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American Claimants
Author | : Sarah Meer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-05-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198812517 |
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This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also formed a political talisman, invoked against slavery and segregation, or privileges of gender and class. Later, claimants were exported to South Africa, becoming the fictional form for explaining black students who acquired American degrees. American Claimants traces the figure back to lost-heir romance, and explores its uses. These encompassed real, imagined, and textual ideas of inheritance, for writers and editors, and also for missionaries, artists, and students. The claimant dramatized tensions between tradition and change, or questions of exclusion and power: it offered ways of seeing activism, education, sculpture, and dress. The premise for dozens of novels and plays, a trope, a joke, even the basis for real claims: claimants matter in theatre history and periodical studies, they touch on literary marketing and reprinting, and they illuminate some unexpected texts. These range from Our American Cousin to Bleak House, Little Lord Fauntleroy to Frederick Douglass' Paper; writers discussed include Frances Trollope, Julia Griffiths, Alexander Crummell, John Dube, James McCune Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The focus on claimants yields remarkable finds: new faces, fresh angles, a lost column, and a forgotten theatrical genre. It reveals the pervasiveness of this form, and its centrality in imagining cultural contact and exchange.
American Claimants
Author | : Sarah Meer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2020-05-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192540614 |
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This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also formed a political talisman, invoked against slavery and segregation, or privileges of gender and class. Later, claimants were exported to South Africa, becoming the fictional form for explaining black students who acquired American degrees. American Claimants traces the figure back to lost-heir romance, and explores its uses. These encompassed real, imagined, and textual ideas of inheritance, for writers and editors, and also for missionaries, artists, and students. The claimant dramatized tensions between tradition and change, or questions of exclusion and power: it offered ways of seeing activism, education, sculpture, and dress. The premise for dozens of novels and plays, a trope, a joke, even the basis for real claims: claimants matter in theatre history and periodical studies, they touch on literary marketing and reprinting, and they illuminate some unexpected texts. These range from Our American Cousin to Bleak House, Little Lord Fauntleroy to Frederick Douglass' Paper; writers discussed include Frances Trollope, Julia Griffiths, Alexander Crummell, John Dube, James McCune Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The focus on claimants yields remarkable finds: new faces, fresh angles, a lost column, and a forgotten theatrical genre. It reveals the pervasiveness of this form, and its centrality in imagining cultural contact and exchange.
The American Claimant
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2020-03-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781678000226 |
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The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature. Indeed, all the weather is contained in an appendix, at the back of the book, which the reader is encouraged to turn to from time to time.Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American humorist and writer, who is best known for his enduring novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has been called the Great American Novel. Raised in Hannibal, Missouri, Twain held a variety of jobs including typesetter, riverboat pilot, and miner before achieving nationwide attention for his work as a journalist with The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. He earned
The American Claimant
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HW3JCX |
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The Earl of Rossmore is deeply distressed when an American of no account claims his title--Novelist.
The American Claimant
Author | : Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : ONB:+Z312328403 |
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the Year
Author | : United States. Department of the Treasury |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1066 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : IND:30000090538269 |
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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
Author | : United States. Department of State |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1058 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : UCBK:C098846268 |
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