1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452305003321

Autore

Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew

Titolo

Charles Brockden Brown [[electronic resource] /] / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2011

ISBN

0-7083-2422-3

1-299-20092-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Gothic authors: critical revisions

Disciplina

813.2

Soggetti

Gothic revival (Literature) - United States

Horror tales, American - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Acknowledgements""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""A Polemical Introduction""; ""A Polemical Introduction""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Frontier Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Frontier Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Urban Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Urban Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Psychological Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Psychological Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Female Gothic""; ""Charles Brockden Brown and the Female Gothic""; ""The Legacy of Charles Brockden Brown�sFour Gothics""

""The Legacy of Charles Brockden Brown?sFour Gothics""""Notes""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Spontaneous human combustion, ventriloquism, sleepwalking, secret societies, plague, doppelgängers, disguises, corpses, night burials, locked doors, and mysterious manuscripts-these are only a few of the Gothic devices that appear in the writings of late eighteenth-century American author, Charles Brockden Brown. Brown's work presents us with the dark underside to Enlightenment optimism as he questions the extent to which human beings can draw accurate inferences from sensory data and foresee the outcome of their actions. In advance of Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Ambrose Bier



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463412003321

Autore

Douglass Frederick <1818-1895.>

Titolo

In the words of Frederick Douglass : quotations from liberty's champion / / edited by John R. McKivigan and Heather L. Kaufman ; foreword by John Stauffer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca [N.Y.] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2012

ISBN

0-8014-6369-6

0-8014-6370-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KaufmanHeather L. <1969->

StaufferJohn

Disciplina

973.8092

B

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

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 (pages 244-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: A Life of Reform -- Frederick Douglass Chronology -- The Words of Frederick Douglass -- Note on Editorial Method -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Frederick Douglass, a runaway Maryland slave, was witness to and participant in some of the most important events in the history of the American Republic between the years of 1818 and 1895. Beginning his long public career in 1841 as an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Douglass subsequently edited four newspapers and championed many reform movements. An advocate of morality, economic accumulation, self-help, and equality, Douglass supported racial pride, constant agitation against racial discrimination, vocational education for blacks, and nonviolent passive resistance.He was the only man who played a prominent role at the 1848 meeting in Seneca Falls that formally launched the women's rights movement. He was a temperance advocate and opposed capital punishment, lynching, debt peonage, and the convict lease system. A staunch defender of the Liberty and Republican parties, Douglass held several political



appointments, frequently corresponded with leading politicians, and advised Presidents Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Harrison. He met with John Brown before his abortive raid on Harpers Ferry, helped to recruit African American troops during the Civil War, attended most national black conventions held between 1840 and 1895, and served as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. Frederick Douglass has left one of the most extensive bodies of significant and "able public statements of any figure in American history. In the Words of Frederick Douglass is a rich trove of "ations from Douglass. The editors have compiled nearly seven hundred "ations by Douglass that demonstrate the breadth and strength of his intellect as well as the eloquence with which he expressed his political and ethical principles.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002911269707536

Autore

Gandini, Alessandro

Titolo

Cronistoria dei teatri di Modena : dal 1539 al 1871 / Alessandro Gandini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna : Forni Editore, 1969

Descrizione fisica

v. ; 18 cm.

Soggetti

Teatri - Modena

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

v. 1 : XIX, 392 p. - v. 3 : 363 p. - Rist. anast. dell'ed. del 1873.