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Settler Kitsch The Legacies Of Puritanism In America, Jonathan Beecher Field
Settler Kitsch The Legacies Of Puritanism In America, Jonathan Beecher Field
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John Cotton: “Gods Promise To His Plantation” (1630), Jonathan Beecher Field
John Cotton: “Gods Promise To His Plantation” (1630), Jonathan Beecher Field
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Outline: John Cotton, Gods Promise To His Plantations (1630/P. 1634), Jonathan Beecher Field
Outline: John Cotton, Gods Promise To His Plantations (1630/P. 1634), Jonathan Beecher Field
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Cosmic Consciousness And Rawlings’S The Sojourner, Ashley Q. Lear
Cosmic Consciousness And Rawlings’S The Sojourner, Ashley Q. Lear
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The epigraph for Rawlings’s The Sojourner quotes I Chronicles 29:15, “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” This opening image is one of many hints to the cosmic consciousness that Rawlings writes into her narratives.
Sherwood Anderson’S "Shadowy Figure": Rural Masculinity In The Modernizing Midwest, Andy Oler
Sherwood Anderson’S "Shadowy Figure": Rural Masculinity In The Modernizing Midwest, Andy Oler
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“Their Song Filled The Whole Night”: Not Without Laughter, Hinterlands Jazz, And Rural Modernity, Andy Oler
“Their Song Filled The Whole Night”: Not Without Laughter, Hinterlands Jazz, And Rural Modernity, Andy Oler
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This essay reads the rural Midwest as a modern space in which the sounds and material apparatus of early-twentieth-century jazz music compose the cultural field of Langston Hughes’s 1930 novel Not Without Laughter. It argues that Not Without Laughter does not attempt to supplant the more conventional urban modernities of Harlem and Chicago. Rather, the novel constructs a rural alternative that forms ambivalence through accumulation, both filling and exceeding the novel’s spaces and the experiences of its characters. Approaching Hughes’s novel through the sonic ambivalences of modern rurality evidences how some authors transgressed the supposed boundaries of the Harlem …
John Boyle O'Reilly And Moondyne (1878), Susanna Ashton
John Boyle O'Reilly And Moondyne (1878), Susanna Ashton
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Arrested for treason against the British Crown and deported to the penal colonies of Australia, the Irish revolutionary John Boyle O'Reilly managed to escape to the United States and within a few years became one of Boston's most prominent political and literary figures, one of the best known Irish immigrants in the United States and one of the most charismatic individuals of the late nineteenth century. He wrote some of the most popular poetry of the period as well as one obscure but swashbuckling novel, Moondyne (1878), based in part upon the spectacular events of his own life. O Reilly …
Fetching The Jingle Along: Mark Twain's Slovenly Peter, Susanna Ashton
Fetching The Jingle Along: Mark Twain's Slovenly Peter, Susanna Ashton
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The Wilders In Louisiana -- Part Ii, Mary Evelyn Thurman
The Wilders In Louisiana -- Part Ii, Mary Evelyn Thurman
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The Wilders In Louisiana, Mary Evelyn Thurman
On The Trail Of Laura Ingalls Wilder Part Ii, Mary Evelyn Thurman
On The Trail Of Laura Ingalls Wilder Part Ii, Mary Evelyn Thurman
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