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Peter Wirzbicki (Author)

Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery

Editura: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical struggle against American slavery. In the cauldron of the antislavery movement, antislavery activists, such as William C. Nell, Thomas Sidney, and Charlotte Forten, and Transcendentalist intellectuals, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, developed a "Higher Law" ethos, a unique set of romantic political sensibilities--marked by moral enthusiasms, democratic idealism, and a vision of the self that could judge political questions from "higher" standards of morality and reason. The Transcendentalism that emerges here is not simply the dreamy philosophy of privileged white New Englanders, but a more populist movement, one that encouraged an uncompromising form of politics among a wide range of Northerners, black as well as white, working-class as well as wealthy. Invented to fight slavery, it would influence later labor, feminist, civil rights, and environmentalist activism. African American thinkers and activists have long engaged with American Transcendentalist ideas about "double ...

E. Thomas Finan (Author)

Reading Reality: Nineteenth-Century American Experiments in the Real

Editura: UNIV OF VIRGINIA PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

In the early 1800s, American critics warned about the danger of literature as a distraction from reality. Later critical accounts held that American literature during the antebellum period was idealistic and that literature grew more realistic after the horrors of the Civil War. By focusing on three leading American authors--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson-- Reading Reality challenges that analysis. Thomas Finan reveals how antebellum authors used words such as "real" and "reality" as key terms for literary discourse and claimed that the "real" was, in fact, central to their literary enterprise. He argues that for many Americans in the early nineteenth century, the "real" was often not synonymous with the physical world. It could refer to the spiritual, the sincere, or the individual's experience. He further explains how this awareness revises our understanding of the literary and conceptual strategies of American writers. By unpacking antebellum senses of the "real," Finan casts new light on the formal traits of the period's literature, the pressures of the literary marketplace in nineteenth-century America, and the surprising possibilities of literary ...

E. Thomas Finan (Author)

Reading Reality: Nineteenth-Century American Experiments in the Real

Editura: UNIV OF VIRGINIA PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

In the early 1800s, American critics warned about the danger of literature as a distraction from reality. Later critical accounts held that American literature during the antebellum period was idealistic and that literature grew more realistic after the horrors of the Civil War. By focusing on three leading American authors--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson-- Reading Reality challenges that analysis. Thomas Finan reveals how antebellum authors used words such as "real" and "reality" as key terms for literary discourse and claimed that the "real" was, in fact, central to their literary enterprise. He argues that for many Americans in the early nineteenth century, the "real" was often not synonymous with the physical world. It could refer to the spiritual, the sincere, or the individual's experience. He further explains how this awareness revises our understanding of the literary and conceptual strategies of American writers. By unpacking antebellum senses of the "real," Finan casts new light on the formal traits of the period's literature, the pressures of the literary marketplace in nineteenth-century America, and the surprising possibilities of literary ...

Karen L. Kilcup (Author)

Stronger, Truer, Bolder: American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment

Editura: UNIV OF GEORGIA PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson)-- and many not so famous--wrote literature for children; many contributed regularly to children's periodicals, and many entered the field of nature writing, responding to and forwarding the century's huge social and cultural changes. Appreciating America's unique natural wonders dovetailed with children's growth as citizens, but children's journals often exceeded a pedagogical purpose, intending also to entertain and delight. Though these volumes aimed at a relatively conservative and mostly white, middle-class, and affluent audience, some selections allowed both children and their parents room for imaginative escape from restrictive social norms. Covering a period that initially regarded children's natural bodies as laboring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shifting pedagogical impulse surrounding nature and the environment through the transformations that included America's nineteenth century emergence as an industrial power. Karen L. Kilcup shows how children's literature mirrored those changes in various ways. In its earliest incarnations, it taught ...

Karen L. Kilcup (Author)

Stronger, Truer, Bolder: American Children's Writing, Nature, and the Environment

Editura: UNIV OF GEORGIA PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson)-- and many not so famous--wrote literature for children; many contributed regularly to children's periodicals, and many entered the field of nature writing, responding to and forwarding the century's huge social and cultural changes. Appreciating America's unique natural wonders dovetailed with children's growth as citizens, but children's journals often exceeded a pedagogical purpose, intending also to entertain and delight. Though these volumes aimed at a relatively conservative and mostly white, middle-class, and affluent audience, some selections allowed both children and their parents room for imaginative escape from restrictive social norms. Covering a period that initially regarded children's natural bodies as laboring resources, Stronger, Truer, Bolder traces the shifting pedagogical impulse surrounding nature and the environment through the transformations that included America's nineteenth century emergence as an industrial power. Karen L. Kilcup shows how children's literature mirrored those changes in various ways. In its earliest incarnations, it taught ...

John S. Haller (Author)

Swedenborg's Principles of Usefulness: Social Reform Thought from the Enlightenment to American Pragmatism

Editura: SWEDENBORG FOUND

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Swedenborg's Principles of Usefulness highlights Emanuel Swedenborg's (1688-1772) widespread influence on an impressive host of historical figures--from poets and artists to philosophers and statesmen--and reform movements whose contributions to the evolution of self and society have resonated throughout time and into the present. As evidenced in the self-reliance of the great Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went so far as to refer to the early part of the nineteenth century as the age of Swedenborg, the socialist tendencies of Henry James, Sr., and the pragmatic philosophy of his highly esteemed son William James, Swedenborg has had a powerful impact on a number of prominent individual thinkers and their lasting traditions. With love for one's neighbor sharing pride of place among his ideas, it comes as no surprise that Swedenborg's outlook on human interaction worked its way into the various social reform movements that vitalized the American landscape during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the more politically oriented single-tax movement of Henry George to the utopian aspirations of Charles Fourier and the more spiritually inclined social gospel and pastoral ...

Anna Katharine Green (Author)

The Step on the Stair

Editura: READ BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2013

This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1923. 'The Step on the Stair' is a must read for fans of one of the first American authors to write in the detective fiction genre. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1846. She aspired to be a writer from a young age, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson during her late teens. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, Green produced her first and best-known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878). Praised by Wilkie Collins, the novel was year's bestseller, establishing Green's reputation. Green wrote at a time when fiction, and especially crime fiction, was dominated by men. However, she is now credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the trope of the recurring detective.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)

Thoughts from Emerson; Selections from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson for Every Day in the Year

Editura: READ BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2009

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Oscar W. Firkins (Author)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Anul aparitiei: 2009

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Louisa May Alcott (Author)

Proverb Stories

Editura: READ BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2010

"Proverb Stories" is an 1882 collection of short stories written by Louisa May Alcott. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet most famous for writing the novel "Little Women", as well as its sequels "Little Men" and "Jo's Boys". She grew up in New England and became associated with numerous notable intellectuals of her time, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Henry David Thoreau. The stories include: "Kitty's Class Day", "Aunt Kipp Psyche's Art", "A Country Christmas", "On Picket Duty", "The Baron's Gloves", "My Red Cap", and "What The Bells Saw And Said". Other notable works by this author include: "An Old-Fashioned Girl" (1886), "Eight Cousins" (1869), and "A Long Fatal Love Chase" (1875). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

James Elliot Cabot (Author)

A Memoir Of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Vol II

Editura: LULU PR

Anul aparitiei: 2010

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Joseph Forster (Author)

Four great teachers - John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Robert Browning

Editura: GARNSEY PR

Anul aparitiei: 2010

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)

Culture, Behavior, Beauty - Books, Art Eloquence - Power, Wealth, Illusions

Editura: CARVETH PR

Anul aparitiei: 2010

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Grenville Kleiser (Author)

Model Speeches For Practise: With an Essay from Humorous Hits and How to Hold an Audience

Editura: HERVEY PR

Anul aparitiei: 2011

"Model Speeches For Practise" is a 1920 work by Grenville Kleiser that contains a collection of successful speeches by eminent public speakers for study an practice. The author believes that by examining them and reading them aloud, the reader will be able to improve their speaking skills and become a confident and powerful orator for all occasions. This volume is highly recommended for those looking to improve their public speaking skills and would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Contents include: "Aims and Purposed of Speaking", "After-dinner Speaking by James Russell Lowell", "England, Mother of Nations by Ralph Waldo Emerson", "The Age of Research by William Ewart Gladstone", "Address of Welcome by Oliver Wendell Holmes", "Good Will to America by Sir William Harcourt", etc. Grenville Kleiser (1868-1953) was a North American author best remembered for his many inspirational and motivational books, especially those related to oration and self development. He also worked as a Public Speaking teacher at Yale Divinity School, Yale University. Other notable works by this author include: "How to Speak in Public" (1906), "Humorous Hits and How to Hold an Audience" (1908), ...

Alexander Pushkin (Author)

The Best Poems of Alexander Pushkin, Lost in Translation?

Editura: FIRST EDITION DESIGN EBOOK PUB

Anul aparitiei: 2020

Alexander Pushkin, the greatest name in Russian literature, a voice that must reach English speakers again and again! Could there be a nobler and more difficult task than translate Pushkin? This book offers 50 famous poems in Russian and English side by side for reading convenience. It is the result of a long and strenuous effort to prove that poetry is not necessarily lost in translation. Yuri Menis was born in Ukraine in 1952 and became a US citizen in 2000. He has been a translator, interpreter and teacher for many years. Translated and published the poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, Thomas Moore, Wystan Hugh Auden, Edna Millay, William Butler Yeats, Boris Pasternak and other authors. www.russianpoetrytranslated.com www.bestofpushkinandpasternak.com keywords: Alexander Pushkin Best Poems, Russian Poetry Translations, Doctor Zhivago Poems

Louisa May Alcott (Author)

Little Men

Editura: MINT ED

Anul aparitiei: 2020

"Six generations of readers have found in the story of the March family universal truths about girls, families and growing up." -The Guardian "A Natural source of stories...she is, and is to be the poet of children." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "The novelist of children...the Thackeray, the Trollope, of the nursery and the schoolroom."-Henry James Little Men is the second book in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" trilogy of children's books centered around the activities of the March's, a progressive transcendental New England family. In this novel, a six month period of time during the late 1800's is recounted in the life of Jo Bhaer (née March) at the experimental school she runs with her German husband. A warm and heartfelt classic, Little Men is a delightful novel about the bonds and trust within friendship and family. When a poor orphan boy, Nat, is dropped on the stairs of Plumfield Estate School he is welcomed with open arms. The school is a unique and loving environment for Nat. He is encouraged in his musical talents and is encouraged to explore patience and the virtues of unity through nursery theater. When Dan, an old friend of Nat's arrives at the school, the tranquility ...

Eva March Tappan (Author)

Literature - A Friend in the Library - Volume XI - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Long

Editura: WHITE PR

Anul aparitiei: 2017

This is volume eleven of Eva March Tappan's "A Friend in the Library" series, being a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American poets including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. This volume deals specifically with the concept of literature, exploring its etymology and history with reference to these notable figures. "A Friend In The Library" is an easy-to-digest guide that will appeal to anyone with an interest in the English language, and it is not to be missed by students and teachers of English literature. Eva March Tappan (1854 - 1930) was an American author and teacher. Other notable works by this author include: "Adventures & Achievements" (1900), "Poems & Rhymes" (1900), and "In the Days of Queen Elizabeth" (1902). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author. This book was first published in 1909.

Eva March Tappan (Author)

History and Biography I - A Friend in the Library - Volume IV - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry W

Editura: WHITE PR

Anul aparitiei: 2017

Eva March Tappan's "A Friend in the Library" series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American poets, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. This volume deals specifically with the ideas of history and biography, exploring the examples of both present in the work of these great American poets. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the American poetry and colonial history. Eva March Tappan (1854 - 1930) was an American author and teacher. Other notable works by this author include: "Adventures & Achievements" (1900), "Poems & Rhymes" (1900), and "In the Days of Queen Elizabeth" (1902). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author. This book was first published in 1909.

Eva March Tappan (Author)

History and Biography II - A Friend in the Library - Volume V - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry W

Editura: WHITE PR

Anul aparitiei: 2017

Eva March Tappan's "A Friend in the Library" series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. This volume deals specifically with the ideas of history and biography, exploring the examples of both present in the work of these great American poets. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the American poetry and colonial history. Eva March Tappan (1854 - 1930) was an American author and teacher. Other notable works by this author include: "Adventures & Achievements" (1900), "Poems & Rhymes" (1900), and "In the Days of Queen Elizabeth" (1902). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author. This book was first published in 1909.

Eva March Tappan (Author)

Fiction - A Friend in the Library - Volume X - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfell

Editura: WHITE PR

Anul aparitiei: 2017

This is volume ten of Eva March Tappan's "A Friend in the Library" series, being a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American poets including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. This volume deals chiefly with the concept of fiction, looking at the short stories produced by these seminal American writers. "A Friend In The Library" is an easy-to-digest guide that will appeal to anyone with an interest in the English language, and it is not to be missed by students and teachers of English literature. Eva March Tappan (1854 - 1930) was an American author and teacher. Other notable works by this author include: "Adventures & Achievements" (1900), "Poems & Rhymes" (1900), and "In the Days of Queen Elizabeth" (1902). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author. This book was first published in 1909.