{"product_id":"the-glorious-american-essay-one-hundred-essays-from-colonial-times-to-the-present-9780525436270","title":"The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith--selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNot only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages. --Rivka Galchen, author of \u003ci\u003eAtmospheric Disturbances\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values. We see the Puritans, the Founding Fathers and Mothers, and the stars of the American Renaissance struggle to establish a national culture. A grand tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, literary, polemical, autobiographical, and humorous essays. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is a dazzling overview of the riches of the American essay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10406874\"\u003ePhillip Lopate\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.20w x 1.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525436270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0525436278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO010000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO002000\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS049000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePHILLIP LOPATE\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eTo Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e and four essay collections: \u003ci\u003eBachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePortrait Inside My Head\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of the anthologies \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Personal Essay, Writing New York, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Movie Critics\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Cullman Center Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. He is a professor of writing at Columbia University's nonfiction MFA program, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42704397271277,"sku":"9780525436270","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d87ebdb8-a84e-4f7a-862c-ab34c3c36b14.jpg?v=1649996986","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-glorious-american-essay-one-hundred-essays-from-colonial-times-to-the-present-9780525436270","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}