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Languages : en
Pages : 514
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The Life of William Roscoe
Author: A Letter from the Virginia Loyalist John Randolph to Thomas Jefferson
Author: Arthur Prentice RuggPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Life of William Roscoe
Author: Henry RoscoeThe Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton
Author: Millicent BellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825208
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or general reader who encounters this major American writer for the first time and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights into her creative achievement. The essays cover Wharton's most important novels as well as some of her shorter fiction, and utilise both traditional and innovative critical techniques, applying the perspectives of literary history, feminist theory, psychology or biography, sociology or anthropology, or social history. The Introduction supplies a valuable review of the history of Wharton criticism which shows how her writing has provoked varying responses from its first publication, and how current interests have emerged from earlier ones. A detailed chronology of Wharton's life and publications and a useful bibliography are also provided.
Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
Author: Celeste-Marie BernierPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748692940
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field-the history of letters and letter writing-is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature. Because of its mass literacy, population mobility, and extensive postal system, nineteenth-century America is a crucial site for the exploration of letters and their meanings, whether they be written by presidents and statesmen, scientists and philosophers, novelists and poets, feminists and reformers, immigrants, Native Americans, or African Americans. This book breaks new ground by mapping the voluminous correspondence of these figures and other important American writers and thinkers. Rather than treating the letter as a spontaneous private document, the contributors understand it as a self-conscious artefact, circulating between friends and strangers and across multiple genres in ways that both make and break social ties.
Letters of the Century
Author: Lisa GrunwaldPublisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0385315937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
"Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen," write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last 100 years. Here is Mark Twain's hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union, an ecstatic letter from a young Charlie Chaplin upon receiving his first movie contract, Einstein's letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning about atomic warfare, Mark Rudd's "generation gap" letter to the president of Columbia University during the student riots of the 60s, and a letter from young Bill Gates imploring hobbyists not to share software so that innovators can make some money... In these pages, our century's most celebrated figures become everyday people and everyday people become part of history. Here is a veteran's wrenching letter left at the Vietnam Wall, a poignant correspondence between two women trying to become mothers, a heart-breaking letter from an AIDS sufferer telling his parents how he wants to be buried, an indignant e-mail from a PC user to his on-line server... "Letters," write Grunwald and Adler, "give history a voice." Arranged chronologically by decade, illustrated with over 100 photographs, Letters of the Century creates an extraordinary chronicle of our history, through the voices of the men and women who have lived its greatest moments.
A memoir of the life and writings of the late William Taylor, containig his correspondance with R. Southey and original letters from Sir Walter Scott
Author: J. W. RobberdsThe Letters of William Roscoe Thayer
Author: William Roscoe ThayerPublisher:
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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The letters
Author: Brand WhitlockPublisher:
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Contains the letters and journals of Brand Whitlock, social reformer, who served as mayor of Toledo, Ohio during the early 1900's and as ambassador to Belgium during World War I.
A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich ...
Author: John Warden RobberdsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 594
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