The Consular Letters, 1853-1855
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Consuls
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Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Consuls
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Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Consuls
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Author : Monika M. Elbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108650538
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Nathaniel Hawthorne and demonstrates why he continues to be a critically significant figure in American literature. The first section focuses on Hawthorne's interest in and knowledge of past (Puritan and colonial) and contemporary nineteenth-century history (women's, African American, Native American) as the inspiration for his writings and the source of his literary success. The second section explores his fascination with social history and popular culture by examining topics as mesmerism, utopian life styles, theatrical performances, and artistic innovations. The third section looks at how Hawthorne succeeded and excelled in the literary marketplace, as an author of children's literature, literary sketches, and historical romances. In the fourth section, Hawthorne's literary precursors, peers, colleagues, and successors are analyzed. In the final section, Hawthorne's attachment to family, nature, and home is examined as the source of creative inspiration and philosophical questing.
Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
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Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Great Britain
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Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Great Britain
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Author :
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Page : 842 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Commerce
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Author : Carrie Hyde
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674981723
Citizenship defines the U.S. political experiment, but the modern legal category that it now names is a relatively recent invention. There was no Constitutional definition of citizenship until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, almost a century after the Declaration of Independence. Civic Longing looks at the fascinating prehistory of U.S. citizenship in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, when the cultural and juridical meaning of citizenship—as much as its scope—was still up for grabs. Carrie Hyde recovers the numerous cultural forms through which the meaning of citizenship was provisionally made and remade in the early United States. Civic Longing offers the first historically grounded account of the formative political power of the imaginative traditions that shaped early debates about citizenship. In the absence of a centralized legal definition of citizenship, Hyde shows, politicians and writers regularly turned to a number of highly speculative traditions—political philosophy, Christian theology, natural law, fiction, and didactic literature—to authorize visions of what citizenship was or ought to be. These speculative traditions sustained an idealized image of citizenship by imagining it from its outer limits, from the point of view of its “negative civic exemplars”—expatriates, slaves, traitors, and alienated subjects. By recovering the strange, idiosyncratic meanings of citizenship in the early United States, Hyde provides a powerful critique of originalism, and challenges anachronistic assumptions that read the definition of citizenship backward from its consolidation in the mid-nineteenth century as jus soli or birthright citizenship.
Author : Catherine Petroski
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555532970
A captivating portrait of a 19th-century seafaring woman during her first year of marriage, based on her diaries.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Page : 650 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Bills, Legislative
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Author : Lewis Hertslet
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Page : 1222 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
A collection of treaties and conventions, between Great Britain and foreign powers, and of the laws, decrees, orders in council, &c., concerning the same, so far as they relate to commerce and navigation, slavery, extradition, nationality, copyright, postal matters, &c., and to the privileges and interests of the subjects of the high contracting parties.