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The Cambridge introduction to American literary realism
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ISBN: 9780521897693 0521897696 9780521050104 0521050103 9781139021678 9781139160957 1139160958 9781139158909 1139158902 1139021672 1283340984 9781283340984 9781139157148 1139157140 1107226317 113915253X 9786613340986 113915995X 1139155393 9781107226319 6613340987 9781139155397 Year: 2011 Volume: *4 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist writers of the period include some of America's greatest, such as Henry James, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, but also many lesser-known writers whose work still speaks to us today, for instance Charles Chesnutt, Zitkala-Ša and Sarah Orne Jewett. Emphasizing realism's historical context, this introduction traces the genre's relationship with powerful, often violent, social conflicts involving race, gender, class and national origin. It also examines how the realist style was created; the necessarily ambiguous relationship between realism produced on the page and reality outside the book; and the different, often contradictory, forms 'realism' took in literary works by different authors. The most accessible yet sophisticated account of American literary realism currently available, this volume will be of great value to students, teachers and readers of the American novel"--

Novels from Reagan's America: a new realism
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ISBN: 0813017149 Year: 1999 Publisher: Gainesville, Fla University Press of Florida

Mark Twaine on the loose: a comic writer and the American self
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ISBN: 0870239678 0585083924 9780585083926 087023966X 9780870239670 9780870239663 1122054114 9781122054119 Year: 1995 Publisher: Amherst, Mass. University of Massachusetts Press

Fathering the nation : American genealogies of slavery and freedom
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ISBN: 0520089014 9780520089013 0585230544 Year: 1995 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Esclavage et slaves dans la littérature --- Freedom in literature --- Herinnering in de literatuur --- Liberty in literature --- Liberté politique dans la littérature --- Memory in literature --- Mémoire dans la littérature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Politieke vrijheid in de literatuur --- Slavernij en slaven in de literatuur --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- American literature --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- Slavery in literature --- Slavery --- Slaves --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Memory as a theme in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Historiography --- Emancipation&delete& --- United States --- Civilization. --- 19th century --- Civilization --- Emancipation --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Slavery in literature. --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Liberty in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- English --- American Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism. --- Historiography. --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Slavery. --- History.

The environmental imagination: Thoreau, nature writing, and the formation of American culture
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ISBN: 0674258622 0674258614 9780674258617 9780674258624 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press

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With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in "The Environmental Imagination," the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's "Walden" as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing so, he provides a major new understanding of Thoreau's achievement and, at the same time, a profound rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature. The green tradition in American writing commands Buell's special attention, particularly environmental nonfiction from colonial times to the present. In works by writers from Crevecoeur to Wendell Berry, John Muir to Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson to Leslie Silko, Mary Austin to Edward Abbey, he examines enduring environmental themes such as the dream of relinquishment, the personification of the nonhuman, an attentiveness to environmental cycles, a devotion to place, and a prophetic awareness of possible ecocatastrophe. At the center of this study we find an image of "Walden" as a quest for greater environmental awareness, an impetus and guide for Buell as he develops a new vision of environmental writing and seeks a new way of conceiving the relation between human imagination and environmental actuality in the age of industrialization. Intricate and challenging in its arguments, yet engagingly and elegantly written, "The EnvironmentalImagination" is a major work of scholarship, one that establishes a new basis for reading American nature writing.

Exotic Nations : Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930
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ISBN: 0801482054 1501726064 1501726056 0801428777 9781501726057 150172813X Year: 2018 Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil assimilated and subverted European images of an "exotic" New World to create new literatures that asserted cultural independence and defined national identity. Exotic Nations demonstrates that the language of exoticism thus became part of the New World's interpretation of its own history and natural environment.

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American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Caractéristiques nationales brésiliennes dans la littérature --- Exoticism in literature --- Exotisme dans la littérature --- Exotisme in de literatuur --- Indianen in de literatuur --- Indians in literature --- Indiens dans la litterature --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- National characteristics [Brazilian ] in literature --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- Volkskarakter [Braziliaans ] in de literatuur --- American literature --- Comparative literature --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- National characteristics, Brazilian, in literature. --- Literature and society --- Brazilian literature --- Exoticism in literature. --- Indians in literature. --- History and criticism. --- American and Brazilian. --- Brazilian and American. --- History. --- Brazilian influences. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Indians of Central America in literature --- Indians of Mexico in literature --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indians of South America in literature --- Indians of the West Indies in literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- United States --- History --- Literature [Comparative ] --- American and Brazilian --- Brazil --- Brazilian and American --- Literature, Comparative - American and Brazilian. --- Literature, Comparative - Brazilian and American. --- Brazilian literature - History and criticism. --- Literature and society - Brazil - History. --- Literature: history & criticism

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