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  • Reading Women

    Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18

    Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel, Catherine E. Kelly ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Republic of Taste

    Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America

    by Catherine E. Kelly ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all could appreciate that taste was grounded in, demonstrated through, and confirmed by reading, writing, and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Republic of Taste

    Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America

    by Catherine E. Kelly ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all could appreciate that taste was grounded in, demonstrated through, and confirmed by reading, writing, and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Reading Women

    Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18

    Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel, Catherine E. Kelly ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

    Edited by Jack Lynch ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ambition, A History

    From Vice to Virtue

    by William Casey King ...
    Is "ambitious" a compliment? It depends: "[A] masterpiece of intellectual and cultural history."—David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New WorldFrom rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambition fuels the American Dream. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous vice, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs"

    Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

    by Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf ...
    New York Times BestsellerNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco ChronicleFinalist for the George Washington PrizeFinalist for the Library of Virginia Literary AwardA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection"An important book…[R]ichly rewarding. It is full of fascinating insights about Jefferson." —Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of BooksHailed ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Expense of Spirit

    Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

    by Mary Beth Rose ...
    A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic ... Read more

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  • The Black Box

    Writing the Race

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book • Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Award for Outstanding Books in Literary Scholarship“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Marriage and Violence

    The Early Modern Legacy

    by Frances E. Dolan ...
    Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what—or who—must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan contends, that its logical consequence is conflict.Dolan ranges over sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Puritan advice literature, sensational accounts of "true crime," and late twentieth-century ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • George Washington's Mount Vernon : At Home in Revolutionary America

    At Home in Revolutionary America

    by Robert F. Dalzell;Lee Baldwin Dalzell ...
    George Washington's Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also genuinely loved building, a man passionately human in his desire to impress on his ... Read more

    $37.99 USD