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Exploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned
in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of
gender, race, and national and cultural differences, this
collection demonstrates the generative potential of transatlantic
studies to loosen demographic frames and challenge conveniently
linear histories. The contributors take up a rich and varied range
of topics, including Charlotte Smith's novelistic treatment of the
American Revolution, The Old Manor House; Anna Jameson's
counter-discursive constructions of gender in a travelogue; Felicia
Hemans, Herman Melville, and the 'Queer Atlantic'; representations
of indigenous religion and shamanism in British Romantic literary
discourse; the mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic abolitionist
movement; the transatlantic adventure novel; the exchanges of
transatlantic print culture facilitated by the Minerva Press;
British and Anglo-American representations of Niagara Falls; and
Charles Brockden Brown's intervention in the literature of
exploration. Taken together, the essays underscore the strategic
power of the concept of the transatlantic to enable new
perspectives on the politics of gender, race, and cultural
difference as manifested in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
Britain and North America.
Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies,
this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and
complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its
critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical
overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socioenvironmental
issues involving such topics as the contemporary fur and timber
trades, colonialism and agricultural "improvement," literary
discourses on conservation, and the consequences of industrial
capitalism, urbanization, and urban environmental activism. The
chapters move from the broad to the particular, offering insights
into Romanticism's transatlantic discourses on nature and culture,
examining British Victorian representations of nature in light of
their reception by American writers and readers, providing in-depth
analyses of literary forms such as the adventure novel, travel
narratives, and theological and scientific writings, and bringing
transatlantic and ecocritical perspectives to bear on classic works
of nineteenth-century American literature. By opening a critical
dialogue between these two vital areas of scholarship,
Transatlantic Literary Ecologies demonstrates some of the key ways
in which Western environmental consciousness and associated
literary practices arose in the context of transatlantic literary
and cultural exchanges during the long nineteenth century.
Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies,
this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and
complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its
critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical
overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socioenvironmental
issues involving such topics as the contemporary fur and timber
trades, colonialism and agricultural "improvement," literary
discourses on conservation, and the consequences of industrial
capitalism, urbanization, and urban environmental activism. The
chapters move from the broad to the particular, offering insights
into Romanticism's transatlantic discourses on nature and culture,
examining British Victorian representations of nature in light of
their reception by American writers and readers, providing in-depth
analyses of literary forms such as the adventure novel, travel
narratives, and theological and scientific writings, and bringing
transatlantic and ecocritical perspectives to bear on classic works
of nineteenth-century American literature. By opening a critical
dialogue between these two vital areas of scholarship,
Transatlantic Literary Ecologies demonstrates some of the key ways
in which Western environmental consciousness and associated
literary practices arose in the context of transatlantic literary
and cultural exchanges during the long nineteenth century.
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Winds of Fall (Paperback)
Albert O Mercado; Illustrated by Kevin Hutchings; Photographs by Kevin Hutchings
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Two friends separated during childhood, Rebecca and Cecile, will
reunite again years later. Their lives and fates will change
forever when Rebecca must face a hard decision to save Cecile and
her daughter, Helen, from the hands of an abusive husband. It's
then when Cecile discovers the secret that's tormenting Rebecca all
her life.
We are the ultimate manifestation of an infinite and glorious
GOD-mind. Before coming to Earth, we consciously roamed as Spirit
in the cosmic spheres collecting the purpose-filled elements and
values to build our physical, emotional, and mental bodies in a
fervent drive to exist. This drive was coming from the depths of
our spiritual DNA-ancient messages, vital dreams, perspectives of
purpose-all combining into a great potential life. Now that we have
this life, we have at our disposal the incredible technology of the
physical-as well as the cosmic-realm to draw from. One of these
realms, most helpful to our life on Earth, is the Angelic one. To
master this incomparable opportunity of being alive, being on
Earth, being magnificent, and being human-Angels gather around us
in legions to assist our journey. Angels know the purpose and the
dreams in the depths of our hearts. This book is filled with
mantric messages that can help us to help them to do just that.
Calling on your Angels will find magic working for you, in you, and
all around you...all the places that the Angels gather.
Investigating a transatlantic culture that flourished in Great
Britain and North America between 1750 and 1850, this 2009
collection explains how complex relationships between Britons,
Native Americans and Anglo-Americans shaped the literature and
history of the age. This shaping role has all too often been
ignored or misconstrued by literary critics and historians. The
book's chapters examine literary texts, travel accounts, traders'
memoirs, historical documents, captivity narratives,
autobiographies, newspaper articles, and visual arts. Its
contributors chart the rise and fall of mixed communities living on
the margins of white and Indian settlements, examining the role of
'cultural brokers' who used their expertise in both white and
Indian cultures to mediate between them.
Chemistry is an experimental subject, and what can be more
stimulating than carrying out a laboratory experiment where the
results are memorable either by their visual nature or by their
tying together of theory. This collection of 100 chemistry
experiments has been developed with the help and support of
teachers throughout the UK. Each student worksheet is accompanied
by a teachers' notes sheet which gives details for teachers and
technicians on apparatus and chemicals, timing, context, teaching
tips, background theory and answers to any questions on the student
worksheets. The student worksheets are also available on the web,
and can be downloaded or adapted as necessary by teachers. Classic
Chemistry Experiments is designed as a teaching aid to help
communicate the excitement and wonder of chemistry to students, and
is ideal for both experienced chemistry teachers and to scientists
from other disciplines who are teaching chemistry. Additional
resources can be downloaded from:
http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/resource/res00001938/classic-chemistry-experiments-book#!cmpid=CMP00000454
Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of
dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the
colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature,
ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and land rights.
In the first detailed study of literary interactions between
Indigenous people and colonial authorities in Upper Canada and
Britain, Kevin Hutchings analyzes the period's key figures and the
central role that romanticism, ecology, and environment played in
their writings. Investigating the ties that bound Upper Canada and
Great Britain together during the early nineteenth century,
Transatlantic Upper Canada demonstrates the existence of a
cosmopolitan culture whose implications for the land and its people
are still felt today. The book examines the writings of
Haudenosaunee leaders John Norton and John Brant and Anishinabeg
authors Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Peter Jones, and George Copway,
as well as European figures John Beverley Robinson, John Strachan,
Anna Brownell Jameson, and Sir Francis Bond Head. Hutchings argues
that, despite their cultural differences, many factors connected
these writers, including shared literary interests, cross-Atlantic
journeys, metropolitan experiences, mutual acquaintance, and
engagement in ongoing dialogue over Indigenous territory and
governance. A close examination of relationships between peoples
and their understandings of land, Transatlantic Upper Canada
creates a rich portrait of the nineteenth-century British Atlantic
world and the cultural and environmental consequences of
colonialism and resistance.
Investigating a transatlantic culture that flourished in Great
Britain and North America between 1750 and 1850, this collection
explains how complex relationships between Britons, Native
Americans and Anglo-Americans shaped the literature and history of
the age. This shaping role has all too often been ignored or
misconstrued by literary critics and historians. The book's
chapters examine literary texts, travel accounts, traders' memoirs,
historical documents, captivity narratives, autobiographies,
newspaper articles, and visual arts. Its contributors chart the
rise and fall of mixed communities living on the margins of white
and Indian settlements, examining the role of 'cultural brokers'
who used their expertise in both white and Indian cultures to
mediate between them.
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