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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Washington, D.C., has long been a magnet for writers and an
object of interest and fascination to essayists, novelists, and
poets. "Literary Capital" offers a compelling portrait of the city
through the work of seventy authors ranging from early Americans
such as Abigail Adams and Washington Irving to contemporaries such
as Edward P. Jones and Joan Didion.
Arranged by both period and theme, this anthology begins with
the founding of Washington in 1800 and extends through the early
twenty-first century. In the introduction Christopher Sten explores
two broad categories of prose--historical writing focused on
politics and writing about the lives and times of the people of
D.C. with official Washington as the setting. Sten also defines a
core group of "Washington writers," native and naturalized authors
who focus much of their work on the city: Frederick Douglass, Henry
Adams, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, Gore Vidal, Ward Just, and
Susan Richards Shreve, among others.
Included are letters, essays, short stories, poems, and excerpts
from novels and historical writings by a broad selection of such
renowned American and international authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Charles Dickens, Alexis de Tocqueville, Louisa May Alcott, Walt
Whitman, Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy,
and Joseph Heller. The reader also incorporates many writings by
well-known African American authors, including Booker T.
Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Sterling A. Brown,
Langston Hughes, May Miller, Ralph Ellison, and Marita Golden.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the
classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer
them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so
that everyone can enjoy them.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
'it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human
heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner'
In Domestic Manners of the Americans, Frances Trollope recounts her
travels through America between 1827 and 1830, describing her
voyage up the Mississippi from New Orleans, a two-year stay in
Cincinnati, and a subsequent tour of Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and New York. A transatlantic best-seller on
publication in 1832, its forthright criticisms of American manners
encompassed spitting, religious extremism, ladies' dress, the
relentless pursuit of money, and the unequal treatment of women,
slaves, and Native Americans. Witty, satiric, and hugely
entertaining, Trollope also had a serious purpose in warning her
compatriots of the consequences of democratic freedoms at a time of
great social change in England. Deploring slavery and the hypocrisy
that sanctioned it, she fuelled abolitionist debate on both sides
of the Atlantic and so impressed Mark Twain that fifty years later
he considered her book to be the most accurate portrait of American
life in the nineteenth century. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
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