Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Pearl; Or, Affection's Gift
Author: The Pearl
Author: The Liberal Preacher
Author: From Gothic Windows to Peacocks
Author: Edwin WolfPublisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 0914076825
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Queer Books
Author: Edmund Lester PearsonPublisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Christmas Past
Author: Thomas Ruys SmithPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807176524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless books and magazines. Now, for the first time, this rich anthology brings together some of the most significant of those seasonal stories to retell a forgotten tale of Christmases past. From the authors who helped define a national literary culture, to the popular sentimentalists who negotiated Christmas’s position at the center of family life, to the realists who looked to reshape American letters in the wake of the Civil War, and beyond: all varieties of American writers turned to Christmas as an inevitable and potent subject during this deeply formative period in the history of American literature. In Christmas Past, Thomas Ruys Smith brings together a diverse range of voices to showcase the many ways in which Christmas was imagined across the nineteenth century, offering images that echo down to the present. The introduction that frames the anthology provides a new literary history of Christmas, contextualizing the selections and making clear the links both between them and to the wider trajectory of American literature.
The North American Magazine
Author: The North American Review
Author: Selections from Eliza Leslie
Author: Eliza LesliePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803238096
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Best known for her culinary and domestic guides and the award-winning short story “Mrs. Washington Potts,” Eliza Leslie deserves a much more prominent place in contemporary literary discussions of the nineteenth century. Her writing, known for its overtly moralistic and didactic tones—though often presented with wit and humor—also provides contemporary readers with a nuanced perspective for understanding the diversity among American women in Leslie’s time. Leslie’s writing serves as a commentary on gender ideals and consumerism; presents complicated constructions of racial, national, and class-based identities; and critiques literary genres such as the Gothic romance and the love letter. These criticisms are exposed through the juxtaposition of her fiction and nonfiction instructive texts, which range from lessons on literary conduct to needlework; from recipes for American and French culinary dishes to travel sketches; from songs to educational games. Demonstrating the complexity of choices available to women at the time, this volume enables readers to see how Leslie’s rhetoric and audience awareness facilitated her ability to appeal to a broad swath of the nineteenth-century reading public.