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Raising Your Kids Right

Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism

By: Michelle Ann Abate

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Raising Your Kids Right

Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism

By: Michelle Ann Abate

Michelle Ann Abate examines a variety of texts that offer information, ideology, and even instructions on how to raise kids right, not just figuratively, but politically. Highlighting the works of William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, Bill O'Reilly, and others, she brings together such diverse fields as cultural studies, literary criticism, political science, childhood studies, brand marketing, and the cult of celebrity. --from publisher description.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813547989

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9780813547985

Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain

By: Levy Michelle Levy

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Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain

By: Levy Michelle Levy

A study of the production and circulation of literary manuscripts in Romantic-era BritainOffers a detailed examination of the practices of literary manuscript culture, particularly the production, circulation and preservation of manuscripts, based on extensive archival researchDemonstrates how literary manuscript culture co-evolved with print culture, in a nuanced study of the interactions between the two mediaExamines the changing cultural attitudes towards literary manuscripts, and how these changes affected practices and valuesSurveys the impact of digital media on our access to and understanding of historical manuscriptsThis book examines how manuscript practices interacted with an expanding print marketplace to nurture and transform the period's literary culture. It unearths the alternative histories manuscripts tell us about British Romantic literary culture, describing the practices by which handwritten documents were written, shared, altered and preserved, and explores the functions they served as instruments of expression and sociability. By demonstrating how literary manuscript culture co-evolved with print culture, this study illuminates the complex entanglements between the media of script and print.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474457088

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Stillness of Solitude

Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film

By: Devereaux Michelle Devereaux

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Stillness of Solitude

Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film

By: Devereaux Michelle Devereaux

In the first book-length study of Romanticism in relation to American film, Michelle Devereaux takes established theories of contemporary American independent cinema as a point of entry, exploring the underlying philosophical and aesthetic Romantic connections between a selection of seven films from four popular filmmakers: Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman. Primarily dealing with questions of identity, imagination and the relation between self and world, these films also emphasise the anxieties of our own time: the nostalgia for an imaginary past, and the fear of an uncertain future.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474446078

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No Kids Allowed

Children's Literature for Adults

By: Michelle Ann Abate

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No Kids Allowed

Children's Literature for Adults

By: Michelle Ann Abate

Children's literature isn't just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children's literature—when it's written for adults. What do Adam Mansbach's Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here! have in common? These large-format picture books are decidedly intended for parents rather than children. In No Kids Allowed, Michelle Ann Abate examines a constellation of books that form a paradoxical new genre: children's literature for adults. Distinguishing these books from YA and middle-grade fiction that appeals to adult readers, Abate argues that there is something unique about this phenomenon. Principally defined by its form and audience, children's literature, Abate demonstrates, engages with more than mere nostalgia when recast for grown-up readers. Abate examines how board books, coloring books, bedtime stories, and series detective fiction written and published specifically for adults question the boundaries of genre and challenge the assumption that adulthood and childhood are mutually exclusive.

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JHU Press

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1421438879

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9781421438870

The Broadview Introduction to Book History

By: Michelle Levy,Tom Mole

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The Broadview Introduction to Book History

By: Michelle Levy,Tom Mole

Book history has emerged in the last twenty years as one of the most important new fields of interdisciplinary study. It has produced new interpretations of major historical events, has made possible new approaches to history, literature, media, and culture, and presents a distinctive historical perspective on current debates about the future of the book. The Broadview Introduction to Book History provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this field. Written in a lively, accessible style, chapters on materiality, textuality, printing and reading, intermediality, and remediation guide readers through numerous key concepts, illustrated with examples from literary texts and historical documents produced across a wide historical range. An ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in book history, it offers a road map to this dynamic inter-disciplinary field.

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Broadview Press

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1460406036

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Creole Medievalism

Colonial France and Joseph Bédier's Middle Ages

By: Michelle R. Warren

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Creole Medievalism

Colonial France and Joseph Bédier's Middle Ages

By: Michelle R. Warren

How a scholar's multilingual, multiracial background created a French medieval ideal.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816665257

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9780816665259

How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts

By: Michelle Levy,Betty A. Schellenberg

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How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts

By: Michelle Levy,Betty A. Schellenberg

This Element examines eighteenth-century manuscript forms, their functions in the literary landscape of their time, and the challenges and practices of manuscript study today. Drawing on both literary studies and book history, Levy and Schellenberg offer a guide to the principal forms of literary activity carried out in handwritten manuscripts produced in the first era of print dominance, 1730-1820. After an opening survey of sociable literary culture and its manuscript forms, numerous case studies explore what can be learned from three manuscript types: the verse miscellany, the familiar correspondence, and manuscripts of literary works that were printed. A final section considers issues of manuscript remediation up to the present, focusing particularly on digital remediation. The Element concludes with a brief case study of the movement of Phillis Wheatley's poems between manuscript and print. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Cambridge University Press

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110892431X

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Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture

Canadian Periodicals in English and French, 1925–1960

By: Faye Hammill,Michelle Smith

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Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture

Canadian Periodicals in English and French, 1925–1960

By: Faye Hammill,Michelle Smith

A comparative study of Canadian magazines (in English and French) in the early to mid-twentieth century, casting light on middlebrow culture.

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Liverpool University Press

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1781384657

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Denied

Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity

By: Michelle J. Manno

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Denied

Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity

By: Michelle J. Manno

Denied offers a court side seat into the ways race, gender, and sexuality shape the experiences of elite women athletes"--

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NYU Press

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1479882224

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9781479882229

Life in the Victorian Hospital

By: Michelle Higgs

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Life in the Victorian Hospital

By: Michelle Higgs

Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. However, the medical treatment for such diseases differed significantly, depending on the class of patient. The wealthy received private medical treatment at home or, later, in a practitioner's consulting room. The middle classes might also pay for their treatment but, in addition, they could attend one of an increasing number of specialist hospitals. The working classes could get free treatment from charitable voluntary hospitals or dispensaries. For the abject poor who were receiving poor relief, their only option was to seek treatment at the workhouse infirmary. The experience of a patient going into hospital at this time was vastly different from that at the end. This was not just in terms of being attended by trained nurses or in the medical and surgical advances which had taken place. Different methods for treating diseases and the use of antiseptic and aseptic techniques to combat killer hospital infections led to a much higher standard of care than was previously available.

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The History Press

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0750984767

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9780750984768

To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss

William Morris's Radicalism and the Embodiment of Dreams

By: Michelle Weinroth,Paul Leduc Browne

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To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss

William Morris's Radicalism and the Embodiment of Dreams

By: Michelle Weinroth,Paul Leduc Browne

To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss casts new light on the political radicalism and social thought of nineteenth-century artist, author, and revolutionary, William Morris. Standing on the cusp of a new wave of scholarship, this book presents an exciting convergence of views among internationally renowned scholars in the field of Victorian Studies. Balancing variety and unity, this collection reappraises Morris’s concept of social change and asks how we might think beyond the institutions and epistemologies of our time. Though the political significance of Morris’s creative work is often underestimated, the essays in this volume showcase its subtlety and sophistication. Each chapter discerns the power and novelty of Morris’s radicalism within his aesthetic creations and demonstrates how his most compelling political ideas bloomed wherever his dexterous hand had been at work - in wallpapers, floral borders, medievalist romances, and verse. Morris's theory and practice of aesthetic creation can be seen as the crucible of his entire philosophy of social change. In situating Morris's radicalism at the heart of his creative legacy, and in reanimating debates about nineteenth-century art and politics, To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss challenges and expands received notions of the radical, the aesthetic, and the political.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773596984

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9780773596986

American Archives

Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture

By: Shawn Michelle Smith

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American Archives

Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture

By: Shawn Michelle Smith

Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and disturbing account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like--or "should" look like. Her varied sources, which include the middle-class portrait, baby picture, criminal mugshot, and eugenicist record, as well as literary, scientific, and popular texts, enable her to demonstrate how new visual paradigms posed bodily appearance as an index to interior "essence." Ultimately we see how competing preoccupations over gender, class, race, and American identity were played out in the making of a wide range of popular and institutional photographs. Smith demonstrates that as the body was variously mapped and defined as the key to essentialized identities, the image of the white middle-class woman was often held up as the most complete American ideal. She begins by studying gendered images of middle-class domesticity to expose a transformation of feminine architectures of interiority into the "essences" of "blood," "character," and "race." She reads visual documents, as well as literary texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pauline Hopkins, and Theodore Dreiser, as both indices of and forms of resistance to dominant images of gender, class, race, and national identity. Through this analysis Smith shows how the white male gaze that sought to define and constrain white women and people of color was contested and transformed over the course of the nineteenth century. Smith identifies nineteenth-century visual paradigms that continue to shape debates about the terms of American belonging today. American Archives contributes significantly to the growing field of American visual cultural studies, and it is unprecedented in explaining how practices of racialized looking and the parameters of "American looks" were established in the first place.

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Princeton University Press

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0691004781

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9780691004785

American Enchantment

Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World

By: Michelle Sizemore

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American Enchantment

Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World

By: Michelle Sizemore

The demise of the monarchy and the bodily absence of a King caused a representational crisis in the early republic, forcing the American people to reconstruct the social symbolic order in a new and unfamiliar way. Social historians have routinely understood the Revolution and the early republic as projects dedicated to and productive of reason, with "the people" as an orderly and sensible collective at odds with the volatile and unthinking crowd. American Enchantment rejects this traditionally held vision of a rational public sphere, arguing that early Americans dealt with the post-monarchical crisis by engaging in "civil mysticism," not systematic discussion and debate. By evaluating a wide range of social and political rituals and literary and cultural discourses, Sizemore shows how "enchantment" becomes a vital mode of enacting the people after the demise of traditional monarchical forms. In works by Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, and Nathaniel Hawthorne--as well as in Delaware oral histories, accounts of George Washington's inauguration, and Methodist conversion narratives--enchantment is an experience uniquely capable of producing new forms of popular power and social affiliation. Recognizing the role of enchantment in constituting the people overturns some of the most common-sense assumptions in the post-revolutionary world: above all, that the people are not simply a flesh-and-blood substance, but also a mystical force.

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Oxford University Press

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0190627549

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9780190627546

Mermaid Cove and Seaside Sundaes

By: Karen Michelle Nutt

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Mermaid Cove and Seaside Sundaes

By: Karen Michelle Nutt

One selfless act as a teen unfairly caused Sirena Seafair to forfeit her ability to shift into a mermaid. Fifteen years later, her mundane life is about to change when Jack O'Casey arrives in the Irish town of Grimm Nitch and opens his restaurant, Mermaid Cove. The man is bound and determined to make Sirena his no matter what. But if by chance, Sirena can find a way to reclaim her life as a mermaid, will she leave Jack and her human life behind in exchange for a life beneath the sea? Or will surrendering her heart to love be the magic she's been waiting for all along?

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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150923280X

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Golf, 2nd Edition

By: Matthew Rudy,Michelle McGann

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Golf, 2nd Edition

By: Matthew Rudy,Michelle McGann

This newly revised edition offers advice for beginning and intermediate players on deconstructing their swing, examining their short games, and rethinking technique. From the basic rules of play to the strategy of course management, this indispensable guide covers drills and practices from tees to chip shots, putting essentials, specialty shots, and so much more. All new photographs, designed by instruction experts to show readers swing, technique, grip, and other important points. Full updates on the latest golf equipment and technology. New content on keeping fit and designing workouts to help improve your game.

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Penguin

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1101097469

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9781101097465

The Golf

By: Michelle McGann,Matthew Rudy

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The Golf

By: Michelle McGann,Matthew Rudy

Discusses rules, lingo, equipment, and technique, and provides tips and illustrations

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0028617606

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Raising Your Kids Right

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Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain

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Stillness of Solitude

Stillness of Solitude

No Kids Allowed

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The Broadview Introduction to Book History

The Broadview Introduction to Book History

Creole Medievalism

Creole Medievalism

How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts

How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts

Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture

Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture

Denied

Denied

Life in the Victorian Hospital

Life in the Victorian Hospital

To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss

To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss

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American Enchantment

American Enchantment

Mermaid Cove and Seaside Sundaes

Mermaid Cove and Seaside Sundaes

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Golf, 2nd Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Golf, 2nd Edition

The Golf

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