Inexpressible Privacy : The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature [1 ed.] 9780812204247, 9780812220230

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Inexpressible Privacy : The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature [1 ed.]
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Few concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than the concept of priva

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Challenges the familiar way of reading a major strain of 19th century American literature. Rather than seeing this strai

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This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. This ster

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Drawing on a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, false slave narratives, minstrel song-shee

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Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythologica

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Autobiographical literature especially reveals the processes by which writers convert their own historical experience in

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> Is the infused contemplation of the mysteries of faith and the union with God which results therefrom an intrinsica

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> Is the infused contemplation of the mysteries of faith and the union with God which results therefrom an intrinsica

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> Is the infused contemplation of the mysteries of faith and the union with God which results therefrom an intrinsica

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First published in 1979, this volume offers students and teachers a unique view of American history prior to the Civil W

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