The making of the American essay
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.
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]
- Copyright: ©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. |
Find similar items by subject
Subject: | American essays American essays |
Genre: | Essays. Essays. |
Currently available copies
- 1 out of 1 copy are currently available at PINES. (Show)
- 1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Athens Regional Library System.
Holds
- 0 current holds on 1 total copy.
Show Only Available Copies
Library System: Library Branch Name
|
Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Athens Regional Library System: Athens-Clarke County Library |
NONFIC 814 MAKING (
Send Text) |
31001002926997 | NONFICTION | Available |