The dehydrator is an incredibly useful tool for long-term food storage and making the most of your garden harvest.
Brown. Sugar. Pumpkin. Bread. Makes one 9 x 5-inch loaf 2 tablespoons
powdered dehydrated pumpkin 1 cup boiling water 11⁄2 cups all-purpose flour 2
teaspoons pumpkin pie spice 11⁄ 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking
soda 1⁄2 teaspoon coarsely ground dehydrated ginger 1⁄2 cup (1 stick) butter,
softened 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar 2 large eggs, beaten 1. Preheat the
oven to 350°F. Spray a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray ...
American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British lite
It is generally acknowledged that Charles Bro ckden Brown was an American
literary nationalist. In his oft-cited prefatory note to Edgar Huntly (1799), he called
on American writers to address “the condition of our country,” maintaining that “
the field ofinvestigation, opened to us by our own country, should differ
essentially from those which exist in Europe.” Among the “new views” open to the
American writer, he stated somewhat self-servingly, were “incidents of Indian
hostility, and the ...
Tells the stories of three of the most dramatic fugitive-slave trials of the 1850s, bringing to life the determination of the fugitives, the radical tactics of their rescuers, the brutality of the slave hunters and the response of the federal courts.
trials of the Oberlin rescuers attracted national attention in the spring and summer
of 1859, but they were soon overshadowed by events. Before the end of the year,
John Brown staged his attack at Harpers Ferry, only to be captured and hanged
for murder and treason. Brown's execution was inevitable from the moment of he
was taken prisoner, but the Virginia au- thorities still proceeded with the formality
of a trial. That trial provided Brown with the opportunity to deliver his defiant final
...
Robert Levine examines the American romance in a new historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the Republic and the Civil War. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about foreign elements--French revolutionaries, secret societies, Catholic immigrants, African slaves--are central to the fictional worlds of Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville. Ormond, The Bravo, The Blithedale Romance, and Benito Cereno are persuasively explicated by Levine to demonstrate that the romance dramatized the same conflicts and ideals that gave rise to the American Republic. Americans conceived "America" as a historical romance, and their romances dramatize the historical conditions of the culture. The fear that reputed conspiracies would subvert the order and integrity of the new nation were recurrent and widespread; Levine illuminates the influence of such fears on the works of major romance writers during this period.
Villainy and Vulnerability in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond We are
frequently in most danger when we deem ourselves most safe, and our fortress is
taken sometimes through a point, whose weakness nothing, it should seem, but
the blindest stupidity, could overlook. Brown, Memoirs ofCarwin Charles
Brockden Brown's novels abound with mysterious villains who for a variety of
reasons have fled Europe and emigrated to America. Wanderers in the shifting
terrain of his fiction, they ...
