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7 produkter
Searching the Heart
Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America
Av Karen Lystra
Häftad, 1993
1172 kr
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This is well-argued study of romantic love between men and women in nineteenth-century America. Lystra discusses middle-class ideas of love in terms of their contribution to American individualism, to the secularization of American life, and to women's empowerment in the home through sharing …
Searching the Heart
Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America
Av Karen Lystra
E-bok, 1992
807 kr
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In January 1862, Charles Godwin courted Harriet Russell, ultimately unsuccessfully, with the following lines: "Like cadences of inexpressibly sweet music, your kind words came to me: causing every nerve to vibrate as though electrified by some far off strain of heavenly harmony." Almost ten years …
Love and the Working Class
The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans
Av Karen Lystra
Inbunden, 2024
347 kr
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Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved. This book displays the personal …
Love and the Working Class
The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans
Av Karen Lystra
E-bok, 2024
324 kr
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Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved. This book displays the personal …
Love and the Working Class
The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans
Av Karen Lystra
E-bok, 2024
324 kr
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Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved. This book displays the personal …
Dangerous Intimacy
The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years
Av Karen Lystra
Häftad, 2006
251 kr
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The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were - lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the …
Dangerous Intimacy
The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years
Av Karen Lystra
E-bok, 2004
458 kr
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The last phase of Mark Twain''s life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America''s greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain''s final years as they really were—lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in …
