Search Results - Civilization

Southern women novelists and the Civil War : trauma and collective memory in the American literary tradition since 1861 / by Talley, Sharon, 1952-

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literature and the war.…”
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Southern women novelists and the Civil War : trauma and collective memory in the American literary tradition since 1861 / by Talley, Sharon, 1952-

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literature and the war.…”
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Touched with fire? two Philadelphia novelists remember the Civil War / by Gallman, J. Matthew (James Matthew)

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literature and the war.…”
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Touched with fire? two Philadelphia novelists remember the Civil War / by Gallman, J. Matthew (James Matthew)

“…United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literature and the war.…”
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Sacramental shopping : Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the spirit of modern consumerism / by Sherman, Sarah Way

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Sacramental shopping : Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the spirit of modern consumerism / by Sherman, Sarah Way

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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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Revolution and the word the rise of the novel in America / by Davidson, Cathy N., 1949-

“…United States Civilization 1783-1865.…”
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Revolution and the word the rise of the novel in America / by Davidson, Cathy N., 1949-

“…United States Civilization 1783-1865.…”
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Surface and depth the quest for legibility in American culture / by Gilmore, Michael T.

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Genre fission a new discourse practice for cultural studies / by Barr, Marleen S.

“…United States Civilization 20th century.…”
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Genre fission a new discourse practice for cultural studies / by Barr, Marleen S.

“…United States Civilization 20th century.…”
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Surface and depth the quest for legibility in American culture / by Gilmore, Michael T.

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The representation of the savage in James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville by Krauthammer, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Magua and Babo: the ignoble savage -- Natty and Tom: the white savage -- Chingachcook and Queequeg: the noble savage -- Civilization and the savage -- Nature and the savage.…”
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The representation of the savage in James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville by Krauthammer, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Magua and Babo: the ignoble savage -- Natty and Tom: the white savage -- Chingachcook and Queequeg: the noble savage -- Civilization and the savage -- Nature and the savage.…”
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A disturbing and alien memory southern novelists writing history / by Mitchell, Douglas L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history -- "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south -- "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history -- "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past -- "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past -- "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.…”
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A disturbing and alien memory southern novelists writing history / by Mitchell, Douglas L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history -- "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south -- "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history -- "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past -- "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past -- "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.…”
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Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America / by Breinig, Helmbrecht

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Alterity and identity : reflections on approaching the other -- Foundational narratives : some versions of Columbus -- Invasive methods : the opening of Latin America in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature -- Representations of the Mexican revolution in US literature -- Nature and civilization : nineteenth-century travelers and twentieth-century escapists -- Gendered perceptions of Latin America in twentieth-century US literature -- The post-Vietnam era : versions of realism -- The postmodern response : magical realism and metafiction -- Splintered foundations : postmodern and Native American versions of Columbus -- Canada and Latin America : Malcolm Lowry and the other as symbolic field -- Post-Vietnam and twenty-first-century Canadian visitors.…”
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Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America / by Breinig, Helmbrecht

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Alterity and identity : reflections on approaching the other -- Foundational narratives : some versions of Columbus -- Invasive methods : the opening of Latin America in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature -- Representations of the Mexican revolution in US literature -- Nature and civilization : nineteenth-century travelers and twentieth-century escapists -- Gendered perceptions of Latin America in twentieth-century US literature -- The post-Vietnam era : versions of realism -- The postmodern response : magical realism and metafiction -- Splintered foundations : postmodern and Native American versions of Columbus -- Canada and Latin America : Malcolm Lowry and the other as symbolic field -- Post-Vietnam and twenty-first-century Canadian visitors.…”
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