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“julia a stern”

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  • Bette Davis Black and White

    by Julia A. Stern ...
    Bette Davis's career becomes a vehicle for a deep examination of American race relations.Bette Davis was not only one of Hollywood's brightest stars, but also one of its most outspoken advocates on matters of race. In Bette Davis Black and White, Julia A. Stern explores this largely untold facet of Davis's brilliant career.Bette Davis Black and White analyzes four of Davis's best-known pictures— ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

    by Julia A. Stern ...
    A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated ... Read more

    $48.29 USD

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  • Drinks Before Dinner

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    by E.L. Doctorow ...
    The long-unavailable work by one of America's most eminent writers.Drinks Before Dinner, called “witty and provocative” by the New York Times, is E.L. Doctorow’s only play. A tour-de-force of language and ideas concerning the individual’s role in and response to contemporary America, Drinks Before Dinner revolves around a dinner party for the economically privileged.As Doctorow writes in his ... Read more

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  • The Female Complaint

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    by Lauren Berlant ...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost

    Edited by Robert Faggen ...
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  • God's Arbiters

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    Edited by R. Balfour ...
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