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The American Western
By: McVeigh, Stephen
Published by: Edinburgh University Press
This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film and the United States in the 20th century. Structured chronologically, the book traces the evolution of the Western as a uniquely American form. The author argues that America’s frontier past was quickly transformed into a set of symbols and myths, an American meta-narrative that came to underpin much of the ‘American century’. He details how and why this process occurred, the form and function of Western myths and symbols, the evolution of this mythology, and its subversions and reconstructions throughout 20th-century American history. The book engages with the full range of historical, literary and cinematic perspectives and texts, from the founding Western histories of Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner to the New Western history of Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard White.
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Price: $119.40
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American Wilderness
By: Lewis, Michael (ed.)
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA
Ch. 1. American Wilderness--An Introduction, Michael Lewis. Ch. 2. American Wilderness and First Contact, Melanie Perreault. Ch. 3. Religion "Irradiates" the Wilderness, Mark Stoll. Ch. 4. Farm Against Forest, Steven Stoll. Ch. 5. Natural History, Romanticism, and Thoreau, Bradley P. Dean. Ch. 6. The Fate of Wilderness in American Landscape Art: The Dilemmas of "Nature's Nation", Angela Miller. Ch. 7. Wilderness Parks and Their Discontents, Benjamin Johnson. Ch. 8. A Sylvan Prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Early Twentieth-Century Conservatism, Char Miller. Ch. 9. Gender and Wilderness Conservation, Kimberly A. Jarvis. Ch. 10. Putting Wilderness in Context: The Interwar Origins of the Modern Wilderness Idea, Paul Sutter. Ch. 11. Loving the Wild in Postwar America, Mark Harvey. Ch. 12. Wilderness and Conservation Science, Michael Lewis. Ch. 13. Creating Wild Places from Domesticated Landscapes: The Internationalization of the American Wilderness Concept, Christopher Conte. Ch. 14. The Politics of Modern Wilderness, James Morton Turner. Epilogue: Nature, Liberty, and Equality, Donald Worster. Recommended Readings
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Price: $80.00
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Anglophilia
By: Tamarkin, Elisa
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Anglophilia charts the phenomenon of the love of Britain that emerged after the Revolution and remains in the character of U.S. society and class, the style of academic life, and the idea of American intellectualism. But as Tamarkin shows, this Anglophilia was more than just an elite nostalgia; it was popular devotion that made reverence for British tradition instrumental to the psychological innovations of democracy. Anglophilia spoke to fantasies of cultural belonging, polite sociability, and, finally, deference itself as an affective practice within egalitarian politics. Tamarkin traces the wide-ranging effects of anglophilia on American literature, art and intellectual life in the early nineteenth century, as well as its influence in arguments against slavery, in the politics of Union, and in the dialectics of liberty and loyalty before the civil war. By working beyond narratives of British influence, Tamarkin highlights a more intricate culture of American response, one that included Whig elites, college students, radical democrats, urban immigrants, and African Americans. Ultimately, Anglophila argues that that the love of Britain was not simply a fetish or form of shame-a release from the burdens of American culture-but an anachronistic structure of attachement in which U.S. Identity was lived in other languages of national expression.
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Price: $35.00
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Antebellum Slave Narratives
By: Archer, Jermaine O.
Published by: Routledge
This book examines the slave narratives of key members of the abolitionist movement—Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs—revealing how these highly visible proponents of the antislavery cause were able to engage and at times overcome the cultural biases of their listening and reading audiences.
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Price: $95.00
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Anti-Apocalypse
By: Quinby, Lee
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Drawing on feminist and Foucauldian theory, Quinby offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that pervades American culture. Tracing the deployment of power through systems of alliance, sexuality, and technology, the author promotes a variety of critical stances—genealogical feminism, an ethics of the flesh, and “pissed criticism”—as challenges to apocalyptic claims for absolute truth and universal morality.
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Apostles of Modernity
By: Reynolds, Guy J
Published by: Bison Books
Apostles of Modernity offers an original, in-depth study of the literary manifestations of this period of globalism in novels, memoirs, essays, reportage, and political commentary. Through close readings of texts Reynolds revisits and reassesses U.S. internationalism, showing how writers and intellectuals engaged with a cluster of topics: decolonization, the rise of the Third World, Islamic difference, the end of European empires, China’s enduring significance, and transatlantic and cosmopolitan identities. Throughout, the ideals of the United States as "apostle of modernity" and sponsor of "development" feature as central to American letters in the decades after World War II.
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The Art of Fiction
By: Rand, Ayn
Published by: Plume
In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. The Art of Fiction offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known works, as well as those of other famous authors, such as Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, and Victor Hugo. An historic accomplishment, this compendium will be a unique and fascinating resource for both writers and readers of fiction.
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Asian North American Identities
By: Ty, Eleanor (ed.); Goellnicht, Donald C. (ed.)
Published by: Indiana University Press
The nine essays in this book investigate how Asian North American subjects have undergone significant transformations in recent years. They explore the alternative and inventive ways in which Asian North Americans imagine, articulate, and represent themselves as subjects in a wide variety of cultural forms, including novels, art, photography, poetry, and film.
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Price: $17.55
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