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Paper Monsters

Persona and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England

By: Samuel Fallon

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Paper Monsters

Persona and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England

By: Samuel Fallon

In Paper Monsters, Samuel Fallon charts the striking rise, at the turn to the seventeenth century, of a new species of textual being: the serial, semifictional persona. When Thomas Nashe introduced his charismatic alter ego Pierce Penilesse in a 1592 text, he described the figure as a "paper monster," not fashioned but "begotten" into something curiously like life. The next decade bore this description out, as Pierce took on a life of his own, inspiring other writers to insert him into their own works. And Pierce was hardly alone: such figures as the polemicist Martin Marprelate, the lovers Philisides and Astrophil, the shepherd-laureate Colin Clout, the prodigal wit Euphues, and, in an odd twist, the historical author Robert Greene all outgrew their fictional origins, moving from text to text and author to author, purporting to speak their own words, even surviving their creators' deaths, and installing themselves in the process as agents at large in the real world of writing, publication, and reception. In seeking to understand these "paper monsters" as a historically specific and rather short-lived phenomenon, Fallon looks to the rapid expansion of the London book trade in the years of their ascendancy. Personae were products of print, the medium that rendered them portable, free-floating figures. But they were also the central fictions of a burgeoning literary field: they embodied that field's negotiations between manuscript and print, and they forged a new form of public, textual selfhood. Sustained by the appropriative rewritings they inspired, personae came to seem like autonomous citizens of the literary public. Fallon argues that their status as collective fictions, passed among writers, publishers, and readers, positioned personae as the animating figures of what we have come to call "print culture.

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240

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812251296

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9780812251296

Fugitive Landscapes

The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

By: Samuel Truett

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Fugitive Landscapes

The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

By: Samuel Truett

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest StudiesIn the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.–Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain. Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona–Sonora border, this book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context. Efforts to tame a “wild” frontier were stymied by labor struggles, social conflict, and revolution. Fugitive Landscapes explores the making and unmaking of the U.S.–Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations, and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms. By moving beyond traditional national narratives, it offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age.

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271

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Yale University Press

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0300135327

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9780300135329

Philosophical Research in Education

An Introduction to a Phenomenological Approach to the Philosophical Study of Education

By: Samuel D. Rocha

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Philosophical Research in Education

An Introduction to a Phenomenological Approach to the Philosophical Study of Education

By: Samuel D. Rocha

A guide through the philosophical tradition of phenomenology in the field of philosophy of education.

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180

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BRILL

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9004534539

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9789004534537

William Shakespeare

A Compact Documentary Life

By: Samuel Schoenbaum

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William Shakespeare

A Compact Documentary Life

By: Samuel Schoenbaum

An abridged edition that will remain the standard biography for many years.

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420

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195051610

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9780195051612

Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement

By: Samuel G. London

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Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement

By: Samuel G. London

Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement is the first in-depth study of the denomination's participation in civil rights politics. It considers the extent to which the denomination's theology influenced how its members responded. This book explores why a brave few Adventists became social and political activists, and why a majority of the faithful eschewed the movement. Samuel G. London, Jr., provides a clear, yet critical understanding of the history and theology of the Seventh-day Adventist Church while highlighting the contributions of its members to political reform. Community awareness, the example of early Adventist pioneers, liberationist interpretations of the Bible, as well as various intellectual and theological justifications motivated the civil rights activities of some Adventists. For those who participated in the civil rights movement, these factors superseded the conservative ideology and theology that came to dominate the church after the passing of its founders. Covering the end of the 1800s through the 1970s, the book discusses how Christian fundamentalism, the curse of Ham, the philosophy of Booker T. Washington, pragmatism, the aversion to ecumenism and the Social Gospel, belief in the separation of church and state, and American individualism converged to impact Adventist sociopolitical thought.

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205

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604732857

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9781604732856

The War for American Independence

From 1760 to the Surrender at Yorktown in 1781

By: Samuel B. Griffith

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The War for American Independence

From 1760 to the Surrender at Yorktown in 1781

By: Samuel B. Griffith

Including both attention to strategic policies in Britain and France and personal accounts of colonial soldiers, The War for American Independence provides an unprecedented view of America's struggle for independence in its world context. With wit, clarity, and dramatic effect, Samuel B. Griffith II vivifies the characters and incidents of the period on both sides of the Atlantic, drawing from personal diaries and letters, newspaper accounts, and detailed battle maps to create a unique alternative to standard histories of the period. This enduring and exceptionally readable resource, first published in 1976 under the title In Defense of the Public Liberty: Britain, America, and the Struggle for Independence from 1760 to the Surrender at Yorktown in 1781, was honored with the Sons of Liberty Award for the best book on the American Revolution.

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780

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University of Illinois Press

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0252070607

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9780252070600

Historic Mansions and Highways around Boston

By: Samuel Adams Drake

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Historic Mansions and Highways around Boston

By: Samuel Adams Drake

This volume contains a vast fund of information and anecdotes about old Boston, its notable buildings, markets, streets, and most memorable characters. The book is a perfect storehouse of information and one can only be amazed at the extent and accuracy of the information. The plan of grouping the most interesting neighborhoods, so as to embrace nearly the whole peninsula of Boston, is original.

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315

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849677435

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9783849677435

Shakespeare's Lives

By: Samuel Schoenbaum

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Shakespeare's Lives

By: Samuel Schoenbaum

This volume presents a study of the changing images and differing ways that the life of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has been interpreted throughout history. The author takes readers on a tour of the countless myths and legends which have arisen to explain the great dramatist's life and work, bringing the story right up to 1989. He reconstructs as much of the elusive author's life as possible, considering his family history, his economic standing, and his reputation with his peers; the Shakespeare who emerges may not always be the familiar one.

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658

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Oxford University Press

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0198186185

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9780198186182

The Auden Generation

By: Samuel Hynes

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The Auden Generation

By: Samuel Hynes

This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood and Orwell among them - writing became a form of action. In the process a generation discovered itself and found its own expression.

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446

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Random House

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1446467988

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9781446467985

Book's by Samuel Greene

Paper Monsters

Paper Monsters

Fugitive Landscapes

Fugitive Landscapes

Philosophical Research in Education

Philosophical Research in Education

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement

Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement

The War for American Independence

The War for American Independence

Historic Mansions and Highways around Boston

Historic Mansions and Highways around Boston

Shakespeare's Lives

Shakespeare's Lives

The Auden Generation

The Auden Generation

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