19th Century American Literature – Bücher, CDs, Diverse und mehr, Page 9

Lombroso in the Americas

This volume examines the impact, reception, circulation and refashioning of the criminological theories put forth by Cesare Lombroso in North and Latin America from the late 19th to the mid 20th century.

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Jens Klenner,
Writing the Mountains

"Writing the Mountains reveals how landscape and discourses of environmental formation impress themselves on the literary imagination and argues that mountains serve as dynamic spaces of material cha…

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Henry David Thoreau,
The Quotable Thoreau

A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdom. This title gathers more than 2,000 memorable passages from this iconoclastic American a…

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Rabindranath Tagore, Sumit Chakrabarti
Selected Short Stories

'The poem I had planned to write on the banks of the Ganga was never written. But it materialized in my life.'Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Nobel Laureate and polymath, is one of the most eminent India…

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Faith Barter
Black Pro Se

Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamphlets, political speeches, and fiction, Black wr…

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Faith Barter
Black Pro Se

Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamphlets, political speeches, and fiction, Black wr…

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Walter Macken
The Silent People

The second book in the acclaimed Irish trilogy

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Toyin Falola,
Chinua Achebe

An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Af…

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Jeff Forret
The Price They Paid

A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America-ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves"A spectacular achievemen…

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Nathan Harris
Amity

From the New York Time s bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water comes a gripping story about a brother and sister, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom, and their odyssey ac…

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Georges Darien,
The Thief

"We are on the eve of 1900, when decadentism and anarchy join hands to bring the century to an end. Georges Randal, a young man from a good family, an orphan ruined by an indelicate uncle, when the t…

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Ivan Turgenev,
Nest of the Gentry, Virgin Soil

**A hardcover omnibus from the author of Fathers and Children and First Love--combining the doomed love story that was the most popular of Turgenev's novels during his lifetime with his final and most amb…

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Leo N. Tolstoi,
Resurrection

A beautiful hardcover edition of Tolstoy's most controversial novel: the dramatic tale of a remorseful nobleman who seeks redemption after a woman he once wronged is convicted of murder--only to discover …

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Crime and Punishment

This classic novel has it all: murder, suspense, passion, struggle, and redemption.

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Toni Morrison
Language as Liberation

Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconsciousIn a daz…

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Steve Friesen
Lakota Performers in Europe

From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. Wearing beaded moccasins and eagle-feather headdresses, they set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksma…

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Daniel Cook,
Frankenstein Retold

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings, sequels and coquels following the novel's original publication up to the 21st cent…

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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
The Vice President's Black Wife

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, ow…

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Lucy Andrew
A Very Vexing Murder

Harriet Smith investigates...A murder most Austen.A witty debut whodunit that reimagines Harriet Smith, the gullible sidekick of Jane Austen's Emma, as a spitfire con woman, hired to break off an engageme…

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The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston
Fourteen Days

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character…

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