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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 33,5 Mb
• Release Date : 25 January 2023

In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagement with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville's philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 25,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 April 2022

Between 1851 and 1877, the U.S. underwent a whirlwind of change. This volume offers a fresh account of this important era, assessing the many developments - both major and minor -

• Publisher : Oxford Studies in American Lit
• File Size : 36,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

Using the US as a case study, this study examines the public life of literature between the late 18th and the early 20th centuries, bringing together the development of literature's

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 48,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

This book offers new perspectives on race and transnationalism in nineteenth-century American literary studies, and ranges widely in developing new approaches to canonical and non canonical authors. It will appeal

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 54,5 Mb
• Release Date : 30 April 2023

Comprising new work by leading scholars, this book traces the history of American short fiction and provides original avenues for research.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

"What might it mean, existentially and spiritually, to form an intimate relation with discrete places on earth? This book offers a uniquely integrative perspective on the matter. Centered on analyzing

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 33,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 August 2023

This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. This stereotyped character appears primarily in the pulpy sensation fiction of popular writers like

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 28,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 February 2013

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 that Melville

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 33,6 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

Prologue: The literary cosmopolis and its legal past -- The law of nations and the sources of the cosmopolis -- The cosmopolitan covenant -- The manufactured millennium -- Evidentiary cosmopolitanism

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 43,9 Mb
• Release Date : 14 June 2024

Stephen Schryer traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review and highlights these writers' enduring impact on movement conservatism.