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Secret Histories

A New Era in Constance Fenimore Woolson Scholarship

by Lisa West, Etta Madden, Kristin M. Comment, Susan L. Roberson, Sidonia Serafini, Aaron J. Rovan, Kathryn McKee, Karen Tracey, John Lowe, Lisa Nais, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Katherine Barrett Swett, Heather Hartley, Edoarda Grego ...

The eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson’s prodigious range in period and genre as well as place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. The whole of her professional life comes alive in this enlightening collection’s triptych.The first section, “A Writer’s Experiments,” reveals that Woolson’s play with familiar ... Read more

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The eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson’s prodigious range in period and genre as well as place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. The whole of her professional life comes alive in this enlightening collection’s triptych.The first section, “A Writer’s Experiments,” reveals that Woolson’s play with familiar
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The Truth Seeker, The Seer & The Heart

by Lisa West ...

At the age of 8, Kyle is briefly transported back to Ancient Egypt after holding an enchanting amulet where he encounters a beautiful woman named Amira. From this experience, his love for archaeology develops and he meets Emma who, since the age of 5, has had strange visions of a young Egyptian girl who she speaks to in Arabic, which baffles her parents. The lives of Emma, Kyle and Amira, and the ... Read more

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At the age of 8, Kyle is briefly transported back to Ancient Egypt after holding an enchanting amulet where he encounters a beautiful woman named Amira. From this experience, his love for archaeology develops and he meets Emma who, since the age of 5, has had strange visions of a young Egyptian girl who she speaks to in Arabic, which baffles her parents. The lives of Emma, Kyle and Amira, and the
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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art

by Daniel Diez Couch, Lori Rogers-Stokes, Marion Rust, Nicholas K. Mohlmann, Keri Holt, John Saillant, D. Berton Emerson, Lisa West, Amy Morris0, Laurel V. Hankins1 ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices—from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments—often overlooked by critics in a scholarly privileging of the “whole.” Contributors from literary studies, book history, and visual ... Read more

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The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices—from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments—often overlooked by critics in a scholarly privileging of the “whole.” Contributors from literary studies, book history, and visual
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Prejudices, Second Series (Unabridged)

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by H. L. MENCKEN ...

Narrated by Charles Sammarco, Lisa West, Walter Tiller, Jason Acres ...

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Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure up. Here one sees in the Second Series that his focus is on the lack of real artistry and broad humanity in American art and society and on the failures of such fanatical crusades as Prohibition and finally on a more humorous note on the absurd habits of ... Read more

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Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure up. Here one sees in the Second Series that his focus is on the lack of real artistry and broad humanity in American art and society and on the failures of such fanatical crusades as Prohibition and finally on a more humorous note on the absurd habits of
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When Memory Speaks

Exploring the Art of Autobiography

by Jill Ker Conway ...

J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives.In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques ... Read more

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J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives.In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques
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The Dream of the Great American Novel

by Lawrence Buell ...

"Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

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"Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or
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Language as Liberation

Reflections on the American Canon

by Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky ...

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that ... Read more

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Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that
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Typecasting

On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality

by Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen ...

Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of modern society, authors Ewen & Ewen ... Read more

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Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of modern society, authors Ewen & Ewen
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Pablo and Splash: Frozen in Time

A Time-Traveling Penguin Adventure

by Sheena Dempsey ...

Illustrated by Sheena Dempsey ...

Series Book 2 - Pablo and Splash
Join time-traveling penguins Pablo and Splash on a rescue mission to the ice age in this hilarious graphic novel, perfect for fans of Dog Man and Investigators.When penguin besties Pablo and Splash go to visit Professor O'Brain in her lab, they discover that she's missing! Their friend has been left behind by her misbehaving time machine, so Pablo and Splash set out on a rescue mission…to the Ice ... Read more

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Join time-traveling penguins Pablo and Splash on a rescue mission to the ice age in this hilarious graphic novel, perfect for fans of Dog Man and Investigators.When penguin besties Pablo and Splash go to visit Professor O'Brain in her lab, they discover that she's missing! Their friend has been left behind by her misbehaving time machine, so Pablo and Splash set out on a rescue mission…to the Ice
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Validating Bachelorhood

Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review

by Scott Slawinski ...

Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity. ... Read more

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This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity.
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A History of American Literature

by Richard Gray ...

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available todayCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of ... Read more

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Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available todayCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of
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Slaves to Fashion

Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

by Monica L. Miller ...

Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed slave who sometimes wore diamond-buckled, red-heeled shoes as he circulated through the social scene of eighteenth-century ... Read more

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Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed slave who sometimes wore diamond-buckled, red-heeled shoes as he circulated through the social scene of eighteenth-century
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