Description: The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present Author: Phillip Lopate Title: The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present Publication: Pantheon Books, 2020 Description: Hardcover. New hardcover in like DJ. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 928 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New / New. Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages. --Rivka Galchen A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values. Even in those that don't, one can detect a subtext about being American. The Founding Fathers and early American writers self-consciously struggle to establish a recognizable national culture. The shining stars of the mid-nineteenth-century American Renaissance no longer lack confidence but face new reckonings with the oppression of blacks and women. The New World tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups in all periods use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net intentionally wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, humorous, literary, polemical, and autobiographical essays, and making room for sermons, letters, speeches, and columns dealing with a wide variety of subjects. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is an extensive overview of the endless riches of the American essay. Seller ID: 100077 Subject: Literature , US History, Writing The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Book Title: The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial
Author: Phillip Lopate
Language: English
ISBN: 9781524747268
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Year: 2020
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