Literary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Richard Alston
Classicism and the Construction of Capital Cities

Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped t…

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Tom Hare
Out of Character

A wide-ranging investigation of the interaction between writing and portraiture across history and culturesPortraits often claim a revered place in worlds remote from their origins, but they also risk ano…

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Anna Snaith
Writing Noise in Interwar Britain

This book explores the preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound in interwar Britain. It contends that the extreme decibel levels brought about during WW1 created not only a concern with the effects of noise on…

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Angela G Schear
Mercy in Disaster

Mercy in Disaster is about the forgotten nurse in America's signature, iconic photograph of Civil War wounded: abolitionist Abby Hopper Gibbons. Hung in museums large and small, pictured in books, and fou…

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Richard Wilson,
Shakespeare's Fascist Followers

' Richard Wilson's meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account of Shakespeare's 20th-century fascist followers is not just an important but a genuinely essential book.' Robe…

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Shaj Mathew
The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time

What is time? The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Timelooks beyond the clock and the calendar to explore its many dimensions: the time of mind and memory, the time of capitalism and colonialism, and even the ti…

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Rebecca C Pawel
Spain in the African American Imagination

Revealing how African American intellectuals reframed race, history, and cultural belonging in the modern eraIn 1954, Richard Wright rented a car in France and drove south to the Spanish border on the fir…

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Rebecca C Pawel
Spain in the African American Imagination

Revealing how African American intellectuals reframed race, history, and cultural belonging in the modern eraIn 1954, Richard Wright rented a car in France and drove south to the Spanish border on the fir…

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Joseph Mitchell,
The Bottom of the Harbor

A classic of literary reporting from one of The New Yorker's most iconic writers reveals the vibrant world of old New York and the ordinary people who made it great, now with illustrations by renowned art…

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Leslie A Fiedler
Love and Death in the American Novel

A provocative work of American literary criticism covering Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, and others. Fielder's groundbreaking work changed the way we…

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The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume II

This volume spans almost five hundred years of Irish-language book printing, production, publication, distribution, and reception. It begins with the 1567 publication of John Carswell's Gaelic version of …

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Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts

Teach a conquistador's writings about his journeys in the AmericasIn 1527 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca journeyed from Spain to Florida with the ill-fated Pánfilo de Narváez expedition---and ended up wanderi…

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Raphael Magarik
Fictions of God

A new history of literary narration rooted in the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation. We often identify secularization's characteristic literary form as the modern novel: out with divine scripture, in …

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Curtis White
On Resistance

From the writer Ellecalls the "most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment" comes a hands-on, don't-lose-hope study of how writers, painters, musicians, and other cultural figures respon…

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Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts

"Provides guidance for teachers on old and new perspectives on Cabeza de Vaca's works, including literary topoi, Chicano literature, postcolonial readings, queer readings, race, adaptations, law and …

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Guy De La Bédoyère
The Confessions of Samuel Pepys

A remarkable collection of the most personal aspects of Samuel Pepys' diaries, in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of their publication.The Diary of Samuel Pepys is the most celebrated persona…

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Eric Csapo, Peter Wilson
A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 Bc: Volume 1, the Theatre Festivals of Athens: Documents with Translation and Commentary

This is the first volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on the theatre festivals in the city of Athens. It presents and discusses in detail all the docum…

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Robert J Patterson
Black Narratives of Slavery

Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThis Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people--en…

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Victoria Houseman
American Classicist

A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical worldEdith Hamilton (1867--1963) didn't publish her first book until she was sixty-two. …

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Ana Kinsella
Literary Landscapes: Dublin

A bibliophile's journey through Dublin's rich heritage, storied lore, and lively craic: exploring bookshops, museums, and authors' watering holes, offering an experience for literature students, Irish nat…

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