A community of writers Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop /

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The fable of the southern writer by Simpson, Lewis P.

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

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Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850 by Looser, Devoney, 1967-

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Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850 / by Looser, Devoney, 1967-

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The new entrepreneurs an institutional history of television anthology writers / by Kraszewski, Jon

Table of Contents: “…Rod Serling's attempt to redefine the role of the writer in the 1960s television industry.…”
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From the modernist annex American women writers in museums and libraries / by Roffman, Karin

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Literary partnerships and the marketplace writers and mentors in nineteenth-century America / by Dowling, David Oakey, 1967-

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Blowin' hot and cool jazz and its critics / by Gennari, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz -- Not only a new art form but a new reason for living -- As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm : hot collecting -- Across the color line -- Hearing 'the noisy lostness' : telling the story of jazz -- Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism -- Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport -- The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism -- Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker -- Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents -- Conclusion : change of the century.…”
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Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850-1914 by Easley, Alexis, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Harriet Martineau: gender, national identity, and the contemporary historian; rooms of the past: Victorian women writers, history, and the reconstruction of domestic space -- Part III: Celebrity and fin de siecle print culture. …”
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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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Exemplary bodies constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Mondry, Henrietta

Table of Contents: “…Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s -- The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.…”
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Make It New : Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century / by Beuttler, Bill

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Mad Men, Mad World : Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s /

Table of Contents: “…A feminist reading of reproductive history in Mad Men / Leslie J. Reagan -- The writer as producer; or, The hip figure after HBO / Michael Szalay -- The shock of the banal : Mad Men's progressive realism / Caroline Levine -- Mod men / Jim Hansen -- Swing skirts and swinging singles : Mad men, fashion, and cultural memory / Mabel Rosenheck -- Against depth : looking at surface through the Kodak carousel / Irene V. …”
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