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Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French
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As this century draws to a close and the new one approaches, the United States is still struggling with serious and pers
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Ranging from Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania to the backcountry regions of the South
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The subject of Michael Warner’s book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kin
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A renowned literary coterie in eighteenth-century Philadelphia—Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Ann
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Britain and the USA have helped define much of world history in recent centuries, and the relationship between the two i
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The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or
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America is a nation making itself up as it goes along—a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and image
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Challenging the Eurocentric misconception that the philosophy of history is a Western invention, this book reconstructs
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How did descriptions of individuals' appearance reinforce emergent categories of race? In Colonial Complexions, mor
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