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Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 166)
ISBN: 9780871691668 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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366,85 |
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
ISBN: 9780195052435 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her efforts to fight off the advances of her master, her eventual liaison with another white man (the father of two of her children), and her...
Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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371,36 |
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A Fanny Fern Reader: Selections by a Pioneering Nineteenth-Century Woman Journalist
ISBN: 9781438498522 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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372,26 |
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Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939
ISBN: 9781438495590 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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372,26 |
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Bright Pages: Yale Writers 1701-2001
ISBN: 9780300089455 / Angielski / Miękka / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. College years--when ideas collide, literature intrigues and inspires, lasting passions are first fired--can stamp a young writer for life. This extraordinary book contains the work of dozens of writers whose experiences at Yale over the past three centuries exerted a powerful force on their writing lives. Formed and nurtured by the unique intellectual community of the university, writers as diverse as Noah Webster and Gloria Naylor emerged from Yale to make their own fresh contributions to our nation's remarkable literary heritage.
From the galaxy of authors Yale has produced, J. D.... College years--when ideas collide, literature intrigues and inspires, lasting passions are first fired--can stamp a young writer for life. This extrao...
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373,15 |
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The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction
ISBN: 9781554816194 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. About the Anthology Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, The Broadview Anthology of American Literature balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with a thoroughgoing reassessment of the canon that emphasizes American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas. This concise volume represents American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, offering a more...
About the Anthology Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and ...
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373,62 |
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The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume 10, 1832: Volume 10
ISBN: 9781621902676 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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375,59 |
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The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
ISBN: 9780195061963 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highly spiritual, the work in this collection represents both previously published and unpublished material by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, a notable and neglected black woman writer. Including short fiction, poetry, and drama, her work fills a lacuna in the understanding of the literature of the nineteenth century.
Highly spiritual, the work in this collection represents both previously published and unpublished material by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, a notable and n...
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375,98 |
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The Works of Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman
ISBN: 9780195062007 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The poetry and journalistic essays of Katherine Tillman often appeared in publications sponsored by the American Methodist church. Collected together for the first time, her works speak to the struggles and triumphs of African-American women.
The poetry and journalistic essays of Katherine Tillman often appeared in publications sponsored by the American Methodist church. Collected together ...
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375,98 |
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From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect
ISBN: 9780192856869 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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375,98 |
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Sonnets: A Sequence on Profane Love
ISBN: 9781512810424 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three hundred and thirteen skillfully wrought and impassioned sonnets that place George Henry Boker (1823-90) as one of the foremost American poets. Three hundred and thirteen skillfully wrought and impassioned sonnets that place George Henry Boker (1823-90) as one of the foremost American poets... |
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385,34 |
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Epigrams and Criticisms in Miniature
ISBN: 9781512820096 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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385,34 |
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Walt Whitman's Backward Glances: A Backward Glance O'Er Travel'd Roads, and Two Contributory Essays Hitherto Uncollected
ISBN: 9781512810592 / Angielski / Twarda / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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385,34 |
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The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-1872
ISBN: 9780803226074 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters reflecting on a remarkably wide range of topics--from James's own life and literary projects to broader questions on art, literature, and criticism--this edition is an indispensable resource for students of James and of American and English literature, culture, and criticism. It will also be essential for research libraries... The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete lett... |
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385,34 |
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The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters
ISBN: 9780195140361 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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' fiancee Elizabeth Hoar, among others. While lesser figures might...
The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters is a narrative and epistolary biography drawn from the unpublished lifelong correspond...
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389,84 |
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Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 1
ISBN: 9780195052534 / Angielski / Twarda / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. The other three volumes contain works by nine other poets. Surprisingly, only one of them (Lizelia Moorer) protests at the treatment of her race during this period of social upheaval and injustice. The other poets treat the traditional themes - love, nature, death, Christian idealism and morality, family - in conventional forms and language. As interesting for the themes that they address as for those that they...
These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the...
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389,84 |
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The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom
ISBN: 9780801447846 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hannah Callender Sansom (1737 1801) witnessed the effects of the tumultuous eighteenth century: political struggles, war and peace, and economic development. She experienced the pull of traditional emphases on duty, subjection, and hierarchy and the emergence of radical new ideas promoting free choice, liberty, and independence. Regarding these changes from her position as a well-educated member of the colonial Quaker elite and as a resident of Philadelphia, the principal city in North America, this assertive, outspoken woman described her life and her society in a diary kept... Hannah Callender Sansom (1737 1801) witnessed the effects of the tumultuous eighteenth century: political struggles, war and peace, and economic de... |
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395,10 |
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Complete Film Criticism: Reviews, Essays, and Manuscripts Volume 5
ISBN: 9781621902584 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A distinguished writer in multiple genres - fiction, poetry, screenwriting, social documentary - James Agee first gained widespread recognition as a movie reviewer and critic. Scrupulously edited by Charles Maland, this volume stands as the definitive collection of Agee's film writing.
A distinguished writer in multiple genres - fiction, poetry, screenwriting, social documentary - James Agee first gained widespread recognition as a m...
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399,98 |
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Reading Seattle: The City in Prose
ISBN: 9780295997254 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a literary prism. Reading Seattle features classics by Horace R. Cayton, Richard Hugo, Betty MacDonald, Mary McCarthy, Murray Morgan, and John Okada as well as more recent works by Sherman Alexie, Lynda Barry, David Guterson, J. A. Jance, Jonathan Raban, and others. It includes... Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven de... |
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399,98 |
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Come! Come! Where? Where?: Essays
ISBN: 9781469678139 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
399,98 |
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