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  • Anne Bradstreet Now

    Modern Poets Respond

    Edited by Abram Van Engen, Mary Eyring ...
    In 1650, the puritan poet Anne Bradstreet became the first person from British North America to publish a book of poems. The Tenth Muse made her famous, and for almost four centuries, Bradstreet has been canonized, anthologized, studied, and taught. She's remarkable in many ways--partly for her early forms of feminism; partly for her modes of spiritual devotion; partly for the power embedded in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Saltwater

    Grief in Early America

    by Mary Eyring ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Death is easy to locate in the archives of early America. Grief is not so easily pinned down. Yet it was a near constant companion for the men and women that settled in what is now New England. Their lives were a kaleidoscope of small-scale tragedies that suffused and colored everyday experiences. This pervasive suffering was exacerbated by unfamiliar environments and exposure to the anguish of ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

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  • American Literature in Context to 1865

    by Susan Castillo ...
    American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses the issues and events that engaged American writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaningCovers a range of genres including the myths, chants and songs of indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and the novels and poetry to 1865Designed to ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

    Edited by Katharine Capshaw, Anna Mae Duane ...
    Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • An American Triptych

    Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich

    by Wendy Martin ...
    Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Puritanism imposed stringent demands on Bradstreet, romanticism both inspired and restricted Dickinson, and feminism challenged as well as liberated Rich. Nevertheless, each poet succeeded in forming a personal ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Henry David Thoreau in Context

    Edited by James S. Finley ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Well known for his contrarianism and solitude, Henry David Thoreau was nonetheless deeply responsive to the world around him. His writings bear the traces of his wide-ranging reading, travels, political interests, and social influences. Henry David Thoreau in Context brings together leading scholars of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature and culture and presents original research, ... Read more

    $138.99 CAD

  • The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

    A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

    by David Waldstreicher ...
    A New York Times notable book of 2023 | A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography | Winner of the 2024 George Washington Prize“[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher’s] interpretations equal Wheatley’s own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement.” —Tiya Miles, The Atlantic“Thoroughly researched, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Good Wives

    Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

    by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ...
    This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising- ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem

    Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies

    by Elaine G Breslaw ...
    Series Book 19 - The American Social Experience
    "A fascinating re-examination of the Salem witchhunts and the woman whose confession initiated them" (Robynne Rogers Healey, University of Alberta).In this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and immortalized in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.Reconstructing the life of ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature (Mobi Classics)

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Laboring Women

    Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

    by Jennifer L. Morgan ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Uncommon Learning

    Henry David Thoreau on Education

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    Series series Spirit of Thoreau
    "It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know," Thoreau wrote. Ideas about education permeate Thoreau's writing. Uncommon Learning brings those ideas together in a single volume for the first time. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus