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Spectacular Disappearances Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Reading Arab women's autobiographies Shahrazad tells her story / by Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…-- Feminism, nationalism, and colonialism in the Arab world -- Huda Shaarawi's Harem years : the memoirs of an Egyptian feminist -- Narrative theory : autobiography -- Autobiography and sexual difference -- Arab autobiography : a historical survey -- Analysis of texts -- Anthologies -- Fadwa Tuqan's Mountainous journey, difficult journey -- Nawal el-Saadawi -- The literary and the political.…”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Front-page girl / by O'Donnell, Doris, 1921-

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Emancipation's diaspora race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest / by Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-

Table of Contents: “…A full realization of the barbarities of slavery -- A time of scattering -- Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and -- Migration in the upper Midwest -- To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience -- The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom -- Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction -- Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history -- Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.…”
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Romantic narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Romantic Narrative Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Romantic Narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Romantic Narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound -- Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction -- Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. …”
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Restorative justice prison as Hell or a chance for redemption? / by Furio, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…: an examination of punishment and grace -- Linda's story, a memoir -- Linda's profile--and her integration back into society -- A global examination of restorative justice -- Family involvement in restorative justice -- Children and restorative justice -- A final analysis.…”
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Ushering in a new Republic : theologies of arrival at Rome in the first century BCE / by Luke, Trevor S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Performance, political theology, and arrival -- The Sullan republic -- The theology of departure and arrival in Sulla's memoir -- Pompey's Recognitio equitum -- Cicero's epic and civic theologies of departure and return -- The Civil War -- Julius Caesar as Rex : the Ovatio of January 44 -- Octavian's return in 36 : achieving his father's honors -- The Res Gestae and the advent of the Princeps -- The Res Gestae as divine relic -- Theologies of arrival in the Res Gestae -- Augustus as the new Numa -- Conclusion: Apotheosis and succession.…”
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Believing scholars ten Catholic intellectuals /

Table of Contents: “…/ Charles Taylor -- The poor and the third millennium / Gustavo Gutiérrez -- Forms of divine disclosure / David Tracy -- Memoirs and meaning / Jill Ker Conway -- Catholic and intellectual : conjunction or disjunction? …”
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Keepin' it hushed the barbershop and African American hush harbor rhetoric / by Nunley, Vorris

Table of Contents: “…Beyond difference: mapping and theorizing hush harbor spatiality rhetoric and knowledge -- Hush harbors: spatiality, race, and not-so-public spheres -- Wingin' it: barbershops and the work of nommo in the novel -- Poetic hush harbors: barbershops as black paideias -- Barbers and customers as philosophers in memoir and drama -- Commodifying neoliberal blackness: faux hush harbor rhetoric in barbershop -- Hush harbor pedagogy: pathos-driven hearing and pedagogy -- A question of ethics? …”
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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.…”
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Off the rim basketball and other religions in a Carolina childhood / by Hobson, Fred C., 1943-

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A Red boyhood growing up under Stalin / by Konstantin, Anatole, 1928-

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A portrait of pacifists Le Chambon, the Holocaust, and the lives of André and Magda Trocmé / by Unsworth, Richard P.

Table of Contents: “…Author's Note on the Memoirs -- Remembering : June 1971 -- Life after June 5 -- Pacifism Discovered -- Fathers and Sons -- Out of Siberia -- A Renegade Gentleman -- The Military Misadventure -- The Turnaround Year -- Real Church, Actual Church -- Le Chambon in the Thirties -- Understanding Catastrophe : 1939-1941 -- The War Worsens : 1942-1943 -- Climax and Dénouement : 1943-1944 -- The Bridge from War to Peace -- Versailles : The IFOR Years -- Versailles : Rebuilding Peace -- Geneva and Beyond -- Appendix: A Brief Chronology of the Trocmés' Lives and Events.…”
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Words of witness : black women's autobiography in the post-Brown era / by Ards, Angela Ann, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Post-Brown political aesthetics -- Beyond the strong black woman in Melba Beals's Warriors Don't Cry -- Reclaiming the radicalism of social interdependence in Rosemary Bray's Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir -- Honoring the past to move forward in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood -- Collective storytelling as diasporic consciousness in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying -- Cultivating liberatory joy in Eisa Davis's Angela's Mixtape -- Epilogue: Teaching "the people": bodies, material histories, and the project of black feminist autobiography.…”
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Exploring Desert Stone John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado / by Madsen, Steven K.

Table of Contents: “…Dimmock -- Topographical memoir of Charles H. Dimmock -- Abridged diary of John S. …”
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