| The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln Contributor(s): Samuels, Shirley (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521193168 ISBN-13: 9780521193160 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: 973.709 |
| LCCN: 2012009107 |
| Series: Cambridge Companions to American Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 235 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Did the movie Lincoln get it right? These twelve essays explore the writing life of one of America's greatest presidents. Perfect for American History or Politic Science buff in your life! |
Contributor Bio(s): Samuels, Shirley: - Shirley Samuels works with the American Studies program and the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Cornell University. She has taught at Princeton, Brandeis and the University of Delaware. She has had fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Huntington Library and the Library Company of Philadelphia. In addition to journal articles and chapters in books, she is author of Reading the American Novel: 1780-1865 (2012), Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War (2004) and Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation (1996). She is editor of the Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865 (2004) and The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America (1992). |