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Review Of Kate Field: The Many Lives Of A Nineteenth-Century American Journalist And Maria Mitchell And The Sexing Of Science: An Astronomer Among The American Romantics, Melissa J. Homestead
Review Of Kate Field: The Many Lives Of A Nineteenth-Century American Journalist And Maria Mitchell And The Sexing Of Science: An Astronomer Among The American Romantics, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Literary historians writing biographies have increasingly shifted from critical biography (the author’s life as a means to interpret his or her literary works) to cultural biography (an author’s life and works in various cultural contexts). As literary historians whose biographical subjects (both nineteenth-century American women) are not primarily literary figures, Bergland and Scharnhorst represent a further step away from critical biography.
As a journalist (and popular lecturer, advocate of reform, playwright, and actress), Kate Field is a more literary figure than astronomer Maria Mitchell, but Scharnhorst has produced neither a critical nor a cultural biography. Instead, he presents a chronological …
Review Of Axes: Willa Cather And William Faulkner And Violence, The Arts, And Willa Cather, Melissa J. Homestead
Review Of Axes: Willa Cather And William Faulkner And Violence, The Arts, And Willa Cather, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Willa Cather and William Faulkner represent an intriguing and potentially productive pairing for comparative study. Their works and careers are located at the rich intersection between regional ism and modernism, and both early 20th-century writers often looked back to the 19th century in their fiction. Even in the absence of influence or intertextual reference, these commonalities would give a literary historian much to say. However, in her study of these two authors, Merrill Maguire Skaggs exhaustively catalogs similarities and differences as proof of a decades-long competition between the authors at the expense of depth and subtlety in her analysis of …
Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 30 (2009), Laurel Horton, Peggy Derrick, Linda Mcshannock, Sharon Fulton Pinka, Jane Amelon, Linda M. Pumphrey, Mary Reecy Fitzgerald, Virginia Gunn
Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 30 (2009), Laurel Horton, Peggy Derrick, Linda Mcshannock, Sharon Fulton Pinka, Jane Amelon, Linda M. Pumphrey, Mary Reecy Fitzgerald, Virginia Gunn
Uncoverings Journal
Preface by Laurel Horton
Two Norwegian Silk Quilts in America by Peggy Derrick and Linda McShannock
William Pinch and the Rainbow Quilt Block Company by Sharon Fulton Pinka
The Persuasive Power of a Quilt: A Study of a Battered Women's Prison Project by Jane Amelon
The Stearns & Foster Company (1846-1900): The Inside Story by Linda M. Pumphrey
The Development of Geometric Pictorial Patchwork, 1800-1950 by Mary Reecy Fitzgerald
Reflections on Quilt History: Accomplishments and Challenges by Virginia Gunn
Contributors
Index