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  • The Portrait and the Book

    Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America

    par Megan Walsh ...
    Collection series Impressions
    In the nineteenth century, new image-making methods like steel engraving and lithography caused a surge in the publication of illustrated books in the United States. Yet even before the widespread use of these technologies, Americans had already established the illustrated book format as central to the nation’s literary culture. In The Portrait and the Book, Megan Walsh argues that colonial-era ... En savoir plus

    42,60 €

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  • The Battle for Christmas

    A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday

    par Stephen Nissenbaum ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children.Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply ... En savoir plus

    10,38 €

  • Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography (Mobi Classics)

    par Mark Twain ...
    Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance is a short volume, published by Sheldon in 1871, is Mark Twain's third book. It consists of two stories - First Romance, which had originally appeared in The Express in 1870, and A Burlesque Autobiography (bearing no relationship to Twain's actual life), which first appeared in Twain's Memoranda contributions to the Galaxy. Rather, the ... En savoir plus

    0,95 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    par Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... En savoir plus

    Avant 7,99 € Après 1,49 €

  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

    par Julia A. Stern ...
    A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated ... En savoir plus

    46,63 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    par Frederick Douglass ...
    Collection series Oxford World's Classics
    'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.' Thus begins the autobiography of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) who was born into slavery in ... En savoir plus

    5,39 €

  • Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia

    par Richard Francis ...

    10,80 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Modifié par Mark Richardson ...
    Collection series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... En savoir plus

    39,59 €

  • The Original Knickerbocker

    The Life of Washington Irving

    par Andrew Burstein ...
    Washington Irving-author, ambassador, and Manhattanite-has largely slipped from America's memory, and yet, his creations are well known. Acclaimed historian Andrew Burstein returns Irving to the context of his native nineteenth century where he was an international celebrity-both a comic genius and the first American to earn his living as an author. Irving traveled through Europe and America, ... En savoir plus

    9,49 €

  • A Revolution in Color

    The World of John Singleton Copley

    par Jane Kamensky ...
    **Winner of the New York Historical Book Prize in American HistoryWinner of the James Bradford Biography PrizeWinner of the Annibel Jenkins Biography PrizeWinner of the Massachusetts Book Award"A stunning biography…[A] truly singular account of the American Revolution." —Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire**Through an intimate narrative of the life of painter John Singleton Copley, award ... En savoir plus

    13,35 €

  • A Jury Of Her Peers

    American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

    par Elaine Showalter ...
    Fascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the famous and expected names, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O'Connor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison, and Jodi Picoult. And also many successful and acclaimed yet little-known writers, from the early ... En savoir plus

    3,49 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Modifié par Joel Myerson ...
    Collection series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals ... En savoir plus

    30,93 €