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Books by Shirley Samuels
  | | The Wadsworth Themes American Literature Series, 1800-1865 Theme 6(1st Edition) Confronting Race by Jay Parini, Shirley Samuels Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2008 by Wadsworth Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4282-6241-6, ISBN: 1-4282-6241-5 "The first thematic series published for American literature, THE WADSWORTH THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE SERIES is currently comprised of 21 themes spanning the time period normally covered in the two-semester American literature survey course--1492 to the present. Each carefully edited booklet centers on a core issue of the period with attention given to the development of key themes. Each thematic booklet offers an introductory contex ..." |
 | | The Wadsworth Themes American Literature Series, 1800-1865 Theme 7(1st Edition) Manifest Destiny and the Quest for the West by Jay Parini, Shirley Samuels Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by Wadsworth Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4282-6242-3, ISBN: 1-4282-6242-3 "The first thematic series published for American literature, THE WADSWORTH THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE SERIES is currently comprised of 21 themes spanning the time period normally covered in the two-semester American literature survey course--1492 to the present. Each carefully edited booklet centers on a core issue of the period with attention given to the development of key themes. Each thematic booklet offers an introductory contex ..." |
 | | Facing America(1st Edition) Iconography and the Civil War by Shirley Samuels Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2004 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512897-0, ISBN: 0-19-512897-4 "Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. To conjure a face for the nation, author Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a dramatic shift from identifying the American nation as feminine to identifying it as masculine. Expressions of such a change appear in the alle ..." |
 | | Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865(1st Edition) (Reading the Novel) by Shirley Samuels Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-1-118-77991-0, ISBN: 1-118-77991-6 "Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States from the late 18th century until the Civil War, and helps introductory students to interpret and understand the fiction from this popular period. Offers an overview of early fictional genres and introduces ways to interpret them today Features in depth examinations of specific novels Explor ..." |
 | | Cambridge Companions to American Studies The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln (Paperback) by Shirley Samuels, Mike Smith, Jackie Clegg, Scott Simmon Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-14573-2, ISBN: 0-521-14573-2 "Abraham Lincoln's stature as an American cultural figure grows from his political legacy. In today's milieu, the speeches he delivered as the sixteenth president of the United States have become synonymous with American progress, values, and exceptionalism. But what makes Lincoln's language so effective? Highlighting matters of style, affect, nationalism, and history in nineteenth-century America, this collection examines the rhetorical ..." |
 | | The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln (Cambridge Companions to American Studies) by Samuels Shirley Edt, Shirley Samuels Library, 235 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-19316-0, ISBN: 0-521-19316-8 "Abraham Lincoln s stature as an American cultural figure grows from his political legacy In today s milieu the speeches he delivered as the sixteenth president of the United States have become synonymous with American progress values and exceptionalism But what makes Lincoln s language so effective Highlighting matters of style affect nationalism and history in nineteenth century America this collection examines the rhetorical power of ..." |
 | | The Wadsworth Themes American Literature Series, 1800-1865 Theme 8(1st Edition) Views on War (Wadsworth Themes in American Literature: 1800-1865) by Jay Parini, Shirley Samuels Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2008 by Cengage Learning ISBN-13: 978-1-4282-6243-0, ISBN: 1-4282-6243-1 "The first thematic series published for American literature, THE WADSWORTH THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE SERIES is currently comprised of 21 themes spanning the time period normally covered in the two-semester American literature survey course--1492 to the present. Each carefully edited booklet centers on a core issue of the period with attention given to the development of key themes. Each thematic booklet offers an introductory contex ..." |
 | | The Wadsworth Themes American Literature Series, 1800-1865 Theme 5(1st Edition) The Woman Question - and the Bachelor's Reveries (Wadsworth Themes in American Literature: 1800-1865) by Professor Jay Parini, Shirley Samuels Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2008 by Wadsworth Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4282-6259-1, ISBN: 1-4282-6259-8 "The first thematic series published for American literature, THE WADSWORTH THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE SERIES is currently comprised of 21 themes spanning the time period normally covered in the two-semester American literature survey course--1492 to the present. Each carefully edited booklet centers on a core issue of the period with attention given to the development of key themes. Each thematic booklet offers an introductory contex ..." |
 | | Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865(1st Edition) by Shirley Samuels Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2012 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-0-631-23287-2, ISBN: 0-631-23287-7 "Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States from the late 18th century until the Civil War, and helps introductory students to interpret and understand the fiction from this popular period. Offers an overview of early fictional genres and introduces ways to interpret them today Features in depth examinations of specific novels Explor ..." |
 | | A Companion to American Fiction 1780 - 1865(1st Edition) by Shirley Samuels, Kate Adams, Eric Anderson, Philip Barnard, Stephanie Browner, Nancy Buffington, Christopher Castiglia, Russ Castronovo, Martha Cutter, Paul Downes Paperback, 486 Pages, Published 2006 by Wiley-Blackwell Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-5891-6, ISBN: 1-4051-5891-3 "This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction Relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity Covers different fo ..." |
 | | Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Shirley Samuels, Kirsten Pai Buick, Irene Cheng, Martha J. Cutter, Brigitte Fielder, Jennifer Greiman, Wyn Kelley, Kya Mangrum, Kelli Morgan, Janet Neary, Adena Spingarn, Cheryl Spinner, Christine Yao Hardcover, 238 Pages, Published 2019 by Lexington Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7311-5, ISBN: 1-4985-7311-8 "Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are j ..." |
 | | A Companion to American Fiction 1780 - 1865(1st Edition) (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) by Shirley Samuels Hardcover, 488 Pages, Published 2004 by Wiley-Blackwell Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-631-23422-7, ISBN: 0-631-23422-5 "This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. * Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction * Relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity * Covers different forms of fiction, including ch ..." |
 | | Reading the Novel Reading the American Novel, 1780-1865 by Shirley Samuels 208 Pages, Published 2013 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-1-118-78631-4, ISBN: 1-118-78631-9 "way to read such fiction as a richly textured enterprise, one replete with satisfactions both literary and cultural. ... who explained in his preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1851): “When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need ... freed by the writer's imagination to engage with the “moonlight” Hawthorne found best to illuminate his fiction has not persisted in ... Susan B. Warner, widely renowned in her lifetime for t ..." |
 | | Facing America Iconography and the Civil War by Shirley Samuels, Klaus R. Scherer, Richard J. Davidson 200 Pages, Published 2004 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-535169-9, ISBN: 0-19-535169-X "Such an occlusion may be illustrated by Mark Twain's description of pulling Those Extraordinary Twins from Pudd'nhead Wilson, an act he calls a "literary Caesarean."1 Haunted by Twain's image, I want to trace the competing identities within the composite body of America as it moves toward an uncertain gestation. In his novel of a Civil War within, Twain's fantasy of a literary Caesarean both reveals and covers the centrality of mon ..." |
 | | Romances of the Republic(1st Edition) Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation by Shirley C. Samuels Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1996 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-507988-3, ISBN: 0-19-507988-4 "Romances of the Republic contributes to the lively field of scholarship on the interconnection of ideology and history in early American literature. Shirley Samuels illustrates the relations of sexual, political, and familial rhetoric in American writing from 1790 to the 1850s. With special focus on depictions of the American Revolution and on the use of the family as a model and instrument of political forces, she examines how the hist ..." |
 | | The Culture of Sentiment(1st Edition) Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th-Century America by Shirley C. Samuels Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 1992 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-506354-7, ISBN: 0-19-506354-6 "Samuels's collection of critical essays gives body and scope to the subject of nineteenth-century sentimentality by situating it in terms of "women's culture" and issues of race. Presenting an interdisciplinary range of approaches that consider sentimental culture before and after the Civil War, these critical studies of American literature and culture fundamentally reorient the field. Moving beyond alignment with either pro- or anti-se ..." |
 | | Literary Cultures of the Civil War by Timothy Sweet, Samuel Graber, Coleman Hutchison, Jillian Spivey Caddell, Jane Schultz, Faith Barrett, James Berkey, Shirley Samuels, Kathleen Diffley, Christopher Hager, Jeremy Wells, John Ernest Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5784-3, ISBN: 0-8203-5784-7 "Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism. The Civil War reshaped existing literary cultures or enabled new ones. Ensembles of discourses, conventions, and practices, ..." |
 | | Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 by Shirley Samuels Other Digital ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-5435-5, ISBN: 1-4443-5435-3 |
 | | Literary Cultures of the Civil War by Timothy Sweet, Samuel Graber, Coleman Hutchison, Jillian Spivey Caddell, Jane Schultz, Faith Barrett, James Berkey, Shirley Samuels, Kathleen Diffley, Christopher Hager, Jeremy Wells, John Ernest Digital, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4959-6, ISBN: 0-8203-4959-3 |
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