Author: Kate Sanborn
Publisher:
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Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Author: Samuel F. Pickering
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826264816
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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"Indian Summer is the newest collection of personal essays by Sam Pickering. In typical Pickering fashion, he seeks to capture the gift of living. He brings to the page again his family, students, and a wealth of country characters who live in places that exist only in his imagination and who wander through the stories he tells." "He describes how his life has been altered by his children leaving home for college, and he ponders the changes aging brings and the things that never change. The consummate teacher, he celebrates academic life and the pleasures of the classroom. Readers will roam familiar ground with Pickering as he explores the fields and small hills of eastern Connecticut and the bogs and woods on his farm in Nova Scotia." --Book Jacket.

Author: Katherine Abbott Sanborn
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Author: Adam W. Sweeting
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653141
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Indian summer, the succession of warm, fair days gracing New England in autumn, is at once a flourishing period signaling the end of fall, a meteorological event, a vernacular cultural construction, and a literary metaphor. In this appealing and elegant book, Sweeting plumbs Indian summer's use in literature as a symbol of second chance, rebirth, or reprieve before the onset of a harsher season. Well researched and charmingly written, Beneath the Second Sun is the first book to systematically treat the history and uses of Indian summer imagery in American life. The author focuses on the ways in which New Englanders have embraced the season, and he places the celebration of the season's beauty and its melancholy qualities within the context of Anglo-Native American relations. Sweeting does not try to locate the original definition of Indian summer, rather he explores the far more interesting ways in which the season has been imagined and described in American culture. Popular authors including Philip Freneau, Susan Cooper, Lydia Sigourney, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis Parkman Oliver, Wendell Holmes, and, especially, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and William Dean Howells freely employ Indian summer imagery in their works. In the context of modern American Studies, Sweeting's study is part of a "post-modern" scholarly discussion of how tangible realities such as climate are mediated, even forged, by social needs. Sweeting further investigates the imaginative, early-nineteenth-century "invention" of New England regional identity and integrates traditional American Studies literary and historical concerns with a contemporary interest in the environment and sense of place. Sweeting's graceful, lively, and accessible style beckons not only scholars of American literature and the nineteenth century but any traveler seeking the glories of autumn in New England.

Author: Richard Grayson
Publisher: Richard Grayson
ISBN: 1257900315
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312428112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties--set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the 20th century--"Indian Summer" reveals how Britain ceased to be a superpower after it lost India as a colony.

Author: Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 874

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Author: Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Commerce
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 992

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Author: Kate Sanborn
Publisher:
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Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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