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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 1982
ISBN 10: 0813909155ISBN 13: 9780813909158
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. English, French (translation).
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0813916968ISBN 13: 9780813916965
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Margaret Jarman Hagood was a leading sociologist of the Depression South. In 1937 she visited 254 tenant houses in Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolina Piedmont, talking with southern mothers. Mothers of the South records not only the results of her work but the voices, attitudes, and expectations of the people she interviewed. Hagood's work is invaluable for its insigh into the lost world of tenant farmers. It serves as a window into the life experiences, agricultural practices, social organization, and values of tenant families.
Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0813916984ISBN 13: 9780813916989
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presents the facts surrounding the speculation about Thomas Jefferson's possible affair with a slave woman, Sally Hemings.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0813922658ISBN 13: 9780813922652
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated. Americans did not at first cherish the idea of political severance from their mother country. In just a few years, however, they came to desire indepen-dence above all else. What brought about this change of feeling and how did it affect the lives of their citizens? To answer these questions, Edmund S. Morgan looks at three men who may fairly be called the "architects of independence," the first presidents of the United States. Anecdotes from their letters and diaries recapture the sense of close identity many early Americans felt with their countrys political struggles. Through this perspective, Morgan examines the growth of independence from its initial declaration and discovers something of its meaning, for three men who responded to its challenge and for the nation that they helped create.The Meaning of Independence, first published in 1976, has become one of the standard short works on the first three presidents of the United States-George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. When the Mount Vernon Ladies Association and the Organization of American Historians asked 1,500 historians to name the ten best books about George Washington, this book was one of those selected. In this updated edition, the author provides a new preface to address a few remaining concerns he has pondered in the quarter century since first publication.Tag:A classic work on the founding by the author of the bestselling Benjamin Franklin.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0813912725ISBN 13: 9780813912721
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This book outlines a complete programme for the restoration and preservation of historic structures and historic sites throughout the world. It is a basic text for both the novice entering the field and the specialist. Dr Fitch covers the many disciplines, concepts and technologies needed by the preservationist. He also includes discussions of the economic, legal and legislative forces acting upon historic district planning. He provides useful information on how old buildings can be moved (either intact or disassembled) to new sites via truck, rail or barge; how to heat, cool and light old buildings and still maintain the aesthetic integrity of their interiors; and how a country can develop a comprehensive policy for the care of its artistic and historic heritage.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 081391809XISBN 13: 9780813918099
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Obedient Germans? A Rebuttal is a concise book, brimming with smart ideas and important, little-known information. It lays to rest the notion that ordinary people passively let 'history' sweep over them, instead of actively creating their own history. It is also a powerful antidote to some of the most persistent stereotypes about German history. Anyone interested in the early modern era will want to read this book for its grand thematic sweep and interpretive rigor. It sets the standard for understanding the political role of the common people in European history.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0813914833ISBN 13: 9780813914831
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Contains the first and last novels written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, both with the Whartonesque theme of women trapped by social convention and fateful forces into destructive marriages.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0813917891ISBN 13: 9780813917894
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. No figure among the Victorians surpasses John Ruskin in magnitude of genius, modernity of message, or mastery of prose. Yet for the first half-century after his death in 1900, his genius lay largely undiscovered. First published in 1963, John D. Rosenberg's The Genius of John Ruskin aimed to make Ruskin's ideas and writings accessible to the modern reader, and it quickly became a classic. Long out of print, this important anthology is now available with a new foreword by Herbert F. Tucker and an expanded and updated bibliography by the author that takes into account recent Ruskin scholarship.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0813923263ISBN 13: 9780813923260
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Like the autobiographical hero of this, his classic first novel, Mouloud Feraoun grew up in the rugged Kabyle region of French-controlled Algeria, where the prospects for most Muslim Berber men were limited to shepherding or emigrating to France for factory work. While Feraoun escaped such a fate by excelling in the colonial school system-as a student and, later, as a teacher at the École Normale-he remained firmly rooted in Kabyle culture. This dual perspective only enhanced his view, often brutally, of the ravages on his country by poverty, colonial rule, and a world war that descended on Algeria like a great storm.This embattled society, and Feraouns unique position within it, became the raw material for The Poor Mans Son. Originally published in 1950, the novel was reissued in 1954, when its style was "fixed" to remove colloquial mannerisms and tenses. Perhaps more importantly, an entire section was omitted, significantly altering the conclusion and, indeed, the whole thrust of the book. Nonetheless, it is this version by which the book is known to this day in French. Based on the original 1950 text, this new translation is notable not only for bringing Feraouns classic to an English-speaking audience but also for presenting the book in its entirety for the first time in fifty years.A direct response to Albert Camus call for Algerians to tell the world their story, The Poor Mans Son remains after half a century the definitive map of the Kabyle soul.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Virginia Pr, 1992
ISBN 10: 0813913683ISBN 13: 9780813913681
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. "Good fortune offered this nation an unusual chance at ideal nation-forming and. some honorable leaders seized that chance," writes William Lee Miller in The Business of May Next, and none among the founders made more of the opportunity than did James Madison, subject of this engaging work. Madison is depicted during the critical years between 1784 and 1791, when he was so active in articulating the governmental aims of the fledgling nation that he sometimes found himself in official dialogue with himself. More than simply a historical and biographical account, the book traces Madison's political and theoretical development as a means of illuminating its larger theme, the moral and intellectual underpinnings of the American nation. With a sound grasp of his material and a refreshing style Miller reveals how Madison's research into republics and his influence on the writing of the Constitution are central to the values for which the nation stands.From an examination of Madison's notes, Miller traces Madison's early research into other republics and their weaknesses. He reveals how Madison's thinking shaped the Virginia Plan, which, in turn, shaped the United States Constitution and the nation's institutions. The author writes that Madison sought the strands of Republicanism in history and gave republican ideals new and lasting institutional expression. He shows how the making of republican institutions became a collaboration, and how the newly created institutions contained within themselves provision for their own continuing alteration and for the involvement and influence of collective humanity down through the years. Miller follows Madison through the Constitutional Convention ("the business of May next") to the great national argument on behalf of the Constitution, notably through the Federalist papers. Of particular interest are his discussions of the constitutional deliberations over religious freedom and the institution of slavery.
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Published by Brand: University Press of Virginia, 1990
ISBN 10: 0813913055ISBN 13: 9780813913056
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Foster, Sarah Jane.
Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0813922186ISBN 13: 9780813922188
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. As a young man, George Washington admired and copied into a little notebook 110 rules for civil behavior that originated from a Jesuit textbook. Washington took these rules very much to heart, and that handwritten list remained with him throughout his life, serving as inspiring guidance from his military days at Valley Forge and Yorktown to his two terms as president.Guidance that at first sounds archaic, it is in fact just as relevant asindeed, possibly more necessary thanit was nearly three hundred years ago. Richard Brookhiser makes clear the pertinence of these rules for modern readers and proposes that now more than ever we will be wise to follow the modest example of such a great man. Witty and insightful, Brookhisers commentary offers real-world instruction in the lost art of self-discipline, and his new preface provides a compelling and timely context in which to employ these guidelines today.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0813927706ISBN 13: 9780813927701
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Analyzes evidence unearthed during excavations at Jamestown, specifically at James Fort, to shed light on the daily lives of the colonists, their relationship with Native Americans, and the hardships they endured.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0813912652ISBN 13: 9780813912653
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. The best one volume biography of Madisons life, Ketchams biography not only traces Madisons career, it gives readers a sense of the man. As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the study of Donald Robertson, who introduced him to thinkers like Montaigne and Montesquieu, "all that I have been in life I owe largely to that man." It also captures a side of Madison that is less rarely on display (including a portrait of the beautiful Dolley Madison).
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Published by Brand: Univ of Virginia Pr, 1985
ISBN 10: 0813910625ISBN 13: 9780813910628
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Vargish, Thomas.
Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0813926637ISBN 13: 9780813926636
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Freeman Dysons latest book does not attempt to bring together all of the celebrated physicists thoughts on science and technology into a unified theory. The emphasis is, instead, on the myriad ways in which the universe presents itself to us--and how, as observers and participants in its processes, we respond to it. "Life, like a dome of many-colored glass," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley, "stains the white radiance of eternity." The author seeks here to explore the variety that gives life its beauty.Taken from Dysons recent public lectures--delivered to audiences with no specialized knowledge in hard sciences--the book begins with a consideration of the practical and political questions surrounding biotechnology. As he seeks how best to explain the place of life in the universe, Dyson then moves from the ethical to the purely scientific. The book concludes with an attempt to understand the implications of biology for philosophy and religion.The pieces in this collection touch on numerous disciplines, from astronomy and ecology to neurology and theology, speaking to the lay reader as well as to the scientist. As always, Dysons view of human nature and behavior is balanced, and his predictions of a world to come serve primarily as a means for thinking about the world as it is today.
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Published by Brand: University Press of Virginia, 1994
ISBN 10: 0879350989ISBN 13: 9780879350987
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Tradesmen in the eighteenth century performed the tasks at hand with sophisticated tools of amazing effectiveness and efficiency. The authors of this case study used early tools to investigate life in colonial America and understand the handmade products so admired today.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0813928117ISBN 13: 9780813928111
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition (1st printing),. Restored to its original splendor, Montpelier is now a national shrine, but before Montpelier became a place of study and tribute, it was a home. Often kept from it by the business of the young nation, James and Dolley Madison could finally take up permanent residence when they retired from Washington in 1817. Their lifelong friend Thomas Jefferson predicted that, at Montpelier, the retiring Madison could return to his "books and farm, to tranquility, and independence," that he would be released "from incessant labors, corroding anxieties, active enemies, and interested friends."As the celebrated historian Ralph Ketcham shows, this would turn out to be only partly true. Although the Madisons were no longer in Washington, Dolley continued to take part in its social scene from afar, dominating it just as she had during Jeffersons and her husbands administrations, commenting on people and events there and advising the multitude of young people who thought of her as the creator of society life in the young republic. James maintained a steady correspondence about public questions ranging from Native American affairs, slavery, and utopian reform to religion and education. He also took an active role at the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-30, in the defeat of nullification, and in the establishment of the University of Virginia, of which he was the rector for eight years after Jeffersons death. Exploring Madisons role in these post-presidential issues reveals a man of extraordinary intellectual vitality and helps us to better understand Madisons political thought. His friendships with figures such as Jefferson, James Monroe, and the Marquis de Lafayette--as well as his assessment of them (he outlived them all)--shed valuable light on the nature of the republic they had all helped found.In their last years, James and Dolley Madison personified the republican institutions and culture of the new nation--James as the father of the Constitution and its chief propounder for nearly half a century, and Dolley as the creator of the role of "First Lady." Anything but uneventful, the retirement period at Montpelier should be seen as a crucial element in our understanding of this remarkable couple.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0813920361ISBN 13: 9780813920368
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the slave South carrying a fervent message in pursuit of a clear goal: to persuade the political leadership and the citizenry of the uncommitted slave states to join in the effort to destroy the Union and forge a new Southern nation.Directly refuting the neo-Confederate contention that slavery was neither the reason for secession nor the catalyst for the resulting onset of hostilities in 1861, Charles B. Dew finds in the commissioners' brutally candid rhetoric a stark white supremacist ideology that proves the contrary. The commissioners included in their speeches a constitutional justification for secession, to be sure, and they pointed to a number of political "outrages" committed by the North in the decades prior to Lincoln's election. But the core of their argumentthe reason the right of secession had to be invoked and invoked immediatelydid not turn on matters of constitutional interpretation or political principle. Over and over again, the commissioners returned to the same point: that Lincoln's election signaled an unequivocal commitment on the part of the North to destroy slavery and that emancipation would plunge the South into a racial nightmare.Dew's discovery and study of the highly illuminating public letters and speeches of these apostles of disunionoften relatively obscure men sent out to convert the unconverted to the secessionist cause--have led him to suggest that the arguments the commissioners presented provide us with the best evidence we have of the motives behind the secession of the lower South in 186061.Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century after the Civil War, Dew challenges many current perceptions of the causes of the conflict. He offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were absolutely critical factors in the outbreak of warindeed, that they were at the heart of our great national crisis.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0813923093ISBN 13: 9780813923093
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinsons magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War.Recent studies, while conceding the importance of social factors in the unraveling of the Confederacy, still conclude that the South was defeated as a result of its losses on the battlefield, which in turn resulted largely from the superiority of Northern military manpower and industrial resources. Robinson contends that these factors were not decisive, that the process of social change initiated during the birth of Confederate nationalism undermined the social and cultural foundations of the southern way of life built on slavery, igniting class conflict that ultimately sapped white southerners of the will to go on.In particular, simmering tensions between nonslaveholders and smallholding yeoman farmers on the one hand and wealthy slaveholding planters on the other undermined Confederate solidarity on both the home front and the battlefield. Through their desire to be free, slaves fanned the flames of discord. Confederate leaders were unable to reconcile political ideology with military realities, and, as a result, they lost control over the important Mississippi River Valley during the first two years of the war. The major Confederate defeats in 1863 at Vicksburg and Missionary Ridge were directly attributable to growing disenchantment based on class conflict over slavery.Because the antebellum way of life proved unable to adapt successfully to the rigors of war, the South had to fight its struggle for nationhood against mounting odds. By synthesizing the results of unparalleled archival research, Robinson tells the story of how the war and slavery were intertwined, and how internal social conflict undermined the Confederacy in the end.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Virginia Pr, 1980
ISBN 10: 0813908094ISBN 13: 9780813908090
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Brooke, George M.
Published by Brand: Univ of Virginia Pr, 1980
ISBN 10: 0917376331ISBN 13: 9780917376337
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Book by Schmitt, Frederick P.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0813913306ISBN 13: 9780813913308
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition (1st printing). the impact of Lawrence's writings on the feminists.
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Published by Brand: distributed by the University Press of Virginia, 1975
ISBN 10: 0879350245ISBN 13: 9780879350246
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Evans, Emory G.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0813920620ISBN 13: 9780813920627
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In An American Cutting Garden Suzanne McIntire describes how to plan a cutting garden, choose suitable plants, keep the garden in good order, and harvest a bountiful crop-all with charm and humor. Using both common and botanical names, she discusses in depth a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, biennials, annuals, and bulbs. McIntire includes information on topics such as the length of stems one might expect from the cutting garden, how many plants are needed of any one kind, when and how to sow seed outdoors, the heat-hardiness of plants, and strategies for coping with the effects of hot summers and cold winters.Suzanne McIntire is a freelance writer and seasoned veteran of gardening in northern Virginia. She is the editor of The American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for Young People.
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Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0813903912ISBN 13: 9780813903910
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Very Good, no dust jacket (blue boards). Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding. ISBN:0813903475.
Published by Brand: University of Virginia Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0813921260ISBN 13: 9780813921266
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Softcover. Condition: Good. What is household government? To the vast majority of those living in America from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century it was the government. The head of a household, invariably an adult male, had authority over the property, labor, and mobility of not only his minor children but also his wife, servants, slaves, and the occasional debtors, indigents, or orphans the county paid him to board in the absence of institutional facilities.A History of Household Government in America tells the story of the seldom noted expansion and then dramatic contraction in household authority and the effects these changes had on the governmental system. The disintegration of household powers during the mid-nineteenth century-the households "civil war"-is much more central to what makes that period seem modern than industrialization or urbanization.Carole Shammas offers new explanations for why the American household head became such an early victim of household egalitarianism. Previous theories involving the frontier or the Revolution have ignored other factors unique to the American household system such as testamentary freedom, weak lineage controls, and the lack of an established church, all of which left the head vulnerable to challenges by dependents. These factors also affected the development of social services: In the United States, public and private welfare agencies originated largely out of concerns about the adequacy of household management and discipline. Religious rivalries eventually forced a partial return to household solutions through a welfare state system. That history helps explain why even today any departure from heterosexual two-parent family units continues to be viewed as dysfunctional by a significant portion of the population.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Virginia Pr, 1989
ISBN 10: 0813912342ISBN 13: 9780813912349
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In good condition. Some shelf and usage wear.
Published by Brand: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2015
ISBN 10: 0813913977ISBN 13: 9780813913971
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In this fresh look at the relationship between an author and his publishers, Peter L. Shillingsburg reassesses W. M. Thackeray's writing within the context of the Victorian marketplace. He explores the forces under which Thackeray wrote and addresses the broader question of the extent to which authors are free to invent their books given the influences of theoretical trends and the publishing marketplace. Rejecting both the Romantic notion of the autonomous genius and the Marxist concept of social and economic determinism, Shillingsburg presents a concept of the artist as being, simultaneously, bound and free, a "Pegasus in harness."In addition to being an intense examination of the contractual relations between Thackeray and several publishers, Pegasus in Harness is a veritable compendium of information about Victorian book production, publishing, and bookselling. Shillingsburg's analysis of book production is an example of original research that goes far beyond anything currently available. His documentation includes extensive quotations from 350 unpublished letters between Thackeray and his publishers and copies of all the surviving contracts for Thackeray's books.Contrary to popular opinion about Thackeray, Shillingsburg portrays him as a thoroughly professional writer. He traces Thackeray's economic progression and unfolds the development of Thackeray's notion of authorship as a dignified trade in which compromises were constantly being struck between the aspirations of the author and the realities of the marketplace. In this assessment, the social and contractual forces that both enabled and limited the writing and publishing of books influenced but did not control the artist.A synthesis of theory, history, biography, and sociology, this book looks at the ways in which literary texts are created, published, and marketed and explores how they can be shaped by the cultural conditions surrounding their creation.
Published by Brand: Univ of Virginia Pr, 1989
ISBN 10: 0813912237ISBN 13: 9780813912233
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Frye, Charles.
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