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Elizabeth Peabody, Mary Peabody Mann, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne subverted rigid nineteenth-century definitions of women's limited realm of influence. This collection of essays examines the sisters' confrontations with and involvement in the intellectual movements and social conflicts of the nineteenth century.

Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.

Alfred W Lawson (1869-1954) was a professional baseball player, and founder of a utopian community, the so-called Des Moines University of Lawsonomy. This biography gives special attention to Lawson's development as a utopian thinker and reformer, providing a treatment of the poignant saga of the controversial and doomed community in 'Des Moines'.

Astrophysicist and space pioneer James Van Allen, for whom the Van Allen radiation belts were named, was among the principal scientific investigators for twenty-four space missions. This book blends space science drama, military agendas, cold war politics, and the events of Van Allen's career to create a biography of this influential physicist.

Gathers a group of poems focussing on the intensity of the male experience, with its attendant urgencies, confusions, and hilarities. These ninety-three poems talk about self-doubt, fatherhood, sex, death, relationships, work, war, peace, and a diversity of other topics.

In a Fine Frenzy reveals what Shakespeare's poetic children have made of their inheritance. The poets respond to the sonnets, the comedies, the tragedies, the romances, and, to a lesser degree, Shakespeare the man. They reveal the aspects of his work most captivating to modern writers.

Wetlands in Your Pocket celebrates the plants and animals that call the wetlands of the Midwest home. This laminated pocket guide illustrates a hundred of the most common plants and animals to be found in wetlands six inches to six feet deep.

"Nelson's story, which is told largely through the west river settlers' own words, reveals a bond between people and the land so strong that only the most overwhelming adversity could finally break it. It is a fascinating tale of hopes raised and dreams shattered within a single generation. One cannot help being moved. The book should be required reading for all who seek to understand human persistence in a zone that outsiders have been too willing to dismiss as submarginal." - John C. Hudson, Northwestern University; "Highly readable.... The term 'wide open spaces' takes on new meaning in Nelson's book....A marvelous job of presenting the lives of west river South Dakotans during times of extreme stress in a way that should touch all readers' emotions regardless of where they live." - Dorothy Schwieder, Iowa State University"

In this challenge to dominant literary criticism, Jerome Loving extends the traditional period of American literary rebirth to the end of the 19th century and argues for the intrinsic value of literature in the face of new historicist and deconstructionist readings.

This anthology offers a chorus of contemporary American poets on the idea of liberty, democracy, patriotism, and the American Dream - a twenty-first-century ""Song of Myself"" for the entire country.

This anthology offers a chorus of contemporary American poets on the idea of liberty, democracy, patriotism, and the American Dream - a 21st-century ""Song of Myself"" for the entire country.

Something We Have That They Don't presents a variety of essays on the relationship between British and American poetry since 1925. The essays collected here all explore some aspect of the rich and complex history of Anglo-American poetic relations.

Building on close readings of well known and less familiar poets, the author traces tensions in women's literary culture from the era of abolitionism to the rise of the Plantation tradition.

Since the 1980s, Ecuador has seen the development of numerous significant indigenous and ethnic movements and organizations, leading to a new president and constitution for 2003, reflecting these changes. These essays explore the cultural, political and social developments.

In this reflective anthology, the generation that sought to stay forever young reveals that midlife should mean more than jokes about thinning hair, creaking joints, and thickening waistlines. Midlife insights - physical, spiritual or emotional - can indeed be startling.

William Vermilion (1830-1894) was a captain in the Iowa Infantry between 1862 and 1865. Mary Vermilion (1831-1883) was a schoolteacher from Indiana. This text is a selection of the hundreds of supportive, informative and heart-wrenching letters they wrote each other during the war.

These poems provide a contemporary, ironic and tender view of America, layering wordplay and sentiment. The collection won the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize.

This text examines Whitman's particular and fascinating brand of patriotism: his far-reaching vision of democracy. For Whitman, loyalty to America was loyalty to democracy. The author analyses Whitman's democratic vision both in parts and a whole.

The idea that actors were hypocrites and fakes and therefore dangerous to society was widespread in the 17th and 18th centuries. This work examines the equation between the vice of hypocrisy and the craft of acting in anti-theatrical tracts, in popular and high culture, and plays of the period.

In this blend of chronological and personal history, Schwieder combines scholarly sources with family memories to create a loving and informed history of Presho, South Dakota. She writes about small-town society in this small town with its harsh and unpredictable physical environment.

How do historians represent the past? How do theatre historians represent performance events? The fifteen challenging essays in Representing the Past focus on the fundamental epistemological conditions and procedures that serve as the foundational ideas that guide all historians in their endeavours.