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The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790–1876

By: Brian Yothers

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The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790–1876

By: Brian Yothers

This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers argues that American travel writing about the Holy Land forms a coherent, if greatly varied, tradition, which can only be fully understood when works by major writers such as Twain and Melville are studied alongside missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. Yothers also examines works by lesser-known authors such as Bayard Taylor, John Lloyd Stephens, and Clorinda Minor, demonstrating that American travel writing is marked by a profound intertextuality with the Hebrew and Christian scriptures and with British and continental travel narratives about the Holy Land. His concluding chapter on Melville's Clarel shows how Melville's poem provides an incisive critique of the nascent imperial discourse discernible in the American texts with which it is in dialogue.

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Routledge

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1317017056

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Sacred Uncertainty

Religious Difference and the Shape of Melville's Career

By: Brian Yothers

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Sacred Uncertainty

Religious Difference and the Shape of Melville's Career

By: Brian Yothers

Yothers’ Sacred Uncertainty examines Melville’s engagement with religious difference, both within American culture and around the world. It is impossible to understand Melville’s wider engagement with religious and cultural questions, however, without understanding the fundamental tension between self and society, self and others that underlies his work, and that is manifested in particular in the way in which he interacts with other writers. There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville’s affirmations of and arguments with these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville’s marginalia for clues to Melville’s thinking about self, other, and difference. Sacred Uncertainty provides a much needed exploration of Melville’s encounter with and reflection upon religious difference.

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Northwestern University Press

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081013179X

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9780810131798

Reading Abolition

The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass

By: Brian Yothers

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Reading Abolition

The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass

By: Brian Yothers

Epilogue: Critical Futures-Stowe and Douglass, Together and Separately -- Works Cited -- Index

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Boydell & Brewer

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1571135774

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Melville's Mirrors

Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author

By: Brian Yothers

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Melville's Mirrors

Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author

By: Brian Yothers

An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half. Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. Until now, however, there has been no standard volume on the history of Melvillecriticism. That a volume on this subject is timely and important is shown by the number of introductions and companions to Melville's work that have been published during the last few years (none of which focuses on the criticalreception of Melville's works), as well as the steady stream of critical monographs and scholarly biographies that have been published on Melville since the 1920s. Melville's Mirrors provides Melville scholars and graduateand undergraduate students with an accessible guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the years. It is a valuable reference for research libraries and for the personal libraries of scholars of Melville and of nineteenth-century American literature in general, and it is also a potential textbook for major-author courses on Melville, which are offered at many universities. BRIAN YOTHERS is the Frances Spatz Leighton Endowed Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso and associate editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. He is the author of Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass (Camden House, 2016).

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Camden House

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1640140530

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Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory

By: Brian R. Pellar

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Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory

By: Brian R. Pellar

This book unfurls and examines the anti-slavery allegory at the subtextual core of Herman Melville’s famed novel, Moby-Dick. Brian Pellar points to symbols and allusions in the novel such as the albinism of the famed whale, the “Ship of State” motif, Calhoun’s “cords,” the equator, Jonah, Narcissus, St. Paul, and Thomas Hobbe’s Leviathan. The work contextualizes these devices within a historical discussion of the Compromise of 1850 and subsequently strengthened Fugitive Slave Laws. Drawing on a rich variety of sources such as unpublished papers, letters, reviews, and family memorabilia, the chapters discuss the significance of these laws within Melville’s own life. After clarifying the hidden allegory interconnecting black slaves and black whales, this book carefully sheds the layers of a hidden meaning that will be too convincing to ignore for future readings: Moby-Dick is ultimately a novel that is intimately connected with questions of race, slavery, and the state.

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Springer

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3319522671

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The Washington Manual Hematology and Oncology Subspecialty Consult

By: Brian A. Van Tine,Meagan A. Jacoby

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The Washington Manual Hematology and Oncology Subspecialty Consult

By: Brian A. Van Tine,Meagan A. Jacoby

Concise, portable, and user-friendly, The Washington Manual Hematology and Oncology Subspecialty Consult, 5th Edition, provides quick access to the essential information needed to evaluate a patient on a hematology-oncology subspecialty consult service. Edited by Drs. Brian A. Van Tine and Meagan A. Jacoby, this best-selling manual offers state-of-the-art content, including coverage of new therapies such as CAR T-cell therapy, new anti-cancer drugs, and new biomarkers and therapeutic targets. Ideal for fellows, residents, and medical students rotating on hematology and oncology subspecialty services, the manual is also useful as a first-line resource for advanced practice providers, general internal medicine physicians, Hem/ONC fellows, and other primary care providers.

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687

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975212851

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9781975212858

Dirty Laundry

Real Life. Real Stories. Real Funny.

By: Maggie Rowe,Andersen Gabrych,Eddie Pepitone,Kevin Nealon,Laura Silverman,Amy Stiller,Mary Birdsong,Richard Belze,Randy Sklar,Taylor Negron ,C. Brian Smith,Jonathan Schmock,Claudia Lonow

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Dirty Laundry

Real Life. Real Stories. Real Funny.

By: Maggie Rowe,Andersen Gabrych,Eddie Pepitone,Kevin Nealon,Laura Silverman,Amy Stiller,Mary Birdsong,Richard Belze,Randy Sklar,Taylor Negron ,C. Brian Smith,Jonathan Schmock,Claudia Lonow

Every other Thursday on Santa Monica Boulevard’s Comedy Central Stage, a motley assortment of prolific Hollywood writers, actors, and comics convene to reveal the most personal—and colorful—parts of their lives. Their soul-baring monologues reveal the sources of their creative genius, from wacky families, to psycho exes, random ramblings, and unbelievable Hollywood insights. This hilarious collection, featuring a foreword by Arrested Development's Mitch Hurwitz and Jim Vallely, includes some of their best confessions. It provides an inside scoop on Hollywood, including stories on mishaps at the Emmys, writing for popular shows, being put in a sleeper hold by Hulk Hogan, growing up in famous families, and what it’s like to play Jan Brady. Funny, embarrassing, or dirty (or a combination thereof), but always brutally honest, Dirty Laundry shines a voyeuristic light on the underbellies of the people who have sold their souls to the entertainment biz. Authors include Maggie Rowe, Andersen Gabrych, Doug Benson, Kevin Nealon, Richard Belzer, Amy Stiller, Laura Silverman, Mary Birdsong, Taylor Negron, Randy Sklar, Kelly Carlin-McCall, Jennifer Elise Cox, Tom Saunders, Eileen Conn, Carlos Kotkin, Eddie Pepitone, Mark Evan Jackson, C. Brian Smith, Davis McHenry, Matt Price, David Landsberg, David Chrisman, Keith Blaney, Andrea Abbate, Jonathan Schmock, Jen Sincero, Claudia Lonow, Jackie Kashian, Shaz Bennet, B. Mark Seabrooks, Stirling Gardner, and Drew Droege.

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Phoenix Books

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1614670021

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On This Date A DayByDay Look at Historic

By: Brian Merrill

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On This Date A DayByDay Look at Historic

By: Brian Merrill

On This Date is a day-by-day look at important events in history. Arranged by month and day, this book allows the reader to look up any calendar date and find out what famous events happened on that date and what famous people were born on that date.

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Lulu.com

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1430305010

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Melville's Mirrors

Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author

By: Brian Yothers

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Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author

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Camden House

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Reading Abolition

The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass

By: Brian Yothers

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Reading Abolition

The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass

By: Brian Yothers

Epilogue: Critical Futures-Stowe and Douglass, Together and Separately -- Works Cited -- Index

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Boydell & Brewer

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The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876

By: Brian Yothers

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The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876

By: Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers puts American travel writing about the Holy Land by major writers like Twain and Melville in dialogue with missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. The profound intertextuality American travel writing shares with Hebrew and Christian scriptures and with British and continental travel narratives is striking, as is the critique of nascent imperial discourse Yothers examines in Melville's Clarel.

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