Harlem Renaissance
10 best books like Harlem Renaissance (Nathan Irvin Huggins): Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, Nature and Selected Essays, Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, The Lais of Marie de France, Adam Bede, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, The Lonely Londoners, When Harlem Was in Vogue, Disability Theory
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
| Author | Firoozeh Dumas |
| ISBN | 0812968379 |
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi...
Nature and Selected Essays
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and...
| Author | Charles Brockden Brown |
| ISBN | 0140390790 |
I read WIELAND: OR THE TRANSFORMATION for different reasons than I think the majority will read it. I'll bet a lot of people read it because it's a very early example of the "American Novel". Most are probably assigned it for a class. Perhaps some read it because of interest in a particular aspect (religious...
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| ISBN | 0192835807 |
An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also...
| Author | Marie de France |
| ISBN | 0140447598 |
This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England. It was to a king, and...
| Author | George Eliot |
| ISBN | 0375759018 |
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.
The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community...
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0140586687 |
Well, I mean, GOD. You know? So beautiful. But also Ashbery sizing up the same kind of moral question over and over a dozen times in the space of a poem, and with dozens of poems (including the formidable and exhausting kind of index of ideas in the title poem) it just wrung me utterly dry.
I could...
| Author | Sam Selvon |
| ISBN | 0582642647 |
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant life in London in the 1950s.
'His Lonely Londoners has acquired a classic status since it appeared in 1956 as the definitive novel about London's West Indians.' — Financial Times
'The...
| Author | David Levering Lewis |
| ISBN | 0140263349 |
The decade and a half that followed World War I was a time of tremendous optimism in Harlem. It was a time when Langston Hughes, Eubie Blake, Marcus Garvey, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, and countless others made their indelible mark on the landscape of American culture: African Americans made their...
| Author | Tobin Anthony Siebers |
| ISBN | 0472050397 |
"Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability...
