Thomas Pickman Tyler's Memoirs of Royall Tyler
Author: Ada Lou Carson
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 694
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Author: Ada Lou Carson
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 694
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Royall Tyler
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2007-04
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 0814747922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.
Author: John Adams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780674220003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis early diary of John Adams contains material about his life as an undergraduate at Harvard, his law studies, his ambitions, and his observations on girls. -- Dust jacket.
Author: Cathy N. Davidson Professor of English Duke University
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1987-02-19
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0199728852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevolution and the Word offers a unique perspective on the origins of American fiction, looking not only at the early novels themselves but at the people who produced them, sold them, and read them. It shows how, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the novel found a special place among the least privileged citizens of the new republic. As Cathy N. Davidson explains, early American novels--most of them now long forgotten--were a primary means by which those who bought and read them, especially women and the lower classes, moved into the higher levels of literacy required by a democracy. This very fact, Davidson shows, also made these people less amenable to the control of the gentry who, naturally enough, derided fiction as a potentially subversive genre. Combining rigorous historical methods with the newest insights of literacy theory, Davidson brilliantly reconstructs the complex interplay of politics, ideology, economics, and other social forces that governed the way novels were written, published, distributed, and understood. Davidson also shows, in almost tactile detail, how many Americans lived during the Constitutional era. She depicts the life of the traveling book peddler, the harsh lot of the printer, the shortcomings of early American schools, the ambiguous politics of novelists like Brackenridge and Tyler, and the lost lives of ordinary women like Tabitha Tenney and Patty Rogers. Drawing on a vast body of material--the novels themselves as well as reviews, inscriptions in cherished books, letters and diaries, and many other records--Davidson presents the genesis of American literature in its fullest possible context.
Author: Mary Hunt Palmer Tyler
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 422
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-06-29
Total Pages: 843
ISBN-13: 9004429905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History 16 is about relations between the two faiths in North America, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Australasia from 1800 to 1914. It gives descriptions, assessments and bibliographical details of all known works from this period.
Author: Cathy N. Davidson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 0195148231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow greatly expanded, this classic study has been updated to include the major controversies & developments in literary & cultural theory over the past two decades. It traces the co-emergence of the United States as a nation & the literary genre of the novel.
Author: Royall Tyler
Publisher: Montpelier : Vermont Historical Society
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne hundred swimming lessons, broken up into ten groups of studies, with each group containing standard revision tests. Some lessons are accompanied by diagrams.
Author: Dorothy Sutherland Melville
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tylers of Brattleboro, Vermont, descendants of Royal Tyler (1757-1826), and the Browns, who also date from early America "and whom the Tylers consistently married.".
Author: Rima Dombrow Apple
Publisher: Women & Health C&s Perspective
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 640
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive collection of historical studies of mothers and motherhood, illustrating the shifting meaning of motherhood over time, the differences between mothers, and the kinds of evidence scholars use to study both the reality and the rhetoric of mothering. General themes are the social construction of motherhood, motherhood and reproduction, social and cultural settings, and public policy. Topics include maternal grief in True Story, 1920-1985, pregnancy and family limitation among Virginia gentry women, 1780-1830, the La Leche League in postwar America, mothering under slavery in the antebellum South, and the beginnings of feminist birth control ideas in the US. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR