Books by Andrew Delbanco and Complete Book Reviews
Andrew Delbanco, Author . Knopf $30 (415p) ISBN 978-0-375-40314-9
As Melville said of Bartleby the Scrivener, "no materials exist for a full and satisfactory biography of this man." So, notes Columbia humanities professor Delbanco (The Death of Satan
), a similarly incomplete record exists for Melville....
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Andrew Delbanco, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (274p) ISBN 978-0-374-13566-9
Columbia University literary scholar Delbanco (The Puritain Ideal) weighs in with a plea for revival not of old-time religion but of the sense of personal responsibility fostered by traditional religious notions of evil. His subject: ``the incessant
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Andrew Delbanco, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (225p) ISBN 978-0-374-23007-4
Do American classics matter today? Columbia University professor Delbanco (Death of Satan) thinks they do, because they show how ""individual human beings can break free of the structures of thought into which they are born."" To make his case,...
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Andrew Delbanco, Author Harvard University Press $19.95 (143p) ISBN 978-0-674-74925-2
A close and passionate reader of American literature, Delbanco (The Death of Satan, etc.) believes that contemporary American culture has lost its once vital sense of the transcendent. This book is, with very little alteration, a transcript of...
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Andrew Delbanco, foreword by Daniel Carpenter. Harvard Univ, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-674-06444-7
This book—actually essays by five authors—continues an argument about the abolitionists, and thus about idealism and extremism in general, that’s raged since the 1840s. It’s taken up by five well-known scholars, of whom Delbanco, the noted Columbia...
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Andrew Delbanco. Penguin Press, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-1-59420-405-0
Delbanco, an American studies professor at Columbia University, follows up 2012’s The Abolitionist Imagination with a more in-depth look at the divisive effects of slavery on America. He argues that the problem of “fugitive slaves”—the Constitution...
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