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12 produkter
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival
Häftad, 2013
360 kr
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Great Wave
Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
E-bok, 2007
173 kr
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When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying …
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
Häftad, 2004
325 kr
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American Audacity
Literary Essays North and South
E-bok, 2010
417 kr
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One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive essays. Appearing in such publications as the New York Review of Books , the New Republic , and the Times Literary Supplement , Benfey''s writings have helped us …
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay
Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival
E-bok, 2012
160 kr
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New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 "Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis." (Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with …
Summer of Hummingbirds
Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
E-bok, 2008
128 kr
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The country''s most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson. At the close of the Civil War, the lives of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and …
Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings (LOA #190)
Some Chinese Ghosts / Chita / Two Years in the French West Indies / Youma / selected journalism and letters
Av Lafcadio Hearn, Christopher Benfey
E-bok, 2018
512 kr
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A translator of Flaubert and Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn was the master of a gaudy and sometimes self-consciously decadent literary style, but he was also a tough-minded and keenly observant reporter, with an eye for the offbeat, the sensual, and occasionally the gruesome. The writings of his American …
American Audacity
Literary Essays North and South
Häftad, 2009
371 kr
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One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive essays. Appearing in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the Times Literary Supplement, Benfey's writings have helped us reimagine …
Dickinsons of Amherst
Av Barton Levi St. Armand, Polly Longsworth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
278 kr
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Jerome Liebling, one of our foremost documentary photographers, has created a remarkable photographic record of the domestic environment of Emily Dickinson. As a fellow resident of Amherst, Massachusetts, Liebling was naturally drawn to the Homestead, the house in which Dickinson lived and worked. …
