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  • Whole Oceans Away

    Melville and the Pacific

    Modifié par Barnum, Wyn Kelley, Christopher Sten ...
    Essays on Melville and the culture of the Pacific“Like the young Melville, those who imagine Polynesia from the perspective of Europe or North America tend to envision a tropical garden set in a shining sea. But the Pacific experienced by a runaway American sailor in an earlier century presents a different picture, and the Pacifi c experienced by indigenous peoples of today a different one yet.”— ... En savoir plus

    $60.49 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Melville’s Other Lives

    Bodies on Trial in The Piazza Tales

    par Christopher Sten ...
    Collections series Peculiar Bodies
    Melville’s Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza Tales—Herman Melville’s only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetime—and the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melville’s stories.As Christopher Sten shows, all of the stories in The Piazza Tales present encounters between established white male ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • "This Mighty Convulsion"

    Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War

    Modifié par Christopher Sten, Tyler Hoffman ...
    Collections series Iowa Whitman Series
    This is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most important poets of the war. The essays brought together in this volume add significantly to recent critical appreciation of the skill and sophistication of these poets; growing recognition of the complexity of their views of the war; and heightened appreciation for the ... En savoir plus

    $82.99 CAD

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  • American Lit 101

    From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an essential guide to American writers and works

    par Brianne Keith ...
    Collections series Adams 101 Series
    From poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned!Edgar Allan Poe. Willa Cather. Henry David Thoreau. Mark Twain. The list of important American writers goes on and on. These voices played a vital role in shaping the scope of American literature, and the United States itself. But too often, textbooks reduce this storied history to dry text that would put even a tenured ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Emerson's Protégés

    Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future

    par Prof. David Dowling ...
    In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assuming the role of mentor, editor, and promoter, Emerson freely offered them his time, financial support, and anti-materialistic counsel, and profoundly ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • Baldwin for Our Times

    Writings from James Baldwin for an Age of Sorrow and Struggle

    par James Baldwin ...
    A collection of James Baldwin's writings that speaks urgently to our current era of racial injustice, with an introduction by prominent Baldwin scholar Rich BlintIn his unforgettable, incandescent essays and poetry, James Baldwin diagnosed the racial injustices of the twentieth century and illuminated the struggles and triumphs of African Americans. Now, in our current age of persistent racial ... En savoir plus

    $6.29 CAD

  • 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

    $73.99 CAD

  • Uncommon Learning

    Henry David Thoreau on Education

    par Henry David Thoreau ...
    Collections 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. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Machine in the Garden

    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    par Leo Marx ...
    For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave

    Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape

    par John Thompson ...
    The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vesselJohn Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave chronicles his enslavement, his escape, and his life in the North, where he lived as a free man until fear of recapture drove him to flee once again-this time to sea ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Tributes

    American Writers on American Writers

    par Bradford Morrow, Martine Bellen, Lee Smith ...
    Collections Livre 29 - Conjunctions
    Rick Moody on John Cheever; Ben Marcus on Dr. Seuss; Mona Simpson on Henry James: Forty-five essays by great writers, about great writers.For Tributes, Conjunctions invited a number of contemporary writers to pay homage to American literary masters who made something possible for them—whether that was the act of writing itself, writing a certain book, writing in a particular manner, or living in a ... En savoir plus

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  • Melville

    His World and Work

    par Andrew Delbanco ...
    If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates thatMelville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD