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  • George Washington
    Kevin J Hayes
    When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and repu...
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    49,32 €

  • Folklore and Book Culture
    Kevin J. Hayes / Kevin JHayes
    To many observers, folklore and book culture may appear to be opposites. Folklore, after all, involves orally circulated stories and traditions while book culture is concerned with the transmission of written texts. However, as Kevin J. Hayes points out, there are many instances where the two intersect, and exploring those intersections is the purpose of this fascinating and pr...
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    23,16 €

  • A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf
    Kevin J. Hayes / Kevin JHayes
    A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf represents a significant contribution to the study of the intellectual life of women in British North America. Kevin J. Hayes studies the books these women read and the reasons why they read them. As Hayes notes, recent studies on the literary tastes of early American women have concentrated on the post-revolutionary period, when several women novel...
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    27,54 €

  • Road to Monticello
    Kevin J Hayes
    Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer, a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president.In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this ...
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    63,62 €

  • Journey Through American Literature
    Kevin J. Hayes
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    36,95 €

  • Poe and the Printed Word
    Hayes Kevin J. / Kevin J. Hayes / Kevin JHayes
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    43,64 €

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville
    Kevin J. Hayes / Kevin JHayes
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    33,76 €

  • Conversations with Jack Kerouac
    Kevin J Hayes
    There are few writers about whom it can be said that they write just like they speak, but Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) is clearly one of them. In 1958, Kerouac was a struggling writer trying to create a new literary aesthetic based on the rhythms of human speech, jazz-based improvisation, autobiography, and American slang. That year saw the publication of his second novel On the Ro...
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    43,36 €