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81) The ambassadors
Author
Publisher
Franklin Library
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
Limited ed.
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fiftyish American is dispatched to Europe by a rich widow on a mission to bring back her wayward son who is enraptured by a French woman.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xviii, 887 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic. Michael D. Bell describes the social conditions of the literary vocation that shaped the growth of a professional literature in the United States. Eric Sundquist draws upon broad cultural patterns: his account of the writings...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
viii, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations.
Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from antebellum seduction narratives and "realist" representations of rape in nineteenth-century novels to Deliverance, American Psycho, and contemporary feminist...
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