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Unseen Shadows: Modern Haunted Houses of the United States

by Erwin Timothy ...

Prepare to venture into the shadows of America's modern-day haunted houses, where the living and the dead collide in mysterious and spine-chilling ways. Unseen Shadows: Modern Haunted Houses of the United States is an exploration of the paranormal encounters that lurk in the corners of today's society, transcending the boundaries of traditional ghost stories and offering a fresh perspective on the ... Read more

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Prepare to venture into the shadows of America's modern-day haunted houses, where the living and the dead collide in mysterious and spine-chilling ways. Unseen Shadows: Modern Haunted Houses of the United States is an exploration of the paranormal encounters that lurk in the corners of today's society, transcending the boundaries of traditional ghost stories and offering a fresh perspective on the
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Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment

The Genius of Every Place

by Kevin L. Cope, Samara Anne Cahill, Stephen Clarke, Greg Clingham, Bärbel Czennia, Stephen DeMaria Jr., Timothy Erwin, Stephen Karian, A. W. Lee, Maximillian Novak0, David Nunnery1, Philip Smallwood2, David Venturo3, Lance Wilcox4, James Engell5 ...

Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift, Dryden, Hogarth, and other major authors and artists of the period. In the sections that ... Read more

$109.39 USD

Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift, Dryden, Hogarth, and other major authors and artists of the period. In the sections that
... Read more
Reconsidering Biography

Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

by Martine Watson Brownley, Greg Clingham, Timothy Erwin, Christopher D. Johnson, Thomas Kaminski, Myron D. Yeager, O M Brack Jr., Martine W. Brownley ...

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting ... Read more

$85.09 USD

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting
... Read more
1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29)

by Deborah Kennedy, Angelina Dulong, Mona Scheuermann, Paul Tankard, Christina Ionescu, Catherine J. Lewis Theobald, Jeanne M. Britton, Timothy Erwin, Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Ileana Baird, Yanzhang Cui, Duane Coltharp, Thomas Hothem, John C. Traver, Christopher Trigg, Paul deGategno, Courtney A. Hoffman, Elizabeth Kraft, John Knapp, Gefen Bar-On Santor, Susan Spencer, Greg Clingham, Christopher D. Johnson, Anthony W Lee, Leigh G. Dillard ...

Series Book 29 - 1650-1850
Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement. Welcoming ... Read more

$115.19 USD

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement. Welcoming
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Textual Vision

Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture

by Timothy Erwin ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
A stylish critique of literary attitudes towards painting, TextualVision explores the simultaneous rhetorical formation and empirical fragmentation of visual reading in enlightenment Britain. Beginning with an engaging treatment of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Timothy Erwin takes the reader on a guided tour of the pointed allusion, apt illustration, or the subtle appeal to the mind's eye within a wide ... Read more

$52.69 USD

A stylish critique of literary attitudes towards painting, TextualVision explores the simultaneous rhetorical formation and empirical fragmentation of visual reading in enlightenment Britain. Beginning with an engaging treatment of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Timothy Erwin takes the reader on a guided tour of the pointed allusion, apt illustration, or the subtle appeal to the mind's eye within a wide
... Read more
Beyond Sense and Sensibility

Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth

by Leslie A. Chilton, Timothy Erwin, Evan Gottlieb, Christopher D. Johnson, Heather King, Rhona Brown, James Noggle, Adrianne Wadewitz, Adam Rounce ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How ... Read more

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During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How
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The Bergdoll Boys

America's Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers

by Timothy W. Lake ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette, Louis Erwin Bergdoll, Timothy W Lake ...

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19 hours 12 min

Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Then, just as Grover is trying to buy a bigger plane to set more records and attempt to fly to Europe a decade before Lindbergh, they're snared by vengeful local military draft officials. Running and ... Read more

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Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Then, just as Grover is trying to buy a bigger plane to set more records and attempt to fly to Europe a decade before Lindbergh, they're snared by vengeful local military draft officials. Running and
... Read more

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The Secret Life of Words

How English Became English

by Henry Hitchings ...

"A colorful, thematic history of the English language . . . a fine choice for libraries and a 'smorgasbord' for language aficionados. Highly recommended." —E. L. Battistella, ChoiceWords are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think ... Read more

$12.99 USD

"A colorful, thematic history of the English language . . . a fine choice for libraries and a 'smorgasbord' for language aficionados. Highly recommended." —E. L. Battistella, ChoiceWords are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think
... Read more
The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

by David Lowenthal ...

The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. ... Read more

$36.89 USD

The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity.
... Read more
Translation

A Very Short Introduction

by Matthew Reynolds ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field,
... Read more
Being Cultured

in defence of discrimination

by Angus Kennedy ...

Series Book 19 - Societas
Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In "Being Cultured: in defence of ... Read more

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Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In "Being Cultured: in defence of
... Read more
Ugliness

A Cultural History

by Gretchen E. Henderson ...

‘Ugly as sin’, ‘ugly duckling’, ‘rear its ugly head’. The word ‘ugly’ is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions slide all over the place. Hovering around ‘feared and dreaded’, ugliness both repels and fascinates. But the concept of ugliness has a lineage that has long haunted our cultural imagination.In this ... Read more

$23.79 USD

‘Ugly as sin’, ‘ugly duckling’, ‘rear its ugly head’. The word ‘ugly’ is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions slide all over the place. Hovering around ‘feared and dreaded’, ugliness both repels and fascinates. But the concept of ugliness has a lineage that has long haunted our cultural imagination.In this
... Read more

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