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Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The Author
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Category : Authors and publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Category : Authors and publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Author, Playwright and Composer
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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The Anthropological Review
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375014015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375014015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.
The Bushrangers. A Yankee's Adventures During His Second Visit to Australia
Author: William Henry Thomes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338536065X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338536065X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
A Yankee Bachelor Abroad
Author: Charles J. Butler
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Laugh along with Charles Butler as the Yankee bachelor tells the true story of his 1900 trip through Scotland, Ireland, England, and Paris. From negotiating with ship stewards, dealing with street urchins, to visiting the famous sights, Butler keeps his sense of humor throughout. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Laugh along with Charles Butler as the Yankee bachelor tells the true story of his 1900 trip through Scotland, Ireland, England, and Paris. From negotiating with ship stewards, dealing with street urchins, to visiting the famous sights, Butler keeps his sense of humor throughout. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
American Claimants
Author: Sarah Meer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192540602
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192540602
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
Albion's Seed
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
TIME: A MONTHLY MISCELLANY OF INTERESTING & AMUSING LITERATURE
Author: EDMIND YATES
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
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The Eclectic Magazine
Author: John Holmes Agnew
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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The Patriotic Speaker
Author: Robert Raikes Raymond
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Category : Recitations
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Category : Recitations
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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