This gifty package includes a one-of-a-kind collectible bust of Lincoln based on the Lincoln Memorial statue, scroll of the Gettysburg Address, stove pipe hat, and a mini biography that highlights the enduring legacy of our 16th president, illustrated with full-color photography throughout.[...]
In this strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Nancy Armstrong argues that the novels and non- fiction written by and for women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle class. Most critical studies of the novel mistakenly [...]
Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person[...]
If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs? Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was [...]
In this study of British realism, the author explains how fiction entered into a relationship with the new popular art of Victorian photography that transformed the world into a picture. She contends that literary critism assumes a text is gesturing toward the real whenever it invokes a photograph.[...]
Whether heading out to a local bar, or taking a dozen girls for a weekend to Vegas, your last romp with the girls at your batchelorette party is sure to be memorable. This activity book is the perfect get-in-the-mood aid for the maid of honour, bridesmaids and friends. Filled with trivia quizzes, fi[...]
Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form--of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this sense, drawing opens less toward its achieve[...]