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Eclipse of empires world history in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture / by Roylance, Patricia Jane

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Rousseau's legacy emergence and eclipse of the writer in France / by Porter, Dennis, 1933-

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The cinema of Alexander Sokurov

Table of Contents: “…Living and dying in Sokurov's border zones : Days of eclipse /…”
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The publishing history of Uncle Tom's cabin, 1852-2002 by Parfait, Claire

Table of Contents: “…From inception to serialization -- Uncle Tom's cabin : the contract -- "The story of the age" : advertising and promotion -- Uncle Tom's cabin : the book, 1852-1853 -- Distribution and sales, 1852-1863 -- Uncle Tom's cabin, 1863-1893 -- Uncle Tom's cabin, 1893-1930 -- Eclipse and renaissance : Uncle Tom's cabin, 1930-2002.…”
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Virgil, the blind guide marking the way through the Divine Comedy / by Howard, Lloyd

Table of Contents: “…Virgil's taming of Plutus and Capaneus, and the pilgrim's changing perceptions -- The blindness of Virgil in Inferno 8-9, Purgatorio 15-16, and Purgatorio 22-23 -- Encounters with the heavenly beings in Hell and Purgatory -- The eclipse of Virgil and the ascent of Mary after her son -- Virgil, John the Baptist, and the downward journey "di giro in giro."…”
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Metro movies cinematic urbanism in post-Mao China / by Kuoshu, Harry H., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- X-roads : old and new city films -- Dislocation : Huang Jianxin's urban searching for roots -- No one cheers : the later fifth generation and the urban "situation movie" -- Beijing bastards : century's end rock scenes and China's Generation X -- Captives of love : emotional styles and the new urbanites -- Lunar eclipse: elusive urban realities -- City paradise : urbanization looms over an old land -- Conclusion.…”
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Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the evolution of the casebook novel by Emrys, A. B., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Framed: a brief history of documents as narrative frames -- How he wrote his books: the apprentice years of framing testimony -- The woman in white: Collins launches the casebook novel -- Counterpoint witnessing in No name and Armadale -- The moonstone: Collins eclipses his first casebook -- Framed testimony in Collins's later novels -- The casebook after Collins -- Before Laura: Vera Caspary's early career and novels -- Laura: sensation roots of a noir novel -- Laura and Bedelia: "new woman" noir -- After Laura: Caspary's other casebook novels -- Caspary continues multiple focus -- Reframed: multiple focus in popular and literary texts -- Conclusion.…”
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Mad men, women, and children essays on gender and generation /

Table of Contents: “…Dole -- Mad Men's Epoch-Eclipse: Marking Time with Sally Draper / Nancy Batty.…”
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Written culture in a colonial context Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 /

Table of Contents: “…Culpin -- Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: from travel writing to Kolb's 'full description' / Nigel Penn -- Nothing new under the sun: anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1800-1910 / Peter Merrington -- Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th century / Julio Esteban Vezub -- To my dear minister: official letters of African Wesleyan evangelists in the late 19th-century Transvaal / Lize Kriel -- Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: documents and practices across spaces and social economics / Mastin Prinsloo -- The 'painting' of Black history: the Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812) / Jorge Pavez Ojeda -- On not spreading the Word: ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century / Gerald Groenewald -- Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture / José Emilio Burucúa.…”
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