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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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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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Sarah Hall's 1806 Poem, "Sketch Of A Landscape In Cecil County, Maryland, At The Junction Of The Octorara Creek With The Susquehanna, Suggested By Hearing The Birds Sing During The Remarkably Warm Weather In February 1806.", Jon Miller Dec 2015

Sarah Hall's 1806 Poem, "Sketch Of A Landscape In Cecil County, Maryland, At The Junction Of The Octorara Creek With The Susquehanna, Suggested By Hearing The Birds Sing During The Remarkably Warm Weather In February 1806.", Jon Miller

Jon Miller

PDF edition of Sarah Hall's 1806 poem, "Sketch of a landscape in Cecil county, Maryland, at the junction of the Octorara creek with the Susquehanna, suggested by hearing the birds sing during the remarkably warm weather in February 1806."

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Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 2 (Chapters 8 To 14), Jon Miller Dec 2015

Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 2 (Chapters 8 To 14), Jon Miller

Jon Miller

Audio file of Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton (1797), chapters 8 to 14. This is the second in a series. The reading runs for about 31 minutes.

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Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 3 (Chapters 15 To 23), Jon Miller Dec 2015

Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 3 (Chapters 15 To 23), Jon Miller

Jon Miller

A reading of Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton (1797). Part 3: Chapters 15 to 23. 32 minutes.

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Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 1 (Chapters 1 To 7), Jon Miller Dec 2015

Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 1 (Chapters 1 To 7), Jon Miller

Jon Miller

A reading of chapters 1 through 7 of Hannah Webster Foster's 1797 novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton. The late eighteenth-century English can be difficult to understand on a first reading, and I think it helps to have someone read it to you. For best results, open the book and read along as the audio plays. This file runs about 34 minutes.

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The Akron Offering: A Ladies' Literary Magazine, 1849-1850, Jon Miller Aug 2015

The Akron Offering: A Ladies' Literary Magazine, 1849-1850, Jon Miller

Jon Miller

FREE FULL-TEXT PDF DOWNLOAD From 1849 to 1850, Calista Cummings edited and published Akron's first literary magazine, The Akron Offering. At the time, Akron was a booming canal town on the verge of even greater prosperity. By turns religious, comic, romantic, and political, this extraordinary collection of early midwestern creative literature expresses a wide range of sometimes contradictory opinions on both the important questions of its day and the important questions of today: historical events such as the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the 1848 revolutions in Europe are considered alongside more timeless contemplations on truth, justice, and beauty. …

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Fear Of Formalism: Kant, Twain, And Cultural Studies In American Literature, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Dec 2013

Fear Of Formalism: Kant, Twain, And Cultural Studies In American Literature, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

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The Romance Of The Holy Land In American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, Brian Yothers Dec 2006

The Romance Of The Holy Land In American Travel Writing, 1790-1876, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

This book is the first to engage with the full range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East. Brian Yothers argues that American travel writing about the Holy Land forms a coherent, if greatly varied, tradition, which can only be fully understood when works by major writers such as Twain and Melville are studied alongside missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. Yothers also examines works by lesser-known authors such …

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