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Book Synopsis Leigh Ann's Civil War by : Ann Rinaldi
Download or read book Leigh Ann's Civil War written by Ann Rinaldi and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Yankees arrive in Roswell, Georgia, Leigh Ann Conners places a French flag upon the family's mill. She hopes the Yankees will then spare the mill from destruction, but her actions have disastrous results.
Book Synopsis Soldier, Spy, Heroine by : Debra Ann Pawlak
Download or read book Soldier, Spy, Heroine written by Debra Ann Pawlak and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Woman Who Fooled the Yankees and Rebels Alike. As a child, Sarah Emma Edmonds dreamed of faraway places and adventure, often picturing herself as a man. When her abusive father traded her hand in marriage for a few head of livestock, she fled their farm and took on the identity of traveling salesman Franklin Thompson eventually settling in Flint, Michigan. There, as Thompson, she joined Company F of the Second Michigan Volunteer Infantry and distinguished herself as a true Civil War hero. In between the First Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Yorktown, the Battle of Williamsburg, and the Battle of Fair Oaks/Seven Pines, Thompson nursed the sick and wounded, carried the mail across dangerous terrain, and became one of the Secret Service’s first spies. Using various disguises including that of a former slave and an Irish peddler woman, Thompson infiltrated enemy lines and stole vital information from the Rebels until a severe case of malaria took its toll. Knowing that the medical attention she needed would reveal her carefully kept secret, she unwillingly deserted the Union Army in 1863. But Sarah Emma Edmonds wasn’t finished. She had a soldier’s pension to fight for and an honorable discharge to claim. Almost a decade after the war was over, she came forward and asked the astonished men she served with for their help in clearing the name of Franklin Thompson. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Book Synopsis The Civil War and American Art by : Eleanor Jones Harvey
Download or read book The Civil War and American Art written by Eleanor Jones Harvey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis Patriotism by Proxy by : Colleen Glenney Boggs
Download or read book Patriotism by Proxy written by Colleen Glenney Boggs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the American Civil War in 1863 the Union instated the first ever federal draft. This book examines the draft as a cultural formation and develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives at this time.
Book Synopsis The Black Angel by : William Stephens Hayward
Download or read book The Black Angel written by William Stephens Hayward and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Causes of the Civil War by : Philip Leigh
Download or read book Causes of the Civil War written by Philip Leigh and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South by : Katharine A. Burnett
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South written by Katharine A. Burnett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. southern literary studies. With topics ranging from American studies, African American studies, transatlantic or global studies, multiethnic studies, immigration studies, and gender studies, this volume presents a multi-faceted conversation around a wide variety of subjects in U.S. southern literary studies. The Companion will offer a comprehensive overview of the southern literary studies field, including a chronological history from the U.S. colonial era to the present day and theoretical touchstones, while also introducing new methods of reconceiving region and the U.S. South as inherently interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional. The volume will therefore be an invaluable tool for instructors, scholars, students, and members of the general public who are interested in exploring the field further but will also suggest new methods of engaging with regional studies, American studies, American literary studies, and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis The Nation's Region by : Leigh Anne Duck
Download or read book The Nation's Region written by Leigh Anne Duck and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could liberalism and apartheid coexist for decades in our country, as they did during the first half of the twentieth century? This study looks at works by such writers as Thomas Dixon, Erskine Caldwell, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison to show how representations of time in southern narrative first accommodated but finally elucidated the relationship between these two political philosophies. Although racial segregation was codified by U.S. law, says Leigh Anne Duck, nationalist discourse downplayed its significance everywhere but in the South, where apartheid was conceded as an immutable aspect of an anachronistic culture. As the nation modernized, the South served as a repository of the country's romantic notions: the region was represented as a close-knit, custom-bound place through which the nation could temper its ambivalence about the upheavals of progress. The Great Depression changed this. Amid economic anxiety and the international rise of fascism, writes Duck, "the trope of the backward South began to comprise an image of what the United States could become." As she moves from the Depression to the nascent years of the civil rights movement to the early cold war era, Duck explains how experimental writers in each of these periods challenged ideas of a monolithically archaic South through innovative representations of time. She situates their narratives amid broad concern regarding national modernization and governance, as manifest in cultural and political debates, sociological studies, and popular film. Although southern modernists' modes and methods varied along this trajectory, their purpose remained focused: to explore the mutually constitutive relationships between social forms considered "southern" and "national."
Download or read book Emily Dickinson written by Ann Beebe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public is familiar with the Emily Dickinson stereotype--an eccentric spinster in a white dress flitting about her father's house, hiding from visitors. But these associations are misguided and should be dismantled. This work aims to remove some of the distorted myths about Dickinson in order to clear a path to her poetry. The entries and short essays should open avenues of debate and individual critical analysis. This companion gives both instructors and readers multiple avenues for study. The entries and charts are intended to prompt ideas for classroom discussion and syllabus planning. Whether the reader is first encountering Dickinson's poems or returning to them, this book aims to inspire interpretative opportunities. The entries and charts make connections between Dickinson poems, ponder the significance of literary, artistic, historical, political or social contexts, and question the interpretations offered by others as they enter the never-ending debates between Dickinson scholars.
Book Synopsis The Cotillion Brigade by : Glen Craney
Download or read book The Cotillion Brigade written by Glen Craney and published by Brigid's Fire Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia burns. Sherman’s Yankees are closing in. Will the women of LaGrange run or fight? Based on the true story of the celebrated Nancy Hart Rifles, The Cotillion Brigade is a sweeping epic of the Civil War’s ravages on family and love, the resilient bonds of sisterhood amid devastation, and the miracle of reconciliation between bitter enemies. “Gone With The Wind meets A League Of Their Own.” 1856. Sixteen-year-old Nannie Colquitt Hill makes her debut in the antebellum society of the Chattahoochee River plantations. A thousand miles to the north, a Wisconsin farm boy, Hugh LaGrange, joins an Abolitionist crusade to ban slavery in Bleeding Kansas. Five years later, secession and total war against the homefronts of Dixie hurl them toward a confrontation unrivaled in American history. Nannie defies the traditions of Southern gentility by forming a women’s militia and drilling it to prepare for Northern invaders. With their men dead, wounded, or retreating with the Confederate armies, only Captain Nannie and her Fighting Nancies stand between their beloved homes and the Yankee torches. Hardened into a slashing Union cavalry colonel, Hugh duels Rebel generals Joseph Wheeler and Nathan Bedford Forrest across Tennessee and Alabama. As the war churns to a bloody climax, he is ordered to drive a burning stake deep into the heart of the Confederacy. Yet one Georgia town—which by mocking coincidence bears Hugh’s last name—stands defiant in his path. Read the remarkable story of the Southern women who formed America’s most famous female militia and the Union officer whose life they changed forever. Editorial Praise: Foreword Magazine Indie Book-of-the-Year Finalist. Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice Award: The story reflects the author’s impeccable research and passion for the subject. The Cotillion Brigade will appeal to readers who enjoy reading poignant, character-driven Civil War stories that will resonate in their minds long after finishing them. Highly recommended." Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal Winner: "[H]istorical fiction at its best: solid research combined with great storytelling." InD'tale Magazine's Crowned Heart for Excellence:"[A] must-read! The story is beautifully told...readers will feel they are in the scenes.... a fantastic journey."
Book Synopsis The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by : Victoria N. Morgan
Download or read book The Poetry of Emily Dickinson written by Victoria N. Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for discussion represent the canonical readings which have typically shaped the area of Dickinson studies throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century and provide a lens through which to view current critical trends. Chapters focus on style and meaning, gender and sexuality, history and race, religion and hymn culture, and performance and popular culture. In all, this guide serves as a user-friendly reference tool to the vast body of criticism on Dickinson to date by suggesting formative starting points and underlining essential critical highlights. It provides students and scholars of Dickinson with a sense of where these critical texts can be placed in relation to one another, as well as an understanding of pivotal moments within the history of reception of Dickinson from late nineteenth-century reviews up to some of the definitive critical interventions of the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis As The Lily Among The Thorns by : Jeanelle Johnston Troutman
Download or read book As The Lily Among The Thorns written by Jeanelle Johnston Troutman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary As the Lily Among the Thorns, simply put, is about an eleven year old girl, Leigh Anne Bohannon, who, although born in the deep south in the state of Mississippi with its age-old code of southern honor and etiquette, thinks with a mind of her own. She is a nonconformist, in her own words, a “rebel”. To put it bluntly this southern girl was “born with balls”. She has a “rare and treasured mind”; she has her own opinions, having little regard as to the whims of society as she sees it, or of “proper southern etiquette”. She becomes best friends with a little black girl, Jenny Pearl Reynolds, who is exactly the same age as she. The first part of the book (of a little over three hundred pages) sets the scenario in Mississippi in nineteen hundred and sixty three, gives a description of Leigh Anne’s world, the world of the deep south, as well as an introduction to her gentle and hard working family, “Daddy Bo” her father, a wise and gentle man who uses humor as he teaches his family the hard lessons of life, Lillian, her Atlanta, Georgia born, college educated mother, “Grandmother”, who is constantly relating bloody handed down accounts of the Civil War, Monica, Leigh Anne’s beautiful sixteen year old sister who is a dainty, lady-like carbon copy of Lillian, but without the kindness or gentleness, Ben Ray, the younger Bohannon son, Leigh Anne’s uncle, a tobacco chewing “good ole boy” who takes over the book with his “ruggedly cute” personality. Leigh Anne meets Jenny Pearl at an old country store, Martins, and they, as soon as they realize they have the exact same birthday, become “friends forever”. The reader, as well as Leigh Anne, gets to know the Reynolds family, Gentle Reynolds, Jenny’s father, who received his name from his disposition, Lottie Mae, the mother, who gave birth to her only child in her middle years, her “change of life” baby, Jenny Pearl, whom the parents “dote” on. Jenny Pearl’s parents regale Leigh Anne and the reader with “colored stories” and of Negro life in the Deep South, past and present. As the Lily Among the Thorns is real and believable and opens the readers mind and heart as he too lives life through a southern white family and also through a southern black family. The reader is thinking and even speaking in the southern “redneck” vernacular, black and white. As the book unravels, it soon reveals that the Deep South is on the brink of desegregation. The formally slow moving, slow talking world is suddenly “stirred up like a hornet’s nest”, as its beloved world is intruded upon by a fast moving, fast changing world that is in direct opposition to “the old south”. Students in Leigh Anne’s school learn this “unheard of Yankee notion” and the book records the clashing of these two worlds as the students try to “inhale” the idea that desegregation is snowballing their way and the reader sees the reverberating chaos of these two worlds. The Ku Klux Klan plays a pivotal part in this new world, as does Leigh Anne and Jenny Pearl and they are eventually entangled in the murderous mess of both worlds! Leigh Anne, and eventually Jenny Pearl, lives to go “ramblin’“ or adventurin’“. The girls antagonize or “spook” the Ku Klux Klan into burning crosses in both their yards. But, whoa! First Leigh Anne and eventually her black buddy, Jenny, contend with an enemy, an ever present enemy in the form of a flabby, yellow-eyed sixteen year old low-life, John Marshall Davis. He torments Leigh Anne and Jenny Pearl at any and every opportunity. The shy black girl as well as the confrontational white girl are afraid of him, and who wouldn’t be afraid of ignorance and cruelty in the crassest form? But Leigh Anne eventually stands up to her tormentor and this verbal battle becomes physical and culminates into an actual life threatening beating, thus bringing to pass the first climax of the book. As the girls travel the highway of life, their “adventurin’“ leads to “sneakin’ up” on an actual clandesti
Book Synopsis Home and Away by : Leigh Anne Howard
Download or read book Home and Away written by Leigh Anne Howard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home and Away explores how performative writing serve as a process that critically interrogates space/place in relation to personal, social, cultural, and political understanding. By combining aesthetic expression and inquiry with critical reflection, the contributors in this volume use a variety of narrative strategies—autoethnography, mystoriography, creative cartography, the lyric essay, fictocriticism, collage, the screenplay, and poetics—to position place as the starting point for the aesthetic impulse. The anthology showcases the power and potential of performative writing to illustrate the ways we interact with and in place; provides examples of the ways one can express lived experience; and demonstrates the ways discourses overlap while extending our understanding of identity and place, whether one is home or away. Although the chapters are fixed by their literary form in this volume, many of chapters are best realized in a performance or shared publicly via an oral tradition. This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance, communication studies, and literature.
Book Synopsis The Last Silk Dress by : Ann Rinaldi
Download or read book The Last Silk Dress written by Ann Rinaldi and published by Starfire. This book was released on 1990 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets.
Book Synopsis Doctrine and Difference by : Michael J. Colacurcio
Download or read book Doctrine and Difference written by Michael J. Colacurcio and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctrine and Difference: The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature aims to expand and deepen our knowledge into the inquiry of “contextual historicism,” observing writers of the American nineteenth century, and their vastly differing approaches to perceptions such as race, gender, and national identity. Ranging from the religious acuities of the first American Puritans to the more secularized literary awakening of the American Renaissance and into late-century texts that deliberately resist the limits of received religious and political opinion, this volume seeks to uncover a history of human thought within classic American Literature. This volume critically observes these survivable works of literature, presenting insight into the “difference” made by conversation, dispute, and dramatized self-doubt within novels and poems of the historical past.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films by : Salvador Jimenez Murguía
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films written by Salvador Jimenez Murguía and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation in 1915 to the recent Get Out, audiences and critics alike have responded to racism in motion pictures for more than a century. Whether subtle or blatant, racially biased images and narratives erase minorities, perpetuate stereotypes, and keep alive practices of discrimination and marginalization. Even in the 21st century, the American film industry is not “color blind,” evidenced by films such as Babel (2006), A Better Life, (2011), and 12 Years a Slave (2013). The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Film documents one facet of racism in the film industry, wherein historically underrepresented peoples are misrepresented—through a lack of roles for actors of color, stereotyping, negative associations, and an absence of rich, nuanced characters. Offering insights and analysis from over seventy scholars, critics, and activists, the volume highlights issues such as: Hollywood’s diversity crisis White Savior films Magic Negro tropes The disconnect between screen images and lived realities of African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asians A companion to the ever-growing field of race studies, this volume opens up a critical dialogue on an always timely issue. The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Film will appeal to scholars of cinema, race and ethnicity studies, and cultural history.
Book Synopsis The Last Full Measure by : Ann Rinaldi
Download or read book The Last Full Measure written by Ann Rinaldi and published by Harcourt Childrens Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1863 Pennsylvania, as Confederate and Union soldiers take over their town, 14-year-old Tacy faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg while locking horns with her disabled brother David, who struggles with his desire to go to war.
