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  • Voices from the First Gilded Age Voices from the First Gilded Age
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    Voices from the First Gilded Age

    Ed Granger

    Voices from the First Gilded Age takes us back and forth across the Atlantic, from London to New York to Paris, through the epistolary conversations of husbands and wives, sisters and brothers,...
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  • INTIMUS
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    INTIMUS

    Mark Taylor

    Walter Benjamin observed in his writings on the interior that 'to live means to leave traces.' This interior design theory reader focuses on just how such traces might manifest themselves. In order...
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  • Natural Right and Political Philosophy Natural Right and Political Philosophy
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    Natural Right and Political Philosophy

    Ann Ward

    Inspired by the work of prominent University of Notre Dame political philosophers Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert, this volume of essays explores the concept of natural right in the history of...
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  • The Descent of Love The Descent of Love
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    The Descent of Love

    Bert Bender

    Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large. In an original and...
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  • The Countess and the Nazis
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    The Countess and the Nazis

    Muriel White was a scion of several "first families" of the U.S. Born into great wealth at the height of the Gilded Age, her mother was so famously beautiful that Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote...
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  • Trash Culture
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    Trash Culture

    Richard Keller Simon

    Seinfeld as a contemporary adaptation of Etherege's Restoration comedy of manners The Man of Mode? Friends as a reworking of Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing? Star Wars as an...
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  • Frantic Panoramas
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    Frantic Panoramas

    Nancy Bentley

    Late nineteenth-century America saw an explosion in mass culture-from sensationalist tabloid newspapers to amusement parks to Wild West shows. Historians and critics have traditionally observed the...
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  • The American 1890s The American 1890s
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    The American 1890s

    Susan Harris Smith

    America at the last fin de siècle was in a period of profound societal transition. Industrialization was well under way and with it a burgeoning sense of professionalism and a growing middle class...
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  • The Virago Book of Friendship
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    The Virago Book of Friendship

    Rachel Cooke

    A fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends

    'A highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable -...
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  • L'Âge de L'Innocence (Traduit) L'Âge de L'Innocence (Traduit)
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    L'Âge de L'Innocence (Traduit)

    Edith Wharton

    Plongez-vous dans l'élégance étouffante de la haute société new-yorkaise du XIXe siècle, où les règles sociales sont aussi immuables que les murailles des manoirs en pierre. "L'Âge de l'Innocence",...
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  • Chances Are Chances Are
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    Chances Are

    Valerie Rohy

    This innovative work makes use of psychoanalytic, queer, and narrative theories to read nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and demonstrate how the concept of contingency-whether...
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  • There is Confusion There is Confusion
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    There is Confusion

    Jessie Redmon Fauset

    There Is Confusion (1924) is a novel by Jessie Redmon Fauset. Published to resounding acclaim from such critics as Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory, There Is Confusion was largely forgotten by the...
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  • Deeper Than Reason
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    Deeper Than Reason

    Deeper than Reason takes the insights of modern psychological and neuroscientific research on the emotions and brings them to bear on questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. ...
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  • A Talent for Living A Talent for Living
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    A Talent for Living

    Barbara L. Bellows

    Josephine Pinckney (1895--1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Isak Dinesen. Her flair for storytelling...
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  • Transatlantic Dialogue
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    Transatlantic Dialogue

    Paul F. Mattheisen

    The mauve life and times of Edmund Gosse glow warmly in these letters, delightful to even the most casual reader, engrossing to one with an interest in the distinguished correspondents or in the...
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  • The Emergence of Genetic Rationality The Emergence of Genetic Rationality
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    The Emergence of Genetic Rationality

    Phillip Thurtle

    The emergence of genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology. Indeed, it is difficult now to consider nearly any facet of human experience without first considering the gene. But...
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  • Horror Historia Red Horror Historia Red
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    Horror Historia Red

    C.S.R. Calloway

    "I have seen an evil thing this night," he said; "I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life."Gothic grotesqueries, penny dreadfuls, pulp magazines, and other...
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  • Inhabited Inhabited
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    Inhabited

    Bram Stoker

    Houses creak, shudder, moan, whistle, and whine. With eye-like windows and doors that appear, at night, like tunnel entrances to the unknown, houses lend themselves to our primal and persistent sense...
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  • Tropic of Murder Tropic of Murder
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    Tropic of Murder

    Lev Raphael

    A Nick Hoffman / Academic Mystery, Book 6 - It's winter, but academic madness is in full bloom at the State University of Michigan. Untenured professor Nick Hoffman is desperately trying to keep out...
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  • The Golden Bowl by Henry James The Golden Bowl by Henry James
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    The Golden Bowl by Henry James

    Joseph Cowley

    Henry James was born in the United States, in New York City, on April 15, 1843 and is considered an American writer, though he spent most of his life in England and, a year before his death in London...
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  • No Place in Time No Place in Time
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    No Place in Time

    Sharon B Oster

    No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines how the Hebraic myth, in which Jewishness became a metaphor for an ancient, pre-Christian past, was...
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  • Sein menschliches Pflegekind Sein menschliches Pflegekind
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    Sein menschliches Pflegekind

    Michele Mills

    Der missmutige Feuerlord von Gut Ashmoor empfängt eine bezaubernde, kurvige Menschenfrau als sein Pflegekind! Heute ist mein Hochzeitstag und ich bin so unfassbar deprimiert. Mein Hochzeitskleid ist...
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  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    Anita Loos

    LARGE PRINT EDITION. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady (1925) is a novel by Anita Loos. Adapted from a series of stories written for Harper's Bazaar, Gentlemen...
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  • Scribners
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    Scribners

    Scribners tells the inside story of five generations—over 150 years—at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribners Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York,...
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  • What Would Mrs. Astor Do?
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    What Would Mrs. Astor Do?

    Tichi, Cecelia

    A richly illustrated romp with America's Gilded Age leisure class-and those angling to join it Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States' population doubled,...
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  • The Turn of the Screw The Turn of the Screw
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    The Turn of the Screw

    Henry James

    "[James] is the most intelligent man of his generation." -T. S. Eliot "The economy of horror is carried to its last degree."-Edith Wharton"The most hopelessly evil story that we could have read in...
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  • Handbook of Psychobiography
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    Handbook of Psychobiography

    This exceptionally readable and down-to-earth handbook is destined to become the definitive guide to psychobiographical research, the application of psychological theory and research to individual...
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  • Romney
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    Romney

    Butler, James A.

    Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virginian (1902). Despite his success as a Western novelist, Wister's failure to write about his native city of...
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  • Beatrix Farrand
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    Beatrix Farrand

    Judith B. Tankard

    The only monograph to chronicle the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture.Beatrix Farrand, the only female founder of the American Society of Landscape...
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  • Classic Gothic Classic Gothic
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    Classic Gothic

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Rituals, death, the supernatural, the contrast of light and dark, man overreaching to disaster, things that lurk, unsettling nightmares and brooding landscapes, dark castles and ancient lore. Dark...
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  • The Carousel of Life The Carousel of Life
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    The Carousel of Life

    Bahareh Amidi

    The colors, the texture, the weaving, and the knots. This is how it all started: one coincidental chance meeting. There are forty stories that make this tapestry; there are dozens and perhaps...
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  • The Custom of the Country The Custom of the Country
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    The Custom of the Country

    Edith Wharton

    The Custom of the Country is a 1913 tragicomedy of manners novel by American Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.The...
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