Four Centuries of Literature
Author | : Allan Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Allan Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Allan Ferguson Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bridget Keegan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1250 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Literature and Nature exposes students to the tremendous diversity of literacy responses to the physical environment. The selections cover four centuries of the best nature writing produced in Britain and America from the Renaissance through the twentieth century. The book includes contributions by writers from all walks of life - men and women of different races, classes and nationalities, each of whom adds a unique perspective to our understanding of the literary representation of the natural world. Contents include a variety of literary forms, including poems, short stories, non-fiction essays, travel narratives, and excerpts from novels. These varied selections reveal how concern for the environment cuts across differences of gender, social class, education, religion, race, and ethnicity. Literature and Nature provides a wide range of texts, from both well-known and less-familiar writers, and it offers students a broad base of knowledge from which to reflect and respond.
Author | : Allan Ferguson Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jacqueline Jones |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780393318333 |
"[Jones's] painstakingly researched volume is an invaluable antidote to those who argue that our shameful past has no relevance to our perplexing present." --David Kusnet, Baltimore Sun
Author | : Peter Wallenstein |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700619941 |
As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the nation’s early years, Virginia can rightfully be called the “cradle of America.” Peter Wallenstein traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the Old Dominion. The second edition is updated with new material throughout, including a new chapter on Virginia and world affairs from the Korean War through 9/11 and beyond, and, an expanded bibliography. Historical accounts of Virginia have often emphasized harmony and tradition, but Wallenstein focuses on the impact of conflict and change. From the beginning, Virginians have debated and challenged each other’s visions of Virginia, and Wallenstein shows how these differences have influenced its sometimes turbulent development. Casting an eye on blacks as well as whites, and on people from both east and west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he traces such key themes as political power, racial identity, and education. Bringing to bear his long experience teaching Virginia history, Wallenstein takes readers back, even before Jamestown, to the Elizabethan settlers at Roanoke Island and the inhabitants they encountered, as well as to Virginia’s leaders of the American Revolution. He chronicles the state’s dramatic journey through the Civil War era, a time that revealed how the nation’s evolution sometimes took shape in opposition to the vision of many leading Virginians. He also examines the impact of the civil rights movement and considers controversies that accompany Virginia into its fifth century. The text is copiously illustrated to depict not only such iconic figures as Pocahontas, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee, but also such other prominent native Virginians as Carter G. Woodson, Patsy Cline, and L. Douglas Wilder. Sidebars throughout the book offer further insight, while maps and appendixes of reference data make the volume a complete resource on Virginia’s history.
Author | : Robert Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781947778153 |
A collection of public domain texts with introductory notes and study questions
Author | : Rosemary Skinner Keller |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780664222857 |
A rich collection of first-person renderings that both enhances and challenges traditional narratives of American religious life.
Author | : Camille T. Dungy |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0820334316 |
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.
Author | : Truman Jay Backus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |