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Antoine Traisnel, Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition
2021
You can’t judge a book by its cover. Or so they say. But the cover of Antoine Traisnel’s Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition is striking and, one is tempted to say, captivating. And so is the book. The cover features colorful images of various birds—such as the ruby-throated hummingbird, the tufted coquette or the buff-tailed sicklebill—taken from one of the most impressive plates in Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature) and interlaced on ...
« The 2016 American Presidential Election »
2016
Thomas Constantinesco, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States
2023
Pain is part of life. It is part of literature as well. And in Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Thomas Constantinesco offers an intelligent, clearly organized, and insightful exploration of various ways in which pain is expressed—or not—through the written word in a selection of American literary works from the 1800s. Constantinesco takes his initial inspiration, in part, from Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, a controversial work published in 1985, which has become recog...
"'unlimn’d they disappear': The Ghostly Presence of Native Americans in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass"
2018
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Compte rendu de "La Réinvention de Shakespeare sur la scène littéraire américaine" de Ronan Ludot-Vlasak. Transatlantica [online] (1 | 2015), URL: ht…
2015
“Thoughts on the Origins and Significance of the American Civil War on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial of the Outbreak of the Bloodiest Conflict…
2011
“Much Ado About Something: American Writers and the Atlantic Cable of 1858”
2008
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“The Great Gatsby and the American Dream”
1990
Conférence présentée à l’Ecole Internationale de l’Accueil Franco-Nordique, Paris
“Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Intellectual Declaration of Independence”
2002
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“The Rhetoric of Nationalism in Emerson's ‘The American Scholar.'”
2004
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