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The 1958 Benjamin Franklin Lectures, with contributions from Loren C. Eiseley, Carl G. Hempel, Gilbert Seldes, George J. Stigler, and Willard Hurst.
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Robert E. Spiller
James Fenimore Cooper - American Writers 48 was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from…
A selective compilation of nearly 600 of the letters Dreiser wrote between 1897 and 1945, gleaned from the massive collection on Dreiser at the University of Pennsylvania.
Constance S. Johnston,Robert H. Walker,Robert E. Spiller
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
In his early lectures we find the first ordering of Emerson's thoughts. The lectures are the immediate source of much in his essays, whose composition cannot be understood without them…
In July 1839 Emerson wrote in his journal: A lecture is a new literature…only then is the orator successful when he is himself agitated & is as much a hearer…
English Traits is a searching and distinctive portrayal of English culture that today offers a revealing perspective on American viewpoints and preoccupations in the mid-nineteenth century. It is notable, too…
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The notable link between Ralph Waldo Emerson’s journals and his essays is formed by the lectures that reflected his developing views on issues of his time. This second volume of…
James Fenimore Cooper
Cooper published, eventually, five volumes of travel writings in epistolary form on his journeys around western Europe, all now available from CSP. This volume relates to his first visit to…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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An exciting revision of the best-selling anthology for African American literary survey courses.
