Search Results - Americans

Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

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American Iron, 1607-1900 / by Gordon, Robert B. (Robert Boyd), 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Ore, Fuel, and Other Natural Resources -- 3. The Rise of American Iron, 1720-1860 -- 4. Smelting with Charcoal -- 5. …”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

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American Iron, 1607-1900 / by Gordon, Robert B. (Robert Boyd), 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Ore, Fuel, and Other Natural Resources -- 3. The Rise of American Iron, 1720-1860 -- 4. Smelting with Charcoal -- 5. …”
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Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 : A Study in Social Values by Davis, David Brion

Subjects: “…Didactic fiction, American History and criticism. nli…”
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Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 : A Study in Social Values by Davis, David Brion

Subjects: “…Didactic fiction, American History and criticism. nli…”
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Rhetorics of Literacy : The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry / by Nurhussein, Nadia, 1974-

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Seeing Red : Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians / by Carpenter, Cari M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : anger, sentimentality, and American Indians -- Playing angry : S. Alice Callahan's Wynema -- "A woman to let alone" : E. …”
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Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing / by Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt, 1971-

Subjects: “…Travelers' writings, American. fast (OCoLC)fst01155721…”
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Muse in the Machine : American Fiction and Mass Publicity / by Conroy, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical and historical prologue -- Ghosts and muses: Henry James -- Machine age and beyond: from West to DeLillo -- Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Promise and prophecy: the artist's vision in The day of the locust -- Quilty the guilty: scapegoating mass culture in Lolita -- The American way and its double in Lot 49 -- From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise -- Mao II: a portrait of the artist in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Concluding unsystematic speculation: within the crisis of no crisis.…”
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Literary Transcendentalism : Style and Vision in the American Renaissance by Buell, Lawrence

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Washington Irving : An American Study, 1802-1832 / by Hedges, William L.

Table of Contents: “…Hedges is particularly concerned with the way in which Irving adapted conventional literary techniques and attitudes to the new conditions of American life"--From publisher description.…”
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America's Bachelor Uncle : Thoreau and the American Polity / by Taylor, Bob Pepperman

Subjects: “…National characteristics, American, in literature.…”
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Rhetorics of Literacy : The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry / by Nurhussein, Nadia, 1974-

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Seeing Red : Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians / by Carpenter, Cari M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : anger, sentimentality, and American Indians -- Playing angry : S. Alice Callahan's Wynema -- "A woman to let alone" : E. …”
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Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing / by Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt, 1971-

Subjects: “…Travelers' writings, American. fast (OCoLC)fst01155721…”
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Muse in the Machine : American Fiction and Mass Publicity / by Conroy, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical and historical prologue -- Ghosts and muses: Henry James -- Machine age and beyond: from West to DeLillo -- Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Promise and prophecy: the artist's vision in The day of the locust -- Quilty the guilty: scapegoating mass culture in Lolita -- The American way and its double in Lot 49 -- From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise -- Mao II: a portrait of the artist in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Concluding unsystematic speculation: within the crisis of no crisis.…”
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Literary Transcendentalism : Style and Vision in the American Renaissance by Buell, Lawrence

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Washington Irving : An American Study, 1802-1832 / by Hedges, William L.

Table of Contents: “…Hedges is particularly concerned with the way in which Irving adapted conventional literary techniques and attitudes to the new conditions of American life"--From publisher description.…”
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America's Bachelor Uncle : Thoreau and the American Polity / by Taylor, Bob Pepperman

Subjects: “…National characteristics, American, in literature.…”
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