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UNINA9910459638703321 |
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Titolo |
Can anything beat white? [[electronic resource] ] : a Black family's letters / / [edited by] Elisabeth Petry |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2005 |
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1-282-91736-6 |
9786612917363 |
1-61703-068-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Collana |
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Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Novelists, American - 20th century - Family relationships |
African American novelists - Family relationships |
African American families - History |
African Americans |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter 1. Surviving the Patterrollers; Chapter 2. The Surrogate Mother; Chapter 3. The Wanderer; Chapter 4. Consumed by Life; Chapter 5. Getting Along Swimmingly; Chapter 6. Setting the Stage; Chapter 7. Writing for Posterity from Hawaii; Chapter 8. Challenges at Atlanta University; Chapter 9. A Lark a Flyin'; Chapter 10. Achieving a Dream; Postscript |
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Ann Petry (1908-1997) achieved prominence during a period in which few black women were published with regularity in America. Her novels Country Place (1947) and The Narrows (1988), along with various short stories and nonfiction, poignantly described the struggles and triumphs of middle-class blacks living in primarily white communities. Petry's ancestors, the James family, served as in-spiration for much of her fiction. This collection of more than four hundred family letters, edited by the daughter of Ann Petry, is an engaging portrait of black family life from the 1890's to the early twenti |
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UNINA9910794617903321 |
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Autore |
Carlisle Janice |
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Picturing reform in Victorian Britain / / Janice Carlisle [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
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1-139-69849-4 |
1-139-86149-2 |
1-139-86491-2 |
1-139-87062-9 |
1-139-03382-4 |
1-139-86575-7 |
1-139-86276-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 79 |
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Suffrage in art |
Painting, Victorian - Great Britain |
Magazine illustration - Great Britain - 19th century |
Art - Political aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Art and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- 1. Art as politics : lines in theory and practice -- 2. Pictures on display -- 3. Redrawing the franchise in the 1860s : lines around the Constitution -- 4. Within the pale -- Conclusion. |
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How did Victorians, as creators and viewers of images, visualize the politics of franchise reform? This study of Victorian art and parliamentary politics, specifically in the 1840s and 1860s, answers that question by viewing the First and Second Reform Acts from the perspectives offered by Ruskin's political theories of art and Bagehot's visual theory of politics. Combining subjects and approaches characteristic of art history, political history, literary criticism and cultural critique, Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain treats both paintings and wood engravings, particularly those published in Punch |
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and the Illustrated London News. Carlisle analyzes unlikely pairings - a novel by Trollope and a painting by Hayter, an engraving after Leech and a high-society portrait by Landseer - to argue that such conjunctions marked both everyday life in Victorian Britain and the nature of its visual politics as it was manifested in the myriad heterogeneous and often incongruous images of illustrated journalism. |
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