Author: Frances M. WhitcherPublisher:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Widow Bedott Papers
Author: Frances M. WhitcherThe Widow Bedott's Celebrated Song
Author: William Jarvis WetmorePublisher:
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Category : Vocal music
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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The Sparrowgrass Papers
Author: Frederic Swartwout CozzensPublisher:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Redressing the balance
Author: Zita DresnerPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034688
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Gathers humorous stories, poetry, and essays by American writers from Anne Bradstreet to Erma Bombeck and Erica Jong.
The American Women's Rights Movement
Author: Paul D. BuchananPublisher: Branden Books
ISBN: 0828321604
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
More than 140 entries in this book depict events which have had lasting national significance in opening opportunities in the struggle for equal civil rights and opportunities for women. The impact of many of the included events was initially felt on a local level; but in time it created repercussions that spread across the country. These stories show women assuming roles of providers and heads of households, and their leadership, exerted in and outside the home, would often manifest in the community at large and, in turn, in the nation and in the world. The book is divided into four parts: OneThe Seeds Are planted; Two19th CenturyThe Movement Takes Root; Three20th CenturyReaching for the Sunlight; Four21st CenturyComing into Full Bloom. The book begins with Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer and ends with Condoleezza Rice, Nan
The Mirth of a Nation
Author: Walter BlairPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816611688
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Our Landlady
Author: L. Frank BaumPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261563
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
It is known that L Frank Baum spent several years in South Dakota before moving to Chicago, where he wrote the Oz books. This title lays out the complexities and ambiguities of Baum's thinking by providing us with the full texts of Baum's columns published weekly in the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer between January 1890 and February 1891. Nancy Tystad Koupal is a native of Mitchell, South Dakota, and serves as director of the Research and Publishing Program at the South Dakota State Historical Society.
A Manual of American Literature
Author: Theodore StantonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This book has been prepared for publication as No. 4000, a "Memorial Volume," of the "Tauchnitz Edition." Perhaps it may be well to explain to American readers what the "Tauchnitz Edition" is and what a "Memorial Volume" is in this collection. The "Collection of British Authors," or, as it is more popularly known on the European Continent, the "Tauchnitz Edition," was instituted in 1841, at Leipsic, by one of the most distinguished of German publishers, the late Baron Bernhard Tauchnitz, whose son is now at the head of the house. The father records that he was "incited to the undertaking by the high opinion and enthusiastic fondness which I have ever entertained for English literature: a literature springing from the selfsame root as the literature of Germany, and cultivated in the beginning by the same Saxon race.... As a German-Saxon it gave me particular pleasure to promote the literary interest of my Anglo-Saxon cousins, by rendering English literature as universally known as possible beyond the limits of the British Empire." In another place, Baron Tauchnitz describes "the mission" of his Collection to be the "spreading and strengthening the love for English literature outside of England and her Colonies."
Gender, Fantasy, and Realism in American Literature
Author: Alfred HabeggerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231053975
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In this study of the 19th-century American novel, the author demonstrates the imaginative continuity between sentimental and realistic fiction and sets out to establish that realism is the central and preeminent literary type in America, a mode grounded in the tradition of women's popular fiction which shaped the nation's reading habits in the mid-19th century. He examines this feminine literature, with its common technique of symbolizing deeper social conflicts through patterns of courtship, marriage, and gender roles. Contends that Howells and James owe much of their fictional domain to the often-disparaged household dramas of these female precursors.
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