19th Century American Literature – Bücher, CDs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 4

Lisa Sandlin
Sweet Vidalia

'A generous story about the quiet heroism of older women... heartwarming' The TimesIt's 1964 and Eliza Kratke is mostly content. Married thirty years, she is long settled in Bayard, Texas with two grown c…

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Harry Mathews
Cigarettes

"Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State. Though nothing is as simple as it …

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John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice

In the early 1850s, John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice, a history of Venetian architecture. He asserted the moral and aesthetic superiority of Venice's medieval buildings over structures from the …

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Joshua Lander
Philip Roth and the Body

To what extent can the leaky, porous bodies in Philip Roth's fiction be read as symbols of resistance against anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and racism?Philip Roth and the Body questions the symbolic fun…

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Francisco E Robles
Coalition Literature

"In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusi…

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Morgan Jerkins
Zeal

The New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love.

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Marion Ransell Dobbins
The Lost Black Communities of Merrifield, the Pines and Williamstown

After the Civil War, Black landownership in Fairfax County increased by leaps and bounds.By the 1870s, retired Union officers were purchasing land that they sold to African Americans like Joshua Ball, Jos…

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Jere Nash
Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877

Throughout the ten-year period following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the national and international economy, and to congressional …

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Tiffany L Warren
The Unexpected Diva

Before the Civil War, Black opera singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield reigned supreme on Northern stages?even performing at Buckingham Palace. Novelist Tiffany L Warren brings this remarkable but forgotten…

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Carol R Gardner
The Divided North

Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon II were born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799 and spent much of their boyhoods roaming the noisy, bustling waterfront of Portland, Maine. They lived just blocks from o…

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Alejandra Márquez
Lenchitudes

Shows how representations of sapphic desire can subvert or sustain prevailing norms of gender, sexuality, and power in Mexican texts from the 1980s to the 2010s.Drawing inspiration from the 2020 Marcha Le…

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Andreas Graf
Die Drucker, Verleger, Herausgeber, Hersteller und Händler (Krämer, Wholesalers, Stohrhalter, Buchhändler, Apotheker) von Deutsch-Amerikanischen Kalendern des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, ein Register nebst Anhang

Überblick über die Drucker, Herausgeber u. Verfasser von deutsch-amerikanischen Kalendern des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, vorwiegend in Pennsylvania, zugleich Register zur grundlegenden Bibliographie von Mi…

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Karen Powell
Fifteen Wild Decembers

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023 A SUNDAY TIMES' BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF 2023Isolated from society, Emily Brontë and her siblings spend their days inventing elaborate fictional realms or …

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Trude Teige,
Der Gesang der See

Atmosphärisch, rau und eindringlich wie der nordische Wind: Eine junge Schifferin zwischen Familie, Emanzipation und Leidenschaft. Auf der kleinen Fischer-Insel an der norwegischen Westküste ist das Leben…

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Dan Simon
Ashland

A deeply moving family story unfolding in richly evocative prose and a poetic portrayal of a town in decline during the final decades of the American century, Ashland is a book of metamorphoses--of the da…

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Jeff Jarvis
Hot Type

Hot Typeis the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg's movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media.The Linotype mechanized the 400-ye…

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Carol R Gardner
The Divided North

Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon II were born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799 and spent much of their boyhoods roaming the noisy, bustling waterfront of Portland, Maine. They lived just blocks from o…

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Latin American Literature and Culture in Translation

Broad in its scope and forward-thinking in its approach, this book offers a wide-ranging thematic exploration of key debates on contemporary translation in Latin American literature and culture.Featuring …

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Emily McAvan
Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

The first comprehensive look at the religious significance of this century's contemporary English literature, this book examines in detail important writers such as Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie from…

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Daniel Rood
In the Shadow of the Great House

We imagine the plantation-the big house, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows, the plantation is still very much with us. …

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