Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works.
Irwin , John T. American Hieroglyphics : The Symbol of the Egyprian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1980 . Jennings , Francis . The Invasion of America . Indians , Colonialism , and the ...
This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature.
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This book, which has been painstakingly researched and beautifully photographed over many years, takes a close look at twenty of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City.
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Once this essay was published, it received both wild praise and hurtful backlash from different factions of America.
" Reconstituting the American Renaissance" thoroughly restructures our understanding of the Emerson/Whitman relationship.
Now back in print in an affordable paperback edition, the volume includes a new foreword by prominent historian Sean Wilentz.