Frances: 2004 books
by Frances Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Described by the writer and opium addict Thomas De Quincey as "the very wildest . . . person I have ever known," DorothyWordsworth was neither the self-effacing spinster nor the sacrificial saint of common telling. A brilliant stylist in her own right, Dorothy was at the center of the Romantic...
Literary Seductions
Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
We have all surrendered ourselves to the world that writing creates. Eudora Welty once observed that her mother read the works of Charles Dickens in the same spirit with which she would have eloped with him. Some of us remember our first novel with more pleasurable vividness than our first kiss. Many...
Magic and Masculinity
Ritual Magic and Gender in the Early Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic – the attempted communication with angels and demons – both reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. The majority of male magicians acted from a position of control and command commensurate with their social position...
by Frances Cruickshank
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Innovative and highly readable, this study traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poems, references to their letters, sermons, and prose treatises, and to other contemporary poets and theorists. In demonstrating a relationship between...
Lessons from the Past
The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus...
Große Klassiker der englischen Literatur: 40+ Titel in einem Band
Sturmhöhe, Sherlock Holmes, Stolz und Vorurteil, Das Herz der Finsternis, Moby-Dick, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Alice im Wunderland, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit, Adam Bede, Robinson Crusoe, Walden...
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Dieses eBook: "Große Klassiker der englischen Literatur: 40+ Titel in einem Band" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...
Constructed Situations
A New History of the Situationist International
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Situationist International were a group of anti-authoritarian, highly cultured, revolutionary artists whose energy and enragement fundamentally shaped the revolutions of the late 1960’s, most famously in Paris in May ‘68. They took on their shoulders the history of the workers’ struggle,...
Camilla
A Picture of Youth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Though Frances Burney's novels significantly influenced writers such as Jane Austen, Austen satirizes the genre in her own novel Northanger Abbey, writing of it: 'It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda'; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which...
by Frances Housden
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Frances Housden returns with her best–selling, award–winning Chieftain series in this short novel about a young woman with a strong will and a sharp mind, and the man who has nothing to offer but his heart.
Maggie McArthur never thought she would meet her fate in a clash of swords. She...
by Frances Courtney Kneupper
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In this book, Frances Courtney Kneupper examines the apocalyptic prophecies of the late medieval Empire, which even within the sensational genre of eschatological prophecy stand out for their bitter and violent nature. In addition to depicting the savage chastisement of the clergy and the forcible...
Make It Zero
The Movement to Safeguard Every Child
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
***"When we correct the factors that keep children at risk, we can make a difference in the lives of those children and the adults they’ll grow up to be."***— Mary Frances Bowley
Children are meant to imagine bright futures and chase them. But for the millions of at-risk children...
Power in Words
The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Whatever his ratings, Obama remains personally popular, widely acknowledged for his soaring oratory. His words were one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and are proving to be among his most effective governing weapons.
In Power in Words, distinguished historian and civil rights...
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich
Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation
Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations...
by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Mr. Eric Schickler
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
The gold standard for Congress courses for over 30 years
Congress and Its Members, Sixteenth Edition, by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Frances E. Lee, and Eric Schickler, offers readers current, comprehensive coverage of Congress and the legislative process by examining the tension...