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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

  • Panic Fiction

    Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis

    by Mary Templin ...
    Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women’s writing that illuminates women’s relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and the formation of an American middle class.Between the mid-1830s and the late 1850s, authors such as Hannah Lee, Catharine Sedgwick, Eliza Follen, Maria McIntosh, and Maria Cummins wrote dozens of novels ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Angel of His Presence

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    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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  • Agatha Christie: Inspiring Lives

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    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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  • The Geographical History of America

    Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind

    by Gertrude Stein ...
    First published in 1936, The Geographical History of America compiles prose pieces, dialogues, philosophical meditations, and playlets by one of the century's most influential writers. In this work, Stein sets forth her view of the human mind: what it is, how it works, and how it is different from - and more interesting than - human nature. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Edited by Ruth Prigozy ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Eleven specially commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with a full and ... Read more

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  • Thinking Out Loud

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    by Anna Quindlen ...
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  • The Size of Thoughts

    Essays and Other Lumber

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    The Size of Thoughts, a collection of essays that have appeared in the New Yorker and other publications, includes one never-before-published piece on the world of electronics. The essays celebrate the joy--and exquisite details--of everything from library card catalogs and reading aloud to the significance of wine stains on a tablecloth.Baker turns any subject, from feeding a child to phone sex, ... Read more

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  • Women of the Left Bank

    Paris, 1900-1940

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  • Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity

    by Lorraine York ...
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  • The Captive's Position

    Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England

    by Teresa A. Toulouse ...
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