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  • Healing the Nation

    Literature, Progress, and Christian Science

    A surprising history of how Christian Science swept through America, reflected in literature of the time by Twain, Dreiser, Cather, and more.Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the rich and complex connections between religion and literature in American culture.Mary Baker Eddy's Church of ... Leer más

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  • Western Higher Education in Global Contexts

    Series series Expansion and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East
    The globalization of American style higher education is a field of study that is undergoing a significant phase with the current expansion of American branch campuses and curricula around the world. This volume contributes to the scholarship on the project of implementing and expanding U.S. influenced curricula in the Middle East and Asia. Many of the branch campus projects are only a few decades ... Leer más

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  • When Memory Speaks

    Exploring the Art of Autobiography

    J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives.In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques ... Leer más

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  • Fables Of Abundance

    A Cultural History Of Advertising In America

    de Jackson Lears ...
    Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States. ... Leer más

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  • Typecasting

    On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality

    Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of modern society, authors Ewen & Ewen ... Leer más

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  • God's Perfect Child

    Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church

    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author, "the most powerful and persuasive attack on Christian Science to have been written in this century" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ).Millions of Americans—from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R. Haldeman—have been touched by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879, Christian Science was based on a belief ... Leer más

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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Leer más

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  • A History of American Literature

    de Richard Gray ...
    Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available todayCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of ... Leer más

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  • The New Negro Aesthetic

    Selected Writings

    **Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imaginationA Penguin Classic**For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America's most vexing problem. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story ... Leer más

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  • The New Era

    American Thought and Culture in the 1920s

    Series series American Thought and Culture
    In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as “modern,” which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before—a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity.The New Era provides a history of American thought and culture in the 1920s through the eyes of American ... Leer más

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  • A Brief History of American Literature

    de Richard Gray ...
    A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day.Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literatureCovers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective ... Leer más

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  • The Uneasy Chair

    A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

    Bernard DeVoto was a wild intellectual from the Rocky Mountains, a rebel, iconoclast, and idealist who fled his stifling small town for the intellectual freedom and community of Harvard. While he settled eastward in his career as a novelist, professor, editor, historian, and critic, he continued to love, to a point of passion, western openness, freedom, and society.National Book Award– and ... Leer más

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