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Public Works Steampunk Presents Jane Eyre

By: R. A. Harding,Charlotte Brontë

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Public Works Steampunk Presents Jane Eyre

By: R. A. Harding,Charlotte Brontë

The classic story of Jane Eyre reset in a steampunk world, complete with zephyr-ships, clockwork, and automatons in addition to the original romance and mystery! As a child, Jane Eyre lives with her cold aunt and cruel cousins in the levitating manor Gateshead Hall, but is soon sent to Lowood Institution, the austere boarding school for orphans across continents in India. Jane eventually journeys back to England, to take the job of governess at Thornfield Hall, a mysterious manor that floats in the air above a lake and harbors a dark and shrouded secret. This retelling retains all of the original passion and intrigue but winds it up to something much more. Written by Charlotte Brontë and originally published in 1847, these steampunk additions were imagined and added by R.A. Harding almost one hundred and seventy-five years later. This speaks to the enduring quality of the book and the unmitigated moxie of one of its fans.

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R.A. Harding

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1736356100

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9781736356104

Freedom Beyond Confinement

Travel and Imagination in African-American Cultural History and Letters

By: Michael Ra-Shon Hall

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Freedom Beyond Confinement

Travel and Imagination in African-American Cultural History and Letters

By: Michael Ra-Shon Hall

Freedom Beyond Confinement examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination particularly of writers of literary fiction and nonfiction. Using the paradox of freedom and confinement to frame the ways travel represented both opportunity and restriction for African Americans, the book details the intimate connection between travel and imagination from post Reconstruction (ca. 1877) to the present. Analysing a range of sources from the black press and periodicals to literary fiction and nonfiction, the book charts the development of critical representation of travel from the foundational press and periodicals which offered African Americans crucial information on travel precautions and possibilities (notably during the era of Jim Crow) to the woefully understudied literary fiction that would later provide some of the most compelling and lasting portrayals of the freedoms and constraints African Americans associated with travel. Travel experiences (often challenging and vexed) provided the raw data with which writers produced images and ideas meaningful as they learned to navigate, negotiate and even challenge racialized and gendered impediments to their mobility. In their writings African Americans worked to realize a vision and state of freedom informed by those often difficult experiences of mobility. In telling this story, the book hopes to center literary fiction in studies of travel where fiction has largely remained absent.

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240

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Liverpool University Press

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1949979717

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9781949979718

Framing Empire

Postcolonial Adaptations of Victorian Literature in Hollywood

By: Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield

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Framing Empire

Postcolonial Adaptations of Victorian Literature in Hollywood

By: Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield

A wide-ranging study of shifting temporalities and their literary consequences in twentieth-century fiction

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272

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474429963

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9781474429962

Hustler & The Champ

Willie Mosconi, Minnesota Fats, And The Rivalry That Defined Pool

By: R. A. Dyer

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Hustler & The Champ

Willie Mosconi, Minnesota Fats, And The Rivalry That Defined Pool

By: R. A. Dyer

In the tradition of Pulitzer Prize nominated, Positively Fifth Street, here is a riveting account of a high stakes shoot-out between pool’s two most famous personalities. It was Valentine’s Day, 1978, and Howard Cosell was hosting the long-awaited show-down between the best-ever tournament player, Willie Mosconi, and the game’s most famous hustler, Minnesota Fats. This was The Great Pool Shoot-Out, one of the most highly rated televised sporting events of the year, exceeding even World Series games and basketball championships. R.A. Dyer, author of the best-selling Hustler Days, which recounts the rise of pool during the 1960s, writes of the acrid, but mutually beneficial rivalry between Fats and Mosconi, and how the televised shoot-outs came to embody that rivalry, which was nothing less than a bitter rift within the soul of American pocket billiards. Fats and Mosconi were born the same year, but were vastly different characters: one stood for artistry, the other for show business; one brought dignity to pool, the other made it fun. They are without a doubt the two most important players ever to hold a cue. This is the ultimate tale of American sportsmanship. R.A. Dyer is a columnist for Billiards Digest, and lives in Austin, Texas.

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328

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1461749018

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9781461749011

Jewish Identities

Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music

By: Kl鈇ra·M鈕ricz

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Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music

By: Kl鈇ra·M鈕ricz

This book makes a decisive and controversial contribution to the history of musical modernism. Moricz radically but thoroughly scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity, and in doing so re-orders our understanding of 'Jewish music' as an outgrowth of nationalist, racist and utopian ideologies. The scholarship is superior in every respect. Jewish Identities is destined to become a seminal work in the reception history of European musical modernism. An absolutely outstanding and intellectually brilliant work."—Harry White, author of The Keeper's Recital: Music and Cultural History in Ireland, 1770-1970

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Univ of California Press

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0520250885

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9780520250888

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Public Works Steampunk Presents Jane Eyre

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