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This Republic of Suffering

Drew Gilpin Faust

In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious ...

James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery

Drew Gilpin Faust

A long-awaited biography, Drew Gilpin Faust's James Henry Hammond and the Old South reveals the South Carolina planter who was at once characteristic of his age and unique among men of his time.

Feeding Barcelona, 1714-1975: Public Market Halls, Social ...

Drew Gilpin Faust

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Southern stories: slaveholders in peace and war

Drew Gilpin Faust

stories were collective, as in the case of the antebellum proslavery argument or Confederate discourses about women.

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the ...

Drew Gilpin Faust

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature

Jacqueline Goldsby

13; Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs, chap. 2; and Drew Gilpin Faust, “The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying,” Journal of Southern History 67 (1) (February 2001): 3–38. Franny Nudelman offers a strikingly different account of ...

Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical ...

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DREW GILPIN FAUST BREMER, Edith Terry, Oct. 9, 1885-Sept. 12, 1964. Organization founder, social worker. Edith Terry Bremer, pioneer leader in immigrant social service work and founder of the International Institute movement , was born ...

Lives of Faust: The Faust Theme in Literature and Music. A ...

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This book is an interdisciplinary reader on the Faust theme in literature and music from the Reformation to the present. Essays by Faust scholars set the texts in context.

Faust is Dead

Mark Ravenhill

Mark Ravenhill's Faust (Faust is Dead) is a dark and often brutally funny journey through a world of virtual reality The world's most famous philosopher arrives in Los Angeles and is greeted as a star.

Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World

E. A. Bucchianeri

A detailed study of the first Faust books and the popular Faustian folk tales.

International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation

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This major interdisciplinary collection captures the vitality and increasingly global significance of the Faust figure in literature, theatre and music.

Faust Adaptations from Marlowe to Aboudoma and Markland

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This collection presents innovative approaches to understanding the mediated, translated, and adapted figure of Faust through both culturally specific inquiry and timeless questions.

A Preface to Theology

W. Clark Gilpin

In this important work, W. Clark Gilpin, dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, proposes that American theological scholarship become responsible to a threefold public: the churches, the academic community, and civil society.

The Last Work Published of the Rev. William Gilpin ...: ...

William Gilpin

Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made ...

William Gilpin

Particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland William Gilpin. At first; it swept the whole side of the mountain, and charging itself with all the rubbish it found there, made it's way into the vale, following chiefly the ...

Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made ...

William Gilpin

William Gilpin . _z -._.__.;1Ene'as ances, guibus alms Apollo -_ _ __ , _\ Prafidet, horrendaque procul secrcta Sibyllae, _ ' _ Antrum immanc, Pefit-_'_- - v . . ' The poet dees not give the, detail of his antrum immarze: if 'he had, he' COuld 'not ...

The Desert is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's ...

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4 • MARTHA A. SANDWEISS LAURA GILPIN AND THE TRADITION OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY "What I consider really fine landscapes are very few and far between," Laura Gilpin wrote to a friend in 1956. "I consider this ...

The Taming of the Drew

Stephanie Strohm

But as Shakespeare’s classic plays out offstage, Cass finds it harder and harder to resist falling for Drew herself. The best kind of entertainment, The Taming of the Drew is smart, funny, fresh, and original.

Goethe's Faust and Cultural Memory: Comparatist Interfaces

Lorna Fitzsimmons

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe’s Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts.

Faust's Anesthesiology Review: Expert Consult

Michael J. Murray

Quickly expand your knowledge base and master your residency with Faust's Anesthesiology Review, the world’s best-selling review book in anesthesiology.

Christopher Marlowe in Context

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Mephistopheles”: Faust and Byron', in International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation, ed. Lorna Fitzsimmons (London: Continuum, 2008), 107– 23 (107). 11 Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander,in The Collected Poems of ...

Faust-Foust Family in Germany & America

Howard M. Faust

B1B1B1D3 CARL FOUST - b. 5/1889. B1B1B1D4 CLIFFORD FOUST- b. 4/1892. B1B1B1D5 RALPH FOUST - b. 12/1894. B1B1B1E ALLESON FOUST - b. ca. 1858; d. 8/11/1914; m. Lovie . Issue : B1B1B1EL CHRISTOPHER FOUST - b. 1886 ...

Literary Luminaries of the Berkshires: From Herman Melville ...

Bernard A. Drew

From Herman Melville to Patricia Highsmith Bernard A. Drew. About. the. Author. B. ernard A. Drew wallpapered two servants' rooms at the Bryant Homestead as a summer laborer; studied “The Novel of Violence” in English class with Robert ...

Motion Picture Series and Sequels: A Reference Guide

Bernard A. Drew

1990 Bernard A. Drew All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Drew, Bernard A. (Bernard Alger), 1950Motion picture series and sequels: a reference guide / Bernard A. Drew. p. cm. — (Garland reference library ...