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History of the voyage and shipwreck of the U.S. steamer "Jeannette," in the Polar seas, together with a full account of the death of Lieutenant De Long, and the rescue of Danenhower, Melville, and their heroic companions. [by H. L. Williams].

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Natural History of the Cetaceans and Other Marine Mammals of the Western Coast of North America by Charles Melville Scammon (Paperback)

Charles Melville Scammon

This classic text is a beautifully written and illustrated guide to the cetaceans and other marine mammals of the western coast of North America. With historical insights into the American whale...

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A Journal, of a Young man of Massachusetts, Late a Surgeon on Board an American Privateer, who was Captured at sea by the British ... and was Confined First, at Melville Island, Halifax, Then at Chatham, in England, and Last, at Dartmoor Prison. Int

Benjamin Waterhouse

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...

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American Time Bomb

Joshua Melville

Few stories are more central to understanding our history of racially biased incarceration and violent social activism than the life of Sam MelvilleSam Melville was both reviled and admired as one of...

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Democratic Humanism and American Literature

Harold Kaplan

Democratic Humanism and American Literature illustrates the interplay between democratic assumptions and literary performance in the America's classic nineteenth-century writers--Emerson, Thoreau,...

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The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876

Brian Yothers

This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century...

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The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

Challenging the widely held assumption that gothic literature is mainly about fear, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and gothic literature in general, is also about judgment...

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All the Devils Are Here : American Romanticism and Literary Influence by David Greven (Paperback)

David Greven

The English literary influence on classic American novelists' depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to...

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Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature

David Greven

Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire before the Civil War, David Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ’gender protest’...

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Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America

Paul C. Gutjahr

Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States. Many of the...

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Recasting American and Persian Literatures

Amirhossein Vafa

Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of...

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Three American Poets

William Spengemann

In Three American Poets, William C. Spengemann describes the very different sorts of poetry Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville wrote, their comparable reasons for writing as they did, and the...

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Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature

Larry J. Reynolds

Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson,...

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Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature

Larry J. Reynolds

Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson,...

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Origins of the American Short Story

Wolfgang Hochbruck

Origins of the American Short Story is an anthology of prose texts that first appeared in various American magazines in the latter half of the 18th century. These magazines, most of them short lived,...

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Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant,...

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American Criticism on American Literature

John H Gourlie Mercan... Sherman Gould

This anthology collects a series of critical essays on American literature, written by some of the leading literary voices of the 19th century. The book includes essays on major figures such as...

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Intertextual Transactions in American and Irish Fictions

Janusz Semrau

This volume is a posthumous revised edition of selected papers by Andrzej Kopcewicz on intertextual transactions in classic works of American and Irish fiction, published originally between 1992 and...

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Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture

Ana Manzanas

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to clarify the...

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Camera and the Press

Marcy J Dinius

Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The...

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American Foreign Trade; the United States as a World Power in the new era of International Commerce

Charles Melville Pepper

Charles Melville Pepper's comprehensive study of American foreign trade provides a detailed analysis of the United States' role in international commerce. From trade agreements to tariffs, Pepper...

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American Literature in Context

Brian Harding

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1830 to 1865, this...

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Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature

Joseph Fichtelberg

This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and...

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Africanisms in American Culture, Second Edition

Joseph E. Holloway

An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed originally by Melville J. Herskovits, the father of...

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Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic

Wanlin Li

As part of a larger attempt to understand the dynamic interactions between gothic form and ideology, this volume focuses on a strong formal feature of the American gothic, "global ambiguity," and...

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American Foreign Trade; the United States as a World Power in the new era of International Commerce

Charles Melville Pepper

Charles Melville Pepper's comprehensive study of American foreign trade provides a detailed analysis of the United States' role in international commerce. From trade agreements to tariffs, Pepper...

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Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America

The increased demand for salable entertainment, for pleasing an expanded and unknown audience in its moments of leisure, fostered a new consciousness of authorship as a commercial and professional...

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Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics

Betina Entzminger

The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that...

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First Editions Of American Authors

Herbert Stuart Stone

First Editions of American Authors: A Manual for Book Lovers is a book written by Herbert Stuart Stone and originally published in 1893. The book is a comprehensive guide for book collectors and...

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Studies in Classic American Literature (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

D. H. Lawrence

In Studies in American Literature, D. H. Lawrence's brilliance as both a writer and a critic shimmers with energy and originality. His thought-provoking look at canonized American literature is a...

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American Terror

Paul Hurh

If America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? American Terror returns to the question of American literature's...

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Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature

Gesa Mackenthun

This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by...

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The Fabrication of American Literature

Lara Langer Cohen

Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided...

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Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature by Patrick McDonald (Hardcover)

Patrick McDonald

The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction from sentimental novels to sensational drama identifies...

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Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence

Martin Holtz

This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural expressions, ranging from a notion of disablement, expressed in...

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Stranger America

Josh Toth

Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America's democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early...

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The Turn Around Religion in America

Michael P. Kramer

Playing on the frequently used metaphors of the 'turn toward' or 'turn back' in scholarship on religion, The Turn Around Religion in America offers a model of religion that moves in a reciprocal...

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Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination

Farrell O'Gorman

In Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the...

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Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature

Lydia G Fash

Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"--Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Melville's Moby-Dick and Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin...

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America's Indomitable Character Volume IV

Frederick William Dame

Volume IV of America's Indomitable Character contains information on:A synopsis of Volume III.Philosophical and intellectual streams of thought as they came from Old Europe and connected with the...

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History Of The Adventurous Voyage And Terrible Shipwreck Of The U.S. Steamer Jeannette, In The Polar Seas (1882)

Henry Llewellyn Williams

History Of The Adventurous Voyage And Terrible Shipwreck Of The U.S. Steamer Jeannette, In The Polar Seas is a book written by Henry Llewellyn Williams in 1882. The book tells the story of the U.S...

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Reimagining the American Pacific

Rob Wilson

In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the "Pacific Rim" in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai'i, the Pacific...

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Capital Stories By American Authors (1895)

Mark Twain

Capital Stories By American Authors is a collection of short stories written by some of the most prominent American writers of the late 19th century. The book was edited by Mark Twain and includes...

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Constituting Americans

Priscilla Wald

Ever since the founders drafted undefined#34;We the People,undefined#34; undefined#34;weundefined#34; have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely...

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American Adolescence

Christopher Göhn

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: American Literature thematizing...

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Antipodean America

Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British colonies...

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An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887

Kevin J. Hayes

In 1887 a twenty-one-year-old newspaperman named George Nellis (1865-1948) rode a bicycle from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco in seventy-two days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record...

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Observations of America and My Ancestral Past

Richard Sinay

In 2014, I traveled around the country to inform my first cousins about the new information I had researched about our grandfather on ancestry.com. A secondary purpose of the trip was to cross off...

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