The Grand Chorus of Complaint

The Grand Chorus of Complaint
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9780199751785
ISBN-13 : 0199751781
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Grand Chorus of Complaint by : Michael J. Everton

An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Publisher : Modern Language Association
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9781603293754
ISBN-13 : 1603293752
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson by : Mark C. Long

A leader of the transcendentalist movement and one of the country's first public intellectuals, Ralph Waldo Emerson has been a long-standing presence in American literature courses. Today he is remembered for his essays, but in the nineteenth century he was also known as a poet and orator who engaged with issues such as religion, nature, education, and abolition. This volume presents strategies for placing Emerson in the context of his time, for illuminating his rhetorical techniques, and for tracing his influence into the present day and around the world. Part 1, "Materials," offers guidance for selecting classroom editions and information on Emerson's life, contexts, and reception. Part 2, "Approaches," provides suggestions for teaching Emerson's works in a variety of courses, not only literature but also creative writing, religion, digital humanities, media studies, and environmental studies. The essays in this section address Emerson's most frequently anthologized works, such as Nature and "Self-Reliance," along with other texts including sermons, lectures, journals, and poems.

Walt Whitman in Context

Walt Whitman in Context
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9781108314473
ISBN-13 : 1108314473
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Walt Whitman in Context by : Joanna Levin

Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.

Herman Melville

Herman Melville
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Publisher : University of New Hampshire Press
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9781512601381
ISBN-13 : 1512601381
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Herman Melville by : Katie McGettigan

In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville's novels and poetry demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of industrial and commercial forms of print. Further, she shows that this "aesthetics of the material text," central both to Melville's stylistic signature and to his innovations in form, allows Melville to explore the production of selfhood, test the limits of narrative authenticity, and question the nature of artistic originality. Combining archival research in print and publishing history with close reading, McGettigan situates Melville's works alongside advertising materials, magazine articles, trade manuals, and British and American commentary on the literary industry to demonstrate how Melville's literary practice relies on and aestheticizes the specific conditions of literary production in which he worked. For Melville, the book is a physical object produced by particular technological processes, as well as an entity that manifests social and economic values. His characters carry books, write on them, and even sleep on them; they also imagine, observe, and participate in the buying and selling of books. Melville employs the book's print, paper, and binding - and its market circulations - to construct literary figures, to shape textual form, and to create irony and ambiguity. Exploring the printed book in Melville's writings brings neglected sections of his poetry and prose to the fore and invites new readings of familiar passages and images. These readings encourage a reassessment of Melville's career as shaped by his creative engagements with print, rather than his failures in the literary marketplace. McGettigan demonstrates that a sustained and deliberate imaginative dialogue with the material text is at the core of Melville's expressive practice and that, for Melville, the printed book served as a site for imagining the problems and possibilities of modernity.

The Public School Journal

The Public School Journal
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 370
Release :
ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112109607447
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

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Recollections of a Busy Life: including reminiscences of American politics and politicians, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of slavery; to which are added Miscellanies ... Also, a discussion with Robert Dale Owen of the law of divorce. [With illustrations.]

Recollections of a Busy Life: including reminiscences of American politics and politicians, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of slavery; to which are added Miscellanies ... Also, a discussion with Robert Dale Owen of the law of divorce. [With illustrations.]
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 644
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0018658318
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Recollections of a Busy Life: including reminiscences of American politics and politicians, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of slavery; to which are added Miscellanies ... Also, a discussion with Robert Dale Owen of the law of divorce. [With illustrations.] by : Horace GREELEY

Without Copyrights

Without Copyrights
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 374
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780190469160
ISBN-13 : 0190469161
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Without Copyrights by : Robert Spoo

"Tells the story of how the clashes between authors, publishers, and literary "pirates" influenced both American copyright law and literature itself."--Dust jacket flap

The Grand Chorus of Complaint

The Grand Chorus of Complaint
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 253
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780199924257
ISBN-13 : 0199924252
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Grand Chorus of Complaint by : Michael J. Everton

An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.

Punch

Punch
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB10532096
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

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