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Author: B. Elliot
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-09-02
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0230601073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection addresses the recent rebirth of interest in immigrant letters. As these letters are increasingly seen as key, rather than incidental, documents in the interpretations of gender, age, social class, and ethnicity/nationality, the scholars gathered here demonstrate a diversity of new approaches to their interpretation.
Author: Harold Frederick Smith
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780810835542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000 titles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by place and author's occupation. Updated from the 1969 edition with titles subsequently discovered. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Phillips Brooks
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allison Lockwood
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780838622728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author has analyzed, sorted, and organized material from almost 500 accounts of travels in Great Britain into a veritable cavalcade of social history. This is a book filled with life and vitality, written with a light touch and always with an eye to social comedy. It presents a true and realistic picture of these people and their periods.
Author: Ilia Dorontchenkov
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-06-10
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0520253728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the first Modernist exhibitions in the late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and writers came into wide contact with modern European art and ideas. Introducing a wealth of little-known material set in an illuminating interpretive context, this sourcebook presents Russian and Soviet views of Western art during this critical period of cultural transformation. The writings document complex responses to these works and ideas before the Russians lost contact with them almost entirely. Many of these writings have been unavailable to foreign readers and, until recently, were not widely known even to Russian scholars. Both an important reference and a valuable resource for classrooms, the book includes an introductory essay and shorter introductions to the individual sections.
Author: Mary Lesley Ames
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 606
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Merrill Decker
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0807866636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLetters have long been read as primary sources for biography and history, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensions have only recently attracted serious notice. In this book, William Merrill Decker examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from the colonial to the postmodern period. After offering an overview of the genre, Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of space, settlement, separation, and reunion. He discusses letters written by such well-known and well-educated persons as John Winthrop, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Clemens, Henry James, and Alice James, but also letters by persons who, except in their correspondence, were not writers at all: indentured servants, New England factory workers, slaves, soldiers, and Western pioneers. Individual chapters explore the letter writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and Henry Adams--three of America's most ambitious, accomplished, and theoretically astute letter writers. Finally, Decker considers the ongoing transformation of letter writing in the electronic age.
