The Parvenu's Plot

Stephanie Foote

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• In this very readable volume, Stephanie Foote gathers a range of print sources--from novels by Edith Wharton and Henry James to gossip columns, fashio... Lees meer

Trolley Wars

Scott Molloy

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• American cities' rapid expansion after the Civil War fueled the growth of organized transportation systems-- omnibuses, horsecar, and, later, electric... Lees meer

Remodeling the Nation

Faherty

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• A rich analysis of how post Revolutionary Americans conceptualized the early Republic through metaphors of home building Lees meer

Recovering the New

Edward S Cutler

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• Historians and cultural critics have customarily viewed modernism as a movement with western European origins that established an aesthetic in opposit... Lees meer

After Franklin

Stephen Carl Arch

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• Although much has been written about Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, other writers of what Stephen Arch calls "self-biographies" in post-revolution... Lees meer

Schoolroom Poets

Angela Sorby

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• Winner of the Children's Literature Association Honor Book (2007) As recently as the 1960s, children across America continued to recite in schoolrooms... Lees meer

Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris

William C Dowling

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• Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.'s Breakfast Table Trilogy was a series of extremely popular essays published in The Atlantic Monthly from its first issue in... Lees meer

The Cultured Canvas

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• Written from aesthetic, sociopolitical, cultural, and literary perspectives, The Cultured Canvas explores myriad ways in which American visual culture... Lees meer

Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion

Katherine Joslin

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• Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion places the iconic New York figure and her writing in the context of fashion history and shows how dress lies a... Lees meer

Charles Eliot Norton

Linda Dowling

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• Author, translator, social critic and Harvard professor of art, Charles Eliot Norton was widely regarded in his own day as the most cultivated man in ... Lees meer