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Beach Reading

A Literary and Cultural History

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A genre-blending exploration of “beach reading” – the category, the activity, and the artists who shaped our understanding of the beaches we loveBeset with midlife malaise, Sari Edelstein turns to American literature to discover what women of the past did to combat the “damp dreary November of the soul.” How, she wondered, do we bring ourselves back to life when we’re stuck in the doldrums?She ... Read more

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A genre-blending exploration of “beach reading” – the category, the activity, and the artists who shaped our understanding of the beaches we loveBeset with midlife malaise, Sari Edelstein turns to American literature to discover what women of the past did to combat the “damp dreary November of the soul.” How, she wondered, do we bring ourselves back to life when we’re stuck in the doldrums?She
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Beach Reading

A Literary and Cultural History

by Sari Edelstein ...

A genre-blending exploration of “beach reading” – the category, the activity, and the artists who shaped our understanding of the beaches we loveBeset with midlife malaise, Sari Edelstein turns to American literature to discover what women of the past did to combat the “damp dreary November of the soul.” How, she wondered, do we bring ourselves back to life when we’re stuck in the doldrums?She ... Read more

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A genre-blending exploration of “beach reading” – the category, the activity, and the artists who shaped our understanding of the beaches we loveBeset with midlife malaise, Sari Edelstein turns to American literature to discover what women of the past did to combat the “damp dreary November of the soul.” How, she wondered, do we bring ourselves back to life when we’re stuck in the doldrums?She
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Between the Novel and the News

The Emergence of American Women's Writing

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While American literary history has long acknowledged the profound influence of journalism on canonical male writers, Sari Edelstein argues that American women writers were also influenced by a dynamic relationship with the mainstream press. From the early republic through the turn of the twentieth century, she offers a comprehensive reassessment of writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ... Read more

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While American literary history has long acknowledged the profound influence of journalism on canonical male writers, Sari Edelstein argues that American women writers were also influenced by a dynamic relationship with the mainstream press. From the early republic through the turn of the twentieth century, she offers a comprehensive reassessment of writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
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Adulthood and Other Fictions

American Literature and the Unmaking of Age

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While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age more broadly as a lens for reading American literature. Adulthood and Other Fictions shows how a diverse array of nineteenth-century writers, thinkers, and artists responded to the rise of chronological age in social and political life. Over the course of the century, age was added to ... Read more

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While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age more broadly as a lens for reading American literature. Adulthood and Other Fictions shows how a diverse array of nineteenth-century writers, thinkers, and artists responded to the rise of chronological age in social and political life. Over the course of the century, age was added to
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America

by Peter Betjemann, Sari Edelstein, Catherine J. Golden, Brady Harrison, Denise D. Knight, Gary Scharnhorst, William C. Snyder, Jennifer S. Tuttle ...

Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and placeCharlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman’s place on its ear, this finely crafted essay ... Read more

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A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and placeCharlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman’s place on its ear, this finely crafted essay
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The Blue Castle

by L.M. Montgomery ...

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“If it had not rained on a certain May morning, Valancy Stirling’s whole life would have been entirely different. . .”One day, Valancy Stirling, a quiet, shy old maid, decides to stop listening to her nosy, small-minded relatives and start doing exactly as she pleases. Over the next year, Valancy’s choices will transform her life, outrage her family, confuse the entire town of Deerwood—and bring ... Read more

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“If it had not rained on a certain May morning, Valancy Stirling’s whole life would have been entirely different. . .”One day, Valancy Stirling, a quiet, shy old maid, decides to stop listening to her nosy, small-minded relatives and start doing exactly as she pleases. Over the next year, Valancy’s choices will transform her life, outrage her family, confuse the entire town of Deerwood—and bring
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The Red Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign ... Read more

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Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign
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The Age of Innocence

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On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties," of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter ... Read more

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On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties," of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter
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Everybody Behaves Badly

The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

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The New York Times bestseller. " Fiendishly readable . . . a deeply, almost obsessively researched biography of a book."— The Washington PostIn the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, ... Read more

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The New York Times bestseller. " Fiendishly readable . . . a deeply, almost obsessively researched biography of a book."— The Washington PostIn the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry,
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

by Laurie Rozakis ...

You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to American ... Read more

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You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to American
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Vita Sackville-West

Selected Writings

by Vita Sackville-West ...

Selected writings from the British author and gardener's diaries, memoirs, letters, travel writing, criticism, poetry, fiction, and more."An invaluable resource. Vita crossed many continents, literal and metaphoric, but she always brought home treasure." —Margaret Reynolds, editor of The Sappho Companion and Victorian Women Poets: An AnthologyAristocrat, novelist, essay... ... Read more

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Selected writings from the British author and gardener's diaries, memoirs, letters, travel writing, criticism, poetry, fiction, and more."An invaluable resource. Vita crossed many continents, literal and metaphoric, but she always brought home treasure." —Margaret Reynolds, editor of The Sappho Companion and Victorian Women Poets: An AnthologyAristocrat, novelist, essay...
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Huckleberry Finn

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Romanzo che narra le avventura di Huck e di Jim lungo le rive del Mississipi. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano. ... Read more

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Romanzo che narra le avventura di Huck e di Jim lungo le rive del Mississipi. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano.
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