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Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Dickens' Household Words and Valuable Whispers
Author: American Claimants
Author: Sarah MeerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198812515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also formed a political talisman, invoked against slavery and segregation, or privileges of gender and class. Later, claimants were exported to South Africa, becoming the fictional form for explaining black students who acquired American degrees. American Claimants traces the figure back to lost-heir romance, and explores its uses. These encompassed real, imagined, and textual ideas of inheritance, for writers and editors, and also for missionaries, artists, and students. The claimant dramatized tensions between tradition and change, or questions of exclusion and power: it offered ways of seeing activism, education, sculpture, and dress. The premise for dozens of novels and plays, a trope, a joke, even the basis for real claims: claimants matter in theatre history and periodical studies, they touch on literary marketing and reprinting, and they illuminate some unexpected texts. These range from Our American Cousin to Bleak House, Little Lord Fauntleroy to Frederick Douglass' Paper; writers discussed include Frances Trollope, Julia Griffiths, Alexander Crummell, John Dube, James McCune Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The focus on claimants yields remarkable finds: new faces, fresh angles, a lost column, and a forgotten theatrical genre. It reveals the pervasiveness of this form, and its centrality in imagining cultural contact and exchange.
Household Words
Author: Charles John Huffam DickensPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Household Words
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The Uncollected Writings of Charles Dickens: Household Words, 1850-1859
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Household Words
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
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Household words
Author: Genealogy of the Eliot Family ... Revised and enlarged by W. S. Porter
Author: William Horace ELIOT (the Younger.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 198
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The American Journal of Homoeopathy
Author: Genealogy of the Eliot Family
Author: William Smith PorterPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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