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Virgin Land
The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbols of the Westward movement such as the general notion of a Westward-moving Course of Empire, the Wild Western hero, the virtuous yeoman-farmer--in such varied nineteenth-century writings as Leaves of Grass, the great corpus of Dime Novels, and most notably, Frederick Jackson Turner's The Frontier in American History. ...
Mark Twain
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A History of Private Life: Passions of the Renaissance
Library has Vol. 1-5.
American Literature, Culture, and Ideology
This collection of essays in memory of Henry Nash Smith considers American literature as both a product and an agent of culture and ideology. Included are a biographical essay on Henry Nash Smith by historian Henry F. May and «Mark Twain, Ritual Clown, » an important late essay by Smith, published here for the first time. Other distinguished contributors are Thomas F. Gossett, Eric J. Sundquist, Leo Marx, David Leverenz, Beverly R. Voloshin, Daniel Aaron, R.W.B. Lewis, Annette Kolodny, Sybil Weir, Larzer Ziff, Lorne Fienberg, Susan Gillman, Kermit Vanderbilt, and John S. Wright.
American Romanticism and the Marketplace
"This book can take its place on the shelf beside Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden."—Choice "[Gilmore] demonstrates the profound, sustained, engagement with society embodied in the works of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Melville. In effect, he relocates the American Renaissance where it properly belongs, at the centre of a broad social, economic, and ideological movement from the Jacksonian era to the Civil War. Basically, Gilmore's argument concerns the writers' participation in what Thoreau called 'the curse of trade.' He details their mixed resistance to and complicity in the burgeoning literary marketplace and, by extension, the entire ' economi...
Virgin Land
The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbols of the Westward movement such as the general notion of a Westward-moving Course of Empire, the Wild Western hero, the virtuous yeoman-farmer--in such varied nineteenth-century writings as Leaves of Grass, the great corpus of Dime Novels, and most notably, Frederick Jackson Turner's The Frontier in American History. ...
Virgin Land
The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Henry Nash Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbols of the Westward movement such as the general notion of a Westward-moving Course of Empire, the Wild Western hero, the virtuous yeoman-farmer-in such varied nineteenth-century writings as Leaves of Grass, the great corpus of Dime Novels, and most notably, Frederick Jackson Turner's The Frontier in American...
Mark Twain
Many prominent writers and critics have contributed to this collection of essays, many of which deal with individual works by Twain.
Democracy and the Novel
Discusses how Hawthorne, Melville, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Henry James resisted the demands of the 19th century popular tastes and maintained their artistic integrity.
Mark Twain
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