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Myerson, Joel.
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814.3
Publication Date
2000
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was the acknowledged leader of the Transcendentalist movement. His poetic legacy, education ideals, and religious concepts are integral to the formation of American intellectual life. This work discusses biographical details of Emerson's life as well as women's rights, slavery, transcendentalism, and religion.
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9.5050
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Reynolds, Larry J. (Larry John), 1942-
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813.3 21
Publication Date
2001
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Reynolds, David S., 1948-
Call Number
811.3 22
Publication Date
2000
Summary
Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores, the visual arts, and the idea of democracy. The poet who emerges from this volume is no "solitary singer", distanced from his culture, but what he himself called "the age transfigured", fully enmeshed in his times and addressing issues that are still vital today.
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Cain, William E., 1952-
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818.309 22
Publication Date
2000
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Baker, Anne, 1968-
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810.9358 22
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2006
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Gray, Janet Sinclair, 1948-
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811.3099287 22
Publication Date
2004
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Race and Time urges our attention to women's poetry in considering the cultural history of race. Building on close readings of well known and less familiar poets-including Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Sarah Louisa Forten, Hannah Flagg Gould, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sarah Piatt, Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert, Sarah Josepha Hale, Eliza Follen, and Mary Mapes Dodge-Gray traces tensions in women's literary culture from the era of abolitionism to the rise of the Plantation tradition. She devotes a chapter to children's verse, arguing that racial stereotypes work as "nonsense" that masks conflicts.
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Gould, Philip (Philip B.)
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813.08109 20
Publication Date
1996
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Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-
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818.409 22
Publication Date
2007
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The writer & rsquo;s fascination with America & rsquo;s spiritual and religious evolution in the 19th century. Mark Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, shaking his fist at God and mocking the devout. Such a view, however, is only partly correct. It ignores the social realities of Twain & rsquo;s major period as a writer and his own spiritual interests: his participation in church activities, his socially progressive agenda, his reliance on religious themes in his major works, and his friendships with clergymen, especially his pastor and best friend, Joe Twichell. It also b.
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Archibald, Diana C.
Call Number
823.809355 22
Publication Date
2002
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Ober, K. Patrick.
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818.409 22
Publication Date
2003
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Thorson, Robert M., 1951-
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818.303 23
Publication Date
2014
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Jackson, Virginia Walker, 1956-
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811.4
Publication Date
2013
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How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? In Dickinson's Misery, Virginia Jackson poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Because Dickinson's writing remained largely unpublished when she died in 1886, decisions about what it was that Dickinson wrote have been left to the editors, publishers, and critics who have brought Dickinson's work into public view. The familiar letters, notes on advertising fliers, verses on split-open envelopes, and collections of verses on personal stationery tied t.
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