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Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Av Charlotte Gilman, Denise Knight m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
778 kr
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman has reemerged as a major American literary figure, as evidenced by the republication of many of her stories and novels and an explosion of scholarship on her. This collection of letters, the last significant portion of Gilman's private papers to remain unpublished, fills a …
Mark Twain and Money
Language, Capital, and Culture
Av Henry B. Wonham, Lawrence Howe
Inbunden, 2017
586 kr
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This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life.Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Investigating Samuel …
Gears and God
Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain's America
Inbunden, 2018
586 kr
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A revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America, Nathaniel Williams analyzes the genre of technology-themed exploration novels—dime novel adventure …
Unguessed Kinships
Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy
Av Steven Frye
Inbunden, 2023
1420 kr
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The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelistsIt took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with the National Book Award–winning All the Pretty Horses, followed by major prizes, more best sellers, and Hollywood …
Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context
Reformer and Social Critic, 1869-1910
Av Leslie Diane Myrick, Gary Scharnhorst
Inbunden, 2023
1352 kr
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The first book-length treatment of Mark Twain’s public persona as depicted in newspaper and magazine illustrationsCartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain: Reformer and Social Critic, 1869–1910 reproduces for students and scholars of Twain and American literature a provocative series of visual texts …
Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890-1894
Av Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Andrew J. Ball
Inbunden, 2024
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The first collection of lectures and sermons that Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivered in the first four years of her career The last decades have seen a resurgence of interest in Charlotte Perkins Gilman, now considered among the most important thinkers in US history. She is best known for …
Our Sisters' Keepers
Nineteenth-century Benevolence Literature by American Women
Av Jill Bergman, Debra Bernardi
Häftad, 2005
441 kr
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This book contains essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief. American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental …
Question of Character
Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912
Häftad, 2006
377 kr
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Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors
Edith Wharton and Material Culture
Av Gary Totten
Häftad, 2007
505 kr
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In Edith Wharton's works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which …
Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism
The Tide of a Great Popular Movement
Häftad, 2008
377 kr
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With the publication of ""The Innocents Abroad"" (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism …
Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts
Häftad, 2009
377 kr
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This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts - especially painting - as a medium for revealing the ways that women's bodies have been represented (as passive, …
Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation
American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 18761893
Häftad, 2014
441 kr
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In this study of Gilded Age literature and culture, Benjamin Railton proposes that in the years after Reconstruction, America’s identity was often contested through distinct and competing conceptions of the nation’s history. He argues that the United States moved toward unifying and univocal …
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America
Häftad, 2019
377 kr
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A compelling critical investigation into Gilman's conception of setting and place.Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. …
Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context
Reformer and Social Critic, 1869-1910
Av Leslie Diane Myrick, Gary Scharnhorst
Häftad, 2023
359 kr
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The first book-length treatment of Mark Twain’s public persona as depicted in newspaper and magazine illustrationsCartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain: Reformer and Social Critic, 1869–1910 reproduces for students and scholars of Twain and American literature a provocative series of visual texts …
Unguessed Kinships
Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy
Av Steven Frye
Häftad, 2023
377 kr
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The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelistsIt took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with the National Book Award–winning All the Pretty Horses, followed by major prizes, more best sellers, and Hollywood …
Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890-1894
Av Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Andrew J. Ball
Häftad, 2024
441 kr
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The first collection of lectures and sermons that Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivered in the first four years of her career The last decades have seen a resurgence of interest in Charlotte Perkins Gilman, now considered among the most important thinkers in US history. She is best known for …
Mark Twain in the Margins
The Quarry Farm Marginalia and a ""Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Häftad, 2000
457 kr
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The common characterization of Mark Twain as an uneducated and improvizational writer took hold largely because of the novelist's own claims about his writing practices. This book argues that Twain approached his work with careful research and calculated design.
Conscience and Purpose
Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather
Inbunden, 2005
521 kr
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In a series of influential essays that appeared in Harper's, W. D. Howells argued for literature as a vehicle for social change. Literature could and should, Howells suggested, mediate across divisions of class and region, fostering cross-cultural sympathies that would lead to comprehensive social …
Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts
Inbunden, 2006
650 kr
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This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts - especially painting - as a medium for revealing the ways that women's bodies have been represented (as passive, …
On the Cusp
Stephen Crane, George Bellows, and Modernism
Av John Fagg
Inbunden, 2009
650 kr
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The writer Stephen Crane (1871-1900) and the painter George Bellows (1882-1925) each wrestled with issues specific to their own fields. But both also have much in common: their works contain residual traces of earlier idioms, register the growing influence of mass culture, and pre-empt the formal …
Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing
Inbunden, 2009
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American regionalism has become a contested subject in literary studies alongside the ubiquitous triad of race, class, and gender. "The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing" enters into the heart of an ongoing debate in the field about the significance of regional fiction at the end of …
Artistic Liberties
American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880-1905
Inbunden, 2014
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Artistic Liberties is a landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism and the ways editors, authors, and illustrators vied for authority over the publications. Though today, we commonly read major works of nineteenth-century American …
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries
Literary and Intellectual Contexts
Av Gary Scharnhorst, Cynthia Davis m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
377 kr
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By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated radical. Gilman believed and preached that no life is ever led in isolation; indeed, the cornerstone of her philosophy was …
Mark Twain on the Move
A Travel Reader
Av Mark Twain, Alan Gribben m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
377 kr
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Mark Twain on the Move gathers the very best passages from all five of Mark Twain's travel narratives: ""The Innocents Abroad"" (1869), ""Roughing It"" (1872), ""A Tramp Abroad"" (1880), ""Life on the Mississippi"" (1883), and ""Following the Equator"" (1897). Although Twain's travel narratives …
Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age
Häftad, 2008
441 kr
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Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age recounts Twain's fascination with, and participation in, America's spiritual and religious evolution in the 19th century and demonstrates how his writing is better understood within it. Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, …
