Download or read book New Essays on The Last of the Mohicans written by H. Daniel Peck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tracks critical responses to the The Last of the Mohicans from the time of its publication in 1826 to the present day.
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Download or read book New Essays on Walden written by Robert F. Sayre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of Thoreau's classic contains a short biography of the author, an account of the writing of Walden, and a summary of other critical views.
Download or read book New Essays on The House of Mirth written by Deborah Esch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, first published in 2001, makes distinctive claims for the historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's breakthrough work.
Download or read book New Essays on A Farewell to Arms written by Scott Donaldson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book James Fenimore Cooper written by Signe O. Wegener and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although often overlooked today, James Fenimore Cooper's novels represent the very beginnings of American literature. Singlehandedly, the gentleman farmer from upstate New York created the American historical, spy, sea, frontier, science fiction, and courtroom novels. His books became both national and international bestsellers, were quickly translated into other languages, and impacted the development of the American publishing industry. This literary companion is a useful resource covering the major themes, characters, settings and more found in Cooper's works. It includes an overview of his fiction; a brief biography; a chronological list of his major publications; and topics for discussion, research, and study.
Download or read book Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing written by Nancy Armstrong and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades after U.S. independence, American novelists carried on an argument that pitted direct democracy against the representative liberalism they attributed to their British counterparts. The result was an American novel distinguished by its use of narrative tropes that generated a social system resembling today's distributed network.
Download or read book Indians Environment and Identity on the Borders of American Literature written by L. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only collapsing cultural and racial boundaries, but also complicating divisions between 'wilderness' and 'civilization.'
Download or read book Exotic Nations written by Renata Wasserman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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