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The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880This book offers a new understanding of the relationship between family structures and narrative structure in the nineteenth-century novel. Comparing Russia and England, it argues that the two nations had fundamentally different conceptions of the family and that these, in turn, shaped the way...
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Emerson's Memory Loss: Originality, Communality, and the Late StyleRalph Waldo Emerson's dementia, an ordeal that marked his final two decades, has never been a secret among those who study Emerson's life. Still, few have focused on the period of Emerson's decline. Thus, his later thinking has succumbed to a process of critical...
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Engineering European Unity: The Quest for the Right Solution Across CenturiesWhich European and non-European ideas and practices facilitated the shaping of European unity? Or rather, which pursuits led to deadlocks in the cooperation between states? The book seeks answers to these questions by surveying the historical attempts at realizing supranational patterns of governance in...
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Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885-1918At the end of the nineteenth century, print media dominated British popular culture, produced in greater variety and on a larger scale than ever before. Within decades, new visual and auditory media had ushered in a mechanized milieu, displacing print from its position at...
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Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce: A Critical EditionJoyce's early texts, which informed his later masterpieces, available for the first time in a comprehensive critical edition This book offers the first critical edition of the forty short texts James Joyce called "epiphanies." Among Joyce's earliest literary compositions, although published posthumously, the epiphanies...
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Indigenous Enlightenment: Printing and Education in Evangelical Colonialism, 1790-1850In Indigenous Enlightenment Stuart D. McKee examines the methodologies, tools, and processes that British and American educators developed to inculcate Indigenous cultures of reading. Protestant expatriates who opened schools within British and U.S. colonial territories between 1790 and 1850 shared the conviction that a...
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Clément Marot's Epistles: Volume 582The first complete, versified English-language translation of the epistles of Renaissance poet Clément Marot. Clément Marot (1496-1544), a royal poet in Renaissance France who ushered in new verse forms and renewed existing ones, stands as one of the most important literary voices of the...
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An Archaeology of Structural Violence: Life in a Twentieth-Century Coal TownDrawing on material evidence from daily life in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this book offers an up-close view of the political economy of the United States over the course of the twentieth century. This community's story illustrates the great ironies of this era, showing...
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Beating the Bounds: Excess and Restraint in Joyce's Later WorksExploring the role of boundaries and limits in thewriting of James Joyce Beating the Bounds examines the roleof boundaries and limits in James Joyce's later works, primarily Finnegans Wake but also Ulysses and other texts. Building on theideas of philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Giordano Bruno,...
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Guide for the PerplexedWith his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.R.R. Tolkien invented the modern fantasy novel. For readers and students getting to grips with this world for the first time, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Guide for the Perplexed...
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Joyce and GeometryIn a paradigm shift away from classical understandings of geometry, nineteenth-century mathematicians developed new systems that featured surprising concepts such as the idea that parallel lines can curve and intersect. Providing evidence to confirm much that has largely been speculation, Joyce and Geometry reveals...
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It's Our Movement Now: Black Women's Politics and the 1977 National Women's ConferenceProfiles of influential Black womenactivists at a historic moment Thisvolume offers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics through the storiesof a remarkable cross section of Black women who attended the 1977 NationalWomen's Conference. Thesewomen advocated for civil and women's rights but also for...
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The United States and China: Into the Twenty-First CenturyFrom the Opium Wars of the 1840s, to the Red Scare of the 1940s, through the Tiananmen Square "massacre" of 1989, and the Wen Ho Lee "espionage case" of 2000, Chinese-American relations have swung like a pendulum throughout the years. Now in its fourth...
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Holocaust Encyclopedia: uncensored and unconstrained (full-color edition)We all have learned it: The Holocaust lasted four years (1941-1945), took place in thousands of locations across an entire continent (Europe), and involved thousands of perpetrators and millions of victims. But when it comes to details, most of us flounder. Many websites can...
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Genealogies of Kentucky Families, from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Volume O - Y (Owens - Young)The publication of "Genealogies of Kentucky Families" offers researchers an unprecedented opportunity to acquire a complete collection of the two-hundred family history articles published originally in "The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society" and "The Filson Club History Quarterly." With the cooperation of both...
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Genealogies of Kentucky Families, from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Voume a - M (Allen - Moss)The publication of "Genealogies of Kentucky Families" offers researchers an unprecedented opportunity to acquire a complete collection of the two-hundred family history articles published originally in "The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society" and "The Filson Club History Quarterly." With the cooperation of both...
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Somerset Maugham and the CinemaWilliam Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most prominent and productive authors of the twentieth century-and his works have been among the most cinematically transformed in history. For more than five decades, adaptations of his plays, stories, and novels dominated movie theaters and,...
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As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American IdentitySpanning more than 100 years of Swedish American local history in the Midwest and the West, Jennifer Eastman Attebery's thorough examination of nearly 300 historical legends explores how Swedish Americans employ these narratives in creating, debating, and maintaining group identity. She demonstrates that historical...
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Budapest Blackout: A Holocaust DiaryMária Mádi (1898-1970) was a Roman Catholic Hungarian physician living in Budapest during World War II. Stuck in the city, she vowed to become a witness to events as they unfolded and began keeping a diary to chronicle her everyday life, as well as...
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Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life: Workers of the Manchuria Film AssociationFollowing the Japanese invasion of northeast China in 1931, the occupying authorities established the Manchuria Film Association to promote film production efficiency and serve Japan's propaganda needs. Manchuria Film Association had two tasks: to make "national policy films" as part of a cultural mission...
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