Advertisement
Supported by
Books of The Times
‘The Glorious American Essay,’ From Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace
By John Williams
- Nov. 25, 2020
- Share full article
No sane person will read this book the way a reviewer has been conditioned to read books: straight through. And that’s just fine, because “The Glorious American Essay,” though it does contain glories, gets off to a starchy start. The book is organized chronologically, which means it begins with an extended browse through the powdered wig section. Even among dead white men, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Paine are particularly dead and particularly white.
But push through — or save for later — the textbooklike feel of the first 100 pages or so, which also include one of Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Papers; that still leaves about 800 pages of mostly delight and edification to go. This anthology, which presents 100 exemplary essays from colonial times onward, really gets into gear with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience,” from 1844. It’s a remarkably extended fusillade of aphoristic provocation and insight, inspired in part by the death of his son. “There are moods in which we court suffering,” he wrote, “in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me, is to know how shallow it is.”
Phillip Lopate, the book’s editor, writes in his introduction that the essay form has been valued for the freedom it offers to “explore, digress, acknowledge uncertainty.” He quotes Cynthia Ozick judging that “a genuine essay has no educational, polemical or sociopolitical use.” But Lopate isn’t so strict. “Why should a piece of writing,” he asks, “be excluded from the essay kingdom simply because it follows a coherent line of reasoning?” Lopate, especially before he gets to the 20th century, relies heavily on such works of reasoning, pieces of public rhetoric and persuasion, like those by Margaret Fuller, Sarah Moore Grimké and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the standing and treatment of women in America.
For long stretches this book seems intended as a kind of essay-built history of America, as opposed to a history of American essays — though Lopate points out that those histories are naturally intertwined. And naturally echoing. Many of these essays “speak vividly to our present moment,” he writes, about issues that “keep recurring on the national stage.”
It takes no straining to see his point, repeatedly.
“The moral purity of the white woman is deeply contaminated,” Grimké wrote in 1837, because she looks “without horror” upon the crimes committed against her “enslaved sister.”
An essay from 1890 by Sui Sin Far is, as Lopate describes it, a “pioneering effort by a biracial Asian-American woman to examine the enigma of identity, and the conflict between a minority member’s racial pride and her ability to pass, however inadvertently, as part of the white majority.”
We are having trouble retrieving the article content.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.
Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.
Thank you for your patience while we verify access.
Already a subscriber? Log in .
Want all of The Times? Subscribe .
- ADMIN AREA MY BOOKSHELF MY DASHBOARD MY PROFILE SIGN OUT SIGN IN
THE GLORIOUS AMERICAN ESSAY
One hundred essays from colonial times to the present.
edited by Phillip Lopate ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 17, 2020
A thoughtfully edited volume that reflects America’s changing social, political, and cultural life.
Four centuries of essays testify to the richness of the form.
In the first of a projected three volumes of collected essays, Lopate offers what he justifiably calls “a smorgasbord of treats, a place to begin to sample the endless riches of the American essay”: 100 essays from the 18th to the 21st centuries, from Cotton Mather to Zadie Smith. Volume 2, The Golden Age of the American Essay , will focus on the years 1945-2000, and Volume 3 will be dedicated to pieces from the 21st century. Many writers included here are likely to be familiar to readers but perhaps not to the students for whom this collection seems aimed, with its informative introduction, succinct headnotes, and contents organized by both theme and form. George Washington is represented by his Farewell Address; Emerson, by “Experience”; Margaret Fuller, by an excerpt from Woman in the Nineteenth Century . Thoreau rings in, predictably, with “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”; Henry James, with “The Art of Fiction”; Jane Addams, with a piece on settlement houses; William James, with “What Makes a Life Significant?” Some essays—such as Dorothy Parker’s musings on people notable for their goodness and James Thurber’s on men’s idealizing of women—seem dusty, if not dated, although Fanny Fern’s dryly satirical “Delightful Men,” from 1870, has lost none of its bite. Essays that consider race, ethnicity, disability, social justice, and sexual orientation make the collection timely. In “The Homosexual Villain,” written for a gay magazine in 1955, Norman Mailer candidly reveals the experiences and readings that transformed his bias against gay men. “My God, homosexuals are people too,” he realized suddenly. Among the many other notable contributors are Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, M.F.K. Fisher, James Baldwin, Rachel Carson, and Jamaica Kincaid.
Pub Date: Nov. 17, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5247-4726-8
Page Count: 928
Publisher: Pantheon
Review Posted Online: Aug. 19, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 2020
HISTORY | UNITED STATES | GENERAL NONFICTION
Share your opinion of this book
More by Phillip Lopate
BOOK REVIEW
by Phillip Lopate
edited by Phillip Lopate
Awards & Accolades
Our Verdict
Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Of 2017
New York Times Bestseller
IndieBound Bestseller
National Book Award Finalist
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
The osage murders and the birth of the fbi.
by David Grann ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 18, 2017
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorker staff writer Grann ( The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession , 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
GENERAL HISTORY | TRUE CRIME | UNITED STATES | FIRST/NATIVE NATIONS | HISTORY
More by David Grann
by David Grann
More About This Book
BOOK TO SCREEN
THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES
by Amy Tan ; illustrated by Amy Tan ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2024
An ebullient nature lover’s paean to birds.
A charming bird journey with the bestselling author.
In his introduction to Tan’s “nature journal,” David Allen Sibley, the acclaimed ornithologist, nails the spirit of this book: a “collection of delightfully quirky, thoughtful, and personal observations of birds in sketches and words.” For years, Tan has looked out on her California backyard “paradise”—oaks, periwinkle vines, birch, Japanese maple, fuchsia shrubs—observing more than 60 species of birds, and she fashions her findings into delightful and approachable journal excerpts, accompanied by her gorgeous color sketches. As the entries—“a record of my life”—move along, the author becomes more adept at identifying and capturing them with words and pencils. Her first entry is September 16, 2017: Shortly after putting up hummingbird feeders, one of the tiny, delicate creatures landed on her hand and fed. “We have a relationship,” she writes. “I am in love.” By August 2018, her backyard “has become a menagerie of fledglings…all learning to fly.” Day by day, she has continued to learn more about the birds, their activities, and how she should relate to them; she also admits mistakes when they occur. In December 2018, she was excited to observe a Townsend’s Warbler—“ Omigod! It’s looking at me. Displeased expression .” Battling pesky squirrels, Tan deployed Hot Pepper Suet to keep them away, and she deterred crows by hanging a fake one upside down. The author also declared war on outdoor cats when she learned they kill more than 1 billion birds per year. In May 2019, she notes that she spends $250 per month on beetle larvae. In June 2019, she confesses “spending more hours a day staring at birds than writing. How can I not?” Her last entry, on December 15, 2022, celebrates when an eating bird pauses, “looks and acknowledges I am there.”
Pub Date: April 23, 2024
ISBN: 9780593536131
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Knopf
Review Posted Online: Jan. 19, 2024
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2024
GENERAL BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR | BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR | NATURE | GENERAL NONFICTION
More by Amy Tan
- Discover Books Fiction Thriller & Suspense Mystery & Detective Romance Science Fiction & Fantasy Nonfiction Biography & Memoir Teens & Young Adult Children's
- News & Features Bestsellers Book Lists Profiles Perspectives Awards Seen & Heard Book to Screen Kirkus TV videos In the News
- Kirkus Prize Winners & Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Kirkus Prize Judges
- Magazine Current Issue All Issues Manage My Subscription Subscribe
- Writers’ Center Hire a Professional Book Editor Get Your Book Reviewed Advertise Your Book Launch a Pro Connect Author Page Learn About The Book Industry
- More Kirkus Diversity Collections Kirkus Pro Connect My Account/Login
- About Kirkus History Our Team Contest FAQ Press Center Info For Publishers
- Privacy Policy
- Terms & Conditions
- Reprints, Permission & Excerpting Policy
© Copyright 2024 Kirkus Media LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Popular in this Genre
Hey there, book lover.
We’re glad you found a book that interests you!
Please select an existing bookshelf
Create a new bookshelf.
We can’t wait for you to join Kirkus!
Please sign up to continue.
It’s free and takes less than 10 seconds!
Already have an account? Log in.
Trouble signing in? Retrieve credentials.
Almost there!
- Industry Professional
Welcome Back!
Sign in using your Kirkus account
Contact us: 1-800-316-9361 or email [email protected].
Don’t fret. We’ll find you.
Magazine Subscribers ( How to Find Your Reader Number )
If You’ve Purchased Author Services
Don’t have an account yet? Sign Up.
- Find a Library
- Browse Collections
- The Glorious American Essay
ebook ∣ One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present
By phillip lopate.
Add Book To Favorites
Is this your library?
Sign up to save your library.
With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts.
9781524747268
Phillip Lopate
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
17 November 2020
Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive.
Search for a digital library with this title
Title found at these libraries:.
| Loading... |
- Soups, Stews, and Comfort Foods
- Newly Added eBooks
- Featured: Available Now eBooks
- Our Once and Future World
- A Garden of Stories
- For Fans of The Great British Baking Show
- The Great Outdoors
- ALWAYS AVAILABLE
- Newly Added Audiobooks
- Listen Together
- It's a Mystery!
- Awesome Audiobooks for Teens
- The Stars are Aligned!
- Kindle Books
- Always Available
The Glorious American Essay
Description.
"Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." —Rivka Galchen A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves—sometimes critically—to American values. Even in those that don't, one can detect a subtext about being American. The Founding Fathers and early American writers self-consciously struggle to establish a recognizable national culture. The shining stars of the mid-nineteenth-century American Renaissance no longer lack confidence but face new reckonings with the oppression of blacks and women. The New World tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups in all periods use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net intentionally wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, humorous, literary, polemical, and autobiographical essays, and making room for sermons, letters, speeches, and columns dealing with a wide variety of subjects. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is an extensive overview of the endless riches of the American essay.
Kindle Book
- Release date: November 17, 2020
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781524747275
- File size: 6955 KB
Kindle Book OverDrive Read EPUB ebook
History Literary Criticism Nonfiction
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Kindle Book Release date: November 17, 2020
OverDrive Read ISBN: 9781524747275 Release date: November 17, 2020
EPUB ebook ISBN: 9781524747275 File size: 6955 KB Release date: November 17, 2020
- Phillip Lopate - Author
- Formats Kindle Book OverDrive Read EPUB ebook
- Languages English
Why is availability limited?
Availability can change throughout the month based on the library's budget. You can still place a hold on the title, and your hold will be automatically filled as soon as the title is available again.
The Kindle Book format for this title is not supported on:
Read-along ebook.
The OverDrive Read format of this ebook has professional narration that plays while you read in your browser. Learn more here.
Recommendation limit reached
You've reached the maximum number of titles you can currently recommend for purchase.
Session expired
Your session has expired. Please sign in again so you can continue to borrow titles and access your Loans, Wish list, and Holds pages.
If you're still having trouble, follow these steps to sign in.
Add a library card to your account to borrow titles, place holds, and add titles to your wish list.
Have a card? Add it now to start borrowing from the collection.
The library card you previously added can't be used to complete this action. Please add your card again, or add a different card. If you receive an error message, please contact your library for help.
- Shopping Cart
Advanced Search
- Browse Our Shelves
- Best Sellers
- Digital Audiobooks
- Featured Titles
- New This Week
- Staff Recommended
- Discount Dozen
- Reading Lists
- Upcoming Events
- Ticketed Events
- Science Book Talks
- Past Events
- Video Archive
- Online Gift Codes
- University Clothing
- Goods & Gifts from Harvard Book Store
- Hours & Directions
- Newsletter Archive
- Frequent Buyer Program
- Signed First Edition Club
- Signed New Voices in Fiction Club
- Off-Site Book Sales
- Corporate & Special Sales
- Print on Demand
| Our Shelves |
- All Our Shelves
- Academic New Arrivals
- New Hardcover - Biography
- New Hardcover - Fiction
- New Hardcover - Nonfiction
- New Titles - Paperback
- African American Studies
- Anthologies
- Anthropology / Archaeology
- Architecture
- Asia & The Pacific
- Astronomy / Geology
- Boston / Cambridge / New England
- Business & Management
- Career Guides
- Child Care / Childbirth / Adoption
- Children's Board Books
- Children's Picture Books
- Children's Activity Books
- Children's Beginning Readers
- Children's Middle Grade
- Children's Gift Books
- Children's Nonfiction
- Children's/Teen Graphic Novels
- Teen Nonfiction
- Young Adult
- Classical Studies
- Cognitive Science / Linguistics
- College Guides
- Cultural & Critical Theory
- Education - Higher Ed
- Environment / Sustainablity
- European History
- Exam Preps / Outlines
- Games & Hobbies
- Gender Studies / Gay & Lesbian
- Gift / Seasonal Books
- Globalization
- Graphic Novels
- Hardcover Classics
- Health / Fitness / Med Ref
- Islamic Studies
- Large Print
- Latin America / Caribbean
- Law & Legal Issues
- Literary Crit & Biography
- Local Economy
- Mathematics
- Media Studies
- Middle East
- Myths / Tales / Legends
- Native American
- Paperback Favorites
- Performing Arts / Acting
- Personal Finance
- Personal Growth
- Photography
- Physics / Chemistry
- Poetry Criticism
- Ref / English Lang Dict & Thes
- Ref / Foreign Lang Dict / Phrase
- Reference - General
- Religion - Christianity
- Religion - Comparative
- Religion - Eastern
- Romance & Erotica
- Science Fiction
- Short Introductions
- Technology, Culture & Media
- Theology / Religious Studies
- Travel Atlases & Maps
- Travel Lit / Adventure
- Urban Studies
- Wines And Spirits
- Women's Studies
- World History
- Writing Style And Publishing
| Gift Cards |
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the PresentA monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. Many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves—sometimes critically—to American values, but even in those that don’t, one can detect a subtext about being American. The Founding Fathers and early American writers self-consciously struggle to establish a recognizable national culture. The shining stars of the mid-nineteenth-century American Renaissance no longer lack confidence but face new reckonings with the oppression of blacks and women. The New World tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups in all periods use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net intentionally wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, humorous, literary, polemical, and autobiographical essays, and making room for sermons, letters, speeches, and columns dealing with a wide variety of subjects. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is an extensive overview of the endless riches of the American essay. There are no customer reviews for this item yet. Classic Totes Tote bags and pouches in a variety of styles, sizes, and designs , plus mugs, bookmarks, and more! Shipping & Pickup We ship anywhere in the U.S. and orders of $75+ ship free via media mail! Noteworthy Signed Books: Join the Club! Join our Signed First Edition Club (or give a gift subscription) for a signed book of great literary merit, delivered to you monthly.  Harvard Square's Independent Bookstore © 2024 Harvard Book Store All rights reserved Contact Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel (617) 661-1515 Toll Free (800) 542-READ Email [email protected] View our current hours » Join our bookselling team » We plan to remain closed to the public for two weeks, through Saturday, March 28 While our doors are closed, we plan to staff our phones, email, and harvard.com web order services from 10am to 6pm daily. Store Hours Monday - Saturday: 9am - 11pm Sunday: 10am - 10pm Holiday Hours 12/24: 9am - 7pm 12/25: closed 12/31: 9am - 9pm 1/1: 12pm - 11pm All other hours as usual. Map Find Harvard Book Store » Online Customer Service Shipping » Online Returns » Privacy Policy » Harvard University harvard.edu » 
The Glorious American Essay 1st Edition One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present
Print ISBN 9781524747268, 1524747262Etext isbn 9781524747275, 1524747270.
The world’s #1 eTextbook reader for students. VitalSource is the leading provider of online textbooks and course materials. More than 15 million users have used our Bookshelf platform over the past year to improve their learning experience and outcomes. With anytime, anywhere access and built-in tools like highlighters, flashcards, and study groups, it’s easy to see why so many students are going digital with Bookshelf. Over 2.7 million titles available from more than 1,000 publishers Over 65,000 customer reviews with an average rating of 9.5 Over 5 billion digital pages viewed over the past 12 months Over 7,000 institutions using Bookshelf across 241 countries The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present 1st Edition is written by Phillip Lopate and published by Pantheon. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Glorious American Essay are 9781524747275, 1524747270 and the print ISBNs are 9781524747268, 1524747262. Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780525436270. 
Promotions apply when you purchase These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. Buy for othersBuying and sending ebooks to others.
These ebooks can only be redeemed by recipients in the US. Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold. Sorry, there was a problem. Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required . Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.  Image Unavailable
Follow the author The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present Kindle Edition
 Customers who bought this item also bought Editorial ReviewsAbout the author, excerpt. © reprinted by permission. all rights reserved., product details.
About the authorPhillip lopate. Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Top reviews from the United StatesThere was a problem filtering reviews right now. please try again later..  Top reviews from other countriesReport an issue.
The Glorious American EssayDescription. "Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." —Rivka Galchen A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves—sometimes critically—to American values. Even in those that don't, one can detect a subtext about being American. The Founding Fathers and early American writers self-consciously struggle to establish a recognizable national culture. The shining stars of the mid-nineteenth-century American Renaissance no longer lack confidence but face new reckonings with the oppression of blacks and women. The New World tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups in all periods use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net intentionally wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, humorous, literary, polemical, and autobiographical essays, and making room for sermons, letters, speeches, and columns dealing with a wide variety of subjects. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is an extensive overview of the endless riches of the American essay. Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
Kindle Book OverDrive Read EPUB ebook History Literary Criticism Nonfiction Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Kindle Book Release date: November 17, 2020 OverDrive Read ISBN: 9781524747275 Release date: November 17, 2020 EPUB ebook ISBN: 9781524747275 File size: 6955 KB Release date: November 17, 2020
Why is availability limited?Availability can change throughout the month based on the library's budget. You can still place a hold on the title, and your hold will be automatically filled as soon as the title is available again. The Kindle Book format for this title is not supported on:Read-along ebook. The OverDrive Read format of this ebook has professional narration that plays while you read in your browser. Learn more here. Recommendation limit reachedYou've reached the maximum number of titles you can currently recommend for purchase. Session expiredYour session has expired. Please sign in again so you can continue to borrow titles and access your Loans, Wish list, and Holds pages. If you're still having trouble, follow these steps to sign in. Add a library card to your account to borrow titles, place holds, and add titles to your wish list. Have a card? Add it now to start borrowing from the collection. The library card you previously added can't be used to complete this action. Please add your card again, or add a different card. If you receive an error message, please contact your library for help.
In Non-Fiction The Glorious American Essay Essay-writing has a rich history in the United States. What American essays should we remember today, and why? What contributions do they make to America’s collective memory? The Mount invited Phillip Lopate to discuss his recent edited collection, The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to Present , and the addition of Edith Wharton’s lecture titled America at War (1918). In conversation with journalist Julie Scelfo , Lopate explores the complexities of choosing works, past and present, for this anthology. |
COMMENTS
The Glorious American Essay, showcases some of the best of what Whitman in another context called 'our varied carols.'" —Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies and The Art of Time in Memoir "A is a thrilling tour through that most elusive jungle—the American Mind—over the course of nearly 300 years. There could be no ...
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays From Colonial Times to the Present. Edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate. 906 pages. Pantheon Books. $40. A version of this article ...
To read The Glorious American Essay is to envision the American experiment itself as a kind of essay, a narrative characterized by trial and error, triumphs and false starts. One comes away from this volume with a renewed sense of the essay's vitality and its ability to capture the diverse and evolving consciousness of a country.".
The Glorious American Essay is an authoritative, well-curated collection of American essays from 1726 to 2008. Phillip Lopate, in his introduction, discusses his intent to compile these essays according to two themes. First, they accommodate every nuanced definition of the "essay," from sermons and letters to biographies and fragmented memoirs.
The Glorious American Essay. : Phillip Lopate. Pantheon Books, 2020 - Fiction - 906 pages. "Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." --Rivka Galchen. A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith.
Four centuries of essays testify to the richness of the form. In the first of a projected three volumes of collected essays, Lopate offers what he justifiably calls "a smorgasbord of treats, a place to begin to sample the endless riches of the American essay": 100 essays from the 18th to the 21st centuries, from Cotton Mather to Zadie Smith.
A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves—sometimes critically—to American values.
The Glorious American Essay. by Phillip Lopate. ebook. Read a sample Read a sample Description; Details; Reviews "Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." —Rivka Galchen A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie ...
Professor Phillip Lopate's latest anthology, The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present, was released on November 17, 2020 by Pantheon Books. Released just two weeks after a grueling Election Day, Lopate's anthology is both a celebration and examination of American values and identity, presented through a swath of voices that stretches from Cotton ...
The Glorious American Essay is "a monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith." The anthology, which Lopate has worked on for five years, was recently named among Publishers Weekly's "Top 10 New Titles in Essays & Literary ...
The shining stars of the mid-nineteenth-century American Renaissance no longer lack confidence but face new reckonings with the oppression of blacks and women. The New World tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups in all periods use the essay to assert or to ...
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present. by Phillip Lopate . Details; Author Phillip Lopate Publisher Pantheon Publication Date 2020 Section Essays. Type New Format Hardcover ISBN 9781524747268 A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin ...
From Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Jamaica Kincaid, Professor Phillip Lopate's new anthology, The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays From Colonial Times to the Present, covers three centuries of U.S writing.. Lopate, who teaches in the writing program at the School of the Arts, gathered pieces that address—sometimes critically—American values or ...
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present 1st Edition is written by Phillip Lopate and published by Pantheon. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Glorious American Essay are 9781524747275, 1524747270 and the print ISBNs are 9781524747268, 1524747262. Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with ...
The Glorious American Essay, showcases some of the best of what Whitman in another context called 'our varied carols.'" —Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies and The Art of Time in Memoir "A is a thrilling tour through that most elusive jungle—the American Mind—over the course of nearly 300 years. There could be no ...
Title The glorious American essay : one hundred essays from colonial times to the present / edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate. ISBN 9781524747275 (electronic book) 1524747270 (electronic book) 9781524747268. Published New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
"Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." --Rivka GalchenA monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith.The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American ...
The glorious American essay : one hundred essays from colonial times to the present Contributors: Lopate, Phillip, 1943- author of introduction, etc. editor. ... Summary/Review: "A monumental, canon-defining anthology of four centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. Many of ...
A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate"Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." —Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric DisturbancesThe essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays ...
The Glorious American Essay. by Phillip Lopate. ebook. Read a sample Read a sample Description; Details; Reviews "Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." —Rivka Galchen A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie ...
What American essays should we remember today, and why? What contributions do they make to America's collective memory? The Mount invited Phillip Lopate to discuss his recent edited collection, The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to Present, and the addition of Edith Wharton's lecture titled America at War ...
The Glorious American Essay, showcases some of the best of what Whitman in another context called 'our varied carols.'" —Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies and The Art of Time in Memoir "A is a thrilling tour through that most elusive jungle—the American Mind—over the course of nearly 300 years.
Michael D. Hattem, the associate director of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, ably chronicles this national habit in "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History."