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Voices of the Marketplace

American Thought and Culture, 1830-1860

By: Anne C. Rose

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Voices of the Marketplace

American Thought and Culture, 1830-1860

By: Anne C. Rose

In this comprehensive and insightful reinterpretation of antebellum culture, Anne C. Rose analyzes the major shifts in intellectual life that occurred between 1830 and 1860 while exploring three sets of concepts that provided common languages-Christianity, democracy, capitalism. Whereas many interpretations of American culture in this period have emphasized a single theme or have been preoccupied with the ensuing Civil War, Rose considers sharply divergent tendencies in religion and politics and a wide range of reformers, authors, and other public figures.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742532631

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9780742532632

The Agon of Modernism

Wyndham Lewis's Allegories, Aesthetics, and Politics

By: Anne Quéma

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The Agon of Modernism

Wyndham Lewis's Allegories, Aesthetics, and Politics

By: Anne Quéma

Lewis's political writings present ambiguities: his stated belief in the autonomy of art from life is contradicted by other statements he made and by his critical analyses of writers; and his political writings blur any a priori generic distinction between art and non-art. Given this blurring between art and life, artistic genre and non-artistic genre, Quema claims that Lewis's political texts present characteristics usually attributed to avant-gardism. However, this radicalism has to be balanced against Lewis's conservatism. Thus his political writings can be read as allegories with two pragmatic aims: to organize the life of the polis from an artistic standpoint and to persuade the reader to adhere to authoritarian politics."--BOOK JACKET.

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248

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Bucknell University Press

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0838753922

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9780838753927

In the Hearts of the Beasts

How American Behavioral Scientists Rediscovered the Emotions of Animals

By: Anne C. Rose

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In the Hearts of the Beasts

How American Behavioral Scientists Rediscovered the Emotions of Animals

By: Anne C. Rose

Animals cannot use words to explain whether they feel emotions, and scientific opinion on the subject has been divided. Charles Darwin believed animals and humans share a common core of fear, anger, and affection. Today most researchers agree that animals experience comfort or pain. Around 1900 in the United States, however, where intelligence was the dominant interest in the lab and field, animal emotion began as an accidental question. Organisms ranging from insects to primates, already used to test learning, displayed appetites and aversions that pushed psychologists and biologists in new scientific directions. The Americans were committed empiricists, and the routine of devising experiments, observing, and reflecting permitted them to change their minds and encouraged them to do so. By 1980, the emotional behavior of predatory ants, fearful rats, curious raccoons, resourceful bats, and shy apes was part of American science. In this open-ended environment, the scientists' personal lives--their families, trips abroad, and public service--also affected their professional labor. The Americans kept up with the latest intellectual trends in genetics, evolution, and ethology, and they sometimes pioneered them. But there is a bottom-up story to be told about the scientific consequences of animals and humans brought together in the pursuit of knowledge. The history of the American science of animal emotions reveals the ability of animals to teach and scientists to learn.

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Oxford University Press

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0190935626

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9780190935627

Notes from the Cracked Ceiling

What It Will Take for a Woman to Win

By: Anne E. Kornblut

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Notes from the Cracked Ceiling

What It Will Take for a Woman to Win

By: Anne E. Kornblut

In the presidential election of 2008 America seemed ready to elevate a woman to the presidency or vice presidency and—with Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin—was on the verge of actually doing so. Words like inevitable and phenomenon were in the air and the political and cultural stars seemed to be aligned. Why didn’t it happen? What will it take to make it happen soon? In a probing analysis sure to ignite controversy, acclaimed White House correspondent Anne Kornblut argues that the optimists are blind to formidable obstacles that still stand in the way of any woman who aims for America’s highest political offices. And she makes clear exactly which strategies and common assumptions will need to change if a woman intends to break through the “highest, hardest glass ceiling” of all. Delving deep inside the Clinton and Palin campaigns, Kornblut reveals: • the strategists’ mishandling of their candidates as women by failing to strike the right balance between femininity and toughness • Clinton’s weathering of a series of stinging gender-based attacks, until accusations of “pimping out” her daughter, Chelsea, finally brought her to tears • that Barack Obama was celebrated for his “historic”win in Iowa, even though it was not the first time an African American had won a caucus, but few noticed when Clinton became the first woman to win a primary in New Hampshire • that Palin was chosen solely by men, none of whom had experience in running women for office Drawing from exclusive interviews with prominent women in both parties, Kornblut pinpoints where politically ambitious American women have gone wrong and what it will take to put them on track to the ultimate prize: the presidency. Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice asserts: “We crossed the bar on African Americans some time ago. I’m not quite sure we’ve crossed it on women.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remarks on the “suit of armor” women must don to survive the sexism and viciousness of politics. Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano confronts the false rumors that she is a lesbian and reveals what an invigorating “kick in the pants” it is to be in politics. And California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, the former head of eBay, compares politics to business: “It feels to me, thus far, as less of a meritocracy and more of a popularity contest. More of a little bit of an old boys’ club.” Kornblut identifies the surprising realities of gender politics, such as the harsh treatment female candidates often receive from women voters, the gap between the United States and other countries when it comes to the electability of women, the “mommy penalty” that handicaps women candidates with young children, and the special appeal that women with law enforcement backgrounds have with voters. Notes from the Cracked Ceiling reveals that the highly touted new era of gender-equal politics never got as far as was commonly perceived and is now in full retreat. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about politics and the limits for women that persist.

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Crown

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0307464261

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9780307464262

The Title to the Poem

By: Anne Ferry

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The Title to the Poem

By: Anne Ferry

The first six chapters are distinguished according to the nature of the question a reader might ask about the poem, which the title purports to answer. Who gives the title? Who has the title? Who "says" the poem? Who "hears" the poem? What genre does the poem belong to? What is the poem "about"?

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Stanford University Press

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0804735174

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9780804735179

Freedom's Empire

Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940

By: Laura Anne Doyle

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Freedom's Empire

Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940

By: Laura Anne Doyle

A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.

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Duke University Press

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082234159X

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9780822341598

A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses

By: Anne Trubek

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A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses

By: Anne Trubek

There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and find ourselves instead in the house where the author himself was conceived, or where she drew her last breath. Perhaps it is a place through which our writer passed only briefly, or maybe it really was a longtime home—now thoroughly remade as a decorator's show-house. In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of a goodly number of house museums across the nation. In Key West she visits the shamelessly ersatz shrine to a hard-living Ernest Hemingway, while meditating on his lost Cuban farm and the sterile Idaho house in which he committed suicide. In Hannibal, Missouri, she walks the fuzzy line between fact and fiction, as she visits the home of the young Samuel Clemens—and the purported haunts of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Injun' Joe. She hits literary pay-dirt in Concord, Massachusetts, the nineteenth-century mecca that gave home to Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau—and yet could not accommodate a surprisingly complex Louisa May Alcott. She takes us along the trail of residences that Edgar Allan Poe left behind in the wake of his many failures and to the burned-out shell of a California house with which Jack London staked his claim on posterity. In Dayton, Ohio, a charismatic guide brings Paul Laurence Dunbar to compelling life for those few visitors willing to listen; in Cleveland, Trubek finds a moving remembrance of Charles Chesnutt in a house that no longer stands. Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812205812

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9780812205817

Something about the Author

Facts and Pictures about Contemporary Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People Volume 6

By: Anne Commire

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Facts and Pictures about Contemporary Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People Volume 6

By: Anne Commire

Series covers individuals ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries cover: personal life, career, writings and works in progress, adaptations, additional sources, and photographs.

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0810300605

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9780810300606

The Very Telling

Conversations with American Writers

By: Sarah Anne Johnson

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The Very Telling

Conversations with American Writers

By: Sarah Anne Johnson

An inspiring collection of interviews with some of today's hottest authors.

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UPNE

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1584655941

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9781584655947

Story

The Way of Water

By: Anne E. Lenehan

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The Way of Water

By: Anne E. Lenehan

As a small boy Story Musgrave found solace, protection and beauty in the world of nature. His deep affinity with nature and the wonders of the universe would one day set him on an inexorable course to the stars. Be warned however: this remarkable book is not your standard, chronological biography.

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Soundscape Software Pty Ltd

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0975228609

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9780975228609

American Environmental Leaders [2 volumes]

From Colonial Times to the Present

By: Anne Becher

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American Environmental Leaders [2 volumes]

From Colonial Times to the Present

By: Anne Becher

A comprehensive and diverse award winning collection of biographies of the most important figures in American environmentalism. American Environmental Leaders presents more than 350 biographies of men and women who have devoted their lives to studying, debating, and organizing these and other controversial issues over the last 200 years. In addition to the scientists who have analyzed how human actions affect nature, we are introduced to poets, landscape architects, presidents, painters, activists, even sanitation engineers, and others who have forever altered how we think about the environment. The easy to use A-Z format provides instant access to these fascinating individuals, and frequent cross references indicate others with whom individuals worked (and sometimes clashed). End of entry references provide users with a starting point for further research. - Easy to use A-Z format provides instant access to these fascinating individuals, and frequent cross references indicate others with whom individuals worked (and sometimes clashed) - End of entry references provide users with a starting point for further research-- -

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ABC-CLIO

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1576071626

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9781576071625

Book's by Anne Whitman

Voices of the Marketplace

Voices of the Marketplace

The Agon of Modernism

The Agon of Modernism

In the Hearts of the Beasts

In the Hearts of the Beasts

Notes from the Cracked Ceiling

Notes from the Cracked Ceiling

The Title to the Poem

The Title to the Poem

Freedom's Empire

Freedom's Empire

A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses

A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses

Something about the Author

Something about the Author

The Very Telling

The Very Telling

Story

Story

American Environmental Leaders [2 volumes]

American Environmental Leaders [2 volumes]

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