Product Description: From the acclaimed cultural historian Philip F. Gura comes Truth's Ragged Edge, a comprehensive and original history of the American novel's first century. Grounded in Gura's extensive consideration of the diverse range of important early novels, not just those that remain widely read today, this book recovers many long-neglected but influential writers―such as the escaped slave Harriet Jacobs, the free black Philadelphian Frank J...read more

A comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals traces their intellectual genealogy to transatlantic religious and philosophical ideas and illustrates how these informed fierce local theological debates.

Product Description: An important new biography of America's founding religious father. Jonathan Edwards was America's most influential evangelical, whose revivals of the 1730s became those against which all subsequent ones have been judged.The marvelous accomplishment of Philip Gura's Jonathan Edwards is to place the rich intellectual landscape of America's most formidable evangelical within the upheaval of his times...read more

The author chronicles the remarkable story of the world's most famous guitar company, using more than 175 illustrations to tell the story of C. F. Martin and the company he created, using letters, account books, inventories, and other documents. (Performing Arts)

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Examines the study of symbols and language in nineteenth-century New England and describes the logic of the transcendental movement

Product Description: "A Glimpse of Sion's Glory" signals an important new direction in the study of American Puritanism. The presence of dissenters in the colonies completely unknown, but never before have they been seen as a major shaping force for seventeenth-century American Puritanism...read more