Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer / by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

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Nurse Writers of the Great War / by Hallett, Christine E.

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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /

Table of Contents: “…Delany and Carl Freedman -- Black science faction: an interview with Kevin Willmott, director and writer of CSA, the confederate states of America / Kevin Willmott and Marleen S. …”
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Making the "America of Art" : Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers / by Sofer, Naomi Z.

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Liber Uricrisiarum : A Reading Edition / by Daniel, Henry (Medical writer)

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Beware the British serpent the role of writers in British propaganda in the United States, 1939-1945 / by Calder, Robert, 1941-

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Jane Austen among Women / by Kaplan, Deborah, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Portraits of the Woman Writer --…”
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Poets, Patrons, and Printers : Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France / by Brown, Cynthia J., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1. Late Medieval Writers as Owners and Protectors of Their Texts --…”
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The Romance of Real Life : Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture / by Watts, Steven, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The Major Novels (II): Deception and Disintegration -- 6. The Writer as Bourgeois Moralist -- 7. The Writer and the Liberal Ego.…”
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Women and the Press : The Struggle for Equality / by Bradley, Patricia, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…-- The rise of the professional writer -- The legacy of reform -- The strains on sisterhood -- Domesticity and all its imperatives -- Negotiating the newsroom -- Negotiating the nation -- Finding a place -- The second wave -- Making a difference.…”
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Wilkie Collins and Copyright : Artistic Ownership in the Age of the Borderless Word / by Bisla, Sundeep, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Wilkie Collins, theorist of iterability -- The manuscript as writer's estate in Basil -- The woman in white : the perils of attempting to discipline the transatlantic, transhistorical narrative -- Over-doing things with words in 1862 : pretense and plain truth in No name -- Ingesting the other in Armadale -- The return of the author : privacy, publication, the mystery novel, and The moonstone -- Conclusion : real absences : Collins's waiting shadows.…”
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Victorian Sacrifice : Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / by Blumberg, Ilana M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service.…”
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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out : Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History / by Barrett, James R., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Roediger -- Irish americanization on stage : how Irish musicians, playwrights, and writers created a new urban American culture, 1880-1940 -- Making and unmaking the working class : E.P. …”
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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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Pageantry and Power : A cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayor's Show 1585–1639 / by Hill, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…From low-obscure beginnings raysde to fame : critical and historical contexts of the Lord Mayor's Show -- Our devices for that solemne and Iouiall daye : the writers, the artificers and the livery companies -- A day of well compos'd variety of speach and shew : bringing the shows to life -- A briefe narration of each seuerall shew : the show from street to print -- To prune and dresse the tree of gouernment : political and contemporary contexts of the shows -- Appendices. …”
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Life Is Elsewhere : Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 / by Lounsbery, Anne

Table of Contents: “…: Goncharov, Belinsky, and provincial taste -- Back home : the provincial lives of Turgenev's cosmopolitans -- Transcendence deferred : women writers in the provinces -- Melnikov and Leskov, or, What is regionalism in Russia? …”
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Hawthorne and the Real : Bicentennial Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Gollin -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer; or, The fleeing of the biographied / Brenda Wineapple.…”
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How Boston Played : Sport, Recreation, and Community, 1865-1915 / by Hardy, Stephen, 1948-

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South Boston, My Home Town : The History of an Ethnic Neighborhood / by O'Connor, Thomas H., 1922-2012

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Henry Newman's Salzburger Letterbooks /

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