Bert Bender (63 results)
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Angell, Tony (illustrator).
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Condition: Very Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: OSU Press Pub Date: 1/1/2017 Binding: Paperback Pages: 364 First edition.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Clean bright and square, corners lightly rubbed else fine. Tony Angell (illustrator).
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Soft Cover. Condition: fine. 9" tall; 285 pages; b/w ils; black & red decoration on white cover. Tony Angell (illustrator). Paperback.
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Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 440 pages. First edition (first printing). Light soiling to fore-edge else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public a…t large. In an original and persuasive study, Bert Bender demonstrates that it is this treatise on sexual selection, rather than any of Darwin's earlier works on evolution, that provoked the most immediate and vigorous response from American fiction writers. These authors embraced and incorporated Darwin's theories, insights, and language, creating an increasingly dark and violent view of sexual love in American realist literature. In The Descent of Love, Bender carefully rereads the works of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Harold Frederic, Charles W. Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, and Ernest Hemingway, teasing from them a startling but utterly convincing preoccupation with questions of sexual selection. Competing for readership as novelists who best grasped the "real" nature of human love, these writers also participated in a heated social debate over racial and sexual differences and the nature of sex itself. Influenced more by The Descent of Man than by the Origin of Species, Bender's novelists built upon Darwin's anthropological and zoological materials to anatomize their character's courtship behavior, returning consistently to concerns with physical beauty, natural dominance, and the power to select a mate. Bringing the resources of the history of science and intellectual history to this, the first full-length study of the impact of Darwin's theories in American literature, Bender revises accepted views of social Darwinism, American literary realism, and modernism in American literature, forever changing our perceptions of courtship and sexual interaction in American fiction from 1871 to 1926 and beyond.
Published by Philadelphia, PA. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1988., 1990
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN 0812213394. Trade Paperback. First Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs and creases to edges and corners of covers. No Signature.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. In this analysis of the sea and its meaning in American literature, Bender focuses on Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and 10 lesser-known sea-writers, and demonstrates the continuity and vitality of sea fiction. What he finds most distinctive about Am…erican sea fiction is its visionary, often mystical response to the biological world and to man's perceived place in the larger universe. He shows how Melville envisioned the sea as the essential element of life, and how this tradition was modified by Darwin. He also examines how the ideal of brotherhood so central to American sea fiction was severely compromised by the biological reality of a competitive, warring nature. ISBN 0-8122-8124-1: $29.95. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.
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Condition: Good. illustrated edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Angell, Tony (i…llustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Angell, Tony (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1990
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition thus. Previous owner's signature, pencil. Illustrator: Tony Angell. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0812213394. ISBN/EAN: 9780812213393. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 26309. Tony Angell (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by University Of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., 1988
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Soft cover. Condition: Almost Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Softcover Wraps. First Softcover Edition. Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Angell, Tony (illustrator) (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, no dj, nearly new condition if not for minor library markings, 267pp. Green linen boards. Free media mail shipping. . Check my rating. LOC N. Angell, Tony (illustrator).
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Condition: New. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; BM; WSXF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 9525. . 2008. Illustrated. paperback. . . . .
Language: English
Published by University Of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1996
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. no dj, some wear, still nice! - may have remainder mark Standard-sized.
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Condition: New. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; BM; WSXF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 9525. . 2008. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with the o…pening of the western frontier and the replacement of sailing ships by steamers. Rather, he demonstrates its continuity and vitality, identifying a central vision within the tradition and showing how particular authors draw from, transform, and contribute to it. What is most distinctive about American sea fiction, Bender contends, is its visionary, often mystical, response to the biological world and to man's perceived place in the larger universe. When Melville envisioned the sea as the essential element of life, indeed as life itself, he changed the course of American sea fiction by introducing the relevance of biological thought. But his meditations on the whale and "the ungraspable phantom of life" project a different reality from that envisioned by his successors. In American sea fiction after Melville, the influence of Origin of Species is as powerful as that of Moby Dick or the theme of sailing ships being displaced by steam. The ideal of brotherhood so central to American sea fiction was severely compromised by the biological reality of a competitive, warring nature. Twentieth-century sea fiction has continued to center on the biological world and address the possibility of democratic brotherhood, but the issues were fundamentally changed by Darwin's theories. This book will be a valuable source for students and scholars of American literature and will interest readers of sea fiction. Angell, Tony (illustrator).
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Language: English
Published by Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, U.S.A., 2004
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 286 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock. Angell, Tony (illustrator).
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