Sketches of Places and People Abroad

Sketches of Places and People Abroad
Title Sketches of Places and People Abroad PDF eBook
Author William Wells Brown
Publisher
Pages 328
Release 1855
Genre African Americans
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Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature

Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature
Title Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature PDF eBook
Author John Ernest
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 292
Release 2011-08-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781617034725

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The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature

The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature
Title The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature PDF eBook
Author Lydia G. Fash
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Pages 399
Release 2020-03-31
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 081394399X

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Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States’ past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.

To Tell a Free Story

To Tell a Free Story
Title To Tell a Free Story PDF eBook
Author William L. Andrews
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 372
Release 1988-05
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780252060335

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To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of black America's most innovative literary tradition -- the autobiography -- from its beginnings to the end of the slavery era.

Handbook of the American Short Story

Handbook of the American Short Story
Title Handbook of the American Short Story PDF eBook
Author Erik Redling
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 512
Release 2022-01-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110585324

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The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.

From Bondage to Liberation

From Bondage to Liberation
Title From Bondage to Liberation PDF eBook
Author Faith Berry
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 492
Release 2006-04-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780826418142

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Unfolds a multifaceted literary history of race relations in the United States. This book features narratives on such well-known figures as Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, and others.

Second Catalogue of the Holton Library of Brighton

Second Catalogue of the Holton Library of Brighton
Title Second Catalogue of the Holton Library of Brighton PDF eBook
Author Holton Library (Brighton, Mass.)
Publisher
Pages 378
Release 1872
Genre Library catalogs
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