John Seelye
Biographic Data
| ID | 420791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Seelye |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Seelye |
| SIGNATURE | SEELYE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Six Poems
Memory's Nation
Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock. By John Seelye. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 699. Illustrations. $39.95.) Forefathers' Day is a holiday no longer observed by vast numbers of individuals calling themselves Americans. For a good portion of New England's years of hegemony in national political culture, however, annual observation of much-disputed landing at Plymouth Rock attracted erudite orators-minis…
Memory's Nation
Memory's Nation
Memory's Nation
Journal Article Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock. By John Seelye. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xviii, 699 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2415-1.) Get access Jim Cullen Jim Cullen Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1320–1321, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568627 Published…
The Language of Democracy
Beautiful Machine
Beautiful Machine
Journal Article Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan, 1735–1825. By John Seelye. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xii + 430 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-504551-3.) Get access John A. Jakle John A. Jakle University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 249–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079737 Published: …
Beautiful Machine
Beautiful Machine
Beautiful Machine
Beautiful Machine
Beautiful Machine
Journal Article Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan, 1755–1825 Get access Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan, 1755–1825. By Seelye John. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xii + 430 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliographical note, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Michael A. Morrison Michael A. Morrison Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarte…
Beautiful Machine
This book, the second volume in Seelye's series on the rivers of America in the American imagination, explores how George Washington's vision of a more perfect union for America--based upon the linking of the nation's waterways by technical means--was carried out. The first volume, Prophetic Waters, dealt with the way rivers, especially in Virginia, influenced life and literature of the period. This book takes the story into the opening decades o…
Views of American Landscapes
Introduction Mick Gidley and Robert Lawson-Peebles Part I. Prospects: 2. 'Gilded backgrounds': reflections on the perception of space and landscape in America Clive Bush 3. The impermanent sublime: nature, photography and the Petrarchan tradition Olaf Hansen 4. American landscape and the figure of anticipation: paradox and recourse Stephen Fender 5. Trails of topographic notions: expeditionary photography in the American West Philip Stokes Part I…
The Tourist
Hawthorne's Secret
Book Review| July 01 1986 Hawthorne’s Secret: An Un-Told Tale by Philip Young Hawthorne’s Secret: An Un-Told Tale. By Young, Philip. Boston: David R. Godine Publishers, 1984. Pp. 3, 183. $15.95. John Seelye John Seelye University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (3): 311–313. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-85-3-311 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn M…
Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers
Early American Almanacs
Of Rivers and People
Prophetic Waters
Prophetic Waters
Prophetic Waters
American Literature, 1764-1789
Passage Through the Garden
Who was Horatio? The Alger Myth and American Scholarship
Melville
The American Tramp
ed from reality. Kerouac plainly sees the tramp through the image established by the clown tramps: they are little men, hiding in the weeds and hopping on in the shadows, elflike, enchanted, dissolving in the darkness of the mournful Alleghanies. 6 They may, because of their half-starved, ascetic appearance, resemble saints, but the gods they serve are best left unnamed. It is important, I think, that none of Kerouac's heroes are tramps: despite …
The Denatured Novel
The American Tramp
ed from reality. Kerouac plainly sees the tramp through the image established by the clown tramps: they are little men, hiding in the weeds and hopping on in the shadows, elflike, enchanted, dissolving in the darkness of the mournful Alleghanies. 6 They may, because of their half-starved, ascetic appearance, resemble saints, but the gods they serve are best left unnamed. It is important, I think, that none of Kerouac's heroes are tramps: despite …
Who was Horatio? The Alger Myth and American Scholarship
Buckskin and Ballistics
Melville
The Melville Archetype
Melville
The Puritan Origins of the American Self
Prophetic Waters
American Literature, 1764-1789
Passage Through the Garden
Frightfully Thoreau
Of Rivers and People
Prophetic Waters
Prophetic Waters
Early American Almanacs
Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers
The Tourist
Hawthorne's Secret
Book Review| July 01 1986 Hawthorne’s Secret: An Un-Told Tale by Philip Young Hawthorne’s Secret: An Un-Told Tale. By Young, Philip. Boston: David R. Godine Publishers, 1984. Pp. 3, 183. $15.95. John Seelye John Seelye University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (3): 311–313. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-85-3-311 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn M…
Beautiful Machine
This book, the second volume in Seelye's series on the rivers of America in the American imagination, explores how George Washington's vision of a more perfect union for America--based upon the linking of the nation's waterways by technical means--was carried out. The first volume, Prophetic Waters, dealt with the way rivers, especially in Virginia, influenced life and literature of the period. This book takes the story into the opening decades o…
Views of American Landscapes
Introduction Mick Gidley and Robert Lawson-Peebles Part I. Prospects: 2. 'Gilded backgrounds': reflections on the perception of space and landscape in America Clive Bush 3. The impermanent sublime: nature, photography and the Petrarchan tradition Olaf Hansen 4. American landscape and the figure of anticipation: paradox and recourse Stephen Fender 5. Trails of topographic notions: expeditionary photography in the American West Philip Stokes Part I…
Beautiful Machine
Beautiful Machine
Journal Article Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan, 1735–1825. By John Seelye. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xii + 430 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-504551-3.) Get access John A. Jakle John A. Jakle University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 249–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079737 Published: …
Beautiful Machine
Beautiful Machine
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