Download or read book An Oliver Optic Checklist written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985-09-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed listing of titles authored by William Taylor Adams under his own name, as well as under his various pseudonyms. It includes books, book-length serializations, and children's magazines edited by Adams. The main section lists the titles chronologically, providing information on the publisher, illustrators and engravers, and reprint publishers, in addition to story descriptions and review excerpts. Separate listings of series titles, series titles by reprint publishers, publisher names, and serial titles appearing in magazines or newspapers provide additional access to this material. The specialized appendixes include a directory of libraries and special collections throughout the United States with substantial holdings of Adams's work, a brief chronology of Adams and Lee & Shepard, and a listing of Adams's books that were not a part of any series. The secondary bibliography includes articles, books, and dissertations that contain biographical information on Adams, as well as commentary and criticism of his works. The illustrators and engravers index lists the titles in which each artist had creative input; the title index lists the titles and title variations of books, series, magazines, and serializations, and provides cross-references to pertinent entry numbers throughout the work.
Download or read book The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture written by Alice Fahs and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War retains a powerful hold on the American imagination, with each generation since 1865 reassessing its meaning and importance in American life. This volume collects twelve essays by leading Civil War scholars who demonstrate how the meanings of the Civil War have changed over time. The essays move among a variety of cultural and political arenas--from public monuments to parades to political campaigns; from soldiers' memoirs to textbook publishing to children's literature--in order to reveal important changes in how the memory of the Civil War has been employed in American life. Setting the politics of Civil War memory within a wide social and cultural landscape, this volume recovers not only the meanings of the war in various eras, but also the specific processes by which those meanings have been created. By recounting the battles over the memory of the war during the last 140 years, the contributors offer important insights about our identities as individuals and as a nation. Contributors: David W. Blight, Yale University Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina Alice Fahs, University of California, Irvine Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia J. Matthew Gallman, University of Florida Patrick J. Kelly, University of Texas, San Antonio Stuart McConnell, Pitzer College James M. McPherson, Princeton University Joan Waugh, University of California, Los Angeles LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri Jon Wiener, University of California, Irvine
Download or read book In the Company of Books written by Sarah Wadsworth and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in 19th century America, this book analyses the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Literature written by Manly, Inc. and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 4512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S.
Download or read book A Checklist of Horatio Alger Jr written by Morton Scott Enslin and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dime Novel Companion written by J Randolph Cox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales. An introduction provides a brief history of the dime novel. A discussion of dime novel scholarship includes a selected directory of libraries and museums with significant collections of dime novels. An appendix contains a publishing chronology of the more than 300 serial publications, and a selected bibliography suggests further reading. This comprehensive reference will appeal to popular culture scholars and to dime novel collectors. As an important research tool, entries are cross-referenced throughout. An index is included.
Download or read book Reading on the Middle Border written by Christine Pawley and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study of the uses of print in daily life
Download or read book Dime Novel Roundup written by Michael L. Cook and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes a chronological listing of issues of the Dime Novel Roundup, which was published for over fifty years. It also features an index to the contents of the Dime Novel Roundup. .
Download or read book The Imagined Civil War written by Alice Fahs and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related compositions, including poems, songs, children's stories, romances, novels, histories, and even humorous pieces. Fahs mines these rich but long-neglected resources to recover the diversity of the war's political and social meanings. Instead of narrowly portraying the Civil War as a clash between two great, white armies, popular literature offered a wide range of representations of the conflict and helped shape new modes of imagining the relationships of diverse individuals to the nation. Works that explored the war's devastating impact on white women's lives, for example, proclaimed the importance of their experiences on the home front, while popular writings that celebrated black manhood and heroism in the wake of emancipation helped readers begin to envision new roles for blacks in American life. Recovering a lost world of popular literature, The Imagined Civil War adds immeasurably to our understanding of American life and letters at a pivotal point in our history.
Download or read book Checklist of Children s Books 1837 1876 Special Collections Central Children s Department Free Library of Philadelphia 1975 written by Free Library of Philadelphia. Central Children's Department and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indexer written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture written by Gary Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planned nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.
Download or read book Mystery Fanfare written by Michael L. Cook and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.
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Download or read book Humor of the Old Southwest written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1989-11-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early part of the nineteenth century, the Southwestern frontier moved from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, through Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, to Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. Using a variety of styles and subjects, humorists in the frontier states of the Southwest wrote tall tales and humorous stories that made use of dialect and emphasized cruelty, violence, and depravity, in rebellion against the sentimental morality of conventional literature. Such tales flourished from 1835 through 1861 and helped buffer the pioneers during their everyday hardships. The humorists' stories, though exaggerated, were often rooted in the real characters and incidents of the frontier and as such serve as a social history of the period. Many of these stories were originally published in local newspapers and reprinted in William T. Porter's Spirit of the Times. Although the popularity of this type of humor died out with the beginning of the Civil War, its influences can be seen in the works of Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Thomas Wolfe. The bibliography lists works about Southwest humor in general and by and about nine major humorists including David Crockett, Joseph Glover Baldwin, George Washington Harris, Johnson Jones Hooper, Henry Clay Lewis, Augustus Baldwin Longstreeet, Charles Fenton Mercer Noland, William Tappan Thompson, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. These two main sections are supplemented by author and general subject indices. As the first book-length bibliography in this field, Humor of the Old Southwest will make a useful tool in academic libraries and will find a place in collections of folklore, American literature, and humor.
Download or read book Jerzy Kosinski written by Gloria L. Cronin and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1991-08-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary sources include editions of Kosinski's novels, recordings, nonfiction books, miscellaneous writings, and interviews; secondary sources include reference materials, books and monographs, biographical studies, dissertations, and criticism and reviews specific to particular works.
Download or read book Through the Pale Door written by Frederick S. Frank and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1990-05-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Pale Door is a bibliographical guide to the primary sources and central texts of American Gothic literature. It surveys and defines the Gothic achievements of approximately 200 American writers who were working in and were influenced by various modes of Gothicism from 1798 to 1982. The book collects, selects, identifies, and classifies all specimens of American Gothic literary activity from its initial expression at the end of the 18th century in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown, to the writings of the modern masters such as H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Joyce Carol Oates, and Stephen King. The historical introduction explains and emphasizes those special characteristics, tendencies, and directions taken by the shapers of an American Gothic tradition which made it different from the British model form. The core bibliography brings together 509 entries selected to suggest the development and variety of American Gothic endeavor in both its popular and more serious manifestations. Each item in the bibliography is analytic and critical as well as synoptic in its substance with each item assigned a single number for instantaneous referencing and cross-referencing. An appendix citing the important secondary studies of American Gothicism and three indexes, an author-and-title index and an index of critics and subjects, are provided to enhance the researcher's task and to give immediate access to all of the materials of Through the Pale Door. This book is suitable for any library and can be read in its entirety by general students as a bibliographical chronicle of the American Gothic movement.
