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Boston : voices and visions / / edited by Shaun O'Connell
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Pubblicazione: | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.8/0974461 |
Soggetto topico: | American literature - 21st century |
Soggetto geografico: | Boston (Mass.) Literary collections |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | O'ConnellShaun |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; I. Boston, from Winthrop to Hawthorne; John Winthrop (1588-1649), from "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630); Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" (1678) & "Meditations Divine and Moral" #53 (1867); Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771); Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784): "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1733) & "To The University of Cambridge, in New England" (1773) |
Abigail Adams (1744-1818), 1775-1776 Letters to John Adams (1735-1826)Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), "The Deacon's Masterpiece; or The Wonderful 'One-Hoss Shay'" (1858); II. Bos ton and the American Renaisance; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), "Paul Revere's Ride" (1863); Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Old Ironsides" (1831) & "The Last Leaf" (1831); Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911), "Letter to a Young Contributor" (1862); Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Concord Hymn" (1837) & "Boston Hymn" (1863); Louisa May Alcott (1832-1882), from "How I Went Out to Service" (1874) | |
James T. Fields (1817-1881), from "Hawthorne," Yesterdays with Authors (1871)Annie Fields (1834-1915), from "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Personal Recollections and Unpublished Letters," Authors and Friends (1896); Willa Cather (1873-1947), from "148 Charles Street," Not Under Forty (1936); III. Post-Civil War Boston; Henry Adams (1838-1918), from The Education of Henry Adams (1906, 1918); Mark Twain (1835-1910), "The Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech" (1877); William Dean Howells (1837-1920), from Literary Friends and Acquaintance (1900) & The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) | |
Henry James (1843-1916), from The Bostonians (1886)IV. "Viewed in Boston Light": Turn-of-the-Century Boston; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), from "Dead Yet Living: An Address Delivered at Keene, N.H. Memorial Day, May 30, 1884" (1884); Edith Wharton (1862-1937), from "The Lamp of Psyche" (1895); George Santayana (1863-1952), from Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography (1944); John P. Marquand (1893-1960), from The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1937); T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), "The Boston Evening Transcript" (1917) & "Cousin Nancy" (1917) | |
Edward Bellamy (1850-1898), from Looking Backward (1888)Cleveland Amory (1917-1998), from The Proper Bostonians (1947); V. The "Other" Bostonians: New Voices and Visions; Charlotte Forten Grimke (1838-1914), from her Journal (1854); W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), from "A Negro Student at Harvard" (1960); Dorothy West (1907-1998), from The Living Is Easy (1948); Malcolm X (1925-1965) and Alex Haley (1921-1992), from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965); William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962), from "I Saw Frederick Douglass" (1948) & "Quiet Has a Hidden Sound" (1948) | |
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890), from "The Exile of the Gael" (1887) & "The Fame of the City" (1881) | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Boston ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-61376-033-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910464133903321 |
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