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Author : Washington Irving
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Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lydia G. Fash
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081394399X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature written by Lydia G. Fash and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States’ past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.
Author : Walter Isaacson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439183457
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book American Sketches written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's most versatile writers, author of bestselling biographies such as Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, has assembled a gallery of portraits of (mostly) Americans that celebreate genius, talent, and versatility, and traces his own education as a writer and biographer. In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson reflects on lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and other interesting characters he has chronicled both as biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, but that is not the secret to their success. They had qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and true curiousity. Isaacson also reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges for journalism in the digital age. He also offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which offers many of the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor. In an anecdotal and personal way, Isaacson describes the joys of writing and the way that tales about the lives of fascinating people can enlighten our own lives.
Author : Charles Jared Ingersoll
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Second War Between the United States of America, and Great Britain written by Charles Jared Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030020471X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself written by Frederick Douglass and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Tell a Free Story: Excerpt (1986) -- From Behind the Veil: Excerpt (1979) -- Afterword -- Chronology -- Four Maryland Families -- Historical Annotation to the Narrative -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Author : Charles Jared Ingersoll
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Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Second War Between the United States of America, and Great Britain: Events of 1812-13 written by Charles Jared Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin J. Avery
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588390608
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Kevin J. Avery and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Metropolitan Museum began acquiring American drawings and watercolors in 1880, just ten years after its founding. Since then it has amassed more than 1,500 works executed by American artists during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in watercolor, pastel, chalk, ink, graphite, gouache, and charcoal. This volume documents the draftsmanship of more than 150 known artists before 1835 and that of about 60 unidentified artists of the period. It includes drawings and watercolors by such American masters as John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, John Vanderlyn, Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, George Inness, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Because the 504 works illustrate such a wide range of media, techniques, and styles, this publication is a veritable history of American drawing from the eighteenth through most of the nineteenth century."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : Library company of Philadelphia
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Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia written by Library company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Library Company Of Philadelphia; To Which Is Prefixed A Short Account Of The Institution, With The Charter Laws And Regulations written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Appleton & co/1New York
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Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book D. Appleton & Co's New Catalogue of American & English Books written by D. Appleton & co/1New York and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 418 pages
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Download or read book Magazine of American History, with Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Austin Stevens
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Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries written by John Austin Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
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Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books, Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, with an Account of the Institution, Charters, Laws and Regulations written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700624783
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The American Elsewhere written by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As important cultural icons of the early nineteenth-century United States, adventurers energized the mythologies of the West and contributed to the justifications of territorial conquest. They told stories of exhilarating perils, boundless landscapes, and erotic encounters that elevated their chauvinism, avarice, and violence into forms of nobility. As self-proclaimed avatars of American exceptionalism, Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. suggests in The American Elsewhere, adventurers transformed westward expansion into a project of romantic nationalism. A study of US expansionism from 1815–1848, The American Elsewhere delves into the “adventurelogues” of the era to reveal the emotional world of men who sought escape from the anonymity of the urban East and pressures of the Market Revolution. As volunteers, trappers, traders, or curiosity seekers, they stepped into “elsewheres,” distant and dangerous. With their words and art, they entered these unfamiliar realms that had fostered caution and apprehension, and they reimagined them as regions that awakened romantic and reckless optimism. In doing so, Bryan shows, adventurers created the figure of the remarkable American male that generated a wide appeal and encouraged a personal investment in nationhood among their audiences. Bryan provides a thorough reading of a wide variety of sources—including correspondence, travel accounts, fiction, poetry, artwork, and material culture—and finds that adventurers told stories and shaped images that beguiled a generation of Americans into believing in their own exceptionality and in their destiny to conquer the continent.
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Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book Western Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Arac
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674018693
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (186 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860 written by Jonathan Arac and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Hawthorne and Melville produced works of fiction that even today help define American literature. In this work of innovative literary history, Jonathan Arac explains what made this remarkable creativity possible and what it accomplished.
