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Juvenile Delinquency:

Historical, Cultural & Legal Perspectives

By: Arnold Binder,Gilbert Geis,Dickson D Bruce Jr.

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Juvenile Delinquency:

Historical, Cultural & Legal Perspectives

By: Arnold Binder,Gilbert Geis,Dickson D Bruce Jr.

Juvenile Delinquency:

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1437729207

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The Kentucky Tragedy

A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America

By: Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.

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The Kentucky Tragedy

A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America

By: Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.

A murder case with all the elements of melodrama -- including seduction and betrayal, political intrigue, honor, and greed -- the Kentucky Tragedy of 1825 riveted the attention of the nation. For decades afterward, its themes resonated in American writing. With unprecedented objectivity, Dickson Bruce recounts the events of the case and offers an innovative analysis of the poems, novels, dramas, and commentary it inspired. He uncovers an intricate connection between public fascination with the Kentucky Tragedy and changing ideas about gender roles, social identity, human motivation, and freedom in the years leading up to the Civil War.Bruce provides a masterly narration of the Tragedy. Around 1819, Colonel Solomon P. Sharp, one of Kentucky's leading politicians, allegedly seduced Ann Cooke, who subsequently delivered a stillborn child she claimed was fathered by Sharp. During the summer of 1825, rumors of the scandal circulated, incensing both Cooke and her husband, Jereboam Beauchamp, who decided, with the support of his wife, that honor compelled him to kill Sharp. He did so, admitted to the act, and was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to die. On the morning of the execution, the couple attempted suicide by stabbing in Beauchamp's jail cell. Cooke died, but Beauchamp was merely wounded and met his date with the hangman later that day.The lurid story appeared widely in the popular press and captured the imaginations of many antebellum writers, including William Gilmore Simms and Edgar Allan Poe. Bruce reveals that the Kentucky Tragedy elicited more literary works than did any other episode of the period. By exploring the transformation of the Tragedy into literature, he illuminates the shifting social, political, and intellectual forces that revolutionized American life in this era.

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0807131733

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Black American Writing from the Nadir

The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877--1915

By: Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.

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Black American Writing from the Nadir

The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877--1915

By: Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.

In this wide-ranging study, Dickson D. Bruce. Jr., analyzes post-Reconstruction and turn-of-the-century black writing, treating minor as well as major authors and considering a broad range of genres. Bruce shows that black writers confronted the conditions of an increasingly racist society in almost every aspect of their work—from their choice of subject matter to the way they drew their characters to the mood they portrayed. At the same time, these writers, most of whom were members of a small but growing black professional class, displayed a concern for middle-class aspirations and values. Bruce underscores the significance of discerning the tensions between these opposing forces in studying the literature of the time. Bruce’s attention to the body of work produced by minor writers, most of whom have remained obscure to all but a few literary scholars and historians, adds an important dimension to our understanding of African-American history and literature. His discussion of such better-known writers as Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and W. E. B. Du Bois places them in a fuller literary context, defining more clearly their significance as individuals. Black American Writing from the Nadir is an insightful, well-focused work that will benefit social and cultural historians as well as students of literature

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0807118060

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The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865

By: Dickson D. Bruce

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The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865

By: Dickson D. Bruce

From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and a medium through which black writers have been able to exert considerable authority on both sides of that racial demarcation. Dickson D. Bruce argues that contrary to prevailing perceptions of African American voices as silenced and excluded from American history, those voices were loud and clear. Within the context of the wider culture, these writers offered powerful, widely read, and widely appreciated commentaries on American ideals and ambitions. The Origins of African American Literature provides strong evidence to demonstrate just how much writers engaged in a surprising number of dialogues with society as a whole. Along with an extensive discussion of major authors and texts, including Phillis Wheatley's poetry, Frederick Douglass's Narrative, Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Martin Delany's Blake, Bruce explores less-prominent works and writers as well, thereby grounding African American writing in its changing historical settings. The Origins of African American Literature is an invaluable revelation of the emergence and sources of the specifically African American literary tradition and the forces that helped shape it.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813920671

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9780813920672

Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South

By: Dickson D. Bruce

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Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South

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This provocative book draws from a variety of sources—literature, politics, folklore, social history—to attempt to set Southern beliefs about violence in a cultural context. According to Dickson D. Bruce, the control of violence was a central concern of antebellum Southerners. Using contemporary sources, Bruce describes Southerners’ attitudes as illustrated in their duels, hunting, and the rhetoric of their politicians. He views antebellum Southerners as pessimistic and deeply distrustful of social relationships and demonstrates how this world view impelled their reliance on formal controls to regularize human interaction. The attitudes toward violence of masters, slaves, and “plain-folk”—the three major social groups of the period—are differentiated, and letters and family papers are used to illustrate how Southern child-rearing practices contributed to attitudes toward violence in the region. The final chapter treats Edgar Allan Poe as a writer who epitomized the attitudes of many Southerners before the Civil War.

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University of Texas Press

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0292758197

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The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865

By: Dickson D. Bruce

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The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865

By: Dickson D. Bruce

Bruce's engaging history traces the origins and context of African American literature, highlighting key influences, rather than surveying all the examples. Among the influences discussed are English literary conventions, the writing of Phillis Wheatley, the development of an authoritative black persona and perspective, and the rise of immediatist abolition. Bruce teaches history at the U. of California, Irvine. c. Book News Inc.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813920663

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Earnestly Contending

Religious Freedom and Pluralism in Antebellum America

By: Dickson D. Bruce

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Earnestly Contending

Religious Freedom and Pluralism in Antebellum America

By: Dickson D. Bruce

In Earnestly Contending, Dickson Bruce examines the ways in which religious denominations and movements in antebellum America coped with the ideals of freedom and pluralism that exerted such a strong influence on the larger, national culture. Despite their enormous normative power, these still-evolving ideals--themselves partly religious in origin--ran up against deeply entrenched concerns about the integrity of religious faith and commitment and the role of religion in society. The resulting tensions between these ideals and desires for religious consensus and coherence would remain unresolved throughout the period. Focusing on that era's interdenominational competition, Bruce explores the possibilities for and barriers to realizing ideals of freedom and pluralism in antebellum America. He examines the nature of religion from the perspectives of anthropology and cognitive sciences, as well as history, and uses this interdisciplinary approach to organize and understand specific tendencies in the antebellum period while revealing properties inherent in religion as a social and cultural phenomenon. He goes on to show how issues from that era have continued to play a role in American religious thinking, and how they might shed light on the controversies of our own time.

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0813933633

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Ancient Preludes 3rd

By: D. Bruce Dickson

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Ancient Preludes 3rd

By: D. Bruce Dickson

Contents: Part I -- How Can We Know of Prehistory: Introduction to the Study of the Past; Ancient Tools, Fossils, and the Rise of Scientific Prehistory; Establishing Relative Sequences of Ancient Events; Absolute or Chronometric Dating; Basic Field Methods in Ancient Studies.; Part II -- Pre-History: Humankind in Deep Time: Deep Time and Evolution; Hominid Evolution in the Pliocene and Pleistocene Epochs; The Late Pleistocene Epoch in the Old World; The Late Pleistocene Epoch in the New World; The Holocene Epoch and the Mesolithic Interlude.; Part III -- Precludes to the Present: The Origins of Agriculture; The Rise of Civilisation in the Old World: The Example of Egypt; The Rise of Civilisation in the New World.

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1578790573

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Black American Writing from the Nadir

The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877--1915

By: Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.

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The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877--1915

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Juvenile Delinquency:

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Black American Writing from the Nadir

Black American Writing from the Nadir

The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865

The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865

Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South

Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South

The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865

The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865

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Earnestly Contending

Ancient Preludes 3rd

Ancient Preludes 3rd

Black American Writing from the Nadir

Black American Writing from the Nadir

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