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Book Treasures of the College of William and Mary Library

Download or read book Treasures of the College of William and Mary Library written by College of William and Mary. Swem Library and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship

Download or read book Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Naval Duties and Discipline

Download or read book Naval Duties and Discipline written by Francis Asbury Roe and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fine Print

Download or read book Fine Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Performing Jane

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Glosson
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2020-06-10
  • ISBN : 0807173355
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Performing Jane written by Sarah Glosson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of her most celebrated novel, Pride and Prejudice, people around the world continue to honor “dear Jane.” In Performing Jane, Sarah Glosson explores this vibrant fandom, examining a long history of Austen fans engaging with her work, from wearing hand-sewn bonnets and period-appropriate corsets to creating spirited fanfiction and comical gifsets. Sophisticated and engaging, this study demonstrates that Austen fans of today have a great deal in common with those who loved the English novelist long before the term “fan” came into use. Performing Jane analyzes three ways fans engage with Austen and her work: collecting material related to the writer, whether in physical scrapbooks or on social-media platforms; creating and consuming imitative works, including fanfiction and modernized adaptations such as The Lizzie Bennet Diaries; and making pilgrimages to Steventon, Hampshire, Chawton Cottage, and even to annual meetings of Jane Austen societies. Key to Glosson’s exploration of Austen fans is the notion that all of these activities, whether occurring in private or in public, are fundamentally performative. And in counterbalance to studies that center on fans with a tendency to transform and disrupt the original text, this study provides much-needed understanding of a fandom that predominantly reaffirms Austen’s works. Because Austen’s writing has bridged the realms of both literary and popular culture, this fandom serves as an excellent case study to understand the ways in which we draw distinctions between fandom and other forms of intensive engagement and, more importantly, to appreciate how fluid those distinctions can be. Performing Jane embraces a holistic view of the long history of Austen fandom, relying on archival research, literary and visual analyses, and ethnographic study. This groundbreaking book not only demonstrates the ways in which fan practices, today and in the past, are performative, but also provides fresh perspectives into fandom and contributes to our understanding of the ways readers engage with literature.

Book The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

Download or read book The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America written by Bibliographical Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mourt s Relation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anonymous
  • Publisher : Applewood Books
  • Release : 1986-09
  • ISBN : 0918222842
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Mourt s Relation written by Anonymous and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1986-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an account, first published in 1622, of the Pilgrim's journey to the new world.

Book Contest ed  Writing

Download or read book Contest ed Writing written by Mary Lamb and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is about writing contests, a vibrant rhetorical practice traceable to rhetorical performances in ancient Greece. In their discussion of contests’ cultural work, the scholars who have contributed to this collection uncover important questions about our practices. For example, educational contests as epideictic rhetoric do indeed celebrate writing, but does this celebration merely relieve educators of the responsibility of finding ways for all writers to succeed? Contests designed to reward single winners and singly-authored works admirably celebrate hard work, but do they over-emphasize exceptional individual achievement over shared goals and communal reward for success? Taking a cultural-rhetorical approach to contests, each chapter demonstrates the cultural work the contests accomplish. The essays in Part I examine contests and riddles in classical Greek and Roman periods, educational contests in eighteenth-century Scotland, and the Lyceum movement in the Antebellum American South. The next set of essays discusses how contests leverage competition and reward in educational settings: medieval universities, American turn-of-the-century women’s colleges, twenty-first century scholarship-essay contests, and writing contests for speakers of other languages at the University of Portsmouth. The last set of essays examines popular contests, including poetry contests in Youth Spoken Word, popular American contests designed by marketers, and twenty-first century podcasting competitions. This collection, then, takes up contests as a cultural marker of our values, assumptions, and relationships to writing, contests, and competition.

Book Treasure Your Exceptions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Cock
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-10-31
  • ISBN : 0387756884
  • Pages : 756 pages

Download or read book Treasure Your Exceptions written by Alan Cock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography provides an understanding of William Bateson as well as a reconciliation of diverging views (e.g. the hierarchical thinking of Gould and the genocentrism of George Williams and Richard Dawkins). Evolutionists may thus, at long last, present a unified front to their creationist opponents. The pressing need for this text is apparent from the high percentages reported not to believe in evolution and the growth of the so-called "intelligent design" movement.

Book Monthly Checklist of State Publications

Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.

Book The Quest for Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack P. Greene
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2014-01-01
  • ISBN : 0807839442
  • Pages : 545 pages

Download or read book The Quest for Power written by Jack P. Greene and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia--in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses, especially the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American Revolution. Originally published in 1963. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Book The Library and Society  Reprints of Papers and Addresses

Download or read book The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses written by Various and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Library and Society: Reprints of Papers and Addresses" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Book Review Index Cumulation  1989

Download or read book Book Review Index Cumulation 1989 written by Neil E. Walker and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Index provides a broad coverage and access to book reviews in the general social sciences, humanities, sciences, and fine arts, as well as general interest magazines and includes journals from Great Britain, Canada, Switzerland, Israel and Australia. In addition, it indexes several journals that, while published in the US, concentrate on reviewing foreign published or foreign language books. These include Hispania, French Review, German Quarterly and World Literature Today.

Book Library Journal

Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Book Jefferson s Treasure

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory May
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2018-08-07
  • ISBN : 1621577643
  • Pages : 546 pages

Download or read book Jefferson s Treasure written by Gregory May and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington had Alexander Hamilton. Thomas Jefferson had Albert Gallatin. From internationally known tax expert and former Supreme Court law clerk Gregory May comes this long overdue biography of the remarkable immigrant who launched the fiscal policies that shaped the early Republic and the future of American politics. Not Alexander Hamilton---Albert Gallatin. To this day, the fight over fiscal policy lies at the center of American politics. Jefferson's champion in that fight was Albert Gallatin---a Swiss immigrant who served as Treasury Secretary for twelve years because he was the only man in Jefferson's party who understood finance well enough to reform Alexander Hamilton's system. A look at Gallatin's work---repealing internal taxes, restraining government spending, and repaying public debt---puts our current federal fiscal problems in perspective. The Jefferson Administration's enduring achievement was to contain the federal government by restraining its fiscal power. This was Gallatin's work. It set the pattern for federal finance until the Civil War, and it created a culture of fiscal responsibility that survived well into the twentieth century.

Book Burying the Dead but Not the Past

Download or read book Burying the Dead but Not the Past written by Caroline E. Janney and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. Her exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.

Book American Library Directory 2003 2004

Download or read book American Library Directory 2003 2004 written by Information Today, Incorporated and published by Information Today. This book was released on 2003 with total page 2216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable resource makes it easy to: - Contact colleagues, other libraries, or library organizations.- Locate special collections, rare book and document holdings, and manuscript collections.- Find consortium libraries or networks for interlibrary loans, information, or membership.- Compare other libraries' facilities, services, and expenditures with yours.- Identify libraries equipped for the disabled and other specialized facilities.- Find out about seminars and in-service educational programs. Libraries are listed alphabetically by state and city, and registries of library schools and library consortia are included as well.