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  • Second Language Speech

    Theory and Practice

    by Laura Colantoni, Jeffrey Steele, Paola Escudero ...
    Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has become crucial for effective language teaching. In addition to this important 'applied' function, research into second language acquisition has also informed the fields of linguistics and psychology in general, as it has shed ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

    by Helen R. Deese, Eric Gardner, Laura Dassow Walls, Sarah Ann Wider, Susan M. Stone, Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, Sterling Delano, Katherine Adams, Noelle Baker, Dorri Beam, Mary De Jong, Monika Elbert, Ivonne Garcia, Daniel Malachuk, Jeffrey A. Steele, Gary Williams ...
    Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Unfolding the Mind

    The Unconscious in American Romanticism and Literary Theory

    by Jeffrey Steele ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory
    American writers in the 1830s and 1840s felt the need for a new terminology to express their awakening perception of "new" aspects of the mind. Without words like the "unconscious" vast areas of the psyche would have remained unexpressed and thus unapproachable. This "discovery" of the unconscious constitutes to the theme of this study, which was first published in 1987. This title will be of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Rethinking American Music

    by Karen Ahlquist, Amy C. Beal, Mark Clague, Esther R. Crookshank, Todd Decker, Jennifer Delapp-Birkett, Joshua S. Duchan, Mark Katz, Jeffrey Magee, Sterling E. Murray, Guthrie Ramsey, David Warren Steel, Jeffrey Taylor, Mark Tucker ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    In Rethinking American Music, Tara Browner and Thomas L. Riis curate essays that offer an eclectic survey of current music scholarship. Ranging from Tin Pan Alley to Thelonious Monk to hip hop, the contributors go beyond repertory and biography to explore four critical yet overlooked areas: the impact of performance; patronage's role in creating music and finding a place to play it; personal ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

    by Julia A. Stern ...
    A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated ... Read more

    $48.29 USD

  • American Transcendentalism

    A History

    by Philip F. Gura ...
    The first comprehensive history of the nineteenth-century American intellectual movement.American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the America Civil War. Philip F. Gura masterfully traces their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia

    by Richard Francis ...

    $12.29 USD

  • Within the Plantation Household

    Black and White Women of the Old South

    by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women’s experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Essays on the Writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe

    by Sylvia Mayer, Martin T. Buinicki, Jennifer Cognard-Black, Maria I. Diedrich, Christiane E. Farnan, Faye Halpern, Joseph Helminski, Monika Mueller, William P. Mullaney, Astrid Recker, Sarah Robbins ...
    Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the 1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased. Rediscovery and ultimate canonization, however, have concentrated to a large extent on her major novelistic achievement, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Only in recent years have critics begun to focus more seriously on ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edited by Joel Myerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals ... Read more

    Was $43.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION

    Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays

    Edited by Janice M. Alberghene, Beverly Lyon Clark ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little Women, a novel that has touched many women's lives. A critical introduction traces 130 years of popular and critical response, and the collection presents 11 new essays, two new bibliographies, and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD