Originally published in 1836. "Sheppard Lee, Written By Himself" is a work of dark satire from the early years of the American Republic. Published as an autobiography and praised by Edgar Allan Poe, this is the story of a young idler who goes in search of buried treasure and finds instead the power to transfer his soul into other men's bodies. ...
The commander of the first black regiment of the Union Army, Thomas Wentworth Higginson kept daily journals, which he used in preparing his major work, ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT. These diary entries include his opinions of his troops, his fellow officers, and the war.
How is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of 18th-century American literature, Christopher Looby argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Historical material informs and animates theoretical texts by Derrida, Lacan, and others as Looby unravels the texts of Benjamin ...
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