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Exploring Desert Stone : John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Dimmock -- Topographical memoir of Charles H. Dimmock -- Abridged diary of John S. …”
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Exploring Desert Stone : John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Dimmock -- Topographical memoir of Charles H. Dimmock -- Abridged diary of John S. …”
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Inventing Stonewall Jackson a Civil War hero in history and memory /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Confederate enigma : Stonewall Jackson's image during the Civil War -- The minister and the martyr : Robert Lewis Dabney and Stonewall Jackson biography -- A romantic's Civil War : John Esten Cooke, Stonewall Jackson, and the ideal of individual "genius" -- Domesticating a Confederate hero : Mary Anna Jackson's story of Stonewall Jackson -- Soldiers' stories : Jackson, memoirs, and the lost cause -- Mary Johnston and Stonewall Jackson : a Virginia suffragist and the politics of historical fiction -- Symbol of the South : Allen Tate, Stonewall Jackson, and the lost cause -- Of gods and generals.…”
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Archival anxiety and the vocational calling
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…The archival calling -- Public memory meets archival memory : the interpretation of Williamsburg's Secretary's office -- Public and private history in Colonial Williamsburg : a memoir of a half-century and a view to a calling -- Empty temples : challenges for modern government archives and records management -- Secrecy, archives, and the archivist -- The National Archives reclassification scandal -- Archival ethics : the truth of the matter -- The archives & archivists listserv controversy -- The Anthony Clark case, SAA, and professional ethics -- Revisiting the archival finding aid -- Teaching unpleasant things -- Arguing about appraisal in the age of forgetfulness.…”
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A springboard to victory Shandong Province and Chinese communist military and financial strength, 1937-1945 /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…The birth of the CCP military-fiscal state in Shandong -- Moving towards confrontation -- Escalation and the CCP's financial framework -- Institutions of economic control -- Pre-Pearl Harbor policy changes -- From the strategies of confrontation to Time-killing -- Perseverance -- Financial pressure, Xu Muqiao, and salt -- Turning point and encroachments -- Accessing the enemy's resources for post-war rivalry -- The campaign to reduce rents and interest rates -- Glossary -- Documents of the CCP central authorities -- Mao Zedong -- Authorities in Shandong -- Documents on economic affairs in wartime Shandong -- Archival materials -- Memoirs, collected works, and scholarly works -- English language sources.…”
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Nimble Tongues : Studies in Literary Translingualism /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…-- Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue:Interlingual Predicaments -- Promiscuous Tongues: Erotics of Translingualism and Translation -- Writing South and North: Ariel Dorfman's Linguistic Ambidexterity -- Alien Autographs: How Translators Make Their Marks -- Translingual Memoirs of the New American Immigration -- Incubus and the Esperanto Movie Industry -- An Italian in English: The Translingual Case of Francesca Marciano -- Hugo Hamilton's Language War -- Jhumpa Lahiri Goes Italian…”
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Nimble Tongues : Studies in Literary Translingualism /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…-- Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue:Interlingual Predicaments -- Promiscuous Tongues: Erotics of Translingualism and Translation -- Writing South and North: Ariel Dorfman's Linguistic Ambidexterity -- Alien Autographs: How Translators Make Their Marks -- Translingual Memoirs of the New American Immigration -- Incubus and the Esperanto Movie Industry -- An Italian in English: The Translingual Case of Francesca Marciano -- Hugo Hamilton's Language War -- Jhumpa Lahiri Goes Italian…”
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Argonne days in World War I
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Anna Seward and the end of the eighteenth century
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. Darwin : digging in the botanical garden -- Anna Seward, Samuel Johnson, and the end of the eighteenth century.…”
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Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel -- Mestizaje in the Midwest: remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo -- Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo -- Memoirs of resistance: colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover -- Tales of the unexpected: Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya -- Postscript: The illegal aliens of American letters: troubling the immigration debate.…”
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Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. Darwin : digging in the botanical garden -- Anna Seward, Samuel Johnson, and the end of the eighteenth century.…”
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Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. Darwin : digging in the botanical garden -- Anna Seward, Samuel Johnson, and the end of the eighteenth century.…”
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Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. Darwin : digging in the botanical garden -- Anna Seward, Samuel Johnson, and the end of the eighteenth century.…”
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Novel approaches to anthropology : contributions to literary anthropology /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Anthropological aspects of the novel / Marilyn Cohen -- A Shandean description of Frakean "ethnographic behavior" / Ray McDermott -- Reading Defoe, the eighteenth century master story-teller / Mary Elizabeth Reeve -- "A genuine Victorian oddity": Harriet Martineau's fiction / Marilyn Cohen -- Mark Twain's weapon of mass destruction: "The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter" / David Surrey -- The Creole speaks: Daniel, Christophine and the other in the wide Sargaso Sea / John Pulis -- Ethnografiction and reality in contemporary Irish novels / Helena Wulff -- Engaging students' interest through fiction, memoirs and film / Ward Keeler.…”
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Juvenilia
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…-- "Love is like tautology in the same way like is like tautology" -- Heartbreak is a leak of self -- It is a city you see through water -- The city of habits -- In the city I drowned all night in the nothing search for you -- Evaporate -- The invisible memoir.…”
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Consumption and the literary cookbook /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Curiosity and consumption in Alice eats: a Wonderland cookbook and The Anne of Green Gables cookbook / Janet Wesselius -- Nadiya Hussain's Bake me a story, children's cookbooks and British Islam / Antje Rauwerda -- "Recipes for living" : meals, memories and stories in Pat Mora's House of houses / Méliné Kasparian -- "Sometimes, it is better to crave" : Asian-American fusion cuisine, the politics of substitutions, and the taste of diasporic loneliness / Shuyin Yu -- Consuming the past : food metaphors in the intergenerational food memoir / Brita M. Thielen -- Consumption & community. …”
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