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This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on
affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another
over the past few decades. The result has been that explorations of
how texts address, elicit, shape, and dramatize affect have become
central to contemporary work in literary, film, and art criticism,
as well as in critical theory, rhetoric, performance studies, and
aesthetics. Guiding readers to the variety of topics, themes,
interdisciplinary dialogues, and sub-disciplinary specialties that
the study of interplay between affect and texts has either
inaugurated or revitalized, the handbook showcases and engages the
diversity of scholarly topics, approaches, and projects that
thinking of affect in relation to texts and related media open up
or enable. These include (but are not limited to) investigations of
what attention to affect brings to established methods of studying
texts-in terms of period, genre, cultural contexts, rhetoric, and
individual authorship.
In The Liberty to Take Fish, Thomas Blake Earle offers an
incisive and nuanced history of the long American Revolution,
describing how aspirations to political freedom coupled with the
economic imperatives of commercial fishing roiled relations between
the young United States and powerful Great Britain. The
American Revolution left the United States with the "liberty to
take fish" from the waters of the North Atlantic. Indispensable to
the economic health of the new nation, the cod fisheries of the
Grand Banks, the Bay of Fundy, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence quickly
became symbols of American independence in an Atlantic world
dominated by Great Britain. The fisheries issue was a
near-constant concern in American statecraft that impinged upon
everything, from Anglo-American relations, to the operation of
American federalism, and even to the nature of the marine
environment. Earle explores the relationship between
the fisheries and the state through the Civil War era when closer
ties between the United States and Great Britain finally surpassed
the contentious interests of the fishing industry on the nation's
agenda. The Liberty to Take Fish is a rich story that moves
from the staterooms of Washington and London to the decks of
fishing schooners and into the Atlantic itself to understand how
ordinary fishermen and the fish they pursued shaped and were, in
turn, shaped by those far-off political and economic forces. Earle
returns fishing to its once-central place in American history and
shows that the nation of the nineteenth century was indeed a
maritime one. Â
This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.
London is silent. Severed bodies lie amongst the rubble. What once
was a lively city is now a murderous grave, enclosed in smoke and
ash. The cause of the destruction is unknown. Left haunted and
terrified, survivor Tom Williams confronts the brutal, mutilated
streets as he fights to uncover the truth. Could he be the last
hope to restore normality?
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The True Story Of His Voyage There In 1774 With Captain Cook; Of
How He Was Feted By Fanny Burney, Approved By Samuel Johnson,
Entertained By Mrs. Thrale And Lord Sandwich And Painted By Sir
Joshua Reynold.
The True Story Of His Voyage There In 1774 With Captain Cook; Of
How He Was Feted By Fanny Burney, Approved By Samuel Johnson,
Entertained By Mrs. Thrale And Lord Sandwich And Painted By Sir
Joshua Reynold.
Title: Songs, Ballads, &c.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Blake, Thomas; 1865. 27 p.; 8 . 11649.cc.27.(16.)
The True Story Of His Voyage There In 1774 With Captain Cook; Of
How He Was Feted By Fanny Burney, Approved By Samuel Johnson,
Entertained By Mrs. Thrale And Lord Sandwich And Painted By Sir
Joshua Reynold.
There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields
of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship
in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology
places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence.
Editors Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson provide a lucid
introduction to this collection of essays that brings these
disciplines together. With this volume, historians explore crucial
insights into a self-consciously Atlantic environmental history of
the American South, touching on such topics as ideas about slavery,
gender, climate, "colonial ecological revolution," manipulation of
the landscape, infrastructure, resources, and exploitation. By
centering this project on a region, the American South-defined as
the southeastern reaches of North America and the Caribbean- the
authors interrogate how European colonizers, Native Americans, and
Africans interacted in and with the (sub)tropics, a place foreign
to Europeans. Challenging the concepts of "Atlantic" and "southern"
and their intersection with "environments" is a discipline-defining
strategy at the leading edge of emerging scholarship. Taken
collectively, this book should encourage more readers to reimagine
this region, its time periods, climate(s), and ecocultural
networks.
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