kenyon Gradert recovers a striking influence on abolitionism and recasts our understanding of puritanism, often seen as a strictly conservative ideology, averse to the worldly rebellion demanded by abolitionists.

Birthing a Nation

Author : Susan J. Rosowski
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080329395X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Birthing a Nation written by Susan J. Rosowski and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birthing a Nation is about national identity and the American West. If it is a truism that facing west was the American male version of invoking the Muse, what happened if you were female? Most past interpretations of western American literature have echoed Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier hypothesis, emphasizing the conflict of wilderness and civilization, the hero of rugged individualism, the act of returning to origins and reemerging as the reborn American Adam. In this reading of western American women writers who responded to the challenge to give birth to a nation, Susan J. Rosowski proposes an alternative, more hopeful affirmation of our cultural history and perhaps our cultural destiny. Rosowski begins by tracing the birth metaphor through three and a half centuries of American letters. She reexamines the premises underlying the telling of the literary West and posits a female model of creativity at the genesis of American literature. She follows four authors on a multigenerational journey, beginning with Margaret Fuller in 1843, moving on a generation later to Willa Cather, advancing to Jean Stafford, and ending with Marilynne Robinson. In her reading of these writers who most directly and deeply believed in literature as a serious and noble form of art and who wrote to influence how the country perceived itself, Rosowski contributes to the ongoing process of remapping the literary landscape

Understanding Marilynne Robinson

Author : Alexander John Engebretson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178037
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Marilynne Robinson written by Alexander John Engebretson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the award-winning Midwestern author of fiction and nonfiction Alex Engebretson offers the first comprehensive study of Marilynne Robinson's fiction and essays to date, providing an overview of the author's life, themes, and literary and religious influences. Understanding Marilynne Robinson examines this author of three highly acclaimed novels and recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the Orange Prize for fiction, and the National Humanities Medal. Through close readings of the novels and essay collections, Engebretson uncovers the unifying elements of Robinson's work: a dialogue with liberal Protestantism, an emphasis on regional settings, the marked influence of nineteenth-century American literature, and the theme of home. The study begins with Housekeeping, Robinson's haunting debut novel, which undertakes a feminist revision of the Western genre. Twenty-four years later Robinson began a literary project that would bring her national recognition, three novels set in a small, rural Iowa town. The first was Gilead, which took up the major American themes of race, the legacy of the Civil War, and the tensions between secular and religious lives. Two more Gilead novels followed, Home and Lila, both of which display Robinson's gift for capturing the mysterious dynamics of sin and grace. In Understanding Marilynne Robinson, Engebretson also reviews her substantial body of non-fiction, which demonstrates a dazzling intellectual range, from the contemporary science-religion debates, to Shakespeare, to the fate of liberal democracy. Throughout this study Engebretson makes the argument for Marilynne Robinson as an essential, deeply unfashionable, visionary presence within today's literary scene.

Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne’s Romances

Author : David B. Diamond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000408779
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne’s Romances written by David B. Diamond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering innovative, psychoanalytic readings of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s mature novels, this volume expertly applies Freudian theory to present new insights into the psychology of Hawthorne’s characters and their fates. By critically examining scenes in which protagonists confront past traumas, Diamond underscores the transformative potential which Hawthorne attributes to confrontations with the unconscious. Psychoanalytic narrative technique is used to illuminate psychological crises of the protagonists in The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun, showing the transformations they undergo to be central to our understanding of the trajectory and resolution of Hawthorne’s romances. The text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in applied psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic technique, and Freud in particular. Since its conclusions challenge many currently held critical views, this volume is especially relevant to those interested in interdisciplinary literary studies, Hawthorne studies, 19th century literature and romanticism.

The Glorious American Essay

Author : Phillip Lopate
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525436278
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Glorious American Essay written by Phillip Lopate and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate "Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." —Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves—sometimes critically—to American values. We see the Puritans, the Founding Fathers and Mothers, and the stars of the American Renaissance struggle to establish a national culture. A grand tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, literary, polemical, autobiographical, and humorous essays. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is a dazzling overview of the riches of the American essay.

The Hope of the Gospel

Author : Mark S. Young
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467462586
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book The Hope of the Gospel written by Mark S. Young and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning evangelicalism to its core commitments Evangelicalism in the United States is fracturing along social, political, and ethical fault lines, to the extent that the very meaning of “evangelicalism” is in dispute. Having surrendered its theological character and missional heritage to partisan political activism and cultural conservatism, the movement has lost its unifying identity and undermined its own testimony in an increasingly diverse society. Mark Young believes a revitalization of the evangelical movement must happen in our seminaries, where the shepherds of the next evangelicalism are being formed. Young argues that if these leaders of tomorrow are instilled with true gospel values, they will go on to form churches and missional organizations that offer a credible and compelling Christlike witness for the sake of the world. The Hope of the Gospel takes readers through the history of evangelicalism and back to the present to make the case for how this can happen through a renewed vision of theological education.

The Puritans

Author : David D. Hall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691203377
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Puritans written by David D. Hall and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished"--Provided by publisher.

The African Sketch-book

Author : William Winwood Reade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The African Sketch-book written by William Winwood Reade and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Guy

Author : Saul Levmore
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199331375
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book American Guy written by Saul Levmore and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines American norms of masculinity and their role in the law, with essays from legal academics, literary scholars, and judges. Together, these papers reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by bringing a range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives to bear on the complex interactions of masculinity with both law and literature - ultimately shedding light on all three.

I Like to Watch

Author : Emily Nussbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0525508961
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book I Like to Watch written by Emily Nussbaum and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big picture : how Buffy the vampire slayer turned me into a TV critic -- The long con ("The Sopranos") -- The great divide : Norman Lear, Archie Bunker, and the rise of the bad fan -- Difficult women ("Sex and the city") -- Cool story, bro ("True detective," "Top of the lake" and "The fall") -- Last girl in Larchmont : the legacy of Joan Rivers -- Girls girls girls : "Girls," "Vanderpump rules," "House of cards and Scandal," "The Amy Schumer show," "Transparent" -- Confessions of the human shield -- How jokes won the election -- In praise of sex and violence : "Hannibal," "Law et order : SVU," "Jessica Jones," -- "The jinx," "The Americans" -- The price is right : what advertising does to TV -- In living color : Kenya Barris' -- Breaking the box : "Jane the virgin," "The comeback," "The good wife," "The newsroom," "Adventure time," "The leftovers," "High maintenance." -- Riot girl : Jenji Kohan's hot provocations -- A disappointed fan is still a fan ("Lost") -- Mr. big : how Ryan Murphy became the most powerful man in television.

The African Sketch-book by Winwood Reade

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Sketch-book by Winwood Reade written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tyranny of Virtue

Author : Robert Boyers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982127201
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Tyranny of Virtue written by Robert Boyers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, “a powerfully persuasive, insightful, and provocative prose that mixes erudition and first-hand reportage” (Joyce Carol Oates) addressing recent developments in American culture and arguing for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition. Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college professor, The Tyranny of Virtue is a “courageous, unsparing, and nuanced to a rare degree” (Mary Gaitskill) insider’s look at shifts in American culture—most especially in the American academy—that so many people find alarming. Part memoir and part polemic, Boyers’s collection of essays laments the erosion of standard liberal values, and covers such subjects as tolerance, identity, privilege, appropriation, diversity, and ableism that have turned academic life into a minefield. Why, Robert Boyers asks, are a great many liberals, people who should know better, invested in the drawing up of enemies lists and driven by the conviction that on critical issues no dispute may be tolerated? In stories, anecdotes, and character profiles, a public intellectual and longtime professor takes on those in his own progressive cohort who labor in the grip of a poisonous and illiberal fundamentalism. The end result is a finely tuned work of cultural intervention from the front lines.

Babyhood

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Babyhood written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism

Author : Bryan M. Santin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108974236
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism written by Bryan M. Santin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryan M. Santin examines over a half-century of intersection between American fiction and postwar conservatism. He traces the shifting racial politics of movement conservatism to argue that contemporary perceptions of literary form and aesthetic value are intrinsically connected to the rise of the American Right. Instead of casting postwar conservatives as cynical hustlers or ideological fanatics, Santin shows how the long-term rhetorical shift in conservative notions of literary value and prestige reveal an aesthetic antinomy between high culture and low culture. This shift, he argues, registered and mediated the deeper foundational antinomy structuring postwar conservatism itself: the stable social order of traditionalism and the creative destruction of free-market capitalism. Postwar conservatives produced, in effect, an ambivalent double register in the discourse of conservative literary taste that sought to celebrate neo-aristocratic manifestations of cultural capital while condemning newer, more progressive manifestations revolving around racial and ethnic diversity.