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Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

By: Elizabeth Renker

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Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

By: Elizabeth Renker

The terms 'poetry' and 'realism' have a complex and often oppositional relationship in American literary histories of the postbellum period. The core narrative holds that 'realism', the major literary 'movement' of the era, developed apace in prose fiction, while poetry, stuck in a hopelessly idealist late-Romantic mode, languished and stagnated. Poetry is almost entirely absent from scholarship on American literary realism except as the emblem of realism's opposite: a desiccated genteel 'twilight of the poets.' Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900 refutes the familiar narrative of postbellum poetics as a scene of failure, and it recovers the active and variegated practices of a diverse array of realist poets across print culture. The triumph of the twilight tale in the twentieth century obscured, minimized, and flattened the many poetic discourses of the age, including but not limited to a significant body of realist poems currently missing from US literary histories. Excavating an extensive archive of realist poems, the volume offers a significant revision to the genre-exclusive story of realism and, by extension, to the very foundations of postbellum American literary history dating back to the earliest stages of the discipline.

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Oxford University Press

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019253629X

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9780192536297

Love's Whipping Boy

Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination

By: Elizabeth Barnes

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Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination

By: Elizabeth Barnes

Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbor as oneself" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Elizabeth Barnes focuses her attention on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to suggest ways of understanding paradoxical relationships between empathy, violence, and religion that took hold so strongly in nineteenth-century American culture. Looking at works by Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott, among others, Barnes shows how violence and sensibility work together to produce a more "sensitive" citizenry. Aggression becomes a site of redemptive possibility because salvation is gained when the powerful protagonist identifies with the person he harms. Barnes argues that this identification and emotional transformation come at a high price, however, as the reparative ends are bought with another's blood. Critics of nineteenth-century literature have tended to think about sentimentality and violence as opposing strategies in the work of nation-building and in the formation of U.S. national identity. Yet to understand how violence gets folded into sentimentality's egalitarian goals is to recognize, importantly, the deep entrenchment of aggression in the empathetic structures of liberal, Christian culture in the United States.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807877964

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9780807877968

Trip of the Tongue

Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages

By: Elizabeth Little

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Trip of the Tongue

Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages

By: Elizabeth Little

Though we speak English as a nation, it's no secret that America is far from uniform. Spanish, in particular, has long been touted as the language that will figure into our national future; much has been written about the need to recognize it in our laws and schools. Yet billing America as a bilingual country is a gross misrepresentation. They speak Basque in Nevada, Hindi in San Jose, and Gullah in South Carolina. We speak European, Asian, and Native American languages, as well as hybrids like Creole and Spanglish. And Elizabeth Little's home--Queens, New York--is among the most ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse places on the planet. Small surprise, then, that Little felt a yearning to find the cultural and linguistic soul of the country. And she has done it in the most American way imaginable: on a road trip. This book is the result: a festive roadmap of the bounties of our country. We'll learn about the struggle of the French-speaking population of Maine to get along with the community around them; the traditional ways of the German-speaking Amish in Pennsylvania; and the rich history of the little-known African population of Nantucket. Elizabeth Little is a witty and endearing tourguide for this memorable and original trip.

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321

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608198294

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9781608198290

Conceptual Foundations E-Book

The Bridge to Professional Nursing Practice

By: Elizabeth E. Friberg

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Conceptual Foundations E-Book

The Bridge to Professional Nursing Practice

By: Elizabeth E. Friberg

- NEW! Two all-new chapters bring you the latest information on end of life/palliative care and resilience and compassionate care. - NEW! Emphasis on professional role development includes focus within the Interdisciplinary team. - NEW! Updated information about the Affordable Care Act includes coverage of the current legal and policy environment. - NEW! Extensive revision of Pathways of Nursing Education chapter reflects current focus on Academic Progression

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402

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323594603

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9780323594608

Speculative Fictions

Explaining the Economy in the Early United States

By: Elizabeth Hewitt

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Explaining the Economy in the Early United States

By: Elizabeth Hewitt

Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature. By studying Hamilton as an economic and imaginative writer, it argues that we can recast the conflict with the Jeffersonians as a literary debate about the best way to explain and describe modern capitalism, and explores how various other literary forms allow us to comprehend the complexities of a modern global economy in entirely new ways. Speculative Fictions identifies two overlooked literary genres of the late eighteenth-century as exemplary of this narrative mode. It asks that we read periodical essays and Black Atlantic captivity narratives with an eye not towards bourgeois subject formation, but as descriptive analyses of economic systems. In doing so, we discover how these two literary genres offer very different portraits of a global economy than that rendered by the novel, the imaginative genre we are most likely to associate with modern capitalism. Developing an aesthetic appreciation for the speculative, digressive, and unsystematic plotlines of these earlier narratives has the capacity to generate new imaginative projects with which to make sense of our increasingly difficult economic world.

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Oxford University Press

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0192602993

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Integrative taxonomy resolves the cryptic and pseudo-cryptic Radula buccinifera complex (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida), including two reinstated and five new species

By: Matt A.M. Renner,Nicolas Devos,Jairo Patiño,Elizabeth A. Brown,Andrew Orme,Michael Elgey,Trevor C. Wilson,Lindsey J. Gray,Matt J. von Konrat

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Integrative taxonomy resolves the cryptic and pseudo-cryptic Radula buccinifera complex (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida), including two reinstated and five new species

By: Matt A.M. Renner,Nicolas Devos,Jairo Patiño,Elizabeth A. Brown,Andrew Orme,Michael Elgey,Trevor C. Wilson,Lindsey J. Gray,Matt J. von Konrat

Molecular data from three chloroplast markers resolve individuals attributable to Radula buccinifera in six lineages belonging to two subgenera, indicating the species is polyphyletic as currently circumscribed. All lineages are morphologically diagnosable, but one pair exhibits such morphological overlap that they can be considered cryptic. Molecular and morphological data justify the reinstatement of a broadly circumscribed ecologically variable R. strangulata, of R. mittenii, and the description of five new species.

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PenSoft Publishers LTD

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9546427063

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American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Duquette

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American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Duquette

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny's dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source—Napoleon Bonaparte, the century's most famous man and its most notorious tyrant. Because Napoleon defined tyranny around the nineteenth-century Atlantic world—its features and emergence, its relationship to democratic institutions, its effects on persons and peoples—he provides a way for nineteenth-century Americans to explore the parameters of tyranny and their complicity in its cruelties. Napoleon helps us see the decidedly plural forms of tyranny in the US, bringing their fictions into focus. At the same time, however, there are distinctly American modes of tyranny. From the tyrannical style of the American imagination to the usurping potential of American individualism, Elizabeth Duquette shows that tyranny is as American as democracy.

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Oxford University Press

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0192899902

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Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865

By: Elizabeth Hewitt

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Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865

By: Elizabeth Hewitt

Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. The letter was the vital technology of social intercourse in the nineteenth century and was adopted as an exemplary genre in which authors from Crevecoeur and Adams through Jefferson, to Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, could theorise the social and political themes that were so crucial to their respective literary projects. They interrogated the political possibilities of social intercourse through the practice and analysis of correspondence. Hewitt argues that although correspondence is generally only conceived as a biographical archive, it must instead be understood as a significant genre through which these early authors made sense of social and political relations in the nation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139456601

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Käthe Kollwitz

National Gallery of Art, Washington ; [catalog of an Exhibition Held May 3 - August 16, 1992]

By: Elizabeth Prelinger,Käthe Kollwitz,Alessandra Comini,Hildegard Bachert

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Käthe Kollwitz

National Gallery of Art, Washington ; [catalog of an Exhibition Held May 3 - August 16, 1992]

By: Elizabeth Prelinger,Käthe Kollwitz,Alessandra Comini,Hildegard Bachert

The German printmaker, draughtsman, and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz's images of mothers and children and of protest against social injustice have long been admired by both critics and the public. Kollwitz adhered to a figurative style in the era of abstraction and she depicted socially-engaged subject matter when it was unfashionable. Critics have often focused on those issues and have rarely studied the ways in which the artist manipulated technique and resolved formal problems. This illustrated book redresses this imbalance, portraying Kollwitz as an innovative and virtuosic artist rather than a mere chronicler of particular themes.

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Yale University Press

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0300061684

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Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

By: Elizabeth Renker

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Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

By: Elizabeth Renker

Examines the works of a diverse range of realist poets to redefine the significance of poetry to the genre of realism during the postbellum period in American literature.

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Shakespearean Educations

Power, Citizenship, and Performance

By: Coppélia Kahn,Heather S. Nathans,Mimi Godfrey

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Shakespearean Educations

Power, Citizenship, and Performance

By: Coppélia Kahn,Heather S. Nathans,Mimi Godfrey

Shakespearean Educations examines how and why Shakespeare’s works shaped the development of American education from the colonial period through the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, taking the reader up to the years before the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (popularly known as the GI Bill), coeducation, and a nascent civil rights movement would alter the educational landscape yet again. The essays in this collection query the nature of education, the nature of citizenship in a democracy, and the roles of literature, elocution, theater, and performance in both. Expanding the notion of “education” beyond the classroom to literary clubs, private salons, public lectures, libraries, primers, and theatrical performance, this collection challenges scholars to consider how different groups in our society have adopted Shakespeare as part of a specifically “American” education. Shakespearean Educations maps the ways in which former slaves, Puritan ministers, university leaders, and working class theatergoers used Shakespeare not only to educate themselves about literature and culture, but also to educate others about their own experience. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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Rutgers University Press

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1644531496

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Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

Love's Whipping Boy

Love's Whipping Boy

Trip of the Tongue

Trip of the Tongue

Conceptual Foundations E-Book

Conceptual Foundations E-Book

Speculative Fictions

Speculative Fictions

Integrative taxonomy resolves the cryptic and pseudo-cryptic Radula buccinifera complex (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida), including two reinstated and five new species

Integrative taxonomy resolves the cryptic and pseudo-cryptic Radula buccinifera complex (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida), including two reinstated and five new species

American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon

American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon

Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865

Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865

Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz

Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

Shakespearean Educations

Shakespearean Educations

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