1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996389977903316

Titolo

The assise of bread [[electronic resource] ] : newly corrected and enlarged, from twelue pence the quarter of wheate, vnto three pound and sixe pence the quarter, according to the rysing and falling of the price thereof in the market, by sixe pence altering in euerie quarter of wheate, together with sunderie good and needful ordinances for bakers, brewers, inholders, victuallers, vintners, and butchers: and also other assises in weights and measures, which by the lawes of this realme are commanded to be obserued and kept by all maner of persons, as well within liberties as without. Whereunto are also added, sundrie good and needful orders in making and retailing of all kindes of bawfull breads, ... The which satutes [sic] and auncient orders and customes, for making and retailing of all lawfull sorts of bread, as aforesaid, haue beene heretofore seene, allowed, ... by the right honourable the lords, and others of the Queenes Maiesties honourable priuie counsaile. .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling at Powles Wharfe at the signe of the Crosse Keyes, 1597

Descrizione fisica

[50] p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

PowelJohn, gent

Soggetti

Bread - England

Weights and measures - England

Bakers and bakeries - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dedication signed: Iohn Povvell.

Running title reads: The booke of assise.

Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-F⁴ G² .

Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University. Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0062



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791807603321

Autore

Callahan Cynthia <1972->

Titolo

Kin of another kind : transracial adoption in American literature / / Cynthia Callahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2011

ISBN

1-283-01166-2

9786613011664

0-472-02791-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/35254

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Interracial adoption in literature

Race in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : reading transracial adoption in American literature -- Voluntary belonging: historical and cultural contexts -- Passing for kin in Charles W. Chesnutt's "Her Virginia mammy" and the quarry -- Unknowable origins in Kate Chopin's "Desire's baby" and William Faulkner's Light in August -- Integrated families : Robert Boles's curling and Toni Morrison's Tar baby -- Captivity and rescue in the fiction of Dallas Chief Eagle, Leslie Marmon Silko -- Barbara Kingsolver, and Sherman Alexie -- Adopting ambivalence in the fiction of Sui Sin Far, Anne Tyler, and Gish Jen.