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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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Borrowed Forms : The Music and Ethics of Transnational Fiction / by Lachman, Kathryn

Table of Contents: “…From Mikhail Bakhit to Maryse Conde : the problems of literary polyphony -- Edward Said and Assia Djebar : Counterpoint and the practice of comparative literature -- Glenn Gould and the birth of the author : variation and performance in Nancy Huston's Les variations Goldberg -- Opera and the limits of representation in J.M. …”
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Borrowed Forms : The Music and Ethics of Transnational Fiction / by Lachman, Kathryn

Table of Contents: “…From Mikhail Bakhit to Maryse Conde : the problems of literary polyphony -- Edward Said and Assia Djebar : Counterpoint and the practice of comparative literature -- Glenn Gould and the birth of the author : variation and performance in Nancy Huston's Les variations Goldberg -- Opera and the limits of representation in J.M. …”
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Negotiating disease power and cancer care, 1900-1950 / by Clow, Barbara Natalie, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Framing a Response to Disease -- 1 Health Begins at Home: Lay Perceptions of Illness, Disease, and Doctors -- 2 The Problem of Cancer: Doctors, Scientists, and the Dread Disease -- 3 The Contours of Legitimate Medicine: Doctors, Alternative Practitioners, and Cancer -- 4 Cancer Patients Take Care: Sufferers, Healers, and Illness Experiences -- 5 Negotiating a Response to Disease: Politics and Cancer -- Conclusion: Authority, Legitimacy, and the Problem of Cancer -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The Sound of Innovation : Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution / by Nelson, Andrew J.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting the Stage; 3 The First Movement; 4 Tension and Release; 5 Duet for Stanford and Yamaha; 6 From Exposition to Development; 7 Plucking the Golden Gate Bridge; 8 Recapitulation and Variations; 9 Coda; Appendix: Interviews Conducted by Author; Notes; References; Index.…”
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The Sound of Innovation : Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution / by Nelson, Andrew J.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting the Stage; 3 The First Movement; 4 Tension and Release; 5 Duet for Stanford and Yamaha; 6 From Exposition to Development; 7 Plucking the Golden Gate Bridge; 8 Recapitulation and Variations; 9 Coda; Appendix: Interviews Conducted by Author; Notes; References; Index.…”
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Lake Methodism : Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780–1830 / by Cragwall, Jasper Albert, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…"Lake Methodism" and the lows of high argument -- "Elocution to the mute" : Anglican authority and the cultural revolt of Methodism -- Wordsworth and the ragged legion : poets, priests, and preachers -- Sage or Sibyl? …”
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Melville's Thematics of Form : The Great Art of Telling the Truth / by Dryden, Edgar A.

Table of Contents: “…A note on texts -- Metaphysics and the art of the novel -- Portraits of the artist as a young man: narrative form in Melville's early novels -- Ishmael as teller: self-conscious form in Moby-Dick -- The failure of the author-hero: narrative form in Pierre and Israel Potter -- The novelist as impostor: subversive form in The confidence-man -- Epilogue.…”
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Lake Methodism : Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780–1830 / by Cragwall, Jasper Albert, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…"Lake Methodism" and the lows of high argument -- "Elocution to the mute" : Anglican authority and the cultural revolt of Methodism -- Wordsworth and the ragged legion : poets, priests, and preachers -- Sage or Sibyl? …”
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Melville's Thematics of Form : The Great Art of Telling the Truth / by Dryden, Edgar A.

Table of Contents: “…A note on texts -- Metaphysics and the art of the novel -- Portraits of the artist as a young man: narrative form in Melville's early novels -- Ishmael as teller: self-conscious form in Moby-Dick -- The failure of the author-hero: narrative form in Pierre and Israel Potter -- The novelist as impostor: subversive form in The confidence-man -- Epilogue.…”
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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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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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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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Performing Power : Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia / by Meer, Arnout van der, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the Stage : The Javanization of Colonial Authority in the Nineteenth Century -- "Sweet was the Dream, Bitter the Awakening" : The Contested Implementation of the Ethical Policy, 1901-1913 -- Disrupting the Colonial Performance : The Hormat Circular of 1913 and the National Awakening -- Contesting Sartorial Hierarchies : From Ethnic Stereotype to National Dress -- East is East and West is West : Forging Modern Identities -- Staging Colonial Modernity : Hegemony, Fairs, and the Indonesian Middle Classes.…”
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Performing Power : Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia / by Meer, Arnout van der, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the Stage : The Javanization of Colonial Authority in the Nineteenth Century -- "Sweet was the Dream, Bitter the Awakening" : The Contested Implementation of the Ethical Policy, 1901-1913 -- Disrupting the Colonial Performance : The Hormat Circular of 1913 and the National Awakening -- Contesting Sartorial Hierarchies : From Ethnic Stereotype to National Dress -- East is East and West is West : Forging Modern Identities -- Staging Colonial Modernity : Hegemony, Fairs, and the Indonesian Middle Classes.…”
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Claiming Freedom : Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia / by Bell, Karen Cook

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CLAIMING FREEDOM; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Claiming Freedom in the Lowcountry; 1 THE SLAVEâ#x80;#x99;S DREAM; 2 WAR AND FREEDOM; 3 â#x80;#x9C;FULL AND FAIR COMPENSATIONâ#x80;#x9D;; 4 THE STATE OF FREEDOM IS THE STATE OF SELF-RELIANCE; CONCLUSION; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.…”
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Claiming Freedom : Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia / by Bell, Karen Cook

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CLAIMING FREEDOM; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Claiming Freedom in the Lowcountry; 1 THE SLAVEâ#x80;#x99;S DREAM; 2 WAR AND FREEDOM; 3 â#x80;#x9C;FULL AND FAIR COMPENSATIONâ#x80;#x9D;; 4 THE STATE OF FREEDOM IS THE STATE OF SELF-RELIANCE; CONCLUSION; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.…”
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Islam and Politics in Indonesia : The Masyumi Party between Democracy and Integralism / by Madinier, Remy

Table of Contents: “…Half title page; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Introduction; Chapter One -- The Party's Infancy: Its Political Genesis and Historical Lineage; Chapter Two -- The Early Signs of Political Schizophrenia: Caught between Stability and Revolution; Chapter Three -- Confronting Reality: Masyumi and the Exercise of Power; Chapter Four -- The Fall; Chapter Five -- Governing in the Name of Islam; Chapter Six -- The Ideal of an Islamic Society; Chapter Seven -- Conclusion…”
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