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Four Centuries of Literature, English and American
Author | : Allan Ferguson Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Literature and Nature
Author | : Bridget Keegan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1250 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Literature and Nature exposes students to the tremendous diversity of literacy responses to the physical environment. The selections cover four centuries of the best nature writing produced in Britain and America from the Renaissance through the twentieth century. The book includes contributions by writers from all walks of life - men and women of different races, classes and nationalities, each of whom adds a unique perspective to our understanding of the literary representation of the natural world. Contents include a variety of literary forms, including poems, short stories, non-fiction essays, travel narratives, and excerpts from novels. These varied selections reveal how concern for the environment cuts across differences of gender, social class, education, religion, race, and ethnicity. Literature and Nature provides a wide range of texts, from both well-known and less-familiar writers, and it offers students a broad base of knowledge from which to reflect and respond.
American Work
Author | : Jacqueline Jones |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780393318333 |
"[Jones's] painstakingly researched volume is an invaluable antidote to those who argue that our shameful past has no relevance to our perplexing present." --David Kusnet, Baltimore Sun
Four Centuries of Literature, English and American, American, Selected and Edited by Allan Westcott, Charles Lee Lewis and Carl Jefferson Weber
Author | : Allan Ferguson Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Cradle of America
Author | : Peter Wallenstein |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700619941 |
As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the nation’s early years, Virginia can rightfully be called the “cradle of America.” Peter Wallenstein traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the Old Dominion. The second edition is updated with new material throughout, including a new chapter on Virginia and world affairs from the Korean War through 9/11 and beyond, and, an expanded bibliography. Historical accounts of Virginia have often emphasized harmony and tradition, but Wallenstein focuses on the impact of conflict and change. From the beginning, Virginians have debated and challenged each other’s visions of Virginia, and Wallenstein shows how these differences have influenced its sometimes turbulent development. Casting an eye on blacks as well as whites, and on people from both east and west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he traces such key themes as political power, racial identity, and education. Bringing to bear his long experience teaching Virginia history, Wallenstein takes readers back, even before Jamestown, to the Elizabethan settlers at Roanoke Island and the inhabitants they encountered, as well as to Virginia’s leaders of the American Revolution. He chronicles the state’s dramatic journey through the Civil War era, a time that revealed how the nation’s evolution sometimes took shape in opposition to the vision of many leading Virginians. He also examines the impact of the civil rights movement and considers controversies that accompany Virginia into its fifth century. The text is copiously illustrated to depict not only such iconic figures as Pocahontas, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee, but also such other prominent native Virginians as Carter G. Woodson, Patsy Cline, and L. Douglas Wilder. Sidebars throughout the book offer further insight, while maps and appendixes of reference data make the volume a complete resource on Virginia’s history.
First Four Centuries in American Literature
Author | : Robert Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781947778153 |
A collection of public domain texts with introductory notes and study questions
The Outlines of Literature, English and American
Author | : Truman Jay Backus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Albion's Seed
Author | : David Hackett Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 981 |
Release | : 1991-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019974369X |
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Norfolk
Author | : Thomas C. Parramore |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2000-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813919881 |
This is a history of Norfolk from the time of the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a native American Chiskiack in 1561, to the city's late 20th-century concerns, including pollution of Chesapeake Bay, urban development, traffic in illegal guns, and racial tensions.