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Yankee Doodle Dandy

George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage

By: Elizabeth T. Craft

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Yankee Doodle Dandy

George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage

By: Elizabeth T. Craft

Composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor George M. Cohan (1878-1942) definitively shaped the burgeoning genre of musical comedy and the institution of Broadway in the early twentieth century. Remembered today for classic tunes like "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Give My Regards to Broadway," he has been called "the father of musical comedy" and is memorialized with a statue in Times Square. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. His songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism. This book, the first on Cohan in fifty years and the first scholarly study on the subject, is not a biography but rather situates Cohan as a central figure of his day, placing his multifaceted contributions within overlapping historical and cultural contextual webs to examine his wide-ranging cultural impact. Chapters interweave discussion of his songs and shows with explorations of the roles he played in public life-entertainer, Broadway magnate, Irish American, celebrity, and, above all, emblem of patriotism. This approach offers not only a fuller understanding of his shows and career but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197550401

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9780197550403

Dandyism in the Age of Revolution

The Art of the Cut

By: Elizabeth Amann

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Dandyism in the Age of Revolution

The Art of the Cut

By: Elizabeth Amann

In Dandyism in the Age of Revolution, Elizabeth Amann shows that in France, England, and Spain, daring dress became a way of taking a stance toward the social and political upheaval of the period. France is the centerpiece of the story, not just because of the significance of the Revolution but also because of the speed with which both its politics and fashions shifted. Dandyism in France represented an attempt to recover a political center after the extremism of the Terror, while in England and Spain it offered a way to reflect upon the turmoil across the Channel and Pyrenees. From the Hair Powder Act, which required users of the product implications of the feather in Yankee Doodle's hat, Amann aims to revise our understanding of the origins of modern dandyism and to recover the political context from which it emerged. -- from back cover.

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297

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University of Chicago Press

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022618725X

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9780226187259

Black Frankenstein

The Making of an American Metaphor

By: Elizabeth Young

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Black Frankenstein

The Making of an American Metaphor

By: Elizabeth Young

For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans. Black Frankenstein stories, Young argues, effect four kinds of racial critique: they humanize the slave; they explain, if not justify, black violence; they condemn the slaveowner; and they expose the instability of white power. The black Frankenstein's monster has served as a powerful metaphor for reinforcing racial hierarchy—and as an even more powerful metaphor for shaping anti-racist critique. Illuminating the power of parody and reappropriation, Black Frankenstein tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics.

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320

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NYU Press

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0814745377

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9780814745373

Rooster

By: Elizabeth Nixon Weaver

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Rooster

By: Elizabeth Nixon Weaver

Rooster is a Marshall Cavendish publication.

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324

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Marshall Cavendish

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0761452184

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9780761452188

His Very Silence Speaks

Comanche--the Horse who Survived Custer's Last Stand

By: Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence

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His Very Silence Speaks

Comanche--the Horse who Survived Custer's Last Stand

By: Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence

The mount of Captain Miles W. Keogh, Comanche was the legendary sole survivor of Custer's Last Stand. As such, the horse makes an electric connection between history and memory. In exploring the deeper meaning of the Comanche saga, His Very Silence Speaks addresses larger issues such as the human relationship to animals and nature, cross-cultural differences in the ways animals are perceived, and the symbolic use of living and legendary animals in human cognition and communication. More than an account of the celebrated horse's life and legend existence, this penetrating volume provides insights into the life of the cavalry horse and explores the relationship between cavalrymen and their mounts. Lawrence illuminates Comanche's significance through the many symbolic roles he has assumed at different times and for various groups of people, and reveals much about the ways in which symbols operate in human thought and the manner in which legends develop.

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378

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Wayne State University Press

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0814321976

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9780814321973

The Passionate Prude

By: Elizabeth Thornton

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The Passionate Prude

By: Elizabeth Thornton

A scandalous entanglement traps a woman of virtue in an unforgettable Regency romance from the bestselling author praised as “a major find” (Mary Balogh). When word reaches Deirdre Fenton that her brother is pursuing the notorious actress Mrs. Dewinters, she immediately sets about extricating her incorrigible sibling from his latest folly. But her brother has gone too far this time for his—or Deirdre’s—own good. For Mrs. Dewinters is under the powerful protection of a war hero, the Earl of Rathbourne . . . the very man Deirdre had summarily rejected years before. And the Earl is not a man to forgive an insult—or forget a lady as passionate as Deirdre Fenton . . . If Rathbourne has learned one thing during his years fighting on the Peninsula, it is to get what he wants by means fair or foul. Now he has Deirdre right where he wants her: at his mercy. “A major, major talent, Ms. Thornton takes her rightful place as a genre superstar.” —RT Book Reviews

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533

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Diversion Books

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1626815615

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9781626815612

Autobiography of a Wardrobe

A Memoir

By: Elizabeth Kendall

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Autobiography of a Wardrobe

A Memoir

By: Elizabeth Kendall

Saddle shoes. Camp shorts. Girdles. Bell-bottoms. Each plays a significant role as we follow B., the wardrobe's owner, through her buttoned-up Midwestern childhood to the freedom of miniskirts, sundresses, and New York City. We watch as B. copes with the untimely death of her mother, makes a go of glamorous magazine work, and, after the inevitable false starts and fashion missteps, finally comes into her own.Part memoir, part fashion and cultural history of the last five decades, Autobiography of a Wardrobe is an exploration of the clothes each generation has embraced and the smallest details in which we are able to seek comfort and meaning.

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242

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Anchor

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0307386090

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9780307386090

1776: Son of Liberty

A Novel of the American Revolution

By: Elizabeth Massie

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1776: Son of Liberty

A Novel of the American Revolution

By: Elizabeth Massie

On his farm in Maryland, sixteen-year-old Caleb Jacobson waits anxiously for news from Boston: rumors have it that colonials are staging an armed rebellion against the oppressive tyranny of King George III of England and his soldiers. War! Caleb longs to join the volunteer army of General Washington and win the fight for freedom, but he is torn between loyalty to his fellow colonials and his race. Caleb is a free black living in a slave state. He knows firsthand the horrors and hardships of slavery and wonders what good an American victory will do if his fellow blacks remain shackled in bondage. Then comes news that the British Governor Lord Dunmore promises freedom to any slave who joins his army against the Americans. Can he be trusted to keep his word? Caleb will have to choose.

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Macmillan

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0812590945

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9780812590944

Fashioning Faces

The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism

By: Elizabeth A. Fay

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Fashioning Faces

The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism

By: Elizabeth A. Fay

A fresh look at how literary and visual portraiture in the Romantic era embodied a newly commercial culture

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338

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UPNE

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1584657782

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9781584657781

To Love an Earl

By: Elizabeth Thornton

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To Love an Earl

By: Elizabeth Thornton

Previously published as "The Passionate Prude," this classic by the "USA Today" bestselling author is a tale of stubborn pride and hungry hearts that proves all is fair in love and war. Reissue.

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484

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Zebra Books

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0821776002

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9780821776001

The Lady Dauntless

By: Elizabeth Cole

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The Lady Dauntless

By: Elizabeth Cole

The fourth novel in the Secrets of the Zodiac, a series of full-length historical romance novels, features darker, sexier storylines, complex characters, and international intrigue, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. A fiery lady, a devilish smuggler, and a cargo nations would kill for… Gemma Harrington leads a wild, unconventional life among con men and smugglers. She can ride and shoot as well as any man, but she wants to escape the world she’s caught in for something better. Then a mysterious gentleman shows up with a daring proposal. If Gemma helps him infiltrate a smuggling ring, he’ll take her anywhere his ship can sail. Captivated, she agrees to his dangerous plan. With slightly shady ancestors and a far away upbringing, Logan Hartley isn’t the typical hero, and that makes him an excellent spy. Logan had to fight for everything he ever wanted: his own ship, his place in the Zodiac, and the approval of his peers. Now he wants Gemma—but he has to stay alive long enough to win her. As Gemma and Logan follow the trail of a strange criminal, they become targets in a much deadlier game when they uncover a secret that governments would kill for. To expose the truth, they will defy convention and break the rules. And they have to act fast, because their enemies are much closer than they imagine…

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349

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SkySpark Books

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1942316046

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9781942316046

Daffodils at High Meadows

And Other Stories

By: Elizabeth Buttenheim

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Daffodils at High Meadows

And Other Stories

By: Elizabeth Buttenheim

Daffodils at High Meadows is a collection of stories about the residents of a retirement community in a college town in western Massachusetts. These older men and women find liberation in their new lives-liberation from ownership, from responsibilities, from all the cares of maintaining a home and property. They make new friends, and together they experience the many adversities of old age with courage and grace, and with strong wills and a sense of humor. The subjects of Other Stories are as diverse as a young lieutenant who resolves his fears on the eve of his deployment overseas in WWII, a divorcee who learns that her former husband has changed in the years they have been apart, and a mother who is slow to recognize her grown children's selfishness. The characters in these stories are all fictitious, but they mirror real people. The reader will find himself, his parents and his children, his friends and his spouse here. He will grieve for them and rejoice with them as he would with his own, and the end he may feel with the residents of High Meadows that, whatever his age, he has found many new friends.

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iUniverse

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059537378X

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9780595373789

Book's by Elizabeth Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Dandyism in the Age of Revolution

Dandyism in the Age of Revolution

Black Frankenstein

Black Frankenstein

Rooster

Rooster

His Very Silence Speaks

His Very Silence Speaks

The Passionate Prude

The Passionate Prude

Autobiography of a Wardrobe

Autobiography of a Wardrobe

1776: Son of Liberty

1776: Son of Liberty

Fashioning Faces

Fashioning Faces

To Love an Earl

To Love an Earl

The Lady Dauntless

The Lady Dauntless

Daffodils at High Meadows

Daffodils at High Meadows

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