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Double Take
It seemed that a good many people wanted to find out the identity of Ralph Johnston’s wife. Among them was the woman’s own husband...
The Environmental Imagination
With Thoreau’s Walden as a touchstone, Buell offers an account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of Western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more “ecocentric” way of being. In doing so, he provides a profound rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature.
Descendants of Daniel Wolf, 1732-1807
Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Daniel Wolf who was born ca. 1750. He likely married Maria Elizabeth (surname unknown) sometime prior to the year 1771 in Berks Co., or Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania. They moved to Frederick Co., Maryland sometime prior to the year 1785 and were the parents of two sons and three daughters. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, California and elsewhere.
Female Initiation in the American Novel
Initiation has always been a major theme in American fiction. This study traces the hitherto neglected literary tradition of the adolescent heroine from the late eighteenth century to the present, focusing on important women writers such as Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, or Sylvia Plath. Their works are compared and contrasted in a close analysis with particular emphasis on common patterns, recurrent motifs, and thematic parallels which illustrate the specific nature of female initiation in American literature.
