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American Women Modernists

The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945

By: Robert Henri,Marian Wardle,Sarah Burns,Brigham Young University. Museum of Art

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American Women Modernists

The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945

By: Robert Henri,Marian Wardle,Sarah Burns,Brigham Young University. Museum of Art

The seven essays included in this volume move beyond the famed Ashcan School to recover the lesser known work of Robert Henri's women students. The contributors, who include well-known scholars of art history, American studies, and cultural studies demonstrate how these women participated in the "modernizing" of women's roles during this era.

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294

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Rutgers University Press

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0813536847

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9780813536842

Whitman and the Romance of Medicine

By: Robert Leigh Davis

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Whitman and the Romance of Medicine

By: Robert Leigh Davis

In this compelling, accessible examination of one of America's greatest cultural and literary figures, Robert Leigh Davis details the literary and social significance of Walt Whitman's career as a nurse during the American Civil War. Davis shows how the concept of "convalescence" in nineteenth-century medicine and philosophy—along with Whitman's personal war experiences—provide a crucial point of convergence for Whitman's work as a gay and democratic writer. In his analysis of Whitman's writings during this period—Drum-Taps, Democratic Vistas, Memoranda During the War, along with journalistic works and correspondence—Davis argues against the standard interpretation that Whitman's earliest work was his best. He finds instead that Whitman's hospital writings are his most persuasive account of the democratic experience. Deeply moved by the courage and dignity of common soldiers, Whitman came to identify the Civil War hospitals with the very essence of American democratic life, and his writing during this period includes some of his most urgent reflections on suffering, sympathy, violence, and love. Davis concludes this study with an essay on the contemporary medical writer Richard Selzer, who develops the implications of Whitman's ideas into a new theory of medical narrative.

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138

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Univ of California Press

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0520918649

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9780520918641

Sunshine in the Dark

Florida in the Movies

By: Susan J. Fernandez,Robert P. Ingalls

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Sunshine in the Dark

Florida in the Movies

By: Susan J. Fernandez,Robert P. Ingalls

Florida has been the location and subject of hundreds of feature films, from Cocoanuts (1929) to Monster (2004). Portraying the state and its people from the silent era to the present, these films have explored the multitude of Florida images and cliches that have captured the public's imagination--a nature lover's paradise, a wildlife refuge, a tourist destination, home to the "cracker," and a haven for the retired, the rich, the immigrant, and the criminal. Sunshine in the Dark is the first complete study of how the movie industry has immortalized Florida’s extraordinary scenery, characters, and history on celluloid. Historians Fernández and Ingalls have identified more than 300 films about Florida--many of them shot on location in the state--to analyze how filmmakers from the Marx Brothers and John Huston to Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola have portrayed the state and its people. Prior to the 1960s, cinematic trips to Florida usually brought happy endings in movies like Moon Over Miami (1942), but since the 1970s, films like Scarface (1982) have emphasized the state's menacing aspects. In the authors' analysis of the films, which examines location settings, plotlines, and characters, they find a bevy of Florida stereotypes among the leading characters--from the struggling crackers in The Yearling (1946) to the drug-addicted con man in Adaptation (2002). Featuring more than 100 still photographs from movies, as well as filmographies by year and genre, the book is an encyclopedic resource for movie fans and anyone interested in Florida popular culture.

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328

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University Press of Florida

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0813072387

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9780813072388

The Merry Muses of Caledonia

A Collection of Favourite Scots Songs, Ancient and Modern : Selected for Use of the Croghallan Fencibles

By: Robert Burns

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The Merry Muses of Caledonia

A Collection of Favourite Scots Songs, Ancient and Modern : Selected for Use of the Croghallan Fencibles

By: Robert Burns

Attempts to recover Burns' erotic poetry, which his editors attempted to hide from readers, centre round The Merry Muses of Caledonia, of which only two original copies are known to survive. The story of Burns' part in this collection is told in the narrative accompanying this fascsimile.

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134

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570033242

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9781570033247

Killer 'Cane

The Deadly Hurricane of 1928

By: Robert Mykle

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Killer 'Cane

The Deadly Hurricane of 1928

By: Robert Mykle

Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area's population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad. Killer 'Cane is a vivid description of America's second-greatest natural disaster, coming between the financial disasters of the Florida real-estate bust and the onset of the Great Depression.

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264

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Taylor Trade Publishing

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1461733707

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9781461733706

Stakeholder Perceptions of Utility Role in Environmental Leadership

By: Chris Tatham,Robert Cicerone,Elaine L. Tatham

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Stakeholder Perceptions of Utility Role in Environmental Leadership

By: Chris Tatham,Robert Cicerone,Elaine L. Tatham

Publisher: W.E. Gates Publication date: 1901 Subjects: English literature Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Medieval Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

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172

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American Water Works Association

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1583214321

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9781583214329

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American Women Modernists

American Women Modernists

Whitman and the Romance of Medicine

Whitman and the Romance of Medicine

Sunshine in the Dark

Sunshine in the Dark

The Merry Muses of Caledonia

The Merry Muses of Caledonia

Killer 'Cane

Killer 'Cane

Stakeholder Perceptions of Utility Role in Environmental Leadership

Stakeholder Perceptions of Utility Role in Environmental Leadership

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