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Above the American Renaissance takes David S. Reynolds's classic study Beneath the American Renaissance as a model and a provocation to consider how language and concepts broadly defined as spiritual are essential to understanding nineteenth-century
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Harold K. Bush
Harold K. Bush's Continuing Bonds with the Dead examines the profound transfiguration that the death of a child wrought on the literary work of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his subjects Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Willia
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Harold K. Bush
More than any other American before or since, Abraham Lincoln had a way with words that has shaped our national idea of ourselves. Actively disliked and even vilified by many Americans for the vast majority of his career, this most studied, most stor
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Harold K. Bush
The writer's fascination with America's spiritual and religious evolution in the 19th century. Mark Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, shaking his fist at God and mocking the devout. Such a view, however, is only partly co
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Harold K. Bush
Publikováno v:
The Mark Twain Annual. 17:112-128
After Susy's untimely demise, Mark and Livy's near obsession with Tennyson's elegy “In Memoriam” was similar to that of many other bereaved parents of the era: it had become the preeminent “grieving book” of the nineteenth century. The poem p
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Harold K. Bush
Publikováno v:
The Mark Twain Annual. 13:176-183
This narrative is about my weeklong stay at Quarry Farm in 2009. I try to indicate some of the ways this place was special for Twain as a writer, a nature lover, and a family man.
This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange. The long, deep friendship of Clemens and Twichell—a Congregationalist minister of Hart