A Listener in Babel

A Listener in Babel PDF Author: Vida Dutton Scudder
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ISBN: 9781436737296
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Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

A Listener in Babel

A Listener in Babel PDF Author: Vida Dutton Scudder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781436737296
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

A Listener in Babel

A Listener in Babel PDF Author: Vida Dutton Scudder
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498199643
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.

A Listener in Babel; Being a Series of Imaginary Conversations Held at the Close of the Last Century and Reported

A Listener in Babel; Being a Series of Imaginary Conversations Held at the Close of the Last Century and Reported PDF Author: Vida Dutton Scudder
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230222363
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV NEW DEPARTURES There were signs of a flitting in Hilda's quarters. Pictures were taken down, burnished copper pots gleamed from the packing-boxes, and the tenement house was again in clear evidence. Suddenly struck with dreariness, Hilda turned her back on the confusion and ran downstairs, to join the group of friends gathered for a last chat around the steaming samovar. The settlement, which had seemed so daring a finality two years ago, had long since become to her thought only a halfway house. Her loyalty was deep toward this friendly shelter that awaited the social pilgrim in his bleak journey across civilizar tion. She knew how many were encouraged to undertake that journey through the knowledge that the amenities of life need not be left behind by the traveller in the city wilderness; to be hostess in such a hostelry seemed to her one of the posts of clearest value in this bewildered world. Nor did she ignore the significance of the settlement as a meetingground for the forces of reform. But for herself, -- she was wayfarer ever and the time of her sojourning was ended. Father Phillips had spoken truly, however, when he told her that return to her past was impossible. Her mother, after over twenty years of widowhood, had surprised her circle of friends by marrying that kindly, wealthy, and Philistine gentleman, her cousin, Mr. Howard Brown. Delicately pathetic as ever in aspect, she still bore herself with the air of one who mingled with the world by compulsion; and the world in consequence adored her. Toward her direct and forceful daughter, Mrs. Howard Brown carried herself in a manner half tender, half reproachful; the affection between them was unbroken; but her marriage snapped the last tie of duty that bound Hilda...

A Listener in Babel

A Listener in Babel PDF Author: Vida Dutton Scudder
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781298971289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954

The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954 PDF Author: Walter Bates Rideout
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231080774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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A classic analysis of the American leftist writers of the 1900s, their work, and the political, social, economic, and cultural environment in which they existed--originally published in 1956 (Harvard U. Press) and reprinted with a new preface (8 pp.) by the author. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

American Fiction, 1901-1925

American Fiction, 1901-1925 PDF Author: Geoffrey D. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521434690
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1064

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A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.

A Listener in Babel

A Listener in Babel PDF Author: Vida Dutton Scudder
Publisher:
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Category : Working class women
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Melting-Pot Modernism

Melting-Pot Modernism PDF Author: Sarah Wilson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145817X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Between 1891 and 1920 more than 18 million immigrants entered the United States. While many Americans responded to this influx by proposing immigration restriction or large-scale "Americanization" campaigns, a few others, figures such as Jane Addams and John Dewey, adopted the image of the melting pot to oppose such measures. These Progressives imagined assimilation as a multidirectional process, in which both native-born and immigrants contributed their cultural gifts to a communal fund. Melting-Pot Modernism reveals the richly aesthetic nature of assimilation at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on questions of the individual's relation to culture, the protection of vulnerable populations, the sharing of cultural heritages, and the far-reaching effects of free-market thinking. By tracing the melting-pot impulse toward merging and cross-fertilization through the writings of Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, and Gertrude Stein, as well as through the autobiography, sociology, and social commentary of their era, Sarah Wilson makes a new connection between the ideological ferment of the Progressive era and the literary experimentation of modernism. Wilson puts literary analysis at the service of intellectual history, showing that literary modes of thought and expression both shaped and were shaped by debates over cultural assimilation. Exploring the depth and nuance of an earlier moment's commitment to cultural inclusiveness, Melting-Pot Modernism gives new meaning to American struggles to imaginatively encompass difference—and to the central place of literary interpretation in understanding such struggles.

Passionate Commitments

Passionate Commitments PDF Author: Julia M. Allen
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 143844687X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Developing their rhetorical skills in early-twentieth-century women’s organizations, Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins, life partners and heirs to significant wealth, aimed for revolution rather than reform. They lived frugally while devoting themselves to several organizations in succession, including the Episcopal Church and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, as they searched for a place where their efforts were welcomed and where they could address the root causes of social inequities. In 1927, they joined the Communist Party USA and helped to build the Labor Research Association. There they engaged in research and wrote books, pamphlets, and articles arguing for gender and racial equality, and economic justice. Julia M. Allen’s Passionate Commitments is a love story, but more than that, it is a story of two women whose love for each other sustained their political work. Allen examines the personal and public writings of Rochester and Hutchins to reveal underreported challenges to capitalism as well as little-known efforts to strengthen feminism during their time. Through an investigation of their lives and writings, this biography charts the underpinnings of American Cold War fears and the influence of sexology on political movements in mid-twentieth-century America.

The Politics of Child Abuse in America

The Politics of Child Abuse in America PDF Author: Lela B. Costin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190283459
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Child abuse policy in the United States contains dangerous contradictions, which have only intensified as the public slowly accepted it as a middle class problem. One contradiction is the rapidly expanding child abuse industry (made up of enterprising psychotherapists and attorneys) which is consuming enormous resources, while thousands of poor children are seriously injured or killed, many while being "protected" by public agencies. This "rediscovery" has also led to the frenzied pursuit of offenders, resulting in the sacrifice of some innocent people. Moreover, the media's focus on the sensational details of high-visibility sexual abuse cases has helped to trivialize, if not commercialize, the child abuse problem. As such, child abuse has gone from a social problem to a social spectacle. By the 1980s the child welfare system had become a virtual "nonsystem," marked by a staggering turnover of staff, unmanageable caseloads, a severe shortage of funding, and caseloads composed of highly dysfunctional families (many with drug-related problems). To make room for these families, public agencies rationed services by increasingly screening-out child abuse reports which contained little likelihood of serious bodily harm. In The Politics of Child Abuse in America, the authors argue that child abuse must be viewed as a public safety problem. This redefinition would make it congruent with other family-based social trends, including the crackdown on domestic violence. Children must have the same legal protection currently extended to physically and sexually abused women. This can be done by creating a "Children's Authority," which would have the overall charge for protecting children. Specifically, Children's Authorities would have the responsibility for providing the six main functions of child protection: investigation, enforcement, placement services, prevention and education, family support, and research and development. Offering a unique perspective on the cold reality of this crisis, The Politics of Child Abuse in America will be a provocative work for social workers and human service personnel, as well as the general reader concerned with this timely issue.