San Diego Union-Tribune

19th century American stories and literature come to life at annual TwainFest

The theater bug first nibbled at Rachael VanWormer when she played Mary in her daycare center’s Nativity scene, holding a very heavy, plaster baby Jesus. When she was in fourth grade and had to ...
insider.si.edu

Periodical literature in nineteenth-century America / edited by Kenneth M. Price and Susan Belasco Smith

Introduction : Periodical literature in social and historical context / Susan Belasco Smith and Kenneth M. Price -- From Dial essay to New York book : the making of Woman in the nineteenth century / ...
Yahoo

A Rare Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century American Literature Could Fetch up to $5 Million at Auction

It’s a great time to be a lover (and collector) of important American literature. Christie’s will auction off a stunning collection of rare printed books and manuscripts belonging to Bruce M. Lisman ...
insider.si.edu

19th century African-American Literature Collection

Life and times of Frederick Douglass, written by himself -- Duplicate copy of the souvenir from the Afro-American league of Tennessee to Hon. James M. Ashley of Ohio... -- Myrtilla Miner, a memoir -- ...
William & Mary

Exploring Violence and Sentimentality: Love's Whipping Boy

How can America be so violent, and yet so sentimental at the same time? It’s a question that has intrigued English Professor Elizabeth Barnes for almost a decade and forms the basis for her ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

What I’ve Learned From Recorded Lectures

In graduate school, I specialized in 19th-century American literature, expecting that, as a faculty member, I would probably teach a survey course and seminars in autobiography, romanticism, the ...
The Atlantic

The Nineteenth-Century American

NOTHING in all history had ever succeeded like America, and every American in the nineteenth century knew it. Nowhere else on the globe had nature been at once so rich and so generous, and her riches ...
The Baltimore Sun

Paul B. Lukacs, a specialist in 19th-century American literature at Loyola and wine columnist, dies

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The Atlantic

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, From the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century ...

RECURRING to the notice which we (editors pass, but the editorial pronoun endures) made of Mr. Allibone’s first volume when it appeared some eleven years ago, we find that we can say little of his ...