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Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Harper's illustrated catalogue of valuable standard works, in the several departments of general literature
Author: Harper's Illustrated Catalogue of Valuable Standard Works in the Several Departments of General Literature
Author: Harper & BrothersPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Illustrated Catalogue of ... General Literature ...
Author: Harper & BrothersPublisher:
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Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Constructing American Lives
Author: Scott E. CasperPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that allowed people to learn about public figures and peer into the lives of strangers. In this pioneering study, Casper examines how Americans wrote, published, and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the course of a century. Campaign biographies, memoirs of pious women, patriotic narratives of eminent statesmen, "mug books" that collected the lives of ordinary midwestern farmers--all were labeled "biography," however disparate their contents and the contexts of their creation, publication, and dissemination. Analyzing debates over how these diverse biographies should be written and read, Casper reveals larger disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of American history, and the place of American literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters. As much a personal experience as a literary genre, biography helped Americans imagine their own lives as well as the ones about which they wrote and read.
The Literary World
Author: Catalogue of the New York State Library
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library. Jan. 1, 1850
Author: New York State Library (ALBANY, N.Y.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. SenatePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library of the State of New York
Author: State Library (Albany).Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 172
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