Tales of the Fireside
Author: Lady of Boston
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Published: 1827
Total Pages: 225
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Author: Lady of Boston
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Published: 1827
Total Pages: 225
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rebecca Warren Brown
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Published: 1827
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lyle Henry Wright
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dorinda Evans
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1351565575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly American painter Gilbert Stuart has long been mistakenly represented as a hard-drinking rogue, habitual liar, and inexplicable financial failure. To explain his stylistic unevenness as an artist, he is assumed to have had an inferior assistant, but the documentary evidence for an assistant who painted on his portraits is non-existent-in fact, there is evidence to the contrary. This ground-breaking study demonstrates that Stuart suffered from a hereditary form of manic depression, leading him to create pictures that contain peculiar lapses characteristic of a manic-depressive, or bipolar, artist. Using documentary and empirical evidence-from diaries and letters to x-radiographs of paintings-this book fills important gaps in our knowledge of Stuart, and connects the strange visual effects in some of Stuart's paintings with cognitive deficits attendant with the disorder. In addition to Stuart, other bipolar artists, including George Romney, Raphaelle Peale, Gilbert Stuart Newton, and William Rimmer, are discussed in relation to these deficits, revealing patterns which carry broader implications for all manic-depressive artists. This volume is a significant contribution not only to studies of Stuart and the four other painters but also to our understanding of the mind of a manic-depressive artist. It bridges the broad disciplines of art history and psychopathology.
Author: Oscar Wegelin
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Fanning
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-10-21
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 0813184061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years. Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T. Farrell. Later writers treated in depth include Edwin O'Connor, Elizabeth Cullinan, Maureen Howard, and William Kennedy. Along the way he places in the historical record many all but forgotten writers, including the prolific Mary Ann Sadlier. The Irish Voice in America is not only a highly readable contribution to American literary history but also a valuable reference to many writers and their works. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience.
Author: Francis, David G., firm, booksellers, New York
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Published: 1834
Total Pages: 152
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-15
Total Pages: 195
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe is an interesting compilation of small-town stories to entertain and thrill readers. Excerpt: "Still we shivered, and clung to his knee, at the mysterious parts, and felt gentle, cold chills run down our spines at appropriate places. We were always in the most receptive and sympathetic condition. Tonight, in particular, was one of those thundering stormy ones, when the winds appeared to be holding a perfect mad carnival over my grandfather's house."