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Author | : David S. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Historical Guides to American Authors |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195120820 |
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This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores, the visual arts & the idea of democracy.
Author | : David S. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195120817 |
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This study combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Walt Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore Whitman's relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores and the idea of democracy.
Author | : Shelley Fisher Fishkin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2002-10-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199729069 |
Download A Historical Guide to Mark Twain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer's apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, and miner, remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide to Mark Twain addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Twain's work, including religion, commerce, race, gender, social class, and imperialism. Like all of the Historical Guides to American Authors, this volume includes an introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographic essay, and an illustrated chronology of the author's life and times.
Author | : Gay Wilson Allen |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780815604884 |
Download A Reader's Guide to Walt Whitman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author of the biography of Whitman and several other books about the poet, general coeditor of The Collected Writings, and for 25 years the leading scholar of Leaves of Grass, Allen has now produced a critical guide for an intelligent reader's analysis and evaluation of current interpretations and approaches to Whitman's poetry. Its five sections are concerned with: a) the Whitman man-or-beast myth; 2) the 'long foreground' to the Leaves; 3) the nine editions, 1855-1892, of Whitman's book...; 4) the central themes or subject matter that give it unity, and the views of critics...; and 5) its form and structure as seen in a dozen individual lyrics. The result is a useful, valuable, and even remarkable capstone to a long career devoted to the study of 'A Bible for Democracy' (Whitman's phrase for Leaves of Grass).
Author | : J. Gerald Kennedy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2001-01-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199728135 |
Download A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), son of itinerant actors, holds a secure place in the firmament of history as America's first master of suspense. Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literary nationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the "republic of letters" in the United States. This Historical Guide contains an introduction that considers the tensions between Poe's "otherworldly" settings and his historically marked representations of violence, as well as a capsule biography situating Poe in his historical context. The subsequent essays in this book cover such topics as Poe and the American Publishing Industry, Poe's Sensationalism, his relationships to gender constructions, and Poe and American Privacy. The volume also includes a bibliographic essay, a chronology of Poe's life, a bibliography, illustrations, and an index.
Author | : Carol J. Singley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003-01-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199727339 |
Download A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Edith Wharton, arguably the most important American female novelist, stands at a particular historical crossroads between sentimental lady writer and modern professional author. Her ability to cope with this collision of Victorian and modern sensibilities makes her work especially interesting. Wharton also writes of American subjects at a time of great social and economic change-Darwinism, urbanization, capitalism, feminism, world war, and eugenics. She not only chronicles these changes in memorable detail, she sets them in perspective through her prodigious knowledge of history, philosophy, and religion. A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton provides scholarly and general readers with historical contexts that illuminate Wharton's life and writing in new, exciting ways. Essays in the volume expand our sense of Wharton as a novelist of manners and demonstrate her engagement with issues of her day.
Author | : Donald D. Kummings |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2009-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405195517 |
Download A Companion to Walt Whitman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Comprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets. Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on Whitman available to students Designed to make readers more aware of the social and cultural contexts of Whitman’s work, and of the experimental nature of his writing Includes contributions devoted to specific poetry and prose works, a compact biography of the poet, and a bibliography
Author | : George Fetherling |
Publisher | : Random House Canada |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010-04-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307374319 |
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As compelling and revelatory as Colm Toibin's The Master, Walt Whitman's Secret mines the life of the most influential poet in the American canon for insights about creativity, relations between the sexes and the dangers of excessive patriotism. In this wonderfully imagined novel, Walt Whitman's secret isn't his homosexuality but another one entirely. It's a political secret, one that the greatest American poet of the nineteenth century has pledged himself to keep until he is on his deathbed. Only in that way can Whitman protect the great love of his life - a Confederate deserter he met in Washington during the Civil War - from the calumnies and scandals that have muddied his own reputation ever since the first publication of Leaves of Grass. The person who finally hears his confession is Horace, his unpaid amanuensis and helper, a young man who will go on to fill nine fat volumes with a verbatim record of the great man's tabletalk and often deceptive reminiscences. Only after Whitman has gone does Horace realize that Whitman seems to be making him a bequest of not only the secret but of his own complex personality as well.
Author | : Steven Carl Tracy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780195144345 |
Download A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Langston Hughes has been an inspiration to generations of readers and writers seeking a passionate and socially responsible art. In this text, Steven Tracy has gathered a range of critics to produce an interdisciplinary approach to the historical and cultural elements reflected in Hughes's work.
Author | : Walt Whitman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : American essays |
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