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The making of the American essay  Cover Image Book Book

The making of the American essay

D'Agata, John, 1974- (editor,, writer of introduction.).

Contents:

For my dear son Simon Bradstreet / Anne Bradstreet
The narrative of the captivity / Mary Rowlandson
Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards
On snakes : and on the humming-bird / J. Hector St. John
A history of New York / Washington Irving
Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking / Henry David Thoreau
The whiteness of the whale / Herman Melville
A chapter on autography / Edgar Allan Poe
To recipient unknown / Emily Dickinson
The weather : does it sympathize with these times?
Walt Whitman
A Matisse / William Carlos Williams
The dry salvages / T.S. Eliot
Of the coming of John / W.E.B. Du Bois
Letters from the earth / Mark Twain
All the numbers from Numbers / Kenneth Goldsmith
Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
If I told him : a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein
In a café / Laura Riding Jackson
Testimony : the United States / Charles Reznikoff
The crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brooklyn is / James Agee
What else / Walter Abish
Once more to the lake / E.B. White
Lecture on nothing / John Cage
In the fifties / Leonard Michaels
The yellow bus / Lillian Ross
Ten thousand words a minute / Norman Mailer
The fight : Patterson vs. Liston / James Baldwin
The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby / Tom Wolfe
Frank Sinatra has a cold / Gay Talese
In the heart of the heart of the country / William Gass
The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday
I remember / Joe Brainard
Sentence / Donald Barthelme
Signified / Susan Steinberg
Brownstone / Renata Adler
Humility / Kathy Acker
Elliptical / Harryette Mullen.

Item details

  • ISBN: 1555977340
  • ISBN: 9781555977344
  • Physical Description: 798 pages ; 23 cm
    print
  • Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2016]

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Anthology of essays originally published 1630-1974.
"The final volume in John D'Agata's landmark series, A new history of the essay"
Page 4 of cover.
Formatted Contents Note:
For my dear son Simon Bradstreet / Anne Bradstreet
The narrative of the captivity / Mary Rowlandson
Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards
On snakes : and on the humming-bird / J. Hector St. John
A history of New York / Washington Irving
Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking / Henry David Thoreau
The whiteness of the whale / Herman Melville
A chapter on autography / Edgar Allan Poe
To recipient unknown / Emily Dickinson
The weather : does it sympathize with these times?
Walt Whitman
A Matisse / William Carlos Williams
The dry salvages / T.S. Eliot
Of the coming of John / W.E.B. Du Bois
Letters from the earth / Mark Twain
All the numbers from Numbers / Kenneth Goldsmith
Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
If I told him : a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein
In a café / Laura Riding Jackson
Testimony : the United States / Charles Reznikoff
The crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brooklyn is / James Agee
What else / Walter Abish
Once more to the lake / E.B. White
Lecture on nothing / John Cage
In the fifties / Leonard Michaels
The yellow bus / Lillian Ross
Ten thousand words a minute / Norman Mailer
The fight : Patterson vs. Liston / James Baldwin
The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby / Tom Wolfe
Frank Sinatra has a cold / Gay Talese
In the heart of the heart of the country / William Gass
The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday
I remember / Joe Brainard
Sentence / Donald Barthelme
Signified / Susan Steinberg
Brownstone / Renata Adler
Humility / Kathy Acker
Elliptical / Harryette Mullen.
Subject: American essays
American essays
Genre: Essays.
Essays.

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