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9 produkter
Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
E-bok, 2021
1244 kr
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The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The upper classes could increasingly …
Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
E-bok, 2021
1244 kr
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The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The upper classes could increasingly …
Women Writers in the United States
A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History
Av Cynthia J. Davis, Kathryn West
Inbunden, 1996
2705 kr
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This extensive chronology of US women's writing and social history catalogues authors of fiction and non-fiction across a wide range of genres - novels, poetry, cookbooks, songs - and describes the events from world-transforming to everyday occurences when these works were produced. This invaluable …
Women Writers in the United States
A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History
Av Kathryn West, Cynthia J. Davis
E-bok, 1996
1581 kr
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Women Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work--written and social, tangible and intangible--produced by American women. Davis and West document the variety and volume of women''s work in the U.S. in a clear and accessible timeline format. They present information on …
Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
Inbunden, 2021
1385 kr
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The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The upper classes could increasingly …
Bodily and Narrative Forms
The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915
Inbunden, 2000
971 kr
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During the period of the professionalization of American medicine, many authors were concerned with a concurrent tendency to define identity in biological terms. Most of them doctors or patients themselves, they used literature polemically to convey their views about the meaning of the body and the …
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries
Literary and Intellectual Contexts
Av Denise D. Knight, Cynthia J. Davis
E-bok, 2011
653 kr
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Considers Gilman’s place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her era By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and …
Detroit
Inbunden, 2006
272 kr
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With its historic buildings and landmarks, tree-lined neighborhoods, and automotive legacy, the city of Detroit offers a treasure trove of subjects for the photographer and artist. Renowned photographer captures the soul of the Motor City in the hand-altered Polaroid photographs.
