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  • Our Sisters' Keepers

    Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women

    by Sarah E. Chinn, Mary Templin, Whitney A. Womack, Terry D. Novak, James Salazar, Karen Tracey, Lori Merish, Monika Elbert ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty reliefAmerican culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Sentimental Materialism

    Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Lori Merish ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts—from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and cigars—Merish explores the symbolic functions they served and finds that consumption evolved into a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Archives of Labor

    Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States

    by Lori Merish ...
    In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature—from autobiographies, pamphlet novels, and theatrical melodrama to seduction tales and labor periodicals—Merish recovers ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    The Pontellier family are spending a hot, lazy holiday on the Gulf of Mexico. No-one expects that Edna Pontellier should be preoccupied with anything more than her husband and children. When an illicit summer romance awakens new ideas and longings in Edna, she can barely understand herself, and cannot hope for aid or acceptance in the stifling attitudes of Louisiana society.Kate Chopin's ... Read more

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  • The Angel of His Presence

    by Grace Livingston Hill ...
    The Angel of His Presence by Grace Livingston Hill A sweet Christian fiction. JOHN WENTWORTH STANLEY stood on the deck of an Atlantic liner looking off to sea and meditating. The line of smoke that floated away from his costly cigar followed the line of smoke from the steamer as if it were doing honest work to help get Mr. Stanley to New York. The Sea in the distance was sparkling and ... Read more

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  • Lone Point

    by Grace Livingston Hill ...
    Lone Point is a sweet and wholesome Christian Romance by Grace Livingston Hill.RACHEL HAMMOND sat by the open window with her Bible on her knee. The muslin curtains did not blow with the breeze, for there was no breeze that hot morning in June. The air seemed breathless. Rachel had put her pretty room in order, finished all her little morning duties, and now had sat down for a quiet minute with ... Read more

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  • Agatha Christie: Inspiring Lives

    by Cathy Cook ...
    Series series Inspiring Lives
    'If anyone writes about my life in the future, I'd rather they got the facts right.' - Agatha Christie.No one has had the same impact on the literary world as Agatha Christie: she is the world's bestselling fiction author, her books have been translated over 7,000 times and her play The Mousetrap is the world's longest-running production. Agatha Christie: Inspiring Lives explores her place in ... Read more

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  • Twelve Angry Men

    by Reginald Rose ...
    A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David MametA blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an ... Read more

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  • Feminism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Margaret Walters ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments - in, for ... Read more

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  • The Murder of Helen Jewett

    by Patricia Cline Cohen ...
    In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen Jewett.From her beginnings as a servant girl in Maine, Helen Jewett refashioned herself, using four ... Read more

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  • Unbuttoning America

    A Biography of "Peyton Place"

    by Ardis Cameron ...
    Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up in poverty in a New Hampshire mill town and had aspired to be a writer from childhood, loosely based ... Read more

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  • Thinking Out Loud

    On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

    by Anna Quindlen ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anna Quindlen comes “a splendid collection” of short essays that are “eloquent, powerful, compassionate, and droll” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)“Quindlen writes with rare insight, intelligence, and wit. Most of all she writes from the heart.”—The Buffalo NewsThinking out loud is what Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen does best in ... Read more

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