Athénaïse was not one to accept the inevitable with patient resignation, a talent born in the souls of many women; neither was she the one to accept it with philosophical resignation, like her husband. Her sensibilities were alive and ...
John Ahearn, Ivan Albright, Thomas Anshutz, Vincent Arcilesi, Victor Arnautoff, George Ault, William Bailey, Jack Beal, Robert Bechtle, William Beckman, Charles Bell, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Albert Bierstadt, George Caleb ...
This lavishly illustrated book, surprisingly the first on the subject, explores the tremendous scope, richness, toughness, sensibility, and liveliness of the American realist tradition. Sixteen varied sections discuss and display...
The true story of the transformation of American fiction after the Civil War is the history of this contention - a history of individual accommodations, evasions, holding actions, and occasional triumphs.
With the Bark On : Popular Humor of the Old South . Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 1967 . Arnold , Edwin T. “ Introduction . ” Odd Leaves from the Life of Louisiana Swamp Doctor . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University ...
A comprehensive, in-depth discussion of the most influential movement in American legal history, and one which remains more than fifty years later the subject of lively debate, this collection of readings, written largely between 1900 and ...
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness ofa Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. James, Henry. The Bostonians. 1886. Oxford University Press, 1984. “Daisy Miller.
The Illusion of Life: American Realism as a Literary Form
The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.
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