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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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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.
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.
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.
Paine, Blake And Hegemony, Grace Moore
Paine, Blake And Hegemony, Grace Moore
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No abstract provided.
Visions Of Reality: A Comparison Of Narrative Methods And Perspectives In "The Ambassadors" And "The Good Soldier", Rebecca Marie Kleinberg
Visions Of Reality: A Comparison Of Narrative Methods And Perspectives In "The Ambassadors" And "The Good Soldier", Rebecca Marie Kleinberg
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The Shaping Of Consciousness: Conventional Adventure Language And Gothic Imagery In James' "Daisy Miller" And "The Portrait Of A Lady", Andrea Mary Lafreniere
The Shaping Of Consciousness: Conventional Adventure Language And Gothic Imagery In James' "Daisy Miller" And "The Portrait Of A Lady", Andrea Mary Lafreniere
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Time's Ungentle Tide: Disillusion, Isolation And Self-Mastery In Byron And Hemingway, John C. Dashiell
Time's Ungentle Tide: Disillusion, Isolation And Self-Mastery In Byron And Hemingway, John C. Dashiell
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The Quest For Meaning In "The Waste Land" And "Sanctuary": A Comparative Study, Mary Katherine Compton
The Quest For Meaning In "The Waste Land" And "Sanctuary": A Comparative Study, Mary Katherine Compton
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No abstract provided.
The Distinctive Character Types In Henry James' New England Fiction, Karen E. Pilson
The Distinctive Character Types In Henry James' New England Fiction, Karen E. Pilson
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No abstract provided.
The Shock Of Brass On Porcelain: Egotism And "The Sacred Fount", Georgia Taft Pye
The Shock Of Brass On Porcelain: Egotism And "The Sacred Fount", Georgia Taft Pye
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No abstract provided.
The Hidden Life In "The Golden Bowl": An Imagery Of Ambiguity, Mary Elizabeth Thompson
The Hidden Life In "The Golden Bowl": An Imagery Of Ambiguity, Mary Elizabeth Thompson
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No abstract provided.
Feminism In Henry James's "The Bostonians", Helen Eugenia Hester
Feminism In Henry James's "The Bostonians", Helen Eugenia Hester
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No abstract provided.
The Voice Of Doubt, The Voice Of Denial: A Comparative Study Of Anne Bradstreet And Emily Dickinson, Eloise Suzanne Owens
The Voice Of Doubt, The Voice Of Denial: A Comparative Study Of Anne Bradstreet And Emily Dickinson, Eloise Suzanne Owens
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No abstract provided.
"Heart Of Darkness" And "Benito Cereno": A Comparative Study, Carla Mary Kay
"Heart Of Darkness" And "Benito Cereno": A Comparative Study, Carla Mary Kay
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No abstract provided.
The Treatment Of Love And Marriage In Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd" And Henry James's "The Portrait Of A Lady", Susan Shepeard
The Treatment Of Love And Marriage In Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd" And Henry James's "The Portrait Of A Lady", Susan Shepeard
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No abstract provided.
The Search For Truth: Narrative Technique In "Lord Jim" And "Absalom, Absalom!", Jacquelyn King Donegan
The Search For Truth: Narrative Technique In "Lord Jim" And "Absalom, Absalom!", Jacquelyn King Donegan
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No abstract provided.
Culture And Radicalism In "The Princess Casamassima", Carl Frank Filbrich
Culture And Radicalism In "The Princess Casamassima", Carl Frank Filbrich
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No abstract provided.
Reaffirmation In The Last Poems Of Stevens And Yeats, Gael Monie O'Brien
Reaffirmation In The Last Poems Of Stevens And Yeats, Gael Monie O'Brien
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No abstract provided.
The Kinship Between "Moby Dick" And "The Divine Comedy", Lynne Elizabeth Thornton
The Kinship Between "Moby Dick" And "The Divine Comedy", Lynne Elizabeth Thornton
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No abstract provided.