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This book draws connections between Vermont author Howard Frank
Mosher and works of classic American literature. Chapter I explores
the horrors of the Civil War as conveyed in Mosher's Walking to
Gatlinburg and Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. Major
characters escape the battlefield and then feel a need to redeem
themselves for what could be a cowardly act. Chapter II analyses
how Mosher and three classic authors explore the physical and moral
dangers of industrialisation, especially women's safety. Chapter
III compares Mosher's Walking to Gatlinburg to Bunyan's Pilgrim's
Progress in terms of the quest for Heaven. In Chapter IV,
Melville's novels are used to address evil as it appears in
Mosher's Disappearances. Chapter V explores black men with white
women in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Mosher's A Stranger
in the Kingdom. Humour is at the core of Chapter VI, comparing Mark
Twain’s Huckleberry Finn to Mosher's The True Account. In Chapter
VII, the disappearing wilderness is the issue in Faulkner's Go
Down, Moses and several of Mosher's works. Chapter VIII offers
romantic love as a shield against other human beings. A conclusion
draws on Steinbeck, Twain and Mosher to elaborate on how one should
explore as much of the world as possible.
The Second Reform Act, passed in 1867, created a million new
voters, doubling the electorate and propelling the British state
into the age of mass politics. It marked the end of a twenty year
struggle for the working class vote, in which seven different
governments had promised change. Yet the standard works on 1867 are
more than forty years old and no study has ever been published of
reform in prior decades. This study provides the first analysis of
the subject from 1848 to 1867, ranging from the demise of Chartism
to the passage of the Second Reform Act. Recapturing the vibrancy
of the issue and its place at the heart of Victorian political
culture, it focuses not only on the reform debate itself, but on a
whole series of related controversies, including the growth of
trade unionism, the impact of the 1848 revolutions and the
discussion of French and American democracy.
From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and
business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as
Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame
houses and ""substandard"" conditions such as outdoor toilets,
voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped.
Charlottesville's black residents lost a cultural center, largely
because they were deprived of a voice in government. Vinegar Hill's
displaced residents discuss the loss of homes and businesses, and
the impact of the project on black life in Charlottesville. The
interviews raise questions about motivations behind urban renewal.
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Craig Robert Saunders
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Craig Saunders, Craig Robert Saunders
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Many books have been written on fiction technique, and the chief
excuse for the present addition to the number is the complexity of
the subject. Its range is so wide, it calls for so many and so
different capacities in one attempting to discuss it, that a new
work has more than a chance to meet at least two or three
deficiencies in all other treatments. I believe that the chief
deficiency in most works on fiction technique is that the author
unconsciously has slipped from the viewpoint of a writer of a story
to that of a reader. Now a reader without intention to try his own
hand at the game is not playing fair in studying technique, and a
book on technique has no business to entertain him. Accordingly, I
have striven to keep to the viewpoint of one who seeks to learn how
to write stories, and have made no attempt to analyze the work of
masters of fiction for the sake of the analysis alone...Get Your
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