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Redreaming America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Redreaming America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.

Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A.

This fifth revised edition features approximately 1,900 items, most of which are annotated. It addresses several interdisciplinary studies that have become prominent in the last decade, especially on popular culture, racial and other minorities, Native Americans and Chicanos, and literary regionalism. It allots more space to computer aids, science fiction, children's literature, literature of the sea, film and literature, and linguistic studies of American English and includes a new section on psychology. The appendix lists the biography of each of 135 deceased American authors. ISBN 0-8223-0592-5 : $22.50 (For use only in the library).

Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860

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Acts of Manhood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 407

Acts of Manhood

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition.

The Facts on File Companion to American Drama
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 657

The Facts on File Companion to American Drama

Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.

Writing the Brain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Writing the Brain

In the nineteenth century, American and British culture experienced an explosion of interest in writings about the brain. The years between 1800 and 1880 are often described as the emergence of modern neuroscience, with new areas of the brain being discovered and named. Naming was quickly followed by a drive to hypothesize functioning, a process that suggested thinking itself may be a mere physiological act. In Writing the Brain, Stefan Schöberlein tracks how literature encountered such novel, scientific theories of cognition-and how it, in turn, shaped scientific thinking. Before the era of modern psychology, a heterogeneous group of alienists, self-help gurus, and anatomists proposed that...

Florida Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Florida Studies

Included in this volume are essays on various aspects of Florida Literature and history by scholars from across the state representing every kind of institution of higher learning. Of special interest are the studies of Florida literature in the 19th Century and in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, areas that are generally underrepresented in national journals. The papers on the contributions of African- America figures, such as Zora Neale Hurston, are noteworthy. Of particular interest are the suggestions for teaching Florida Studies in the classroom, which can be adapted for high school as well as college students.

Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism

This volume traces how American literature evolved in response to widespread conflicts over the very nature of US democracy in the early republic and antebellum eras. It examines how American writers reacted to three moments of profound divisiveness in the 1790s, 1830s, and 1850s.

Entertaining the Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Entertaining the Nation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-10-25
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, reveals shifts in taste from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840s and 1850s, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller explores the relationship between American drama and societal issues during this period. While never completely shedding its English roots,...

Perilous Escapades
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Perilous Escapades

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-19
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Adventure fiction is one of the easiest narrative forms to recognize but one of the hardest to define because of its overlap with many other genres. This collection of essays attempts to characterize adventure fiction through the exploration of key elements--such as larger-than-life characters and imperialistic ideas--in the genre's 19th- and 20th-century British and American works like The Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy and Captain Blood by Sabatini. The author explores the cultural and literary impact of such works, presenting forgotten classics in a new light.