Search Results - "James

The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton / by Turner, James, 1946-

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Sexualities in Victorian Britain /

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The Vanguard of the Atlantic World : Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America / by Sanders, James E., 1971-

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The Troubled Union : Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / by González, John Morán

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the historical crisis of post-Reconstruction national allegory -- Speaking American : Henry James and the dialect of modernity -- The hidden power : domesticity, national allegory, and empire in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona -- Blushing brides and soulless corporations : racial formation in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the don -- Epilogue : decentering national allegory.…”
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Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form : Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America / by Reid, Margaret (Margaret K.)

Table of Contents: “…Imagining cultural origins in James Fenimore Cooper's The spy -- History's revolutions in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- "Traces of a vanished world" in Owen Wister's The Virginian -- Conclusion: The storyteller's legacy from Quentin Compson to Oedipa Maas.…”
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Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference / by Mitchell, Rebecca N. (Rebecca Nicole), 1976-

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Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 : A Study in Social Values by Davis, David Brion

Table of Contents: “…James Fenimore Cooper --…”
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Rhetorics of Literacy : The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry / by Nurhussein, Nadia, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The difficulty of dialect poetry -- Plain and peculiar dialects : Bret Harte and James Whitcomb Riley -- Lettered dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar I -- Cultivated dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar II -- Gendered dialect : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Maggie Pogue Johnson -- Annotated dialect : Claude McKay and Langston Hughes.…”
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Muse in the Machine : American Fiction and Mass Publicity / by Conroy, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical and historical prologue -- Ghosts and muses: Henry James -- Machine age and beyond: from West to DeLillo -- Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Promise and prophecy: the artist's vision in The day of the locust -- Quilty the guilty: scapegoating mass culture in Lolita -- The American way and its double in Lot 49 -- From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise -- Mao II: a portrait of the artist in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Concluding unsystematic speculation: within the crisis of no crisis.…”
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Narrative Middles : Navigating the Ninteenth-Century British Novel /

Table of Contents: “…Schor -- Before and afterwardsness in Henry James / Kent Puckett -- Everyday life in Anne Brontë / Amanda Claybaugh -- The clerk's tale : characterizing the middle in Dombey and son / Suzanne Daly -- Pendennis's stasis and journalism's work / Amanpal Garcha -- Dilatory description and the pleasures of accumulation : toward a history of novelistic length / Amy M. …”
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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Oriental Shadows : The Presence of the East in Early American Literature / by Egan, Jim, 1961-

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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

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Detecting the Nation : Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture / by Reitz, Caroline

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The Unheralded Triumph : City Government in America, 1870-1900 / by Teaford, Jon C.

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Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 / by McNeil, Kenneth

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