On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its 400 men, and every soldier under Custer s direct command was killed. It s easy to understand why this tremendous defeat shocked the American public at the time. But with "Custerology," Michael A. Elliott tackles the far more complicated question of why the battle still haunts the American imagination today. Weaving vivid historical accounts of Custer at Little Bighorn with contemporary...
On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhau...
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader gathers together leading scholars of American literature to address the questions of methodology that have invigorated and divided their field: the rise of interdisciplinarity and the wealth of theoretical methods now available to the critic of American literature. Their engagement with these issues takes a unique form in this book: Each scholar has chosen a methodologically innovative essay, which he or she then introduces, explaining why it is both exemplary in its approach and central to the issues that most engage American...
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader gathers together leading scholars of American literature to address the questions of meth...
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader gathers together leading scholars of American literature to address the questions of methodology that have invigorated and divided their field: the rise of interdisciplinarity and the wealth of theoretical methods now available to the critic of American literature. Their engagement with these issues takes a unique form in this book: Each scholar has chosen a methodologically innovative essay, which he or she then introduces, explaining why it is both exemplary in its approach and central to the issues that most engage...
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader gathers together leading scholars of American literature to address the questio...
"Culture" is a term we commonly use to explain the differences in our ways of living. In this book Michael A. Elliott returns to the moment this usage was first articulated, tracing the concept of culture to the writings -- folktales, dialect literature, local color sketches, and ethnographies -- that provided its intellectual underpinnings in turn-of-the-century America.
The Culture Concept explains how this now-familiar definition of "culture" emerged during the late nineteenth century through the intersection of two separate endeavors that shared a commitment to recording group-based...
"Culture" is a term we commonly use to explain the differences in our ways of living. In this book Michael A. Elliott returns to the moment this usage...
"Culture" is a term we commonly use to explain the differences in our ways of living. In this book Michael A. Elliott returns to the moment this usage was first articulated, tracing the concept of culture to the writings -- folktales, dialect literature, local color sketches, and ethnographies -- that provided its intellectual underpinnings in turn-of-the-century America.
The Culture Concept explains how this now-familiar definition of "culture" emerged during the late nineteenth century through the intersection of two separate endeavors that shared a commitment to recording group-based...
"Culture" is a term we commonly use to explain the differences in our ways of living. In this book Michael A. Elliott returns to the moment this usage...
On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its 400 men, and every soldier under Custer s direct command was killed. It s easy to understand why this tremendous defeat shocked the American public at the time. But with "Custerology," Michael A. Elliott tackles the far more complicated question of why the battle still haunts the American imagination today. Weaving vivid historical accounts of Custer at Little Bighorn with contemporary...
On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhau...
War creates unlikely heroes. When Islamic-inspired jihad is inflicted on America, Wayne Foltz finds himself in that unusual position. A Vietnam combat veteran, he teams with veterans of other American conflicts to prepare their Washington, DC-area community against the likelihood of lawlessness no matter what its origin. This effort initially divides the residents along ideological lines. However, the slow collapse of society and its law-and-order institutions cause many doubters to rally to Wayne's armed self-defense posture. The menace they face slowly reveals itself to be a force of 300...
War creates unlikely heroes. When Islamic-inspired jihad is inflicted on America, Wayne Foltz finds himself in that unusual position. A Vietnam combat...
War creates unlikely heroes. When Islamic-inspired jihad is inflicted on America, Wayne Foltz finds himself in that unusual position. A Vietnam combat veteran, he teams with veterans of other American conflicts to prepare their Washington, DC-area community against the likelihood of lawlessness no matter what its origin. This effort initially divides the residents along ideological lines. However, the slow collapse of society and its law-and-order institutions cause many doubters to rally to Wayne's armed self-defense posture. The menace they face slowly reveals itself to be a force of 300...
War creates unlikely heroes. When Islamic-inspired jihad is inflicted on America, Wayne Foltz finds himself in that unusual position. A Vietnam combat...
Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism and Hollywood, the closing of the frontier and two World Wars, the literary historical period represented in this volume constitutes the crucible of American literary history. Here, 35 essays by top researchers in the field detail how considerations of race and citizenship; immigration and assimilation; gender and sexuality; nationalism and empire; all reverberate throughout novels written in the United States between 1870 and 1940. Contributors...
Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism an...
