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2018

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Canal Boy To President 1881 Miller Ed.Pdf, Jon Miller Aug 2018

Canal Boy To President 1881 Miller Ed.Pdf, Jon Miller

Jon Miller

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Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: The American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell dedicated her literary career to exploring the lives and motives of lonely and trapped individuals.

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Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss May 2018

Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, xi + 199 pp., $90.00.

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Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Hero, Michael David Bonifonte Dec 2017

Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Hero, Michael David Bonifonte

Scott T. Allison

This chapter seeks to explore Edgar Allan Poe’s heroism, incorporating many of the ideas from recent heroism science to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was not just a gifted yet impoverished writer, he was a bona fide Richmond hero.

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Emily Dickinson, Fascicle 26 / Packet 84 (Mobile Version), Jon Miller Dec 2017

Emily Dickinson, Fascicle 26 / Packet 84 (Mobile Version), Jon Miller

Jon Miller

This edition of Emily Dickinson's "Packet 84," also known as "Fascicle 26," reproduces the text and annotations of this 26-page bundle of poems in Dickinson's hand. The text is made from the electronic version of the original now available from the Emily Dickinson Collection in the Amherst College Digital Collections. This is the mobile version of this edition. To assist researchers, the poems are titled with the Franklin ("F") and Johnson ("J") numbers. Note, however, that the texts in this edition are not the same as the versions published by Franklin or Johnson, as editors necessarily make a number of …

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Emily Dickinson, Fascicle 26 / Packet 84, Jon Miller Dec 2017

Emily Dickinson, Fascicle 26 / Packet 84, Jon Miller

Jon Miller

This edition of Emily Dickinson's "Packet 84," also known as "Fascicle 26," reproduces the text and annotations of this 26-page bundle of poems in Dickinson's hand. The text is made from the electronic version of the original now available from the Emily Dickinson Collection in the Amherst College Digital Collections. If you print this version double-sided on 8.5 by 11 paper and cut those three pages in half, you'll have six pages to fold, pile up, and staple (or sew) into a 24-page booklet that mimics the form in which Dickinson preserved them. To assist researchers, the poems are titled …

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