Download or read book An American Icon written by Winifred Morgan and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The top hat and stars and stripes that characterize Uncle Sam today were first worn by Yankee actors portraying Brother Jonathan. This book explores the complex emblematic function of the Brother Jonathan figure and its changing meaning through the decades and in a multitude of popular media.

Download or read book A List of New York Almanacs 1694 1850 written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr George Brinley written by George Brinley and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the American library of George Brinley by J H Trumbull Special ed written by James Hammond Trumbull and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr George Brinley of Hartford Conn written by George Brinley and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .

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Download or read book Transcendental Wordplay written by Michael West and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, America was captivated by a muddled notion of "etymology." New England Transcendentalism was only one outcropping of a nationwide movement in which schoolmasters across small-town America taught students the roots of words in ways that dramatized religious issues and sparked wordplay. Shaped by this ferment, our major romantic authors shared the sensibility that Friedrich Schlegel linked to punning and christened "romantic irony." Notable punsters or etymologists all, they gleefully set up as sages, creating jocular masterpieces from their zest for oracular wordplay. Their search for a primal language lurking beneath all natural languages provided them with something like a secret language that encodes their meanings. To fathom their essentially comic masterpieces we must decipher it. Interpreting Thoreau as an ironic moralist, satirist, and social critic rather than a nature-loving mystic, Transcendental Wordplay suggests that the major American Romantics shared a surprising conservatism. In this award-winning study, Professor West rescues the pun from critical contempt and allows readers to enjoy it as a serious form of American humor.

Download or read book Almanacs of the United States written by Milton Drake and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Beneath the American Renaissance written by David S. Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.

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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.