John Cotton(Updated) (Twayne's United States Authors Series) by EverettH. Emerson Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 1990 by Twayne Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-7615-7, ISBN: 0-8057-7615-X
"Procedding chronologically, the book links the poet's works with the events in his life, and argues that Wordsworth was the quintessential Romantic writer, who revolutionized the poetic aesthetic."
Captain John Smith(Updated) (Twayne's United States Authors Series) by EverettH. Emerson Hardcover, 143 Pages, Published 1993 by Twayne Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-3989-3, ISBN: 0-8057-3989-0
"Captain John Smith (1580-1631), famed for saving the young Virginia colony and for his lucky rescue by Pocahontas, was the quintessential Great Elizabethan Adventurer. He traveled throughout the world, including the entire eastern coast of America, writing eloquently and at length about his experiences. With publication of A True Relation of such occurrences and accidents of noate as hath hapned in virginia since the first planting of t ..."
"An overview of the historical development of Puritanism in seventeenth-and early-eighteenth century America draws attention to social and cultural implications and the ideas of John Winthrop, John Cotton, and Cotton and Increase Mather"
The Authentic Mark Twain(Updated) A Literary Autobiography of Samuel L. Clemens by EverettH. Emerson Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1985 by Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-1214-3, ISBN: 0-8122-1214-2
"Depicts the personal life, literary career, and creative habits of Mark Twain and examines the development of his writing style"
"A seminal work of American literature that still commands deep praise and elicits controversy, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought to be lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the hand ..."
"William Bradford , with little education and only eighty books in his devoted his
life to intellectual self - enric Recent ... of materi which to reappraise much of early
A Everett Emerson has called upon a disting group of specialists to compose ..."
American Literature, 1764–1789(1st Edition) The Revolutionary Years by EverettH. Emerson Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1977 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-07270-4, ISBN: 0-299-07270-3
"Though the poem rests heavily upon English traditions, as this synopsis of its
styles makes clear, it bears affinities also to some of Puritan literature, particularly
Samuel Sewall's celebration of Plum Island near the end of Phaenomena ... Pale,
sickly, shrunk, it strives in vain to rise, Scarce lives, while living, and untimely dies
.4 In these lines Dwight focuses attention upon the evil that will again divide the
nation long af ..."
"Much criticism of nineteenth-century American literature written during the last quarter century has been structured by the concept of "separate spheres," a construction that often is recreated in contemporary critical practice. The contributors to this special issue examine and contest the way the category of gender - male versus female, extending to include, for example, the oppositions between public and private, worldly and domestic ..."
"Two boys exchange their clothes and their lives in Mark Twain's classic satiric comedy. They are the same age. They look alike. In fact, there is but one difference between them: Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. Just how insubstantial this difference really is becomes clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of roles…with the pauper caught up in the pomp and folly of the ..."
"When he wrote to Elisha Bliss about it in January 1870, he called it a “Noah's Ark”
book. ... for publication Mark Twain manuscripts he called “Papers of the Adam
Family” eventually published in 1962 in the collection Letters from the Earth. ... In
the preface to the second volume of an English edition of the work, he described
his modest expectations. ... that chore and his work for the Galaxy occupied him “
fully only six days eve ..."
""It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened," wrote Mark Twain in his preface to The Prince and the Pauper. "What am I writing?" says Twain, "A historical tale of 300 years ago, simply for the love of it." This is the tale of two young boys, one a prince and the other a pauper, who by a stroke of fate look identical. They meet and on a whim briefly trade places, but to their horror become trapped in the o ..."
"Notably, "The Egg" again uses the situation of the unhappy, unsuccessful farmer
come to town and turned unhappy, unsuccessful shopkeeper; in both stories, a
son participates in the family misery as he observes a worried father who cannot
fully understand how his own strangeness interferes with his trade. The son in "
The Egg," however, having achieved over time a philosophical distance from the
situation, narrates that tale, whereas ..."
"Major Writers of Early American Literature provides a fresh appraisal of the most important authors of seventeenth and eighteenth century America. Although knowledge of early American literature has been greatly widened and deepened in recent years, the standard study of this literature is nearly a hundred years old. It is time for a new study, which will take into account the modern reader as well as such recent findings as the d ..."
"others (including Mark Twain himself), the author used their actual names in
incorrect spelling. ... The manuscript of chapter 32 and the fourth stage of the
manuscript of chapter 31 as well as vestigial elements in the final version are
therefore significant for the documentation of Mark Twain's attempt to devise a
narrative structure for those ... tranquil present epoch" in the history of the
Mississippi.27 Unlike "The Professor' ..."
The authentic Mark Twain(1st Edition) A literary biography of Samuel L. Clemens by Everett M. Emerson Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 1984 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-7897-2, ISBN: 0-8122-7897-6
"Book by Emerson, Everett M."
Letters from New England The Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1629-1638 (The Commonwealth Series ; V. 2) by Everett M. Emerson, Winifred E. Bernhard Hardcover, 286 Pages, Published 1976 by Univ Of Massachusetts Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-87023-209-1, ISBN: 0-87023-209-6
"Extant letters addressed to England by Massachusetts Bay colonists during the colony's first decade are provided with linking narrative and explanatory notes"