"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 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 ShirleySamuels 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ..."
"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 ShirleySamuels 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 ShirleySamuels 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 ..."