Author: Emory ElliottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520416
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A literary history of American writing between 1492 and 1820.
The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature
Author: Emory ElliottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520416
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A literary history of American writing between 1492 and 1820.
The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature
Author: Bryce TraisterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book introduces readers to early American literary studies through original readings of key literary texts.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance
Author: Christopher N. PhillipsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108420915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.
The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story
Author: Martin ScofieldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139457659
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to O'Connor and Carver. The major writers in the genre are covered in depth with a general view of their work and detailed discussion of a number of examples of individual stories. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to this rich literary tradition. It will be invaluable to students and readers looking for critical approaches to the short story and wishing to deepen their understanding of how authors have approached and developed this fascinating and challenging genre. Further reading suggestions are included to explore the subject in more depth. This is an invaluable overview for all students and readers of American fiction.
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, 1590-1820
Author: Sacvan BercovitchPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585712
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature was originally published in 1997, and covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the work of a diverse assemblage of authors, from Renaissance explorers and Puritan theocrats to Revolutionary pamphleteers and poets and novelists of the new republic. Addressing those characteristics that render the texts distinctively American while placing the literature in an international perspective, the contributors offer a compelling new evaluation of both the literary importance of early American history and the historical value of early American literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature
Author: Bryce TraisterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108889387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature, including new world migration, indigenous encounters, religious and secular histories, and the emergence of American literary genres. This book guides readers through important conceptual and theoretical issues, while also grounding these issues in close readings of key literary texts from early America.
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Early national literature: pt. II. Later national literature: pt. I. - -v. 3. Later national literature: pt. II-III (2 v.)
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Early national literature, pt. II. Later national literature, pt. I
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Leland S. PersonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent chronicler of New England and its colonial history. This introductory book for students coming to Hawthorne for the first time outlines his life and writings in a clear and accessible style. Leland S. Person also explains some of the significant cultural and social movements that influenced Hawthorne's most important writings: Puritanism, Transcendentalism and Feminism. The major works, including The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance, as well as Hawthorne's important short stories and non-fiction, are analysed in detail. The book also includes a brief history and survey of Hawthorne scholarship, with special emphasis on recent studies. Students of nineteenth-century American literature will find this a rewarding and engaging introduction to this remarkable writer.
The Cambridge Introduction to The Nineteenth-Century American Novel
Author: Gregg CranePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521843256
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period and emerging as a key component in American identity, growth, expansion and the Civil War. Gregg Crane tells the story of the American novel from its beginnings in the early republic to the end of the nineteenth century. Treating the famous and many less well-known works, Crane discusses the genre's major figures, themes and developments. He analyses the different types of American fiction - romance, sentimental fiction, and the realist novel - in detail, while the historical context is explained in relation to how novelists explored the changing world around them. This comprehensive and stimulating introduction will enhance students' experience of reading and studying the whole canon of American fiction.