Slavery and Sacred Texts

Slavery and Sacred Texts
Author: Jordan T. Watkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2021-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 110847814X

An analysis of the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, using the debate over slavery as a case study.

Anglo-German and American-German Crosscurrents

Anglo-German and American-German Crosscurrents
Author: Arthur O. Lewis
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780819174741

This fourth volume continues a series emerging from the Penn State Project on Anglo-German and American-German Literary and Cultural Relations. All articles contained in the volume focus on the theme of the Project and reflect the wealth of scholarly resources to be found in the Allison-Shelley Collection, located in the Pattee Library of The Pennsylvania State University. Contents: Goethe in the American Annuals and Gift-Books, Philip Allison Shelley; John Quincy Adams and Alexander Hill Everett: Pathfinders of German Studies in America, Walter J. Morris; Alexander Hill Everett: Early Advocate of American Interest in German Literature and Culture, Kenneth B. Hunsaker and Maureen C. Devine; Henry Edwin Dwight: Evocator of American Interest in Germany, Kenneth B. Hunsaker; Thomas Medwin: Intermediary of German Literature and Culture, Heimy Taylor; The German Experience of William and Mary Howitt, William Stupp; James Lorimer Graham: Fosterer of American-German Literary Rela Andrew M. Kovalecs; Adolf Strodtmann's Letters to Bayard Taylor: A Further Fostering of German-American Relations, Edward J. Danis; Publications of Philip Allison Shelley, Edward J. Danis; Index

Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878

Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878
Author: Evan Robert Neely
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2024-05-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1040025803

Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion across the continent. Chapters analyze the ways in which “Nature” became a discursive site where theories of race and belonging, adaptation and environment, and the uses of literary and pictorial representation were being renegotiated, forming the basis for an ideal of the human and the nonhuman world that is still with us. Through an interdisciplinary approach involving the fields of visual culture, political economy, histories of racial identity, and ecocritical studies, the book examines the work of seminal figures in a variety of literary and artistic disciplines and puts the visual culture of the United States at the center of intellectual trends that have enormous implications for contemporary cultural practice. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, American studies, environmental studies/ecocriticism, critical race theory, and semiotics.

Romances of the Republic

Romances of the Republic
Author: Shirley Samuels
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 209
Release: 1996
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 0195079884

The politics of identity in the period of the early American republic involved the cultural production of a national self. In Romances of the Republic, Shirley Samuels examines revolutionary rhetoric from the 1790s through the 1850s primarily in novels, but also in poems, pamphlets, political cartoons, and sermons.