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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 ..."






Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States
(Paperback)
by Shirley Samuels, Kirsten Pai Buick, Irene Cheng, Martha J. Cutter, Brigitte Fielder
Paperback, Published 2023 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7313-9, ISBN: 1-4985-7313-4

"Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are juxtaposed with literary practices involving some of the most prominent writers about race and identity, such as Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well ..."






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, ..."






Samson Occom and the Brotherton Indians
by Charles Molesworth, Ivy Schweitzer, Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Reiner Smolinski, Brett Candlish Millier, Robert Dale Parker, Dennis Berthold, Catherine Rainwater, Daniel Quentin Miller, William Q. Boelhower, James A. Schiff, David S. Reynolds, Lara Elizabeth Vetter, Henry B. Wonham, Richard Kopley, Jackson R. Bryer, Linda Wagner-Martin, Shirley Samuels, Kirk Curnutt, Catherine Calloway, Jane Kuenz, Bonnie Hurd Smith, Wendy Martin, Carolyn L. Karcher, David Read, Michael Everett Nowlin, Paul Crumbley, Joe B. Fulton, Gary Scharnhorst, Kenneth P. Minkema, Panthea Reid, William John Rossi, Kinohi Nishikawa
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-982725-1, ISBN: 0-19-982725-7






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






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 ..."






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 ..."






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 ..."






The Wadsworth Anthology of American Literature, Volume II(1st Edition)
by Jay Parini, Shirley Samuels
Paperback, 1,664 Pages, Published 2012 by Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN-13: 978-1-4130-1840-0, ISBN: 1-4130-1840-8

"Book by Jay Parini"






A Companion to American Fiction 1780-1865
by Shirley Samuels, Warren J. Samuels, Jeff Biddle, John Bryan Davis
Other Digital, 470 Pages, Published 2008 by Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-6511-2, ISBN: 1-4051-6511-1

"The volume features contributions from over 35 leading international critics and scholars, who offer a cultural and historical context that serves to illuminate the fiction."






The Wadsworth Anthology of American Literature Vol.2 1800-1865
by Shirley Samuels
Paperback, Published 2008 by Thomson Wadsworth
ISBN-13: 978-1-4282-3062-0, ISBN: 1-4282-3062-9






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 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 ..."






Reading the American Novel 1780-1865
by Shirley Samuels
Hardcover, Published 2008 by Blackwell Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-631-23288-9, ISBN: 0-631-23288-5






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 ..."






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 ..."






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 ..."






Facing America
Iconography and the Civil War
by Shirley Samuels
200 Pages, Published 2004 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-028455-8, ISBN: 0-19-028455-2

"For authors as manically prolific as E. D. E. N. Southworth, who profitably spent almost fifty of her eighty years publishing fiction, new novels may be ... The Hidden Hand, or Capitola the Madcap has crossed over into the canon via a paperback edition for classroom use; The Hidden Hand, ... This work has led her to a series of other fictional works with crossdressing women, work she has kindly shared with me. ... I am thinking of ..."






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 ..."



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