Search Results - "Herman Melville"

Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / by Jones, Paul C., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…N. Southworth -- Herman Melville's Billy Budd: The legacy of antebellum anti-gallows literature.…”
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Calvinist humor in American literature by Dunne, Michael, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Calvinist humor -- Calvinist humor and the American puritans: "the just hand of God" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: "that would be a jest indeed" -- Herman Melville: "in no world but a fallen one" -- Mark Twain: "the trouble about special providences" -- William Faulkner: "waiting for the part to begin which he would not like" -- Ernest Hemingway: "isn't it pretty to think so?" …”
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Calvinist humor in American literature by Dunne, Michael, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Calvinist humor -- Calvinist humor and the American puritans: "the just hand of God" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: "that would be a jest indeed" -- Herman Melville: "in no world but a fallen one" -- Mark Twain: "the trouble about special providences" -- William Faulkner: "waiting for the part to begin which he would not like" -- Ernest Hemingway: "isn't it pretty to think so?" …”
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Where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog on writers and writing / by Rubin, Louis Decimus, 1923-

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Where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog on writers and writing / by Rubin, Louis Decimus, 1923-

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New territories, new perspectives the religious impact of the Louisiana Purchase /

Table of Contents: “…Zogry -- Crossroads, the cosmos, and jazz in the heartland : Oklahoma City's deep deuce and Kansas City's Vine Street / by Douglas Henry Daniels -- The shifting nature of reform envisioned on the Mississippi Steamer : exchanges, masks, and charities in Herman Melville's the confidence-man / by Carole Lynn Stewart -- Mixed-race ecstasy across a single line : the deep south roots of Pentecostal tongue speaking / by Elaine J. …”
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New territories, new perspectives the religious impact of the Louisiana Purchase /

Table of Contents: “…Zogry -- Crossroads, the cosmos, and jazz in the heartland : Oklahoma City's deep deuce and Kansas City's Vine Street / by Douglas Henry Daniels -- The shifting nature of reform envisioned on the Mississippi Steamer : exchanges, masks, and charities in Herman Melville's the confidence-man / by Carole Lynn Stewart -- Mixed-race ecstasy across a single line : the deep south roots of Pentecostal tongue speaking / by Elaine J. …”
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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

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Mapping region in early American writing /

Table of Contents: “…Thomas -- Captive in Mexico : Zebulon Pike and the new American regionalism / Andy Doolen -- On the Hudson River line : postrevolutionary regionalism, neo-Tory sympathy, and "A lady of the State of New York" / Duncan Faherty -- "I was now living in a new world" : Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and New Bedford's cosmopolitan locality / Jennifer Schell -- Section 3. …”
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Mapping region in early American writing /

Table of Contents: “…Thomas -- Captive in Mexico : Zebulon Pike and the new American regionalism / Andy Doolen -- On the Hudson River line : postrevolutionary regionalism, neo-Tory sympathy, and "A lady of the State of New York" / Duncan Faherty -- "I was now living in a new world" : Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and New Bedford's cosmopolitan locality / Jennifer Schell -- Section 3. …”
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The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

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The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

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Masquerade : Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II /

Table of Contents: “…Hawaii -- Native America -- Cowboy -- Voodoo -- Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1883) -- Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) -- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- George Henry Boker (1823-1890) -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) -- Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903) -- Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) -- Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) -- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868) -- Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) -- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) -- We'Wha (1849-1896) -- Edgar Saltus (1855-1921) -- Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929) -- Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) -- George Santayana (1863-1952) -- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) -- Hasteen Klah (1867-1937) -- Jessie B. …”
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Masquerade : Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II /

Table of Contents: “…Hawaii -- Native America -- Cowboy -- Voodoo -- Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1883) -- Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) -- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- George Henry Boker (1823-1890) -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) -- Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903) -- Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) -- Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) -- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868) -- Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) -- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) -- We'Wha (1849-1896) -- Edgar Saltus (1855-1921) -- Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929) -- Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) -- George Santayana (1863-1952) -- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) -- Hasteen Klah (1867-1937) -- Jessie B. …”
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