From Gothic Windows To Peacocks

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The Silk Peacock

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Author : Hilary West
language : en
Publisher: Booktango
Release Date : 2012-08-11

The Silk Peacock written by Hilary West and has been published by Booktango this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-11 with Fiction categories.

These stories are a varied selection from the pen of Hilary West. They include some very short stories, for example 'Dreamcatcher' and 'The Thief' to more extended tales like 'lilies of the Morning' and 'the Tortured Charm'. A lot of the stories have a mystery element and there is a sense of the imagination at play.

An American Bible

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Author : Paul C. Gutjahr
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1999

An American Bible written by Paul C. Gutjahr and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.

"An American Bible is an extremely compelling piece of cultural history that succeeds in making rich rather than schematic sense of the major dramas that lay behind the production of over 1,700 different American editions of the Bible in the century after the American Revolution. Gutjahr's book is especially powerful in demonstrating how nineteenth-century efforts to purge the Bible of textual and translational impurities in search of an 'authentic' text led ironically to the emergence of entirely new gospels like the Book of Mormon and the massive fictionalized literature dealing with the life of Christ." --Jay Fliegelman, Stanford University During the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, American publishing experienced unprecedented, exponential growth. An emerging market economy, widespread religious revival, educational reforms, and innovations in print technology worked together to create a culture increasingly formed and framed by the power of print. At the center of this new culture was the Bible, the book that has been called "the best seller" in American publishing history. Yet it is important to realize that the Bible in America was not a simple, uniform entity. First printed in the United States during the American Revolution, the Bible underwent many revisions, translations, and changes in format as different editors and publishers appropriated it to meet a wide range of changing ideological and economic demands. This book examines how many different constituencies (both secular and religious) fought to keep the Bible the preeminent text in the United States as the country's print marketplace experienced explosive growth. The author shows how these heated battles had profound consequences for many American cultural practices and forms of printed material. By exploring how publishers, clergymen, politicians, educators, and lay persons met the threat that new printed material posed to the dominance of the Bible by changing both its form and its contents, the author reveals the causes and consequences of mutating God's supposedly immutable Word.

An Autobiographical Sketch Written In 1987 And A Bibliography Of The Published Writings Of Edwin Wolf 2nd

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Author : Edwin Wolf
language : en
Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
Release Date : 1991

An Autobiographical Sketch Written In 1987 And A Bibliography Of The Published Writings Of Edwin Wolf 2nd written by Edwin Wolf and has been published by The Library Company of Phil this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

The British Library Guide To Bookbinding

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Author : P. J. M. Marks
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01

The British Library Guide To Bookbinding written by P. J. M. Marks and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

An introduction to the history and techniques of bookbinding that offers a thorough and accessible historical overview of techniques and processes, illustrated with examples, diagrams, and photographs of craftspeople at work.

The Peacock S Feather

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Author : Sarah Woodhouse
language : en
Publisher: Romaunce Books
Release Date : 2023-01-28

The Peacock S Feather written by Sarah Woodhouse and has been published by Romaunce Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-28 with Fiction categories.

Unlucky in love, Dr Alexander French, a gruff but likeable surgeon travels to Suffolk to start a new life. There, in a small country village, he meets the rich and impulsive Jardine Savage newly arrived from Jamaica and the new owner of Ramillies, the elegant but now dilapidated ancestral home of the Raynor family. Nearby lives Lizzie Raynor a feisty and brilliant artist who at one stroke lost her father, home and lover and is now forced to be one of Jardine’s tenants. Neither she nor the neighbourhood takes kindly to Ramillies new and exotic occupants. ‘This has been an unlucky house since my father died,’ she said quietly to herself, ‘or before that, since … since he killed the peacock. They all said it would bring bad luck. I used to tell myself it was all the fault of the peacock; it was a kind of comfort. But now this: perhaps the house is cursed after all.’ ‘A delightful book’ The Times ‘A delightful novel, full of humour and poignancy and rich in period detail’ Douglas Reeman, Novelist Winner Boots Romantic Novel of the Year Award

Picture Freedom

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Author : Jasmine Nichole Cobb
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-04-03

Picture Freedom written by Jasmine Nichole Cobb and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

"Picture Freedom provides a unique and nuanced interpretation of nineteenth-century African American life and culture. Focusing on visuality, print culture, and an examination of the parlor, Cobb has fashioned a book like none other, convincingly demonstrating how whites and blacks reimagined racial identity and belonging in the early republic."--Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City

A Great And Rising Nation

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Author : Michael A. Verney
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-07-27

A Great And Rising Nation written by Michael A. Verney and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-27 with History categories.

A Great and Rising Nation illuminates the unexplored early decades of the United States’ imperialist naval aspirations. Conventional wisdom holds that, until the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States was a feeble player on the world stage, with an international presence rooted in commerce rather than military might. Michael A. Verney’s A Great and Rising Nation flips this notion on its head, arguing that early US naval expeditions, often characterized as merely scientific, were in fact deeply imperialist. Circling the globe from the Mediterranean to South America and the Arctic, these voyages reflected the diverse imperial aspirations of the new republic, including commercial dominance in the Pacific World, religious empire in the Holy Land, proslavery expansion in South America, and diplomatic prestige in Europe. As Verney makes clear, the United States had global imperial aspirations far earlier than is commonly thought.

The Buddha In The Machine

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Author : R. John Williams
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-24

The Buddha In The Machine written by R. John Williams and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-24 with Technology & Engineering categories.

The writers and artists described in this book are joined by a desire to embrace 'Eastern' aesthetics as a means of redeeming 'Western' technoculture. The assumption they all share is that at the core of modern Western culture there lies an originary and all-encompassing philosophical error - and that Asian art offers a way out of that awful matrix. That desire, this book attempts to demonstrate, has informed Anglo- and even Asian-American debates about technology and art since the late nineteenth century and continues to skew our responses to our own technocultural environment.

The Literary Gift In Early America

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Author : David Faflik
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2025-03-18

The Literary Gift In Early America written by David Faflik and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-18 with Literary Criticism categories.

Some of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book. Gift exchange kept a surprising variety of literary objects in circulation across the diverse societies, economies, and cultures of the Americas, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. From the gifting of a Narragansett grammar as a foundational event in the project of colonization in New England, to the use of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack in the classrooms of an independent Brazil, to Catharine Maria Sedgwick's fictions framing literature as the object of middle-class gifting, chapters offer an interdisciplinary perspective on book history and literary history in the United States and beyond. Faflik contends that it is because of the wild ways in which books circulated as gifts that works by Franklin, New England colonist Roger Williams, Sedgwick, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson resisted the generic conventions of their day. Offering a revisionist account of how literary meaning is made, The Literary Gift in Early America calls for closer attention to the historical patterns of literary give and take in the Americas.

A History Of The Book In America 5 Volume Omnibus E Book

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Author : David D. Hall
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-10-08

A History Of The Book In America 5 Volume Omnibus E Book written by David D. Hall and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-08 with History categories.

The five volumes in A History of the Book in America offer a sweeping chronicle of our country's print production and culture from colonial times to the end of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary, collaborative work of scholarship examines the book trades as they have developed and spread throughout the United States; provides a history of U.S. literary cultures; investigates the practice of reading and, more broadly, the uses of literacy; and links literary culture with larger themes in American history. Now available for the first time, this complete Omnibus ebook contains all 5 volumes of this landmark work. Volume 1 The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World Edited by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall 664 pp., 51 illus. Volume 2 An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840 Edited by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley 712 pp., 66 illus. Volume 3 The Industrial Book, 1840-1880 Edited by Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship 560 pp., 43 illus. Volume 4 Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940 Edited by Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway 688 pp., 74 illus. Volume 5 The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America Edited by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson 632 pp., 95 illus.