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Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Celebrated Men of the Nineteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : comtesse Cäleste Vänard de Chabrillan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803282735
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth-century Paris written by comtesse Cäleste Vänard de Chabrillan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cäleste Mogador's memoirs were first published in 1854 and again in 1858, they were immediately seized and condemned as immoral and unsuitable for public consumption. For a reader in our more forgiving times, this extraordinary document offers not only a portrait of the early life of an intelligent, courageous, and infinitely intriguing Frenchwoman but also an exceedingly rare inside look at the world of the courtesans and prostitutes of nineteenth-century France. ø Writing to conciliate judges and creditors, Mogador (born Cäleste Venard in 1824) explains how with tenacity, wit, and audacity, she managed to escape a difficult childhood and subsequent life of prostitution to become, successively, a darling of the dance halls, a circus rider, and an actress, all the while attracting wealthy young men who vied for her favor. Although her account gives readers a peek into the rakish demimonde made famous by Verdi's opera La Traviata, its greatest value lies in its candid picture of a spunky, self-educated woman who doggedly transformed herself into an esteemed and prolific novelist and playwright, who fell in love with a count and married him, and who made her name synonymous with the bohemian life of the 1840s and 1850s in Paris.
Author : George Washington Brown
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Total Pages : 266 pages
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Download or read book Old Times in Oildom written by George Washington Brown and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yekhezkel Kotik
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814337333
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl written by Yekhezkel Kotik and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town. Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author’s experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. Although the way of life portrayed in this memoir has disappeared, the historical, cultural, and folkoric material it contains will be of major interest to historians and general readers alike. Kotik’s story is the saga of a wealthy and influential family through four generations. Masterfully interwoven in this tale are colorful vignettes featuring Kotik’s family and neighbors, including rabbis and zaddikim, merchants and the poor, hasidim and mitnaggedim, scholars and illiterates, believers and heretics, matchmakers and informers, and teachers and musicians. Stories of personal warmth and despair intermingle with descriptions of the rise and decline of Jewish communal institutions and descriptions or the relationships between Jews, Russian authorities, and Polish lords. Such events as the brutal decrees of Tsar Nicholas I, the abolishment of the Jewish communal board known as the Kahal, and the Polish revolts against Russia are reflected in the lives of these people. The English edition includes a complete translation of the first volume of memoirs and contains notes elucidating terms, names, and customs, as well as bibliographical references to the research literature. The book not only acquaints new readers with the talent of a unique storyteller but also presents an important document of Jewish life during a fascinating era.
Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : New York : Random House
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Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds written by John Addington Symonds and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1984 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 864 pages
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Download or read book The Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hollis Robbins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143130676
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers written by Hollis Robbins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. The diverse selection includes well-known writers like Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as lesser-known writers like Ella Sheppard, who offers a firsthand account of life in the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. Taken together, these incredible works insist that the writing of African American women writers be read, remembered, and addressed. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Pauline Wengeroff
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804775044
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Grandmother written by Pauline Wengeroff and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "cultural history of the Jews of Russia" in the period of Jewish "enlightenment," when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern. Wengeroff, a gifted writer and astute social observer, paints a rich portrait of both traditional and modernizing Jewish societies in an extraordinary way, focusing on women and the family and offering a gendered account (and indictment) of assimilation. In Volume 1 of Memoirs of a Grandmother, Wengeroff depicts traditional Jewish society, including the religious culture of women, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, who wished "his" Jews to be acculturated to modern Russian life.
Author : Ben Yagoda
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101151471
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Memoir written by Ben Yagoda and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a critically acclaimed cultural and literary critic, a definitive history and analysis of the memoir. From Saint Augustine?s Confessions to Augusten Burroughs?s Running with Scissors, from Julius Caesar to Ulysses Grant, from Mark Twain to David Sedaris, the art of memoir has had a fascinating life, and deserves its own biography. Cultural and literary critic Ben Yagoda traces the memoir from its birth in early Christian writings and Roman generals? journals all the way up to the banner year of 2007, which saw memoirs from and about dogs, rock stars, bad dads, good dads, alternadads, waitresses, George Foreman, Iranian women, and a slew of other illustrious persons (and animals). In a time when memoir seems ubiquitous and is still highly controversial, Yagoda tackles the autobiography and memoir in all its forms and iterations. He discusses the fraudulent memoir and provides many examples from the past?and addresses the ramifications and consequences of these books. Spanning decades and nations, styles and subjects, he analyzes the hallmark memoirs of the Western tradition?Rousseau, Ben Franklin, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Edward Gibbon, among others. Yagoda also describes historical trends, such as Native American captive memoirs, slave narratives, courtier dramas (where one had to pay to NOT be included in a courtesan?s memoir). Throughout, the idea of memory and truth, how we remember and how well we remember lives, is intimately explored. Yagoda's elegant examination of memoir is at once a history of literature and taste, and an absorbing glimpse into what humans find interesting--one another.
Author : Christopher Looby
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812223667
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book "The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories written by Christopher Looby and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories gathered here explore the vagaries of sexual desire, gender identity, and erotic attachment, revealing the surprising queerness of nineteenth-century American literature.
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Total Pages : 736 pages
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Download or read book “The” Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Keen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000742660
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Popular Radical Press in Britain, 1811-1821 Vol 5 written by Paul Keen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The radical weekly newspaper or pamphlet was the leading print organ of popular radical expression during what has been called the "heroic age of popular Radicalism"; the public agitation for parlimentary reform between 1815 and 1820. This work reprints the original runs of the rarest periodicals.
Author : British Library
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Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum
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Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ... written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur F. Saint-Aubin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611461960
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture written by Arthur F. Saint-Aubin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture—a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of the Haitian Revolution—and the memoir of his son, Isaac. The Revolution and its leaders have been studied and written about extensively. Until recently (2004), however, the memoir of Toussaint has received little attention—and only as a historical document. This is the first study that explores the 1802 work foremost as a literary text, a creative production that deploys the techniques of fiction and drama to make truth claims about the past; moreover, this is the first book-length study of Isaac Louverture’s memoir. The two texts are read as examples of how black men thought of themselves as “men” (citizens) and, therefore, how they expressed their masculinity, at that historical moment, as experiences of mourning and loss. This study builds upon three areas of scholarship: the tradition of memoir writing; historicist readings of Toussaint’s memoir; and descriptions and theories of men and masculinity within the black Atlantic. The study distinguishes itself in ways that will make it of interest to more than just historians: in addition to using the intersection of race and masculinity as an analytical tool, it speaks to the nature of literary creativity and it draws from studies examining the relationship between history, memory, and fiction. As a result, scholars and students in literary and cultural criticism, as well as those in gender and diasporic studies, will also find this study of interest and value.
Author : Dorothy Mermin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253116109
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Godiva's Ride written by Dorothy Mermin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Students and teachers of Victorian women's careers will be grateful for [Mermin's] intelligent and equable guidance as they negotiate the paradoxes of Godiva's Ride." -- Modern Philology "This brief study should be enormously helpful to students seeking an introduction to feminist approaches to Victorian writers." -- Choice "Mermin's fine book is a work of synthesis that moves across many genres of women's writing... and touches on neglected writers of the period... as well as on the canonized few." -- American Historical Review "Godiva's Ride is a stimulating and enjoyable study of an exceptionally rich subject... " -- Victorian Periodicals Review "Accessible, original, and gracefully written, Godiva's Ride is likely to be as engrossing for the general reader as for the expert." -- Victorian Studies Describes the first great age of women's writing in England. Mermin discusses how women were encouraged to become writers, how they were discouraged and hindered, and what they wrote. The many women entering the mainstream of English literature in this era included the Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Harriet Martineau.
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Total Pages : 1174 pages
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Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
