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Enterprising Youth
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 49.95"Recommended" by Choice Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children?s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to children by adults. The essays in this book reveal the contradictions involved in the perceptions of children as active or passive, as representatives... more...
Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 80.00This study inspects the preponderance and significance of food imagery in literary texts by nineteenth-century American writers. more...
Transnational Gothic
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 104.95Presenting a variety of approaches to late eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, this collection provides a transnational view of the emergence and flowering of the Gothic. Its focus on British, American, Continental, Caribbean and Asian literature deepens our understanding of the Gothic as not merely a national but a global aesthetic. more...
Reinventing the Peabody Sisters
University of Iowa Press 2006; US$ 33.00Whether in the public realm as political activists, artists, teachers, biographers, editors, and writers or in the more traditional role of domestic, nurturing women, Elizabeth Peabody, Mary Peabody Mann, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne subverted rigid nineteenth-century definitions of women?s limited realm of influence. Reinventing the Peabody Sisters... more...
Our Sisters' Keepers
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 29.95American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of Emersonian self-reliance and Thoreau’s insistence on... more...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 24.95Considers Gilman's place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her era. By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated radical. Gilman believed and... more...
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