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The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

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The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

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This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.

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The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

By: Melissa Emerson Walter

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This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.

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Harlequin Special Edition July 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Melissa Senate,Kerri Carpenter,Heatherly Bell

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Harlequin Special Edition July 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Melissa Senate,Kerri Carpenter,Heatherly Bell

Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: A PROMISE FOR THE TWINS The Wyoming Multiples by Melissa Senate Former soldier Nick Garroway is in Wedlock Creek to fulfill a promise made to a fallen soldier: check in on the woman the man had left pregnant with twins. Brooke Timber is in need of a nanny, so what else can Nick do but fill in? She’s also planning his father’s wedding, and all the family togetherness soon has Brooke and Nick rethinking if this promise is still temporary. THE DATING ARRANGEMENT Something True by Kerri Carpenter Is the bride who fell on top of bar owner Jack Wright a sign from above? But event planner Emerson Dewitt isn’t actually a bride—much to her mother’s perpetual disappointment. Until Jack proposes an arrangement. He’ll pose as Emerson’s boyfriend in exchange for her help relaunching his business. It’s a perfect partnership. Until all that fake dating turns into very real feelings… MORE THAN ONE NIGHT Wildfire Ridge by Heatherly Bell A one-night stand so incredible, Jill Davis can’t forget. Memories so delectable, they sustained Sam Hawker through his final tour. Three years later, Jill is unexpectedly face-to-face with her legendary marine lover. And it’s clear their chemistry is like gas and a match. Except Sam is her newest employee. That means hands off, sister! Except maybe…just this once? Ooh-rah!

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Harlequin

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1488045453

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When Sorrow Comes

The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter

By: Melissa M. Matthes

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When Sorrow Comes

The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter

By: Melissa M. Matthes

Since World War II, Protestant sermons have been an influential tool for defining American citizenship in the wake of national crises. In the aftermath of national tragedies, Americans often turn to churches for solace. Because even secular citizens attend these services, they are also significant opportunities for the Protestant religious majority to define and redefine national identity and, in the process, to invest the nation-state with divinity. The sermons delivered in the wake of crises become integral to historical and communal memory—it matters greatly who is mourned and who is overlooked. Melissa M. Matthes conceives of these sermons as theo-political texts. In When Sorrow Comes, she explores the continuities and discontinuities they reveal in the balance of state power and divine authority following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassinations of JFK and MLK, the Rodney King verdict, the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks, the Newtown shootings, and the Black Lives Matter movement. She argues that Protestant preachers use these moments to address questions about Christianity and citizenship and about the responsibilities of the Church and the State to respond to a national crisis. She also shows how post-crisis sermons have codified whiteness in ritual narratives of American history, excluding others from the collective account. These civic liturgies therefore illustrate the evolution of modern American politics and society. Despite perceptions of the decline of religious authority in the twentieth century, the pulpit retains power after national tragedies. Sermons preached in such intense times of mourning and reckoning serve as a form of civic education with consequences for how Americans understand who belongs to the nation and how to imagine its future.

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441

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Harvard University Press

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0674259963

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9780674259966

Masterpieces of American Romantic Literature

By: Melissa McFarland Pennell

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Masterpieces of American Romantic Literature

By: Melissa McFarland Pennell

The Romantic movement led to some of the greatest works of 19th-century American literature. Written expressly for students, this book offers succinct introductions to 10 of the most important works of American Romanticism, many of which reflect the social, political, and historical concerns of the era. Included are chapters on Emerson's essays, Poe's The Raven and selected stories, Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and several other major texts or collections. Each chapter provides biographical information, a review of the author's critical reception, and a discussion of characters, plot, themes, language, and other topics. The volume closes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Romanticism significantly influenced American literature in the 19th century and led to what has sometimes been called the American Renaissance. The Romantic movement and the period roughly contemporaneous with the Civil War gave birth to some of the most creative and enduring poems, novels, short fiction, and essays. These works are among the most imaginative and challenging pieces of American literature and hold a central place in the curriculum. In addition to their value as literary works, they chronicle the enormous social, political, and historical changes taking place in America. Written expressly for high school students, this book conveniently introduces the major works of American Romanticism.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313015031

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9780313015038

The Only Wonderful Things

The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis

By: Melissa J. Homestead

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The Only Wonderful Things

The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis

By: Melissa J. Homestead

A groundbreaking new look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative process What would Willa Cather's widely read and cherished novels have looked like if she had never met magazine editor and copywriter Edith Lewis? In this groundbreaking book on Cather's relationship with her life partner, author Melissa J. Homestead counters the established portrayal of Cather as a solitary genius and reassesses the role that Lewis, who has so far been rendered largely invisible by scholars, played in shaping Cather's work. Inviting Lewis to share the spotlight alongside this pivotal American writer, Homestead argues that Lewis was not just Cather's companion but also her close literary collaborator and editor. Drawing on an array of previously unpublished sources, Homestead skillfully reconstructs Cather and Lewis's life together, from their time in New York City to their travels in the American Southwest that formed the basis of the novels The Professor's House and Death Comes for the Archbishop. After Cather's death and in the midst of the Cold War panic over homosexuality, the story of her life with Edith Lewis could not be told, but by telling it now, Homestead offers a refreshing take on lesbian life in early twentieth-century America.

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Oxford University Press

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0190652896

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Social Selves and Political Reforms

Five Visions in Contemporary Christian Ethics

By: C. Melissa Snarr

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Social Selves and Political Reforms

Five Visions in Contemporary Christian Ethics

By: C. Melissa Snarr

Christian ethicists from a wide spectrum of methods and commitments come together in arguing for some kind of social conception of the self, noticing that convergence sheds new light on the current range of theoretical options in Christian ethics. But it also opens up an important conversation about political reform. Social visions of the self help ethicists comprehend and evaluate the moral work of institutions--comprehension that is especially important in a time of crisis for democratic participation. But not all visions of the social self are equal. Snarr's book explores and evaluates five different visions of the social self from five key ethicists (Rauschenbusch, Niebuhr, Hauerwas, Harrison, and Townes). It identifies insights and risks associated with each vision of the self and considers the adequacy of each vision for reforms that deepen democracy. The book concludes with a proposal for six core convictions about the social self that help form Christian political ethics able to respond to contemporary needs for democratic reform.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0567495779

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9780567495778

Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Jan-Melissa Schramm

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Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Jan-Melissa Schramm

Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed both devotional and blasphemous plays alike. Whilst the Biblical sublime found expression in the visual arts, the epic, and the oratorio, nineteenth-century spoken drama remained secular by force of precedent and law. The maintenance of this ban was underpinned by Protestant anxieties about bodily performance, impersonation, and the power of the image that persisted long after the Reformation, and that were in fact bolstered by the return of Catholicism to public prominence after the passage of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829 and the restoration of the Catholic Archbishoprics in 1850. But even as anti-Catholic prejudice at mid-century reached new heights, the turn towards medievalism in the visual arts, antiquarianism in literary history, and the 'popular' in constitutional reform placed England's pre- Reformation past at the centre of debates about the uses of the public stage and the functions of a truly national drama. This book explores the recovery of the texts of the extant mystery-play cycles undertaken by antiquarians in the early nineteenth century and the eventual return of sacred drama to English public theatres at the start of the twentieth century. Consequently, law, literature, politics, and theatre history are brought into conversation with one another in order to illuminate the history of sacred drama and Protestant ant-theatricalism in England in the long nineteenth-century.

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279

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Oxford University Press

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0192560549

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West Chester

By: Bruce E. Mowday,Melissa A. Mowday

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West Chester

By: Bruce E. Mowday,Melissa A. Mowday

West Chester is a thriving modern American town that honors its historic past and has become a sought-after location to live. First known as Turks Head, the town was a frequent stop for travelers before the American Revolution. Later, Abraham Lincoln's first campaign biography was printed in the town. West Chester is the seat of government for Chester County, one of the most affluent and best governed counties in the nation. West Chester and the county have been named repeatedly by a myriad of national publications as one of the top places to live, work, and raise a family in the United States. The community offers many exciting events during the year, including a professional bicycle race, parades, and art and restaurant festivals. West Chester's famous residents include composer Samuel Barber and artist Horace Pippin.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439657858

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Thicker Than Water

The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual

By: Melissa Meyer

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Thicker Than Water

The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual

By: Melissa Meyer

Blood is more than a fluid solution of cells, platelets and plasma. It is a symbol for the most basic of human concerns--life, death and family find expression in rituals surrounding everything from menstruation to human sacrifice. Comprehensive in its scope and provocative in its argument, this book examines beliefs and rituals concerning blood in a range of regional and religious contexts throughout human history. Meyer reveals the origins of a wide range of blood rituals, from the earliest surviving human symbolism of fertility and the hunt, to the Jewish bris, and the clitoridectomies given to young girls in parts of Africa. The book also explores how cultural practices influence gene selection and makes a connection with the natural sciences by exploring how color perception influences the human proclivity to create blood symbols and rituals.

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Routledge

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1135342008

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9781135342005

Artists Respond

American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975

By: Melissa Ho,Thomas Crow,Erica Levin,Mignon Nixon,Martha Rosler,Smithsonian American Art Museum

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American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975

By: Melissa Ho,Thomas Crow,Erica Levin,Mignon Nixon,Martha Rosler,Smithsonian American Art Museum

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, March 15, 2019 to August 18, 2019.

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Princeton University Press

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0691191182

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9780691191188

Cass & Birnbaum's Guide to American Colleges

By: Melissa Cass

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Cass & Birnbaum's Guide to American Colleges

By: Melissa Cass

This invaluable guide presents complete information on college admission policies, academic requirements, and campus life. This 16th edition features an all-new College Selection Index that guides prospective students through the difficult process of selecting the right college. "The most useful of all".--Harvard Educational Review.

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0062732951

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9780062732958

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The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

Harlequin Special Edition July 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2

Harlequin Special Edition July 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2

When Sorrow Comes

When Sorrow Comes

Masterpieces of American Romantic Literature

Masterpieces of American Romantic Literature

The Only Wonderful Things

The Only Wonderful Things

Social Selves and Political Reforms

Social Selves and Political Reforms

Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England

Censorship and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England

West Chester

West Chester

Thicker Than Water

Thicker Than Water

Artists Respond

Artists Respond

Cass & Birnbaum's Guide to American Colleges

Cass & Birnbaum's Guide to American Colleges

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