19th Century American Literature – Bücher, CDs, Diverse und mehr

Tracey Rose Peyton,
Um uns nur Dunkelheit

Ein Roman über weiblichen Widerstand in schrecklichsten Zeiten.Texas, 1852. Sechs versklavte Frauen schleichen aus ihren Schlafquartieren und versammeln sich im Schutz der Nacht im Wald. Die Plantagenbesi…

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Christa Holm Vogelius
Original Copy

"When critics of poet Phyillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as derivative, they fail to see her writing as part of a new creative pantheon …

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Christa Holm Vogelius
Original Copy

"When critics of poet Phyillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as derivative, they fail to see her writing as part of a new creative pantheon …

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Sean Gerrity
Beyond Emancipation

Explores how African American literary representations of maroons in the decade leading up to the Civil War complicate conventional narratives and geographies of slavery and freedom in the United States.B…

lieferbar ab 2.12.2025.

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The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 (Loa #395)

The second volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary formA diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, represent…

lieferbar ab 20.1.2026.

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The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (Loa #394)

The first volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary formA diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, representi…

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Kari Holloway Miller
Pilgrim Myths in American Fiction, 1820-1920

An exploration of nineteenth-century fiction written by descendants of Puritans and Pilgrims who intended to shape American culture and identity

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Robert Leigh Davis
Illness, Literature, and Care

At the heart ofIllness, Literature, and Care is a view of care as attunement, a dynamic process of fragile rapport.Care in this mode does not abandon tradition and expertise, the collection of skills and …

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Pilar Martinez Benedi, Ralph James Savarese,
Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the "neural unconscious" and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this open access book shows how Herman Melville sou…

lieferbar ab 30.4.2026.

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Janet Dailey
Calder Brand

The Calder family patriarch is known throughout Montana as a force no one in his right mind would cross. But sometimes love can make a man do crazy things . . .Ambition drove Joe Dollarhide across the par…

lieferbar ab 28.4.2026.

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James E Caron,
Comic Belles Lettres

Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American humor---such as Old Southwest humorists and literary comedians---to provide a richer ana…

lieferbar ab 23.3.2026.

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Ira Nadel
The American Sentence

"A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story of American letters - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - t…

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Randall Fuller
Bright Circle

Bright Circle tells a little-known story of five women who contributed to the literary and philosophical movement known as transcendentalism and, in the process, inaugurated what became the feminist movem…

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Rafael Walker
Realism After the Individual

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age.Reali…

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Willa Cather
My Antonia American Classics Edition

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author's "masterpiece" (Library of America) and a National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read" pick."No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or wo…

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Ira Nadel
The American Sentence

A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story of American letters - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask …

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Matthew Smalley,
Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature

"Examining how key US writers - from the mid-nineteenth century to the present - have subverted the predominantly religious content of the sermon, this book analyses the complex literary preaching th…

lieferbar ab 22.1.2026.

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Patricia Falvey
The Girls of Ennismore

Set in Ireland during the turbulent early 20th century, Patricia Falvey's sweeping novel tells the story of one country and two very different worlds, exploring an unlikely friendship between two girls of…

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Susan L Roberson
Geographies of Travel

Travel writing was the most popular genre of writing in the nineteenth century. Initially published in newspapers and journals as dispatches from the road, these works allowed readers to join in on fabulo…

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David Mence
Melville's Maritime Politics

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and …

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