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16 produkter
Washington Square
Häftad, 2007
124 kr
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Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes by Martha Banta in Penguin Classics.When timid and plain Catherine Sloper is courted by the dashing and determined Morris Townsend, her father, convinced that the …
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Av Thorstein Veblen, Martha Banta
Häftad, 2009
147 kr
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'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.'In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life'. In so doing he produced a landmark study of …
Washington Square
E-bok, 2007
72 kr
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When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. Torn between her desire to win her father’s love and approval and her passion for the first man who …
Theory of the Leisure Class
Av Thorstein Veblen, Martha Banta
E-bok, 2007
61 kr
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''Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.''In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out ''to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life''. In so doing he produced a landmark study of …
Theory of the Leisure Class
Av Thorstein Veblen, Martha Banta
E-bok, 2007
61 kr
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''Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.''In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out ''to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life''. In so doing he produced a landmark study of …
House of Mirth
Av Edith Wharton, Martha Banta
E-bok, 1999
91 kr
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Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton''s observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows …
The House of Mirth
Av Edith Wharton, Martha Banta
Häftad, 2008
107 kr
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Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows …
Barbaric Intercourse
Caricature and the Culture of Conduct, 1841-1936
Av Martha Banta
Inbunden, 2003
1748 kr
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"Barbaric Intercourse" tells the story of a century of social upheaval and the satiric attacks it inspired in leading periodicals in both England and America. Martha Banta explores the politics of caricature and cartoon from 1841 to 1936, devoting special attention to the original "Life" magazine. …
One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic
Av Martha Banta, Bennett Simon
Inbunden, 1996
921 kr
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Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to the nation's belief in its cultural worth. Marked by an unusually wide-ranging sweep, the book focuses on three major "testing grounds" where nineteenth-century Americans responded to …
New Essays on The American
Av Martha Banta
Inbunden, 1987
691 kr
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The American (1877) was written the very year Henry James committed himself to making his way as an author outside America. It thus formed part of the brief that James had to draw up both for and against his countrymen. This 1987 collection of essays casts light on this and other major aspects of …
New Essays on The American
Av Martha Banta
Häftad, 1987
504 kr
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The American (1877) was written the very year Henry James committed himself to making his way as an author outside America. It thus formed part of the brief that James had to draw up both for and against his countrymen. This 1987 collection of essays casts light on this and other major aspects of …
Failure and Success in America
A Literary Debate
Av Martha Banta
Häftad, 2015
1935 kr
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Ranging widely over a span of three hundred and fifty years of discussion and controversy, Martha Banta's book makes a fundamental contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of success and failure in a specifically American context. Her Whitmanesque view of the debate takes in the work of …
Failure and Success in America
A Literary Debate
Av Martha Banta
Inbunden, 2016
4413 kr
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Ranging widely over a span of three hundred and fifty years of discussion and controversy, Martha Banta's book makes a fundamental contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of success and failure in a specifically American context. Her Whitmanesque view of the debate takes in the work of …
Failure and Success in America
A Literary Debate
Av Martha Banta
E-bok, 2015
1509 kr
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Ranging widely over a span of three hundred and fifty years of discussion and controversy, Martha Banta's book makes a fundamental contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of success and failure in a specifically American context. Her Whitmanesque view of the debate takes in the work of …
Barbaric Intercourse
Caricature and the Culture of Conduct, 1841-1936
Av Martha Banta
Häftad, 2003
465 kr
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"Barbaric Intercourse" tells the story of a century of social upheaval and the satiric attacks it inspired in leading periodicals in both England and America. Martha Banta explores the politics of caricature and cartoon from 1841 to 1936, devoting special attention to the original "Life" magazine. …
Taylored Lives
Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford
Av Martha Banta
Inbunden, 1993
855 kr
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Scientific management: technology spawned it, Frederick Winslow Taylor championed it, Thorstein Veblen dissected it, Henry Ford implemented it. By the turn of the century, practical visionaries prided themselves on having arrived at "the one best way" both to increase industrial productivity and to …
