Infelicia And Other Writings
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Infelicia And Other Writings
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Author : Adah Isaacs Menken
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2002-04-29
Infelicia And Other Writings written by Adah Isaacs Menken and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-29 with Fiction categories.
Adah Isaacs Menken was the most highly paid and most scandalous stage performer of the 1860s. She is also one of the most fascinating and unconventional writers in American literary history, and the first to follow the revolution in poetry started by Whitman's Leaves of Grass. This edition presents, for the first time, a generous selection of Menken's uncollected poems and essays, along with the first edition of Infelicia (1868), her only book. Also included is a range of carefully selected appendices that help contextualize Menken's writings in terms of theater, Judaism, Bohemianism, women's rights, and women writers.
Ethel S Love Life And Other Writings
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Author : Margaret J. M. Sweat
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-12-25
Ethel S Love Life And Other Writings written by Margaret J. M. Sweat and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-25 with Fiction categories.
In a series of lengthy letters, the unsettled and unruly Ethel Sutherland writes to an initially unnamed and ungendered correspondent, and patiently discloses the troubled history of her past romantic attachments to both men and women. Not until the third letter does she reveal that her correspondent is Ernest, the man to whom she is engaged to be married. Wanting to make him understand how all of her past loves are included and sublimated in her love for him, she especially wants to explain how "women often love each other with as much fervor and excitement as they do men"; and although this love is curiously "freed from all the grosser elements of passion, as it exists between sexes," nevertheless it "retains its energy, its abandonment, its flush, its eagerness, its palpitation, and its rapture." Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat (1823-1908), a native of Portland, Maine, and wife of a United States congressman, published Ethel's Love-Life in 1859. The book is sometimes credited as an early—even the first—"lesbian" American novel, but such a label, Christopher Looby observes in his Introduction, somewhat misrepresents what is distinctive and surprising about the book. Ethel's Love-Life confounds our received binary distinctions between the spiritual and the carnal and, indeed, between the sexual and the nonsexual—the boundaries between such categories being not nearly as well-policed at the time as they later became. It is here reprinted, along with Sweat's Verses (1890) and five of her published essays, on Charlotte Brontë, George Sand, the contemporary novel, and the friendships of women.
Infelicia Poems
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Author : Adah Isaacs Menken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
Infelicia Poems written by Adah Isaacs Menken and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with categories.
Emma Lazarus
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Author : Emma Lazarus
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2002-06-04
Emma Lazarus written by Emma Lazarus and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-04 with History categories.
The greatest American Jewish author of the nineteenth century, Emma Lazarus was a celebrated poet and humanitarian activist. This edition is a broad collection of her writings, including her essays, previously unpublished poems, her innovative late work, and, in its entirety, her most important book, Songs of a Semite (1882). Her best known poem, “The New Colossus” (the 1883 Statue of Liberty poem that made Lazarus a national icon), is also here, along with a selection of cultural documents that help contextualize her work in relation to contemporary debates about Jewish history, the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, immigration, and antisemitism.
Infelicia
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Author : Adah Isaacs Menken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Infelicia written by Adah Isaacs Menken and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
Infelicia
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Author : Menken Adah Isaacs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
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Infelicia Classic Reprint
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Author : Adah Isaacs Menken
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-03
Infelicia Classic Reprint written by Adah Isaacs Menken and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-03 with Poetry categories.
Excerpt from Infelicia Adah returned to New Orleans with the intention of giving up the stage and devoting her attention to liter ature. She began by studying assiduously the German language and reading the classic authors, supporting her self, meanwhile, by teaching French and Latin in a young ladies' seminary, and by contributing to the New Orleans papers. A volume of poems which she published at about this time met with considerable popular favor. But her restless spirit could not find peace. She te turned to Texas, and at Galveston, on the 3d of April, 1856, she married Alexander Isaac Menken, a musician. Her husband was a Jew, and she herself adopted his faith, changing her name from Adelaide to Adah. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Nineteenth Century American Women Write Religion
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Author : Mary McCartin Wearn
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
Nineteenth Century American Women Write Religion written by Mary McCartin Wearn and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nineteenth-century American women’s culture was immersed in religious experience and female authors of the era employed representations of faith to various cultural ends. Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection explores the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women’s literature. The contributors examine fiction, political writings, poetry, and memoirs by professional authors, social activists, and women of faith, including Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Harriet E. Wilson, Sarah Piatt, Julia Ward Howe, Julia A. J. Foote, Lucy Mack Smith, Rebecca Cox Jackson, and Fanny Newell. Embracing the complexities of lived religion in women’s culture-both its repressive and its revolutionary potential-Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own cultural, political, or spiritual ends.
America S Darwin
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Author : Tina Gianquitto
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2014
America S Darwin written by Tina Gianquitto and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An engaging collection of interdisciplinary essays on the distinctive qualities of America's textual engagement with Darwinian evolutionary theory, especially in regard to On the Origin of Species, which highlights the influence of prevalent cultural anxieties on interpretation.
A Companion To Walt Whitman
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Author : Donald D. Kummings
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-10-19
A Companion To Walt Whitman written by Donald D. Kummings and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Comprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets. Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on Whitman available to students Designed to make readers more aware of the social and cultural contexts of Whitman’s work, and of the experimental nature of his writing Includes contributions devoted to specific poetry and prose works, a compact biography of the poet, and a bibliography