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ISBN: 9780810309159
Category : American literature
Languages : en
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Antebellum Writers in New York
Author: Kent Ljungquist
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Contains biographical sketches of authors who wrote or began writing their major works during the period 1820 to 1860. Represented are writers of short stories, juvenile literature, sermons, and popular literature, as well as novelists, poets, essayists, editors, humorists, translators, compilers, journalists, reformers, historians, abolitionists, and scientists.
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Contains biographical sketches of authors who wrote or began writing their major works during the period 1820 to 1860. Represented are writers of short stories, juvenile literature, sermons, and popular literature, as well as novelists, poets, essayists, editors, humorists, translators, compilers, journalists, reformers, historians, abolitionists, and scientists.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Author:
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ISBN: 9780810309159
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780810309159
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Dictionary of literary biography
Author: Joel Myerson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
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Languages : en
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Dictionary of Literary Biography
Author: Kent P. Ljungquist
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780787646677
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780787646677
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Taming Manhattan
Author: Catherine McNeur
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674725093
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History VSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America Hornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society Library James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have been unrecognizable to inhabitants of today’s sprawling metropolis. Fruits and vegetables came from small market gardens in the city, and manure piled high on streets and docks was gold to nearby farmers. But as Catherine McNeur reveals in this environmental history of Gotham, a battle to control the boundaries between city and country was already being waged, and the winners would take dramatic steps to outlaw New York’s wild side. “[A] fine book which make[s] a real contribution to urban biography.” —Joseph Rykwert, Times Literary Supplement “Tells an odd story in lively prose...The city McNeur depicts in Taming Manhattan is the pestiferous obverse of the belle epoque city of Henry James and Edith Wharton that sits comfortably in many imaginations...[Taming Manhattan] is a smart book that engages in the old fashioned business of trying to harvest lessons for the present from the past.” —Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674725093
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History VSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America Hornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society Library James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have been unrecognizable to inhabitants of today’s sprawling metropolis. Fruits and vegetables came from small market gardens in the city, and manure piled high on streets and docks was gold to nearby farmers. But as Catherine McNeur reveals in this environmental history of Gotham, a battle to control the boundaries between city and country was already being waged, and the winners would take dramatic steps to outlaw New York’s wild side. “[A] fine book which make[s] a real contribution to urban biography.” —Joseph Rykwert, Times Literary Supplement “Tells an odd story in lively prose...The city McNeur depicts in Taming Manhattan is the pestiferous obverse of the belle epoque city of Henry James and Edith Wharton that sits comfortably in many imaginations...[Taming Manhattan] is a smart book that engages in the old fashioned business of trying to harvest lessons for the present from the past.” —Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times
Antebellum Dream Book
Author: Elizabeth Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Offers a collection of poems with themes ranging from race, memory, and Southern culture to African American celebrities including Richard Pryor, Muhammad Ali, and Nat King Cole.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Offers a collection of poems with themes ranging from race, memory, and Southern culture to African American celebrities including Richard Pryor, Muhammad Ali, and Nat King Cole.
Antebellum Writers in the South
Author: Kent Ljungquist
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Contains biographical sketches of authors who wrote or began writing their major works during the period 1820 to 1860. Represented are writers of short stories, juvenile literature, sermons, and popular literature, as well as novelists, poets, essayists, editors, humorists, translators, compilers, journalists, reformers, historians, abolitionists, and scientists.
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Contains biographical sketches of authors who wrote or began writing their major works during the period 1820 to 1860. Represented are writers of short stories, juvenile literature, sermons, and popular literature, as well as novelists, poets, essayists, editors, humorists, translators, compilers, journalists, reformers, historians, abolitionists, and scientists.
At Your Service
Author: Jen Malone
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481402846
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Chloe loves working as a junior concierge at an exclusive NYC hotel—but when three royal kids come to stay, her hospitality is put to the ultimate test! Chloe Turner has pretty much the BEST life. She gets to live in the super fancy Hotel St. Michele. New York City is her hometown. And her dad, Mitchell Turner, concierge extraordinaire, is teaching her all the secrets of the business so she can follow in his footsteps. After helping him out with a particularly difficult kid client, Chloe is appointed the official junior concierge, tending to the hotel’s smallest, though sometimes most demanding, guests. Her new position comes with tons of perks like cupcake parties, backstage passes to concerts, and even private fittings with the hippest clothing designers. But Chloe hasn’t faced her toughest challenge yet. When three young royals (including a real-life PRINCE!) come to stay, Chloe’s determined to prove once and for all just how good she is at her job. Except the trip is a total disaster—especially when the youngest royal disappears. Now it’s up to Chloe to save the day. Can she find the missing princess before it becomes international news?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481402846
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Chloe loves working as a junior concierge at an exclusive NYC hotel—but when three royal kids come to stay, her hospitality is put to the ultimate test! Chloe Turner has pretty much the BEST life. She gets to live in the super fancy Hotel St. Michele. New York City is her hometown. And her dad, Mitchell Turner, concierge extraordinaire, is teaching her all the secrets of the business so she can follow in his footsteps. After helping him out with a particularly difficult kid client, Chloe is appointed the official junior concierge, tending to the hotel’s smallest, though sometimes most demanding, guests. Her new position comes with tons of perks like cupcake parties, backstage passes to concerts, and even private fittings with the hippest clothing designers. But Chloe hasn’t faced her toughest challenge yet. When three young royals (including a real-life PRINCE!) come to stay, Chloe’s determined to prove once and for all just how good she is at her job. Except the trip is a total disaster—especially when the youngest royal disappears. Now it’s up to Chloe to save the day. Can she find the missing princess before it becomes international news?
Tolerable Entertainment
Author: John Evelev
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A fresh look at the social context of a great American writer In TolerableEntertainment, Herman Melville's life and literary work serve as windowson the tumultuous world of antebellum New York City. Charting Melville'swritings from Typee (1846) to Pierre (1852) as responses to hisexperience of living in the city, this book reveals the dramatic shifts inAmerican life occurring at the time. Perhaps more than any othernineteenth-century writer, Melville has been read and understood in thecontext of his career, embodied in a narrative of the trajectory fromimmature emergence, through brilliant ascendance, to collapse intoneglect.
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A fresh look at the social context of a great American writer In TolerableEntertainment, Herman Melville's life and literary work serve as windowson the tumultuous world of antebellum New York City. Charting Melville'swritings from Typee (1846) to Pierre (1852) as responses to hisexperience of living in the city, this book reveals the dramatic shifts inAmerican life occurring at the time. Perhaps more than any othernineteenth-century writer, Melville has been read and understood in thecontext of his career, embodied in a narrative of the trajectory fromimmature emergence, through brilliant ascendance, to collapse intoneglect.
Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature
Author: John Hay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book examines the widespread use of postapocalyptic fantasies in American literary texts in the early nineteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book examines the widespread use of postapocalyptic fantasies in American literary texts in the early nineteenth century.