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  • Historicizing the Embodied Imagination in Early Modern English Literature

    Edited by Mark Kaethler, Grant Williams ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Commonly used as a rallying cry for general approaches to literary studies, the imagination has until recently been overwritten with romantic and modernist inflections that impede our understanding of literature’s intimate involvement in early modern cognition. To recover the pre-Cartesian imagination, this collection of essays takes a historicist approach by situating literary texts within the ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

    Edited by William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, Grant Williams ...
    Drawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Shakespearean Death Arts

    Hamlet Among the Tombs

    Edited by William E. Engel, Grant Williams ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • "The Voyage of the F.H. Moore" and Other 19th Century Whaling Accounts

    by J. Ross Browne, Charles H. Robbins, Samuel Grant Williams ...
    In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore--he steered one of the boats and threw the harpoon. He kept a personal log and reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the ship's official logbook.Complementing this are excerpts from three other accounts of whaling voyages: ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Hilltown, Haunted

    by Sherry Williams ...
    Illustrated by Grant Williams ...
    Twelve-year-old Ann Jones is unhappy with her life. She thinks her best friend has deserted her for the new girl in town. Then while Ann is at the cave on the mountain, the town and surrounding area are hit by an earthquake. Ann is at ground zero. Immediately after the quake, strange things begin to happen to her. She has the sensation she is being watched, hears voices in her head and sees ghosts ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

    A Critical Anthology

    Edited by William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, Grant Williams ...
    This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Taking Exception to the Law

    Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature

    Edited by Donald Beecher, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, Grant Williams ...
    Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. From canonical poems and plays to crime pamphlets and educational treatises, the essays engage with the relevance and wide appeal of legal questions in order to understand how literature operated in the early modern period.Justice ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: Union Generals Accounts of the Battle of Shiloh

    by Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lew Wallace & Don Carlos Buell ...
    In early 1862, the Union advances achieved by Maj. Gen. Grant and Adm. Foote at Forts Henry and Donelson caused significant concern in the Confederate government. The Union army, known as the Army of the Tennessee, under Grant had increased to 48,894 men and were encamped on the western side of the Tennessee River. On April 6, 1862 a determined full-force attack from the Confederate Army took ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: Union and Confederate Generals Accounts of Missionary Ridge and the Chattanooga Campaign

    by Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Phil Sheridan, Braxton Bragg et. Al ...
    After his smashing success at Vicksburg, President Lincoln put Grant in charge of the newly formed Division of the Mississippi in October 1863. Grant was in charge of the entire Union war front in the West except for Louisiana. After the Battle of Chickamauga, Confederate General Braxton Bragg had forced Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland to retreat into Chattanooga, a central ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: Union and Confederate Generals Accounts of the Battle of Shiloh

    by Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, P.G.T. Beauregard & Patrick Cleburne ...
    In early 1862, the Union advances achieved by Maj. Gen. Grant and Adm. Foote at Forts Henry and Donelson caused significant concern in the Confederate government. The Union army, known as the Army of the Tennessee, under Grant had increased to 48,894 men and were encamped on the western side of the Tennessee River. On April 6, 1862 a determined full-force attack from the Confederate Army took ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

    Lethe's Legacy

    Edited by Christopher Ivic, Grant Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory." This volume recovers the crucial role of forgetting in producing early modernity's subjective and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Breaking the Gender Code

    by Danielle Dobson ...
    Narrated by Danielle Dobson, Leo Attorre, Emma Grant Williams, Dave Stokes ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    Rather than juggling the two worlds of career and life, what if you could create a third alternative, your own, new, evolved world: one that works for you rather than against you? Breaking the Gender Code not only unpacks why women feel the constant pressure to keep so many balls in the air but also where this pressure comes from. In the process, this comprehensive and easy-to-read book:• reveals ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus