American history through literature, 1820-1870 / editors in chief, Janet Gabler-Hover, Robert Sattelmeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabler-Hover, Janet, editor.

Sattelmeyer, Robert, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--Encyclopedias.

American literature.

Literature and history--United States--History--19th century--Encyclopedias.

Literature and history.

History in literature--Encyclopedias.

History in literature.

United States--History--19th century--Historiography--Encyclopedias.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1432 p.)

Edition:

001 ed.

Place of Publication:

Farmington Hills, Michigan : Thomson Gale, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This A-Z, cross-referenced and illustrated title provides a unique overview of the critical period that spans the early national era through the Civil War, and which witnessed the birth of a truly American literature. The set features more than 250 survey entries. Subjects include: political topics (Manifest Destiny, Underground Railroad); ideas in context (Transcendentalism); values (Sentimentalism, Mourning); genres (Dime Novels, Oratory); popular entertainment (Theatre); publishing (Harper's Monthly, Editors); works of literature and nonfiction ("Hiawatha," "Life in the Iron Mills"); and much more. The analysis of a wide range of classics in American literature, viewed as cultural and historical documents, cultivates critical skills in reading texts from various perspectives, including aesthetic, biographical, social, historical, racial and gendered. Along with its companion title on the period covering 1870 to 1920, this set provides a comprehensive overview of a key century in American historical and literary studies. While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available in the eBook version due to rights restrictions. Call your Sales Rep for details.

Contents:

Front Cover ; Title Page ; Editorial Board; Editorial and Production Staff; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Volume 1 ; A ; Abolitionist Writing; African Americans; Agrarianism; "Ain't I a Woman?"; Amateurism and Self-Publishing; American English; Americans Abroad; "The American Scholar"; An Appeal In Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans; Architecture; Art; The Atlantic Monthly; Autobiography; The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table; B ; Bachelors and Spinsters; Baltimore; Banking, Finance, Panics, and Depressions; Baptists; "Bartleby, The Scrivener"; Battle-Pieces; "Benito Cereno"

The Bible"The Big Bear of Arkansas"; Biography; "The Birth-mark"; Blacks; Blake; The Blithedale Romance; The Bondwoman's Narrative; Book and Periodical Illustration; Book Publishing; Borders; Boston; Brook Farm; C ; The California and Oregon Trail; California Gold Rush; Calvinism; Canada; Captivity Narratives; Catholics; "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"; Charleston; Cherokee Memorials; Childhood; Children's and Adolescent Literature; Chinese; Cincinnati; Circuses and Spectacles; "Civil Disobedience"; Civil War; Classical Literature; Clotel; Colleges

Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave LawConcord, Massachusetts; The Confessions of Nat Turner; The Confidence-Man; Confidence Men; Copyright; Courtship; Crime and Punishment; Cross-dressing; "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"; Curricula; "The Custom-House"; D ; Death; Declaration of Sentiments; Democracy; Democracy In America; The Dial; Dialect; Dime Novels; Domestic Fiction; Dred Scott v. Sandford; E ; Economy; Editors; Education; English Literature; Ethnology; Evangelicals; "Experience"; Exploration and Discovery; F ; Factories; "The Fall of the House of Usher"; Fashion; Female Authorship; Feminism

Fireside PoetsFolklore; Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States; Foreigners; Free Love; Friendship; Fur Trade; G ; The Gates Ajar; German Scholarship; Gettysburg Address; Gift Books and Annuals; Godey's Lady's Book; Gothic Fiction; Volume 2 ; H ; Harpers Ferry; Harper's New Monthly Magazine; Harper's Weekly; "Hawthorne and His Mosses"; Health and Medicine; The Hidden Hand; History; History of the Conquest of Mexico; Honor; Hope Leslie; The House of the Seven Gables; Humor; I; Immigration; The Impending Crisis of the South; Incidents In the Life of A Slave Girl; Indians

"An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man"Indian Wars and Dispossession; Individualism and Community; The Innocents Abroad; Irish; JK ; Jews; Journals and Diaries; "Jumping Frog"; Knickerbocker Writers; L ; Labor; Landscape Architecture; The Last of the Mohicans; Leatherstocking Tales; Leaves of Grass; Lectures; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"; Leisure; Letters; Letters On the Equality of the Sexes; The Liberator; The Life and Adventures of JoaquÍn Murieta; Life In the Iron Mills; Literacy; Literary Criticism; Literary Marketplace; Literary Nationalism; Little Women; Lowell Offering; Lyceums

Lyric Poetry

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780684325279

0684325276