Böcker av Ed White

Exploring early American novels, such as the works of Charles Brockden Brown and Tabitha Gilman Tenney, as well as the pamphlets, polemics, tracts, and biographies of the early republican period, the authors speculate that this flourishing of political writing illuminates the notorious gap in US literary history between 1800 and 1820.

Offering an interpretation of eighteenth-century America, this book focuses on the agrarian majority as distinct from the elite urban minority. It explores the backcountry-city divide as well as the dynamics of indigenous peoples, bringing together two distinct bodies of scholarship.

Roland Barthes is one of the most influential cultural theorists of the postwar period and Image-Music-Text collects his most influential essays. Ed White provides students with a clear guide to this essential but difficult text.*BR**BR*As students are increasingly expected to write across a range of media, Barthes' work can be understood as an early mapping of what we now call interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study. The book's detailed section-by-section readings makes Barthes' most important writings accessible to undergraduate readers.*BR**BR*This book is a perfect companion for teaching and learning Barthes' ideas in cultural studies and literary theory.