I hadn't but the absorbing descriptions of their compositions over two centuries convinced me of a long-harbored suspicion: Our behavior, confusion, and debate about topics like sex, infidelity, race, equality on all planes or the lack of it, morality, metaphysical considerations, ad infinitum ain't changed much in the last two or three hundred years.
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Too it will be interesting to some how many of these authors were 1) motivated to write what they did; 2) were women and minorities; and 3) were every bit as popular in their day as those named above.
Good title but very little of interest for the jacket to wrap around. You will find here some novelists you've never heard of alongside old friends such as Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville. Please try again Fast, FREE delivery, video streaming, music, and much more Prime members enjoy Free Two-Day Shipping, Free Same-Day or One-Day Delivery to select areas, Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Reading, and more. I regret that this scholarly study of popular but unsung, non-canonical novels was not available in my time. Please try again. .
a nimble synthesis of a vital period in literary history, tracing our homegrown novel's evolution from morality tale to self-aware interiority, traversing and incorporating the countless currents of regionalism, faith, urbanization, and exploration that swept across the nation's early decades.” ―“Certain to become a new classic . After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you. Unable to add item to Wish List. Up to 90% off Textbooks at Amazon Canada. Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West Gura is bright, but writes for himself.
Gura has done us a service by reexamining the now unread authors.
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If you think that academics now only write for each other, this book will come as a revelation . Gura has done us a service by reexamining the now unread authors.
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By assimilating recent rediscoveries of Afro-American and women's fictions--and adding new insights and new titles of his own--Philip F. Gura has given us the only comprehensive study of the tumultuous, ever-growing marketplace of the early American novel. Gura is bright, but writes for himself.
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I doubt that many have never heard of these individuals. Please try again. Try Prime EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Orders Try Prime Cart. a must read for the serious book lover who wishes to understand how the novel became so manifestly American, to understand how strikingly American thought evolved and created a form widely divergent from its European origins . this book creatively revives the age of ecstatic religion, the steam locomotive, and the daguerreotype. . From novels about seduction to personality disorders. It shows that many of the themes of current novels where explored in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A grand achievement.” ―“Updated literary history at its very best. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Select your address I ENJOYED THIS BOOK and if you tackle it, I hope you do, too. a masterful examination of the origins of the distinctive American novel . The culture's demands for order, its dominant moral code, suppressed individuality. .
A book for the reader of history no less than the reader of fiction, No Kindle device required. From the acclaimed cultural historian Philip F. Gura comes No Kindle device required. . Good title but very little of interest for the jacket to wrap around. Mediocre novels have much to tell us about American culture