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Author | : Keri Holt |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820354538 |
Reading These United States explores the relationship between early American literature and federalism in the early decades of the republic. As a federal republic, the United States constituted an unusual model of national unity, defined by the representation of its variety rather than its similarities. Taking the federal structure of the nation as a foundational point, Keri Holt examines how popular print--including almanacs, magazines, satires, novels, and captivity narratives--encouraged citizens to recognize and accept the United States as a union of differences. Challenging the prevailing view that early American print culture drew citizens together by establishing common bonds of language, sentiment, and experience, she argues that early American literature helped define the nation, paradoxically, by drawing citizens apart--foregrounding, rather than transcending, the regional, social, and political differences that have long been assumed to separate them. The book offers a new approach for studying print nationalism that transforms existing arguments about the political and cultural function of print in the early United States, while also offering a provocative model for revising the concept of the nation itself. Holt also breaks new ground by incorporating an analysis of literature into studies of federalism and connects the literary politics of the early republic with antebellum literary politics--a bridge scholars often struggle to cross.
Author | : Thomas Augst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Tracing the evolution of the library as a modern institution from the late eighteenth century to the digital era, this book explores the diverse practices by which Americans have shared reading matter for instruction, edification, and pleasure. Writing from a rich variety of perspectives, the contributors raise important questions about the material forms and social shapes of American culture. What is a library? How have libraries fostered communities of readers and influenced the practice of reading in particular communities? How did the development of modern libraries alter the boundaries of individual and social experience, and define new kinds of public culture? To what extent have libraries served as commercial enterprises, as centers of power, and as places of empowerment for African Americans, women, and ...
Author | : Reader's Digest |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780895778550 |
The American spirit is alive and well in this collection of heartwarming, often hilarious anecdotes about life in big cities, small towns, and hidden hamlets from coast to coast. Selected from thousands of contributions submitted to Reader's Digest each year, these delightful glimpses of our national preoccupations, regional points of pride, and down-home wisdom capture the idiosyncracies, interests, and ideals of ordinary people. 200+ color illustrations.
Author | : John D. Post |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Readers |
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Author | : Diane Ravitch |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 655 |
Release | : 2010-12-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 006203510X |
The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character.
Author | : John J. Anderson |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2023-05-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3382196581 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literacy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Jacob Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Readers |
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Author | : Linda Egan |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2009-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826516408 |
"A provocative and uncommon reversal of perspective."--Elena Poniatowska.
Author | : Marcius Willson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Indiana |
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