Linda; Or, The Young Pilot of the Belle Creole
Author : Caroline Lee Hentz
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Creoles
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Author : Caroline Lee Hentz
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Creoles
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Author : Elizabeth Moss
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 1992
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ISBN : 9780807141243
Author : Alice King Hamilton
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 1881
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Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 1883
Category : American literature
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Author : Hannah Mary Bouvier Peterson
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Cooking
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Originally published: Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1866.
Author : Johanna Nicol Shields
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107013372
Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study views that tragic reality through the lens of eight authors - representatives of a South that seemed, to them, destined for greatness but was, we know, on the brink of destruction. Exceptionally able and ambitious, these men and women won repute among the educated middle classes in the Southwest, South and the nation, even amid sectional tensions. Although they sometimes described liberty in the abstract, more often these authors discussed its practical significance: what it meant for people to make life's important choices freely and to be responsible for the results. They publicly insisted that freedom caused progress, but hidden doubts clouded this optimistic vision. Ultimately, their association with the oppression of slavery dimmed their hopes for human improvement, and fear distorted their responses to the sectional crisis.
Author : J. Gerald Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0190491280
After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized narratives of the nation and U.S. social reality lay a grotesque discontinuity: vehement conflicts over slavery, Indian removal, immigration, and territorial expansion divided the country. Authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child wrestled uneasily with the imperative to revise history to produce national fable. Counter-narratives by fugitive slaves, Native Americans, and defiant women subverted literary nationalism by exposing the plight of the unfree and dispossessed. And with them all, Edgar Allan Poe openly mocked literary nationalism and deplored the celebration of "stupid" books appealing to provincial self-congratulation. More than any other author, he personifies the contrary, alien perspective that discerns the weird operations at work behind the facade of American nation-building.
Author : Thomas P. May
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 1879
Category : United States
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Author : Gabrielle De St. Andre
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 1878
Category : France
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Author : Henry Gréville
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Musical fiction
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