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Science And Imagination In Anglo-American Children's Books, 1760--1855, Sandra Burr
Science And Imagination In Anglo-American Children's Books, 1760--1855, Sandra Burr
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Didactic, scientifically oriented children's literature crisscrossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, finding wide popularity in Great Britain and the United States; yet the genre has since suffered from a reputation for being dull and pedantic and has been neglected by scholars. Challenging this scholarly devaluation, "Science and Imagination in Anglo-American Children's Books, 1760--1855" argues that didactic, scientifically oriented children's books play upon and encourage the use of the imagination. Three significant Anglo-American children's authors---Thomas Day, Maria Edgeworth, and Nathaniel Hawthorne---infuse their writings with the wonders of science and the clear message that an active imagination is a …
Emily Dickinson's And Christina Rossetti's Portrayals Of Goblins And Their Threat To Feminine Integrity, Miki Jean Hazard
Emily Dickinson's And Christina Rossetti's Portrayals Of Goblins And Their Threat To Feminine Integrity, Miki Jean Hazard
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No abstract provided.
Byron And The Modernist Writers, Elena M. Padilla
Byron And The Modernist Writers, Elena M. Padilla
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No abstract provided.
Raising Their Voices: Women, Articulation And Power In Shakespeare's Henriad, Jennifer Zawadzinski
Raising Their Voices: Women, Articulation And Power In Shakespeare's Henriad, Jennifer Zawadzinski
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"The Little Stop Before The Words": Bildungsroman And The Building Of A Colonial Discourse In Rudyard Kipling's "Kim", Adam Keith Pfeffer
"The Little Stop Before The Words": Bildungsroman And The Building Of A Colonial Discourse In Rudyard Kipling's "Kim", Adam Keith Pfeffer
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No abstract provided.
Orphic Descent In "Lord Jim", Sonya Willie
Orphic Descent In "Lord Jim", Sonya Willie
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No abstract provided.
"By Contraries" ("Ulysses" 15.3928): James Joyce's Rendering Of Drama In "Exiles" And "Circe", John F. X. Flynn
"By Contraries" ("Ulysses" 15.3928): James Joyce's Rendering Of Drama In "Exiles" And "Circe", John F. X. Flynn
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Representing Culture And Class: An Exploration Of Narrative Containment Strategies In Henry Mayhew And George Gissing, Lona Catherine Carwile
Representing Culture And Class: An Exploration Of Narrative Containment Strategies In Henry Mayhew And George Gissing, Lona Catherine Carwile
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No abstract provided.
Reconsidering Swinburne's Relation To Whitman, David B. Donlon
Reconsidering Swinburne's Relation To Whitman, David B. Donlon
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No abstract provided.
The Influence Of St Augustine On Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited", Andrew Damian Moran
The Influence Of St Augustine On Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited", Andrew Damian Moran
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A Tale Of Two Vicars: Thomas Stothard's And Thomas Rowlandson's Illustrations Of "The Vicar Of Wakefield", Katherine W. Rawson
A Tale Of Two Vicars: Thomas Stothard's And Thomas Rowlandson's Illustrations Of "The Vicar Of Wakefield", Katherine W. Rawson
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No abstract provided.
Katherine Anne Porter's "Old Mortality" And Virginia Woolf: A Study In Feminism, Rebecca S. L. Waite
Katherine Anne Porter's "Old Mortality" And Virginia Woolf: A Study In Feminism, Rebecca S. L. Waite
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No abstract provided.
Spontaneous Feeling As Moral Power: The Role Of Sentimentality In "Our Mutual Friend", Robin L. Fetherston
Spontaneous Feeling As Moral Power: The Role Of Sentimentality In "Our Mutual Friend", Robin L. Fetherston
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No abstract provided.
"For Every Substance Is Conditioned To Change Her Hew, And Sundry Formes To Don": The Cultivation Of Chastity In Spenser's "Garden Of Adonis", Alyssa Jane Sveden
"For Every Substance Is Conditioned To Change Her Hew, And Sundry Formes To Don": The Cultivation Of Chastity In Spenser's "Garden Of Adonis", Alyssa Jane Sveden
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No abstract provided.
What Our Seemers Be: Misreading Text, And Voice In "Measure For Measure", Thomas Lilly
What Our Seemers Be: Misreading Text, And Voice In "Measure For Measure", Thomas Lilly
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No abstract provided.
Swift's Vexed Satire Of Hobbes And Lucretius, Sarah Reynard Thumm
Swift's Vexed Satire Of Hobbes And Lucretius, Sarah Reynard Thumm
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No abstract provided.
Capturing Experience: Marlow's Narrative About Women In Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" And "Chance", Susan Elizabeth Martin-Joy
Capturing Experience: Marlow's Narrative About Women In Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" And "Chance", Susan Elizabeth Martin-Joy
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Celts In Hiding: The Search For Celtic Analogues In "Beowulf", Vincent Gabriel Passanisi
Celts In Hiding: The Search For Celtic Analogues In "Beowulf", Vincent Gabriel Passanisi
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No abstract provided.
Spiritual Quest As Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" And Its Relation To T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst
Spiritual Quest As Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" And Its Relation To T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst
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No abstract provided.
John Donne's Thwarted Redemption Of Poetry In "A Valediction: Of The Booke", Patrick Lee Plaisance
John Donne's Thwarted Redemption Of Poetry In "A Valediction: Of The Booke", Patrick Lee Plaisance
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No abstract provided.
The Once And Future Friend: Tennyson's Exploration Of Human Immortality, Melinda Simons
The Once And Future Friend: Tennyson's Exploration Of Human Immortality, Melinda Simons
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No abstract provided.
The Narrator In The Middle English Bird Debates: A Dynamic Convention, Stephen B. Constantelos
The Narrator In The Middle English Bird Debates: A Dynamic Convention, Stephen B. Constantelos
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No abstract provided.
Virginia Woolf's Starving Artists, Beverly Ann Beyer
Virginia Woolf's Starving Artists, Beverly Ann Beyer
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No abstract provided.
Tennyson's Lady Of Shalott In Pre-Raphaelite Art: Exonerated Artist Or Fallen Woman, Allyson Mcmahon Bourke
Tennyson's Lady Of Shalott In Pre-Raphaelite Art: Exonerated Artist Or Fallen Woman, Allyson Mcmahon Bourke
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No abstract provided.
Paine, Blake And Hegemony, Grace Moore
Paine, Blake And Hegemony, Grace Moore
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No abstract provided.
Piercing The Corporeal Veil: The Extra Stanza Of "Pearl" As Spiritual Focal Point, Michael Blum
Piercing The Corporeal Veil: The Extra Stanza Of "Pearl" As Spiritual Focal Point, Michael Blum
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No abstract provided.
An Education In Virtue: Didacticism And Audience In Elizabeth Gaskell's "Ruth" And Charlotte Yonge's "The Heir Of Redclyffe", Tayce Langley Clarke
An Education In Virtue: Didacticism And Audience In Elizabeth Gaskell's "Ruth" And Charlotte Yonge's "The Heir Of Redclyffe", Tayce Langley Clarke
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No abstract provided.
Is All This Digression Or Isn't It Digression: "Fourplay" And Its Effects In Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier", Stephen Robert Bennett
Is All This Digression Or Isn't It Digression: "Fourplay" And Its Effects In Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier", Stephen Robert Bennett
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No abstract provided.
Helmets Off: Spenser's Britomart And Radigund Unveiled, Lorette Courchaine
Helmets Off: Spenser's Britomart And Radigund Unveiled, Lorette Courchaine
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No abstract provided.
Blake And The Enlightenment, Paul Ferrell Brown
Blake And The Enlightenment, Paul Ferrell Brown
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No abstract provided.