How New York Became American, 1890–1924

How New York Became American, 1890–1924
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Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781421439228
ISBN-13 : 1421439220
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis How New York Became American, 1890–1924 by : Art M. Blake

Blake weaves a compelling story of a city's struggle for metropolitan and national status and its place in the national imagination.

Milestones in Colour Printing 1457-1859

Milestones in Colour Printing 1457-1859
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 0521554411
ISBN-13 : 9780521554411
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Milestones in Colour Printing 1457-1859 by : Bamber Gascoigne

Bamber Gascoigne offers a broad historical survey of developments in colour printing from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

The Emerson Brothers

The Emerson Brothers
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : 9780190286279
ISBN-13 : 019028627X
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Emerson Brothers by : Ronald A. Bosco

The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters is a narrative and epistolary biography drawn from the unpublished lifelong correspondence exchanged among four brothers: Charles Chauncy, Edward Bliss, Ralph Waldo, and William Emerson. This is an extensive correspondence, for not counting Waldo's previously published letters, there are 768 letters exchanged among the brothers and an additional 483 unpublished letters from the brothers to their aunt Mary Moody Emerson, mother Ruth Haskins Emerson, and Charles' fiancée Elizabeth Hoar, among others. While lesser figures might have faltered under the burden of having been born an Emerson, with social, political, and ecclesiastic roots extending back to the first century of New England settlement, the brothers' letters reveal that all were invigorated by a shared sense of origin and aspired to make a significant reputation for themselves. Across six richly developed chapters, the signal events and friendships that shaped the Emerson brothers' lives are strung together to reveal a remarkable family culture. For the first time, The Emerson Brothers treats the illustrious history of the Emerson family in America as a foreshadowing of expectations the brothers inherited; defines the extent of Waldo's debt to William for his encounter with German Biblical Criticism; develops Charles' and Edward's incredibly promising but ultimately tragic lives; examines the profound emotional and intellectual impact of Aunt Mary on the younger Emersons; considers the three-year courtship between Charles and Elizabeth Hoar in the context of Waldo's own marriages; and studies the brothers' preoccupation with financial security for "the family" (revealing, too, that finances were at least as powerful a motivation behind Waldo's 1832 resignation from Boston's Second Church as were the death of his first wife and his religious doubts). This biography approaches Waldo's inner life in a way that makes him a figure to imagine personally by portraying him in relation to his brothers who are his intellectual equals. It offers an imaginative social and cultural history of one of our oldest and most gifted families, unique players in a period often considered to be the "American Renaissance."

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine
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Publisher : Anthem Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9781785278068
ISBN-13 : 1785278061
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine by : Gary Fisher

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the Covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place. As immobility is forced upon us, at least for the immediate future, we have the chance to reflect. Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine presents opportunities to approach a text as a scholar differently. We break with the traditional academic ‘rules’ by inserting ourselves into the narrative and foregrounding the personal, subjective elements of literary scholarship. Each contributor critiques an historical description of a place about which, simultaneously, they write a personal account.

Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Bulletin of the New York Public Library
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 510
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101038115679
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Bulletin of the New York Public Library by : New York Public Library

Includes its Report, 1896-19 .

The Bookseller

The Bookseller
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 670
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112081497254
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bookseller by :

Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.