Dickens' Household Words and Valuable Whispers
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 454
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles John Huffam Dickens
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 458
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah Meer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-05-29
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0198812515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also formed a political talisman, invoked against slavery and segregation, or privileges of gender and class. Later, claimants were exported to South Africa, becoming the fictional form for explaining black students who acquired American degrees. American Claimants traces the figure back to lost-heir romance, and explores its uses. These encompassed real, imagined, and textual ideas of inheritance, for writers and editors, and also for missionaries, artists, and students. The claimant dramatized tensions between tradition and change, or questions of exclusion and power: it offered ways of seeing activism, education, sculpture, and dress. The premise for dozens of novels and plays, a trope, a joke, even the basis for real claims: claimants matter in theatre history and periodical studies, they touch on literary marketing and reprinting, and they illuminate some unexpected texts. These range from Our American Cousin to Bleak House, Little Lord Fauntleroy to Frederick Douglass' Paper; writers discussed include Frances Trollope, Julia Griffiths, Alexander Crummell, John Dube, James McCune Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The focus on claimants yields remarkable finds: new faces, fresh angles, a lost column, and a forgotten theatrical genre. It reveals the pervasiveness of this form, and its centrality in imagining cultural contact and exchange.
Author: Charles Dickens
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 396
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 351
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Horace ELIOT (the Younger.)
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 198
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 452
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. DICKENS
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Published: 1969
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Smith Porter
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Published: 1663
Total Pages: 196
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