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Book The Juvenile Port folio  and Literary Miscellany

Download or read book The Juvenile Port folio and Literary Miscellany written by Thomas Condie and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Juvenile Port folio    Literary Miscellany

Download or read book The Juvenile Port folio Literary Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Juvenile Port Folio  and Literary Miscellany  1813  Vol  1

Download or read book The Juvenile Port Folio and Literary Miscellany 1813 Vol 1 written by Thomas G. Condie Jr. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Juvenile Port-Folio, and Literary Miscellany, 1813, Vol. 1: Devoted to the Instruction, and Amusement of Youth When the work commenced, the Editor was not fourteen years old.new arrangement arising out of its extended circulation, will be of great benefit to the subscribers, and also to the work itself. During the publication of the first volume, many hints for its improvement have been suggested, by numerous correspondents, to most of which he would cheerfully accede, were it possible to adopt them. - He has been early and fre quently requested, to designate all pieces which are original, as such were he to comply with this request, he would lead his readers into great error, as at least three fourths, of what is communicated to him as original, are copied from other works - He has oftener than once, had sent him as original; a piece copied from a Philadelphia newspaper, with the initials of the person who copied it an hexed as those of its author. Another mode recommended is to annex the word Selected, to all those pieces which he knows to be such, mentioning the author or book from which the piece is taken; this will not in his opinion be attended with any advantage, as the other matter would by many be taken for original. There are many pieces which pass for original which are copied from European publications, but so altered and adapted to the country, (americanized) tho it is difficult to detect the imposition; this species of literary cabling is carried on to a great extent. The Editor will therefore, as formerly, only mention as original, those pieces which he really knows to be such. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Juvenile Port folio  and Literary Miscellany

Download or read book The Juvenile Port folio and Literary Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Juvenile Port Folio  and Literary Miscellany  Volume 1

Download or read book The Juvenile Port Folio and Literary Miscellany Volume 1 written by Thomas Condie and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Beauty and the Brain

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  • Author : Rachel E. Walker
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2022-11-23
  • ISBN : 0226822567
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Beauty and the Brain written by Rachel E. Walker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past.

Book ACLCP Union List of Periodicals

Download or read book ACLCP Union List of Periodicals written by Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book U S  Women Writers and the Discourses of Colonialism  1825 1861

Download or read book U S Women Writers and the Discourses of Colonialism 1825 1861 written by Etsuko Taketani and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overdue examination of widely marginalized writings by women of the American antebellum period, U.S. Women Writers presents a new model for evaluating U.S. relations and interactions with foreign countries in the colonial and postcolonial periods by examining the ways in which women writers were both proponents of colonialization and subversive agents for change. Etsuko Taketani explores attempts to inculcate imperialist values through education in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Tuttle, Catherine Beecher, and others and the results of viewing the world through these values, as reflected in the writings of Harriet low, Emily Judson, and Sarah hale. Many of the texts Taketani uncovers from relative obscurity illuminate the American attitude toward others whether Native American, African American, African, or Asian. She not only sheds lights on the life of the writers she examines, but she also situates each writer s works alongside those of her contemporaries to give the reader a clear picture of the cultural context. The Author: Etsuko Taketani is associate professor of English in the Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Her articles have appeared in American Literary History, Children s Literature, Melville Society Extracts, and other publications. "

Book American Printer and Bookmaker

Download or read book American Printer and Bookmaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Children s Periodicals of the United States

Download or read book Children s Periodicals of the United States written by R. Gordon Kelly and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1984 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers profiles of 423 titles published during the past two hundred years. The sketches are full and detailed, those for the longer-lived periodicals running to several pages. . . . The guide's real strength lies in the wealth of information it provides. For its full descriptions of magazines, its bibliographies, publication histories, and location sources, Children's Periodicals of the United States is a much needed work. Wilson Library Bulletin

Book The Power of Objects in Eighteenth Century British America

Download or read book The Power of Objects in Eighteenth Century British America written by Jennifer Van Horn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.

Book Sentimental Democracy

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  • Author : Andrew Burstein
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2000-05-24
  • ISBN : 0809085364
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Sentimental Democracy written by Andrew Burstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-05-24 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two centuries, Americans have used words of sentiment and sympathy, passion and power to explain their country's unique democratic mission. Here Andrew Burstein examines the emotional dynamic and the metaphorically rich language which Americans developed to express their guiding principle: that the New World would improve upon the Old. "Feeling," he argues, was a political and cultural phenomenon, and in the impassioned rhetoric of "feeling" we can locate the sources of American patriotism. Using newspapers and magazines, private letters and public speeches, diaries and books, Burstein shows how the eighteenth-century "culture of sensibility" encouraged early Americans to make a heartfelt commitment to the Enlightenment's optimism about a global society; it would succeed, they believed, as much by sublime feeling as by intellectual achievement and political liberty. "Sentimental Democracy" gives us a lively dual portrait of the American psyche and the American dream -- telling us as much about ourselves as about our morally passionate ancestors. -- From publisher's description.

Book Biennial Report of the State Librarian to the Governor of the State of Iowa

Download or read book Biennial Report of the State Librarian to the Governor of the State of Iowa written by State Library of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report for 1871/1873-1903/1905 contains a list of additions to the miscellaneous and law departments.

Book Pennsylvania Union List of Serials

Download or read book Pennsylvania Union List of Serials written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reading Women

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  • Author : Heidi Brayman Hackel
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2011-08-02
  • ISBN : 0812205987
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Reading Women written by Heidi Brayman Hackel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively about women's reading in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and about women's writing in the early modern period, they have not attended sufficiently to the critical transformation that took place as female readers and their reading assumed significant cultural and economic power. Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during this expansion of female readership. Drawing together historians and literary scholars, the essays share a concern with local specificity and material culture. Removing women from the historically inaccurate frame of exclusively solitary, silent reading, the authors collectively return their subjects to the activities that so often coincided with reading: shopping, sewing, talking, writing, performing, and collecting. With chapters on samplers, storytelling, testimony, and translation, the volume expands notions of reading and literacy, and it insists upon a rich and varied narrative that crosses disciplinary boundaries and national borders.

Book Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century written by T. Bowers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The contributors model new ways to understand the unexpected roles that seduction stories and sentimental narratives played for readers struggling to negotiate previously unimagined differences between and among people, institutions, and ideas.

Book Fifty Years in the Newspaper Game

Download or read book Fifty Years in the Newspaper Game written by James Brown Borland and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: