Book Description
Architectural Guide with eleven walking and driving tours.
Author : William McKenzie Woodward
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2003-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780974284705
Architectural Guide with eleven walking and driving tours.
Author : David J. Goodwin
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1531504426
A micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love–hate relationship with New York City. By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft resigned himself to the likelihood that his writing would be forgotten. Today, Lovecraft stands alongside J. R. R. Tolkien as the most influential genre writer of the twentieth century. His reputation as an unreformed racist and bigot, however, leaves readers to grapple with his legacy. Midnight Rambles explores Lovecraft’s time in New York City, a crucial yet often overlooked chapter in his life that shaped his literary career and the inextricable racism in his work. Initially, New York stood as a place of liberation for Lovecraft. During the brief period between 1924 and 1926 when he lived there, Lovecraft joined a creative community and experimented with bohemian living in the publishing and cultural capital of the United States. He also married fellow writer Sonia H. Greene, a Ukrainian-Jewish émigré in the fashion industry. However, cascading personal setbacks and his own professional ineptitude soured him on New York. As Lovecraft became more frustrated, his xenophobia and racism became more pronounced. New York’s large immigrant population and minority communities disgusted him, and this mindset soon became evident in his writing. Many of his stories from this era are infused with racial and ethnic stereotypes and nativist themes, most notably his overtly racist short story, “The Horror at Red Hook,” set in Red Hook, Brooklyn. His personal letters reveal an even darker bigotry. Author David J. Goodwin presents a chronological micro-biography of Lovecraft’s New York years, emphasizing Lovecraft’s exploration of the city environment, the greater metropolitan region, and other locales and how they molded him as a writer and as an individual. Drawing from primary sources (letters, memoirs, and published personal reflections) and secondary sources (biographies and scholarship), Midnight Rambles develops a portrait of a talented and troubled author and offers insights into his unsettling beliefs on race, ethnicity, and immigration.
Author :
Publisher : Fodor
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 2010
Category : New England
ISBN : 1400004535
Describes major tourist attractions in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, providing expanded coverage of Hartford, Boston, and Cape Cod.
Author : Providence Intown Churches Association
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Church architecture
ISBN :
Brief history and architecture guide of nine churches in Providence, R.I.
Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1400007216
Describes major tourist attractions in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, providing expanded coverage of Hartford, Boston, and Cape Cod
Author : Providence Preservation Society
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Providence Preservation Society
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN :
Author : Providence Preservation Society
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : William McKenzie Woodward
Publisher :
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Merchants National Bank of Providence
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781021326683
This book is a collection of facts and traditions about the historic buildings and sites in Providence, Rhode Island. It covers a variety of topics, including churches, schools, historic houses, and other notable places in the city. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of Providence and New England. 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 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. 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.