Locating American Studies
Locating American Studies

Author: Lucy Maddox

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9780801860560

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This collection of 17 esays first printed in "American Quarterly", the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the Association's 50th anniversary in 1998, the editor has brought together works by a group of scholars which she believes provide a window into the history and evolution of the practice of American studies. Each essay, originally published between 1950 and 1996 is accompanied by a commentary in which a scholar from a related field provides critical information for understanding the continuing importance of the work to the American Studies field. Contributors include: Gene Wise; Henry Nash Smith; Barbara Welter; Alexander Saxton; and Kevin Mumford.

Anonymous Was a Woman
Anonymous Was a Woman

Author: Mirra Bank

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1995-09-15

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780312134303

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In print since it was first published in 1979, this book is a glorious collection of American folk art by "ordinary" women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Filled with beautiful four-color reproductions of samplers, quilts, paintings, and needle-pictures along with excerpts from diaries and letters, sampler verse, books, and magazines of the period, Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the daily experiences and inner lives of women who, in acts of love and duty, created many masterpieces of American folk art.