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Narrating North American Borderlands : Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher and Jim …
The study centers on the presentation of the North American borderlands in the works of Canadian Native writer Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water (1999), American writer Howard Frank Mosher’s On Kingdom Mountain (2007), and American writer Jim Lynch’s Border Songs (2009). The three authors describe the peoples and places in the northeastern, middle and northwestern border regions of the U…
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- 9783653983531
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- 227 halaman
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- Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik, 64
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- 800 MAY n
Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist
Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist, originally published in 1951, makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold contributed to the climate of racialism current during his lifetime. Frederic E. Faverty shows that in his essays on national character, Arnold used anthropological concepts of race and language, albeit inconsistently. Faverty’s critique of Arnold draws par…
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- 9780810138391
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- 248 halaman
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- 800 FAV m
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction : Victorian Afterimages
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, …
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- 9780230228580
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- IX, 222 halaman
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- 800 MIT h
Marking Time : Romanticism and Evolution
Scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin's writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period. Marking Time, edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth centur…
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- 9781442644304
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- 336 halaman
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- 800 MAR
Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages
This volume is the first in a new series entitled Reading Medieval Sources, examining different genres of sources in the Middle Ages, and this book focuses on ways of studying medieval money, and the most direct manifestation of money: coinage. It is intended to introduce readers to a range of approaches to a subject that has, traditionally, been seen as somewhat specialised domain of highly te…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004383098
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- 909.080
Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17t…
Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and diverse analyses connecting the circulation of people with the circulation of ideas. Making use of the archive materials, visual sources and museum collections, the authors pointe…
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- 9789004354982
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Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism
Lionel Trilling was one of the twentieth century’s most widely read and influential American literary critics. Mark Krupnick traces Trilling’s career from the 1920s through the 1970s, following the shifting intellectual and ideological currents in his thought. Krupnick places Trilling’s criticism and fiction in the context of his New York intellectual group, illuminating the connection be…
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- 9780810139442
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- 216 halaman
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- 800 KRU l
Destins de femmes: French Women Writers, 1750-1850
Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change. Each of the book’s thirty chapters introduces a…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781805110323, 9781805110330
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- 202
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- 909 ISB d
Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women’s Press, 1758–1848
In this original study, Siobhán McIlvanney examines the beginnings of the women’s press in France. Figurations of the Feminine is the first work in English to assess the most significant publications which make up this diverse, yet critically neglected, medium. It traces the evolving representations of womanhood that appear over the first ninety years of women’s journals in France. McIlvan…
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- 9781786941886
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- 900 ILV f
Heaven's Interpreters : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Cent…
In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and agency. Women writers of the antebellum period, Reed contends, embraced theological concepts to gain access to the literary sphere, challenging the notion that theological discourse was e…
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- 9781501751387
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- 800 REE h
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