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  • John Sullivan Dwight

    The Life and Writings of Boston's Musical Transcendentalist

    de Bill F. Faucett ...
    John Sullivan Dwight (1813-93) was, for much of the nineteenth century, America's leading music critic. Born into a musical family and educated at several premier Boston schools, he fell under the spell of New England Transcendentalism and befriended Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, and others of a similarly progressive mindset. Dwight resided at the ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Rest (Unabridged)

    de John Sullivan Dwight ...
    Narrado por Ben Person, Penny Hanway, Robert Creamer ...

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    16 minutos

    In the tranquil realm of "Rest," John Sullivan Dwight invites us on a profound journey of introspection and renewal. This literary masterpiece, penned in the 19th century, transcends time to offer solace and guidance in our modern world. Dwight's eloquent prose explores the transformative power of rest, revealing its essential role in fostering creativity, restoring balance, and nurturing the soul ... Leer más

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  • The Battle for Christmas

    A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday

    de Stephen Nissenbaum ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children.Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply ... Leer más

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    de Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Leer más

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  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    de Matthew Guerrieri ...
    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... Leer más

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  • Paul Laurence Dunbar

    The Life and Times of a Caged Bird

    de Gene Andrew Jarrett ...
    The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary historyA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age ... Leer más

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  • Bright Circle

    Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism

    de Randall Fuller ...
    A group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movement In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society “to answer the great questions” of special importance to women: "What are we born to do? How shall we do it?" The lives and works of the five women who discussed these questions are at the center of Bright Circle, a group ... Leer más

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  • The New Negro Aesthetic

    Selected Writings

    de Alain Locke, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imaginationA Penguin Classic**For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America's most vexing problem. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story ... Leer más

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  • A History of American Literature

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Evolution of American Literary Tradition

    de Percy Holmes Boynton, Blake Rees ...
    In "A History of American Literature," Percy Holmes Boynton offers a comprehensive and thoughtful examination of the evolution of American literary expression from colonial times to the early twentieth century. Boynton's literary style is characterized by a rich, analytical prose that intricately weaves biographical sketches of authors with the socio-cultural contexts that shaped their works. The ... Leer más

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  • Dictionary of American Maxims

    de David Kin ...
    An extensive collection of aphorisms of fundamental American moral rules and principles on a variety of subjects.Over the course of centuries, humanity has set down an accumulation of acute and succinct wisdom. It has the potential to be valuable and reliable, if they should be consistent in putting into practice the precepts which the best minds of the species have bequeathed them. Homo sapiens ... Leer más

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  • The Emerson Circle

    The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World

    de Bruce Nichols ...
    A lively and captivating journey through the world of the Transcendentalists, America’s first group of public intellectuals, whose visionary ideas reinvented our culture and politics and remain an inspiration today.“An impeccable and often dazzling behind-the-scenes look at the Concord iconoclasts clustered around Emerson who helped define what it means to be an American original.” —Douglas ... Leer más

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  • Ragtime

    A Musical and Cultural History

    de Edward Berlin ...
    Ragtime, the jaunty, toe-tapping music that captivated American society from the 1890s through World War I, forms the roots of America's popular musical expression. But the understanding of ragtime and its era has been clouded by a history of murky impressions, half-truths, and inventive fictions. Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History cuts through the murkiness. A methodical survey of thousands ... Leer más

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