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The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 32.00A collaborative project assembled by scholars who have played crucial roles in the recent explosion of Twain criticism, this guide offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. Accessible enough to interest both experienced specialists and students new to Twain criticism, the essays examine Twain... more...
Literary Culture and U.S Imperialism
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 49.99Rowe offers a sweeping re-assessment of American imperialism, arguing that the growing nation was driven primarily by a quest for marketers, rather than for land. more...
A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 34.99Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was the acknowledged leader of the Transcendentalist movement. His poetic legacy, education ideals, and religious concepts are integral to the formation of American intellectual life. This work discusses biographical details of Emerson's life as well as women's rights, slavery, transcendentalism, and religion. more...
The Word in Black and White
Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 59.99This study aims to describe the ways in which white American authors constructed "race" in their work from the time of the first colonists up to the period of the Civil War. The book focuses on a number of texts that deal with the relations among Indians, blacks and whites. more...
Emerson and the Art of the Diary
Oxford University Press 1988; US$ 110.99An extended literary description and analysis of Emerson's journals, which argues that these works constitute one of the greatest commentaries on 19th century America, realizing Emerson's standards of literary excellence more fully than his other writings. more...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
University of Minnesota Press 1965; US$ 36.00Ralph Waldo Emerson - American Writers 41 was first published in 1964. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...
Hamlin Garland
University of Nebraska Press 2008; US$ 40.00The first and only other biography of Hamlin Garland was published more than forty years ago; since then, letters, manuscripts, and family memoirs have surfaced to provide, along with changing literary scholarship, a more evaluative and critical interpretation of Garlands life and times. Hamlin Garland: A Life is an exploration of Garlands... more...
Emerson's Essays: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Infobase Publishing 2006; US$ 54.00Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed Ralph Waldo Emerson?s lecture ?The American Scholar? was an intellectual Declaration of Independence. Indeed, Emerson was at the center of the American Renaissance and Transcendentalist philosophy. Collectively, his essays and lectures gave shape to nearly all that followed in American literature. Emerson?s Essays presents... more...
Revolutionary Women
PM Press 2010; US$ 11.00Both a radical feminist history and a street art resource, this handbook combines short biographies with striking and usable stencil images of 30 female activists, anarchists, feminists, freedom fighters, and visionaries. From Harriet Tubman, Emma Goldman, and Angela Davis to Vandana Shiva, Sylvia Rivera, and Lucy Parsons, this collection offers a... more...
The American Epic
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 34.00McWilliams shows how and why the epic had to be transformed from imitative narrative poetry into new, open genres. more...









