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Dark Orbit: A Novel

Dark Orbit: A Novel

Carolyn Ives Gilman

From Nebula and Hugo Award–nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder.
Halfway Human

Halfway Human

Carolyn Ives Gilman

But the more she learns about the beautiful alien being, the more she discovers about the torment Tedla and its kind suffer on their planet. **** Little does the rest of the universe know of the hidden world of the blands, a world that ...
Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History

Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History

Vivian Perlis

George Hofmann, one of the supervisors at Ives & Myrick, pointed out that writing was Ives's prime occupation and major contribution to the business. Ives tried short stories, essays, and plays, and he particularly liked to use dialogues between ...
A Charles Ives omnibus

A Charles Ives omnibus

James Mack Burk

... in the Reception of Ives's Music." See B1494. Jennifer Iverson. "Spatial Structures of the Collage: the Case of Charles Ives's Putnam's Camp." B1516 Christopher Edwin Bruhn. "Ives's Multiverse: The Concord Sonata as American Cosmology ...
Ives's Multiverse: The Concord Sonata as American Cosmology

Ives's Multiverse: The Concord Sonata as American Cosmology

Christopher Edwin Bruhn

33Ibid., 82. 34 Block, Ives: Concord Sonata, 55, and David Michael Hertz, “Ives's Concord Sonata and the Texture of Music,” in Charles Ives and His World, ed. J. Peter Burkholder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 103-107. Ibid., 6.
Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic ...

Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic ...

David C Paul

I used the standard stalling tactic of repeating the question, and then mumbled something incoherent about sharing the perspective advanced in recent Ives scholarship, particularly Gayle Sherwood Magee”s book, Charles Ives Reconsidered.
The Grand Portage Story

The Grand Portage Story

Carolyn Gilman

A compelling history of the legendary fur trade crossroads in northern Minnesota where Indian and European cultures have competed with and accommodated each other for nearly three centuries.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts

Jennifer S. Tuttle

"Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts represents a new phase of feminist scholarhip in recovery, drawing readers' attention to Gilman's lesser-known works from fresh perspectives that revise what we thought we knew about the ...
The Nation

The Nation

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During the past decade, the picture of Ives has metamorphosed from eccentric tmcle into cagey impresario and entrepreneur, a process explained by Gayle Sherwood Magee in her aptly titled Charles Ives Reconsidered. The most striking  ...
The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories

The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

" Together, these impressive works throw new light on Gilman as a writer of fiction.
A Study Guide for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

A Study Guide for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

Gale, Cengage Learning

Golden, Catherine. “'Overwriting' the Rest Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Literary Escape from S. Weir Mitchell's Fictionalization of Women,” in Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B. Karpinski, G. K. Hall, 1992, pp.
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up ...

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up ...

Susan Jane Gilman

Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless Susan Jane Gilman ... —Cheryl Peck, author of Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs “If David Sedaris married most of the cast of TheBreakfast Club,the resulting child just might be Susan Jane Gilman.
Charles Ives: A Guide to Research

Charles Ives: A Guide to Research

Gayle Sherwood

This is a comprehensively annotated guide to all the significant literature on the American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954).
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

THE CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN READER is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important feminist writers.
Guide to Reprints

Guide to Reprints

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Women and Economics

Women and Economics

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and as with much of Gilman’s writing, the book touched a few dominant themes: the transformation of marriage, the family, and the home, with her central argument: “the economic ...
Time Flies and Other Short Plays

Time Flies and Other Short Plays

David Ives

Playwright David Ives's follow-up collection to the award-winning collection All in the Timing pushes his gift for wacky one-act comedy to new heights: two mayflies on a date realize they have only twenty-four hours to live; a washing ...
Indianapolis Monthly

Indianapolis Monthly

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... A New Arrangement, 691-6841 MASTER BEDROOM SUITE Carolyn Stevens, Carolyn Stevens Interior Design, Inc., 816-1345; and Debbie Marr, Deborah Marr Interiors, 955-7050 HER CLOSET AND HIS CLOSET Carolyn Stevens, Carolyn ...
Mad Music: Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel

Mad Music: Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel

Stephen Budiansky

9. Untitled draft, “Without going a great wayin the field of metaphysics . . . ,” p. 1, CIP, 26/3;flyer, “TheRelation Whichthe Costof Adequate Life Insurance... ,”CIP,26/ 1. 10. George Hofmann inCIR,56. 11. Ives, Amount to Carry (1920 edition), 9–18;  ...
Families, Marriages, and Children

Families, Marriages, and Children

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Transcending her era, Gilman speaks with wit, insight, and candor to twenty-first century readers about many controversial aspects of family, and family life.
Where Two Worlds Meet: The Great Lakes Fur Trade

Where Two Worlds Meet: The Great Lakes Fur Trade

Carolyn Gilman

Inspired by an exhibit of artifacts from the fur trade of the 1700s, this fascinating and attractive catalog includes a history of the fur trade and essays on various aspects of the early cross-cultural contacts between Indians and whites.
Benchmarks Concluded 1987-1993

Benchmarks Concluded 1987-1993

Algis Budrys

... Barry N. Malzberg, Sean McMullen, Tony Daniel, Joe Haldeman, Donna Fraley , Nicholas A. DiChario, Kathe Koja, Dirk Strasser, Paula May, Jonathan Lethem, Jamil Nasir, Lisa Mason, Jeffers again, Carolyn Gilman, and Lou Fisher. The first  ...
Charles Ives and His World

Charles Ives and His World

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DAVID MICHAEL HERTZ One of the focal points of Charles Ives's oeuvre, his Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860" is a dense and challenging work that incorporates a variety of material drawn from earlier musical compositions, ...
The Home: Its Work and Influence

The Home: Its Work and Influence

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Reprint of 1903 edition of Gilman's classic indictment of domestic life, offering a program of domestic reform that inspired women at the beginning of what became a century-long struggle.
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The early twentieth-century writer, feminist, and social reformer recounts her upbringing, development, and career
Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

Peter L. Rudnytsky

Acknowledgments. That this book should appear in a series edited by Sander Gilman and George Makari has for me a feeling of inevitability. Like many others, I owe much of my good fortune in the academic profession to Sander Gilman.
La ragazza di Orchard Street

La ragazza di Orchard Street

Susan Jane Gilman

«Un romanzo dal cuore grande... La Gilman riesce a dipingere un bellissimo affresco della storia americana del secolo scorso, mettendoci al centro un meraviglioso personaggio di donna.» Chicago Tribune
Charles Ives: A Research and Information Guide

Charles Ives: A Research and Information Guide

Gayle Sherwood Magee

This research guide provides detailed information on over one thousand publications and websites concerning the American composer Charles Ives.
A Genealogy of the Curtiss Family: Being a Record of the ...

A Genealogy of the Curtiss Family: Being a Record of the ...

Frederic Haines Curtiss

Mrs. Deborah N. G. Curtiss, widow of Erastus Ives, June 15, 1866. He d. March 26, 1880. She d. 1881. (584) iv. Erastus Ives, b. Meriden, Conn., May 19, 1805 ; m. Deborah N. G., d. of Lalfkin Newton, of Petersham, Mass., May, 1833. He d.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with ...

Carol Farley Kessler

A fresh reading of Gilman's fiction and a biographical exploration of her life yield a vision of how the feminist author developed her capacity to imagine a full-blown utopia for women.

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