Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Exploring Other Worlds
Author: David ChapinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Illuminates the emerging culture of celebrity in early nineteenth-century America; Exploring Other Worlds tells the intertwined stories of the Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane and the spiritualist medium Margaret Fox and examines their unlikely relationship. Kane, from a prominent Philadelphia family, became one of the most renowned and honored explorers of the antebellum era. Fox grew up in rural upstate New York and, as one of the Fox Sisters, became a famed and somewhat notorious spirit rapper whose strange knocks were said to be communications from the dead. The two were rumored to have had a love affair, and they may even have been secretly married. new and strange (though not necessarily true) to their audiences - the unknown worlds of the globe and the spirit. They brought experiences to their listeners that were exotic and delightful. The burgeoning commercial mass culture of antebellum America provided a natural venue for tales of huge icebergs, fierce polar bears, and messages from the dead. Their public careers bridged the gaps between the scientific investigations of an earlier Enlightenment age and a newer form of sensational inquiry growing up in a democratic marketplace. While Kane and Fox began by generating curiosity about geography and the nature of the human soul, in time their personal relationship became the basis for what newspaperman Horace Greeley would call an impertinent curiosity. Newspapers printed letters about their supposed romance, and eventually a book purporting to be the famous explorer's love-letters to the notorious spiritualist was published. Curiosity about the Arctic and curiosity about the fate of the soul after death were transformed into curiosity about the private affairs of a new kind of media-driven public cele
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Correspondence and Journals of Samuel Blachley Webb
Author: Samuel Blachley WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of ArtPublisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
History of Woman Suffrage: 1900-1920
Author: Elizabeth Cady StantonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Catalog of Biographies in the Library of the New York Academy of Medicine
Author: New York Academy of Medicine. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Subject Guide to Forthcoming Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Presents by subject the same titles that are listed by author and title in Forthcoming books.
The Chronicles of Baltimore
Author: John Thomas ScharfPublisher: Baltimore : Turnbull Bros.
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
1843-1856
Author: New York (State). GovernorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description