Art and the Empire City
Art and the Empire City

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 0870999575

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Presented in conjunction with the September 2000 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, this volume presents the complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period. Thirteen essays by noted specialists bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects that offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. The 300-plus works in the exhibition and comparative material are extensively illustrated in color and bandw. Oversize: 9.25x12.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Love Entwined
Love Entwined

Author: Helen Sheumaker

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2007-05-29

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780812203400

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Using a wide array of evidence drawn from poetry, fiction, diaries, letters, and examples of hairwork, Love Entwined traces the widespread popularity of the craft from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

Emerson
Emerson

Author: Robert E. Burkholder

Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 872

ISBN-13:

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Lists and annotates writings about Ralph Waldo Emerson published between 1980 and 1991.

The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891
The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891

Author: LeRoy Lad Panek

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-03-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1476666997

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Until recently, only a privileged few could read the rare, early writings that formed the basis of detective fiction in America and made it one of the most popular literary genres of the 19th century. Drawing on the unprecedented access provided by digital collections of period newspapers and magazines, this book examines detective fiction during its formative years, focusing on such crucial elements as setting, lawyers and the law, physicians and forensics, women as victims and heroes, crime and criminals, and police and detectives.