Seventy-six, Or, Love and Battle

Seventy-six, Or, Love and Battle
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Total Pages : 166
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101067302917
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Synopsis Seventy-six, Or, Love and Battle by : John Neal

Romances of the Republic

Romances of the Republic
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780195079883
ISBN-13 : 0195079884
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Synopsis Romances of the Republic by : Shirley Samuels

The politics of identity in the period of the early American republic involved the cultural production of a national self. In Romances of the Republic, Shirley Samuels examines revolutionary rhetoric from the 1790s through the 1850s primarily in novels, but also in poems, pamphlets, political cartoons, and sermons.

Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence

Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 9780429603662
ISBN-13 : 0429603665
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Synopsis Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence by : Martin Holtz

This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural expressions, ranging from a notion of disablement, expressed in victimization, immobilization, traumatization, and death, to enablement, expressed in the perpetration of heroic, courageous, skillful, and powerful actions of assertion and dominance. In order to illustrate this thesis, it provides a comprehensive analysis of literary representations of the American War of Independence from 1775, the beginning of the war, up until roughly 1860, when the Civil War marked a decisive historical turning point. As the first national war, it has an unquestionably exemplary status for the development of American conceptions of war. The in-depth study of exemplary texts from a variety of genres and by authors like Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, and Herman Melville, demonstrates that the overall character of Revolutionary War literature presents the war as a forum in which collective and individual agency is expressed, defended, and cultivated. It uses the military environment in order to teach the values of discipline and self-subordination to a communal good, which are perceived as basic principles of a Republican virtue to guide the actions of the autonomous individual in a popular democracy.

Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas

Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
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Total Pages : 864
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951002001881Y
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Synopsis Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas by : New York Public Library. Reference Department

Judging the Boy Scouts of America

Judging the Boy Scouts of America
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Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9780700619511
ISBN-13 : 0700619518
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Synopsis Judging the Boy Scouts of America by : Richard J. Ellis

As Americans, we cherish the freedom to associate. However, with the freedom to associate comes the right to exclude those who do not share our values and goals. What happens when the freedom of association collides with the equally cherished principle that every individual should be free from invidious discrimination? This is precisely the question posed in Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale, a lawsuit that made its way through the courts over the course of a decade, culminating in 2000 with a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Judging the Boy Scouts of America, Richard J. Ellis tells the fascinating story of the Dale case, placing it in the context of legal principles and precedents, Scouts' policies, gay rights, and the “culture wars” in American politics. The story begins with James Dale, a nineteen-year old Eagle Scout and assistant scoutmaster in New Jersey, who came out as a gay man in the summer of 1990. The Boy Scouts, citing their policy that denied membership to “avowed homosexuals,” promptly terminated Dale’s membership. Homosexuality, the Boy Scout leadership insisted, violated the Scouts’ pledge to be “morally straight.” With the aid of the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, Dale sued for discrimination. Ellis tracks the case from its initial filing in New Jersey through the final decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of the Scouts. In addition to examining the legal issues at stake, including the effect of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the law of free association, Ellis also describes Dale's personal journey and its intersection with an evolving gay rights movement. Throughout he seeks to understand the puzzle of why the Boy Scouts would adopt and adhere to a policy that jeopardized the organization's iconic place in American culture—and, finally, explores how legal challenges and cultural changes contributed to the Scouts’ historic policy reversal in May 2013 that ended the organization’s ban on gay youth (though not gay adults).

American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828

American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 672
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ISBN-10 : 9781108617048
ISBN-13 : 1108617042
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 by : William Huntting Howell

This volume presents a complex portrait of the United States of America grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Topics include (but are not limited to): the dynamics of language and power, the treachery of memory, the lived experience of racial and economic inequality, the aesthetics of Indigeneity, the radical possibilities of disability, the fluidity of gender and sexuality, the depth and culture-making power of literary genre, the history of poetics, the cult of performance, and the hidden costs of foodways. Taken together, the essays offer a vision of a vibrant, contradictory, and conflicted early US Republic resistant to consensus accountings and poised to inform new and better origin stories for the polity to come.

Between the Lines

Between the Lines
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9781451635812
ISBN-13 : 1451635818
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Synopsis Between the Lines by : Jodi Picoult

Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9781611484212
ISBN-13 : 1611484219
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture by : Edward Watts

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is a critical reassessment of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal, arguing for his importance to the ongoing reassessment of the American Renaissance and the broader cultural history of the Nineteenth Century. Contributors (including scholars from the United States, Germany, England, Italy, and Israel) present Neal as an innovative literary stylist, penetrating cultural critic, pioneering regionalist, and vital participant in the business of letters in America over his sixty-year career.

Confederate Veteran

Confederate Veteran
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Total Pages : 600
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ISBN-10 : PURD:32754070878917
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