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Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This collection is the first academic study of the captivating life and career of expatriate artist, writer and activist, May Alcott Nieriker. Nieriker is known as the sister of Louisa May Alcott and model for "Amy March" in Alcott's Little Women. As this book reveals, she was much more than "Amy"--she had a more significant impact on the Concord community than her sister, and later became part of the creative expat community in Europe. There, she...
Author
Series
AMS studies in the nineteenth century volume no. 34
Publisher
AMS Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Poetry and Public Discourse explores nineteenth- century poetry as it addresses and engages in major concerns of American cultural life. It focuses on gender, biblical politics, Revolutionary discourses and racial, sectional, and religious identities, as these contend and negotiate with each other in the shaping of a pluralist democratic polity. Nineteenth-century American poetry, far from being the self-reflective art object of twentieth-century...
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Starting with a new understanding of what Romantic-era literature is--and who wrote it--the essays here reassess British Romanticism in light of Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Alfieri, and contemporary Italian figures such as Paganini and the improvvisatore Tommaso Sgricci. The British absorption of Italian literature and culture was mediated by authors residing in Florence, Naples, Pisa, and Rome, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hunt, Byron, the Shelleys,...
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