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101) Bede, the Venerable
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Series
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Bede, the Venerable.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"A Little Devil in America is an urgent project that unravels all modes and methods of black performance, in this moment when black performers are coming to terms with their value, reception, and immense impact on America. With sharp insight, humor, and heart, Abdurraqib examines how black performance happens in specific moments in time and space--midcentury Paris, the moon, or a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio. At the outset of this project,...
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Series
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality. Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists-- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan--rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug...
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Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The lives of Joseph Addison, Joseph Addison Turner, and Joel Chandler Harris intersected in Civil War-era Georgia thanks to a slave owner who was more interested in literature than in running his plantation. Addison was a British literary giant who was admired by a planter in the American South; the planter named his son after the British writer-publisher and collected his books. Growing up, the young J.A. Turner read Addison and was inspired by...
106) Passing fancies
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Series
Julia Kydd novel volume 2
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When stylish young bibliophile Julia Kydd returns to 1920s New York, she's determined to launch her own private press. Julia's aspirations take her into the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, a literary movement unlike any she's known--where notions of race, sexuality, and power are slippery, and identities can be deceptively fluid. At a risqǔ soiree, Julia befriends singer Eva Pruitt, whose new book is rumored to reveal lurid details about the Harlem...
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English
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"A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. In The New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father...
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 606
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Jewish-American fiction, 1917-1987.
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Language
English
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In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them, in works that readers of all kinds could admire. This book is their story, a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us. Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-haunted" literary...
112) Margaret Mitchell
Author
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Margaret Mitchell.
113) Robert Southwell
Author
Series
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Robert Southwell.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is determined by signal moments of her life, those that trouble...
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English
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"In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. It was Smith's relentless, unfiltered fury that set Kennedy on his heels, reducing him to sullen silence. Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry--that the black...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics ... Grayling points to three primary factors [behind this epochal shift]: the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature;...
119) The deadly sisterhood: a story of women, power, and intrigue in the Italian Renaissance, 1427-1527
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
"From Leonie Frieda, critically acclaimed biographer of Catherine de Medici, comes The Deadly Sisterhood : an epic tale of eight women whose lives -- marked by fortune and poverty, power and powerlessness -- encompass the spectacle, opportunity, and depravity of Italy's Renaissance. Lucrezia Turnabuoni, Clarice Orsini, Beatrice d'Este, Isabella d'Este, Caterina Sforza, Giulia Farnese, Isabella d'Aragona, and Lucrezia Borgia shared the riches of their...
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