[PDF] The Cambridge Introduction To Early American Literature eBook

Author : Emory Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521520416

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The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as well as providing a concise social and cultural history of these three centuries. Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict on early American culture, and explores the centrality of American Puritanism in the formation of a distinctively American literature. This highly engaging and comprehensive study will be essential reading for students of the literature, history and culture of early America.

Author : Bryce Traister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108889387

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This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature, including new world migration, indigenous encounters, religious and secular histories, and the emergence of American literary genres. This book guides readers through important conceptual and theoretical issues, while also grounding these issues in close readings of key literary texts from early America.

Author : Bryce Traister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108840043

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This book introduces readers to early American literary studies through original readings of key literary texts.

Author : Sarah Ensor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108841902

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Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.

Author : Joshua Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1108838278

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This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.

Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521585712

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Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature was originally published in 1997, and covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the work of a diverse assemblage of authors, from Renaissance explorers and Puritan theocrats to Revolutionary pamphleteers and poets and novelists of the new republic. Addressing those characteristics that render the texts distinctively American while placing the literature in an international perspective, the contributors offer a compelling new evaluation of both the literary importance of early American history and the historical value of early American literature.

Author : Travis M. Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110889609X

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The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a material encumbrance. Each of these different approaches brings with it a range of anthropological, political, theological, and psychological discourses that explore and construct identities and subject positions. This Companion examines connections between American literature and bodies from the eighteenth century through the present. It reveals the singular way that literature can help us understand the body's entanglement within social and biological influences, and it traces the body's existence within histories of race, gender, and ability. This volume details the genres, critical fields, and interpretive practices that best facilitate the analysis of bodies in the full span of American literary imaginings.

Author : Sharon Monteith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110743467X

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This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and iconic texts such as Gone with the Wind, chapters investigate how issues of class, poverty, sexuality and regional identity have textured Southern writing across generations. The volume's rich contextual approach highlights patterns and connections between writers while offering insight into the development of Southern literary criticism, making this Companion a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies and the history of storytelling in America.

Author : William Solomon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108429181

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Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.

Author : Steven Frye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107095379

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This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.