The glorious American essay : one hundred essays from colonial times to the present
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Lopate, Phillip, 1943- editor.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Of poetry and style.
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. Sinners in the hands of an angry God.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs.
St. John De Crevecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813. On the situation, feelings, and pleasures, of an American farmer.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Of poetry and style.
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. Sinners in the hands of an angry God.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs.
St. John De Crevecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813. On the situation, feelings, and pleasures, of an American farmer.
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Main Flagstaff Public Library - Non-Fiction
814.009 G562
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xviii, 906 pages ; 25 cm
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"A monumental, canon-defining anthology of four centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. Many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values, but 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 and Thoreau and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalizedgroups 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 makingroom for sermons, letters, speeches, and columns, dealing with a wide variety of subjects. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, and famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is an extensive overview of the endless riches of the American essay"--,Provided by publisher.
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Lopate, P., Mather, C., Edwards, J., Paine, T., St. John De Crevecoeur, J. H., Franklin, B., Hamilton, A., Jefferson, T., Murray, J. S., Washington, G., & Irving, W. (2020). The glorious American essay: one hundred essays from colonial times to the present (First edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Phillip Lopate et al.. 2020. The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays From Colonial Times to the Present. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Phillip Lopate et al.. The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays From Colonial Times to the Present Pantheon Books, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lopate, Phillip, et al. The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays From Colonial Times to the Present First edition., Pantheon Books, 2020.
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