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Miles Emma Bell <1879-1919, > |
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The common lot and other stories : the published short fiction, 1908-1921 / / Emma Bell Miles ; edited by Grace Toney Edwards |
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Athens, Ohio : , : Swallow Press : , : Ohio University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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The common lot -- The broken urn -- A dark rose -- The home-coming of Evelina -- Mallard plumage -- The dulcimore -- The breaks of Caney -- Flyaway flittermouse -- Three roads and a river -- Flower of noon -- At the top of Sourwood -- Enchanter's nightshade -- Thistle bloom -- A dream of the dust -- Love o' man -- The white marauder -- Turkey luck. |
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"A collection of the 17 short stories by Emma Bell Miles previously published in magazines between 1908 and 1921, with an introduction, editorial notes, and suggestions for further reading by Grace Toney Edwards"-- |
"The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles's singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee. That vision is shaped by her strong sense of social justice, her naturalist's sensibility, and her insider's perspective. Women are at the center of these stories, and Miles deftly works a feminist sensibility beneath the plot of the title tale about a girl caught between present drudgery in her father's house and prospective drudgery as a young wife in her own. Wry, fiery, and suffused with details of both natural and social worlds, the pieces collected here provide a particularly acute portrayal of Appalachia in the early twentieth century. Miles's fiction brings us a world a century in the |
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past, but one that will easily engage twenty-first-century readers. The introduction by editor and noted Miles expert Grace Toney Edwards places Miles in the literary context of her time. Edwards highlights Miles's quest for women's liberation from patriarchal domination and oppressive poverty, forces against which Miles herself struggled in making a name for herself as a writer and artist. Illustrations by the author and Miles family photographs complement the stories"-- |
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UNINA9910826378403321 |
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Autore |
Vries P. H. H. |
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Atlas of material life : Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th century / / Peer Vries, Annelieke Vries |
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Leiden, Netherland : , : Leiden University Press, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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1 online resource (1 online resource PDF, 340 pagina's, 64490489 bytes) : : illustraties |
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Material culture - History - Europe, Western |
Material culture - History - East Asia |
East Asia |
Western Europe |
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Geography and demography -- Energy -- Resources -- Agriculture -- Exchanges -- Stagnation and growth -- Sources of growth? Changes in production and transport -- Sources of growth? Markets and states -- The great divergence -- Review and reflection. |
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Large-scale comparative economic history of westernmost and easternmost Eurasia is of importance for the understanding of global history. The book provides a description of material life in North-western Europe and East Asia, for the period from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, with a focus on developments in Great |
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Britain and the Dutch Republic on the one hand and China and Japan on the other hand. Like an atlas it provides information, in an accessible format, on the main characteristics of the economic landscape of this period. Maps, tables, graphs and figures are a prominent and integral part of the book. It shows the constraints to which all pre-industrial economies were subjected because of their dependence on organic natural resources but also the different ways in which the societies discussed dealt with those constraints. To provide a better understanding of this economy of limited possibilities, the final chapter of the book is devoted to the emergence of modern economic growth in Western Europe. |
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