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Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men
Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories
Inbunden, 2010
641 kr
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In 1836 Benjamin Drake, a midwestern writer of popular sketches for newspapers of the day, introduced his readers to a new and distinctly American rascal who rode the steamboats up and down the Mississippi and other western waterways - the riverboat gambler. These men, he recorded, ""dress with …
Deep Water
The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain
Av Thomas Ruys Smith, Scott Romine
Inbunden, 2019
656 kr
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Mark Twain's visions of the Mississippi River offer some of the most indelible images in American literature: Huck and Jim floating downstream on their raft, Tom Sawyer and friends becoming pirates on Jackson's Island, the young Sam Clemens himself at the wheel of a steamboat. Through Twain's …
Christmas Past
An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2021
526 kr
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As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless books and magazines. Now, for the first time, this rich anthology brings together some of the most significant of those seasonal stories to retell a …
River of Dreams
Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain
Häftad, 2023
449 kr
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Even in the decades before Mark Twain enthralled the world with his evocative representations of the Mississippi, the river played an essential role in American culture and consciousness. Throughout the antebellum era, the Mississippi acted as a powerful symbol of America's conception of itself -- …
Last Gift
The Christmas Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Av Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Thomas Ruys Smith
Häftad, 2023
501 kr
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) was one of the most popular American writers at the turn of the twentieth century, and her annual Christmas stories appeared in magazines and periodicals across the globe. Since then, the extraordinary stories that once delighted her legions of fans every festive …
American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies
Infinite Space
Av John Wills, Thomas Ruys Smith m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
819 kr
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This book explores what it means to study America in the twenty-first century and what the emergence of the field of New Area Studies means for the development of American Studies. By analysing the meaning of interdisciplinarity, aesthetics, temporality, and periodisation, this book reveals both …
American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies
Infinite Space
Av John Wills, Thomas Ruys Smith m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
802 kr
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This book explores what it means to study America in the twenty-first century and what the emergence of the field of New Area Studies means for the development of American Studies. By analysing the meaning of interdisciplinarity, aesthetics, temporality, and periodisation, this book reveals both …
American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies
Infinite Space
Av Clare Corbould, Hilary Emmett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2490 kr
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This book explores what it means to study America in the twenty-first century and what the emergence of the field of New Area Studies means for the development of American Studies.By analysing the meaning of interdisciplinarity, aesthetics, temporality, and periodisation, this book reveals both …
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
America changed through music
Av Ross Hair, Thomas Ruys Smith
Häftad, 2018
791 kr
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Released in 1952, the Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923–1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial recordings of American vernacular and folk music originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the Anthology …
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
America changed through music
Av Thomas Ruys Smith, Ross Hair
E-bok, 2016
820 kr
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Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923–1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial recordings of American vernacular and folk music originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the …
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
America changed through music
Av Thomas Ruys Smith, Ross Hair
E-bok, 2016
820 kr
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Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923–1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial recordings of American vernacular and folk music originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the …
Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers
From Charlotte Temple to the Da Vinci Code
Av Sarah Churchwell, Thomas Ruys Smith
E-bok, 2012
645 kr
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What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn their attention to bestsellers, they seem only to be interested in the same handful of blockbusters, …
Southern Queen
New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century
E-bok, 2011
372 kr
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New Orleans occupies a singular position within American life. Drawing deeply from Old World traditions and New World possibilities, the port city of the Mississippi has proved a lure to an extraordinary variety of travellers from its very earliest days. New Orleans has always been a world city …
Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers
From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code
Av Sarah Churchwell, Thomas Ruys Smith
Inbunden, 2012
2132 kr
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What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn their attention to bestsellers, they seem only to be interested in the same handful of blockbusters, …
Southern Queen
New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century
E-bok, 2011
361 kr
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New Orleans occupies a singular position within American life. Drawing deeply from Old World traditions and New World possibilities, the port city of the Mississippi has proved a lure to an extraordinary variety of travellers from its very earliest days. New Orleans has always been a world city …
Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers
From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code
Av Sarah Churchwell, Thomas Ruys Smith
Häftad, 2012
596 kr
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What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn their attention to bestsellers, they seem only to be interested in the same handful of blockbusters, …
Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers
From Charlotte Temple to the Da Vinci Code
Av Sarah Churchwell, Thomas Ruys Smith
E-bok, 2012
645 kr
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What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn their attention to bestsellers, they seem only to be interested in the same handful of blockbusters, …
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
America changed through music
Av Ross Hair, Thomas Ruys Smith
Inbunden, 2016
2601 kr
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Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923–1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial recordings of American vernacular and folk music originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the Anthology …
What Katy Did
Children's Corner Critical Edition
Av Susan Coolidge, Hilary Emmett m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
203 kr
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Susan Coolidge’s What Katy Did has captured the imaginations of readers since its first publication in 1872. A classic of American children’s literature, it tells the story of Katy Carr - twelve years old, free-spirited, perennially untidy, endearingly awkward and irrepressibly imaginative. …
Five Little Peppers
Children's Corner Critical Edition
Av Margaret Sidney, Hilary Emmett m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
198 kr
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Working hard to survive in a harsh world, the Peppers still find joy and love in their little brown house - until a chance encounter with a wealthy family changes their fortunes forever. When it was first published in 1881, Margaret Sidney’s Five Little Peppers was an immediate bestseller. Its …
Juvenile Miscellany
Children's Corner Critical Editions
Av Lydia Maria Child, Hilary Emmett m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
208 kr
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Edited with an introduction by Hilary Emmett & Thomas Ruys Smith in collaboration with students from the Department of American Studies at UEA.Author and activist Lydia Maria Child was a foundational figure in the development of American literature in the early nineteenth century. After her debut …
Homely Ballads and Stories in Verse
The Poetry of Mary Sewell
Av Mary Sewell, Thomas Ruys Smith
Häftad, 2024
271 kr
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This volume, edited with an introduction by Thomas Ruys Smith (UEA), reproduces some of Mary Sewell's most popular and powerful ballads and stories in verse and gives us a new understanding of the extraordinary woman who wrote them. As a committed philanthropist who was deeply concerned with the …
Searching for Santa Claus
An Anthology of the Poems, Stories and Illustrations That Shaped a Global Icon
Häftad, 2025
215 kr
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Santa Claus appears throughout popular culture, captivating the imaginations and shaping the wishes of millions of children across the world – but he only came into focus as a social and cultural icon relatively recently, in the nineteenth century.This landmark anthology, the first of its kind, …
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
Children's Corner Critical Editions
Av Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Ruys Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
296 kr
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"The ideal of happiness of many American children is to lose themselves in A Wonder-Book.” Henry JamesIn 1851, many decades before Percy Jackson and his fellow demi-gods and heroes conquered popular culture in the twenty first century, Nathaniel Hawthorne delighted young readers with A Wonder-Book …
