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Author : Raymond Paul
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Thomas Street Horror written by Raymond Paul and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1982 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Cline Cohen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679740759
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book The Murder of Helen Jewett written by Patricia Cline Cohen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-06-29 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen Jewett. From her beginnings as a servant girl in Maine, Helen Jewett refashioned herself, using four successive aliases, into a highly paid courtesan. She invented life stories for herself that helped her build a sympathetic clientele among New York City's elite, and she further captivated her customers through her seductive letters, which mixed elements of traditional feminine demureness with sexual boldness. But she was to meet her match--and her nemesis--in a youth called Richard Robinson. He was one of an unprecedented number of young men who flooded into America's burgeoning cities in the 1830s to satisfy the new business society's seemingly infinite need for clerks. The son of an established Connecticut family, he was intense, arrogant, and given to posturing. He became Helen Jewett's lover in a tempestuous affair and ten months later was arrested for her murder. He stood trial in a five-day courtroom drama that ended with his acquittal amid the cheers of hundreds of fellow clerks and other spectators. With no conviction for murder, nor closure of any sort, the case continued to tantalize the public, even though Richard Robinson disappeared from view. Through the Erie Canal, down the Ohio and the Mississippi, and by way of New Orleans, he reached the wilds of Texas and a new life under a new name. Through her meticulous and ingenious research, Patricia Cline Cohen traces his life there and the many twists and turns of the lingering mystery of the murder. Her stunning portrayals of Helen Jewett, Robinson, and their raffish, colorful nineteenth-century world make vivid a frenetic city life and sexual morality whose complexities, contradictions, and concerns resonate with those of our own time.
Author : Whitman T. Browne PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475918704
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)
Download or read book The Christena Disaster Forty-Two Years Later—Looking Backward, Looking Forward written by Whitman T. Browne PhD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a sunny afternoon in August of 1970, the Eastern Caribbean was, without warning, confronted with a terrible and tragic event. The Christena, a well-used ferry that regularly crossed the eleven-mile expanse between the twin islands if St. Kitts and Nevis sank. The two British colonial societies were suddenly thrown into turmoil, finding themselves unprepared to deal with such sudden tragedy. The ferry was registered to carry 155 passengers, but it was severely overloaded. While ninety-nine people survived that afternoon, nearly 250 other passengers perished disaster. As if their struggle to heal after the tragedy was not taxing enough, the islands had yet more adversity to conquer. However, both societies were determined to overcome that terrible event, even as they fought to achieve greater political independence. Told from the perspective of Whitman T. Browne, PhD, a native if Nevis, who lived on the island at the time of the tragedy. The Christena Disaster Forty-Two Years Later is a moving, firsthand account of how these sister communities banded together, not only to win their political autonomy, but also to overcome their emotional suffering as a result of greater tragedy.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book A Post Office Tragedy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
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Author : Gerard LANGBAINE (the Younger.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book An exact catalogue of all the comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies ... that were ever yet printed and published, till this present year 1680. [Compiled by Gerard Langbaine.] written by Gerard LANGBAINE (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1680 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rebecca Bullard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107150469
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Secret History in Literature, 1660-1820 written by Rebecca Bullard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores for the first time the importance of secret history in the literature of the long eighteenth century.
Author : Keith R. Burich
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653581
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Thomas Indian School and the "Irredeemable" Children of New York written by Keith R. Burich and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Thomas Indian School has been overlooked by history and historians even though it predated, lasted longer, and affected a larger number of Indian children than most of the more well-known federal boarding schools. Founded by the Presbyterian missionaries on the Cattaraugus Seneca Reservation in western New York, the Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children, as it was formally named, shared many of the characteristics of the government-operated Indian schools. However, its students were driven to its doors not by Indian agents, but by desperation. Forcibly removed from their land, Iroquois families suffered from poverty, disease, and disruptions in their traditional ways of life, leaving behind many abandoned children. The story of the Thomas Indian School is the story of the Iroquois people and the suffering and despair of the children who found themselves trapped in an institution from which there was little chance for escape. Although the school began as a refuge for children, it also served as a mechanism for “civilizing” and converting native children to Christianity. As the school’s population swelled and financial support dried up, the founders were forced to turn the school over to the state of New York. Under the State Board of Charities, children were subjected to prejudice, poor treatment, and long-term institutionalization, resulting in alienation from their families and cultures. In this harrowing yet essential book, Burich offers new and important insights into the role and nature of boarding schools and their destructive effect on generations of indigenous populations.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Tragedies of Sophocles, from the Greek. By Thomas Francklin ... A New Edition. With a Dissertation on Ancient Greek Tragedy, Etc written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chuck Spinner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468555936
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Download or read book The Tragedy at the Loomis Street Crossing written by Chuck Spinner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tragedy at the Loomis Street Crossing After five years of intense research, Author Chuck Spinner has written the definitive story of the Naperville Train Wreck of April 25, 1946. He has uncovered the histories of the 45 victims of the tragedy, interviewed two surviving eye witnesses of the event, and talked with survivors and helpers at the scene. His family lived just a block from the crossing where the accident occurred. Spinner was born at St. Charles Hospital in Aurora, Illinois on October 22, 1946. Thomas Chaney, severely injured in the train wreck, was released from this same hospital on December 18th, 1946. Perhaps, during his recovery, Thomas may have viewed John and Louise Spinner's infant son in the nursery. If so, Chaney would have never imagined that he was viewing the person, who 66 years later would write the story that he had just lived! It came fast. I watched it horrified. The train came on bigger and bigger. I saw a man climbing down from the engine cab, and start down the ladder. That's all I saw. I turned and ran yelling warnings toward the front of my coach. The next second it hit. - Raymond Jake Jaeger When the crash came I was thrown to the top of the car, turned a somersault and came down. A pile of people fell on me. I kicked out a window and climbed out. I think a woman behind me was killed. - Sol Greenbaum I didn't think I'd make it through the war. ...I went through all that in the Pacific only to come home and have this happen. We were in the rear car and our seats faced forward. I got up to put my coat in the (overhead) rack and looked back to see the other train coming. - Henry Faber It was worse than anything I ever saw in war! - George Whitney That was some wreck. I wonder how many people who live in Naperville now even know the wreck happened. - Rosie Hodel Image Caption: Chuck Spinner and his wife Patrice are pictured with their son Scott, Scotts wife, Ellen and their two grandchildren Caleb (left) and Joshua.
Author : Richard A. Kaye
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813922003
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Flirt's Tragedy written by Richard A. Kaye and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2002-05-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and W. M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-doubles. In the writing of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, flirting harbors potentially tragic consequences, a perilous game then adapted by male flirts in the novels of Oscar Wilde and Henry James. In revising Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education in The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton critiques the nineteenth-century European novel as morbidly obsessed with deferred desires. Finally, in works by D. H. Lawrence and E. M. Forster, flirtation comes to reshape the modernist representation of homoerotic relations. In The Flirt’s Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction, Richard Kaye makes a case for flirtation as a unique, neglected species of eros that finds its deepest, most elaborately sustained fulfillment in the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century novel. The author examines flirtation in major British, French, and American texts to demonstrate how the changing aesthetic of such fiction fastened on flirtatious desire as a paramount subject for distinctly novelistic inquiry. The novel, he argues, accentuated questions of ambiguity and ambivalence on which an erotics of deliberate imprecision thrived. But the impact of flirtation was not only formal. Kaye views coquetry as an arena of freedom built on a dialectic of simultaneous consent and refusal, as well as an expression of "managed desire," a risky display of female power, and a cagey avenue for the expression of dissident sexualities. Through coquetry, novelists offered their response to important scientific and social changes and to the rise of the metropolis as a realm of increasingly transient amorous relations. Challenging current trends in gender, post-gender, and queer-theory criticism, and considering texts as diverse as Darwin’s The Descent of Man and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, Kaye insists that critical appraisals of Victorian and Edwardian fiction must move beyond existing paradigms defining considerations of flirtation in the novel. The Flirt’s Tragedy offers a lively, revisionary, often startling assessment of nineteenth-century fiction that will alter our understanding of the history of the novel.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Compleat Catalogue of Plays that Were Ever Printed in the English Language written by and published by . This book was released on 1719 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Abt
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541645715
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Bleeding Out written by Thomas Abt and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities. Coupling the latest social science with firsthand experience as a crime-fighter, Abt proposes a relentless focus on violence itself -- not drugs, gangs, or guns. Because violence is "sticky," clustering among small groups of people and places, it can be predicted and prevented using a series of smart-on-crime strategies that do not require new laws or big budgets. Bringing these strategies together, Abt offers a concrete, cost-effective plan to reduce homicides by over 50 percent in eight years, saving more than 12,000 lives nationally. Violence acts as a linchpin for urban poverty, so curbing such crime can unlock the untapped potential of our cities' most disadvantaged communities and help us to bridge the nation's larger economic and social divides. Urgent yet hopeful, Bleeding Out offers practical solutions to the national emergency of urban violence -- and challenges readers to demand action.
Author : Arthur James Mason
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107600472
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book What Became of the Bones of St Thomas? written by Arthur James Mason and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1920, this volume was written by the theologian, scholar, and canon of Canterbury Cathedral, Arthur James Mason. It was intended to bring together the known documentary evidence relating to the history of the relics of Thomas Becket. Divided into four sections, the book presents the narrative accounts of the death of Thomas Becket, the history of his tomb and the shrine dedicated to him, and the subsequent destruction of the shrine under the reign of Henry VIII. The last section, and the most significant for this study, is devoted to the discovery in 1888 of bones in the crypt of the cathedral thought to belong to Thomas Becket. The book offers a thorough overview of the evidence and circumstances of the discovery and encourages readers to draw their own conclusions.
Author : University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book LSAmagazine written by University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1992 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book New Catholic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Southgate
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135105077X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Tragedies and Christian Congregations written by Christopher Southgate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tragedy strikes a community, it is often unexpected with long-lasting effects on the people left in its wake. Too often, there aren’t adequate systems in place to aid those affected in processing what has happened. This study uniquely combines practical theology, pastoral insight and scientific data to demonstrate how Christian congregations can be helped to be resilient in the face of sudden devastating events. Beginning by identifying the characteristics of trauma in individuals and communities, this collection of essays from practitioners and academics locates sudden trauma-inducing tragedies as a problem in practical theology. A range of biblical and theological responses are presented, but contemporary scientific understanding is also included in order to challenge and stretch some of these traditional theological resources. The pastoral section of the book examines the ethics of response to tragedy, locating the role of the minister in relation to other helping agencies and exploring the all-too-topical issue of ministerial abuse. Developing a nuanced rationale for good practical, pastoral, liturgical and theological responses to major traumas, this book will be of significant value to scholars of practical theology as well as practitioners counselling in and around church congregations.
Author : Marissa Greenberg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442617721
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Metropolitan Tragedy written by Marissa Greenberg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London’s urban fabric and the city’s judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of suffering and loss while they reflect on actual sources of injustice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London: structural upheaval, imperial ambition, and political tyranny. Drawing on a rich archive of printed and manuscript sources, including numerous images of England’s capital, Greenberg reveals the competing ideas about the metropolis that mediated responses to theatrical tragedy. The first study of early modern tragedy as an urban genre, Metropolitan Tragedy advances our understanding of the intersections between genre and history.
