A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines: a young, independent American traveling in Europe, whose flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to catastrophe. Her story is here accompanied by six more riffing on a classic Jamesian theme: the clash between the old world and new, Europe and America. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics...
A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines: a...
This book focuses on the experience of the Californian Gold Rush of 1849 1850, not in terms of what happened (a subject much covered by historians) but in terms of how people of various levels of sophistication wrote about it. Drawing on a variety of sources - diaries, journals, letters, and contemporary journalism - Dr Fender explores how both amateur and professional writers attempted to come to terms with the physical wilderness of the transcontinental landscape and the social wilderness of early California. Dr Fender has produced an intriguing and highly readable book, which should prove...
This book focuses on the experience of the Californian Gold Rush of 1849 1850, not in terms of what happened (a subject much covered by historians) bu...
First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1620 to 1830, this first volume of "American Literature in Context" examines a range of texts from the writings of the Puritan settlers through the declaration of Independence to the novels of Fenimore Cooper. In doing so, it shows how early Americans thought about their growing nation, their arguments for immigration, for political and cultural independence, and the doubts they experienced in this ambitious...
First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation s literature has devel...
Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country depression over the economic crisis in the nation's cities and factories.
Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular mem...
