Emma Corbett

Author : Samuel Jackson Pratt
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460403358

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Emma Corbett by Samuel Jackson Pratt Pdf

Set both in England and in America, Emma Corbett is the moving story of a family torn apart by the American revolutionary war. Edward Corbett and Henry Hammond are brought up together and go on to marry each other’s sisters, but fight on opposite sides in the war. Emma Corbett, Edward’s sister, follows Henry to Pennsylvania. Disguised as a man, she fights for the British before finding Henry and saving his life, but the war and its aftermath have tragic consequences for all four young people. This powerful epistolary novel was a transatlantic best-seller, in part because both sides of the conflict are fully represented—as are the miseries and terrible costs of war. Appendices include contemporary reviews as well as contemporary writings on heroism, sensibility, and women and war. A series of personal letters between Pratt (writing as Courtney Melmoth) and Benjamin Franklin, for whom he worked in France, are also included.

Author : Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1783
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101037021282

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Emma Corbett... by Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) Pdf

Author : Professor Christopher Flynn
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409474890

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Americans in British Literature, 1770–1832 by Professor Christopher Flynn Pdf

American independence was inevitable by 1780, but British writers spent the several decades following the American Revolution transforming their former colonists into something other than estranged British subjects. Christopher Flynn's engaging and timely book systematically examines for the first time the ways in which British writers depicted America and Americans in the decades immediately following the revolutionary war. Flynn documents the evolution of what he regards as an essentially anthropological, if also in some ways familial, interest in the former colonies and their citizens on the part of British writers. Whether Americans are idealized as the embodiments of sincerity and virtue or anathematized as intolerable and ungrateful louts, Flynn argues that the intervals between the acts of observing and writing, and between writing and reading, have the effect of distancing Britain and America temporally as well as geographically. Flynn examines a range of canonical and noncanonical works-sentimental novels of the 1780s and 1790s, prose and poetry by Wollstonecraft, Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth; and novels and travel accounts by Smollett, Lennox, Frances Trollope, and Basil Hall. Together, they offer a complex and revealing portrait of Americans as a breed apart, which still resonates today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1780
Category : English essays
ISBN : NYPL:33433081682738

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The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Diez Couch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812298406

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American Fragments by Daniel Diez Couch Pdf

Between the independence of the colonies and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called "fragments."American Fragments argues that this archive of deliberately unfinished writing reimagined the place of marginalized individuals in a country that was itself still unfinished.

Author : Cindy McCreery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199267561

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The Satirical Gaze by Cindy McCreery Pdf

This is the first scholarly study to focus on satirical prints of women in the late eighteenth century. This was the golden age of graphic satire: thousands of prints were published, and they were viewed by nearly all sections of the population. These prints both reflected and sought to shape contemporary debate about the role of women in society. Cindy McCreery's study examines the beliefs and prejudices of Georgian England which they revealed.

Author : Val C. Ballestrem
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781467139533

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Lost Portland, Oregon by Val C. Ballestrem Pdf

As Portland has grown and changed, so has its architectural landscape. Once prominent landmarks have disappeared--the Marquam Building collapsed during 1912 renovations, the massive chamber of commerce building became a parking lot and the Corbett Building became a shopping mall. The city skyline was shaped by architects like Justus F. Krumbein and David L. Williams, only to drastically change in the face of urban renewal and the desire for modernization. Discover the stories behind some of Portland's most iconic buildings, including the Beth Israel Synagogue and the first East Side High School, both lost to fire. Join historian Val C. Ballestrem as he explores the city's architectural heritage from the 1890s to the present, as well as the creative forces behind it.

Author : Kate Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199281107

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Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren by Kate Davies Pdf

Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren were radical friends in a revolutionary era. They produced definitive histories of the English Civil War and the American Revolution, attacked the British government and the United States federal constitution, and instigated a debate on women's rights which inspired Mary Wollstonecraft and other feminists. Setting Warren and Macaulay's lives and writing in the context of the revolutionary Atlantic, this is the first book to consider one ofthe eighteenth century's most important political friendships.

Author : Eve Tavor Bannet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139497619

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Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720–1810 by Eve Tavor Bannet Pdf

Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of transatlantic print culture. Stories include the 'other' Robinson Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler, Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt.

Author : Amanda B. Moniz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190240363

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From Empire to Humanity by Amanda B. Moniz Pdf

In the decades before the Revolution, Americans and Britons shared an imperial approach to helping those in need during times of disaster and hardship. They worked together on charitable ventures designed to strengthen the British empire, and ordinary men and women made donations for faraway members of the British community. Growing up in this world of connections, future activists from the British Isles, North America, and the West Indies developed expansive outlooks and transatlantic ties. The schism created by the Revolution fractured the community that nurtured this generation of philanthropists. In From Empire to Humanity, Amanda Moniz tells the story of a generation of American and British activists who transformed humanitarianism as they adjusted to being foreigners. American independence put an end to their common imperial humanitarianism, but not their friendships, their far-reaching visions, or their belief that philanthropy was a tool of statecraft. In the postwar years, these philanthropists, led by doctor-activists, collaborated on the anti-drowning cause, spread new medical charities, combatted the slave trade, reformed penal practices, and experimented with relieving needy strangers. The nature of their cooperation, however, had changed. No longer members of the same polity, they adopted a universal approach to their benevolence, working together for the good of humanity, rather than empire. Making the care of suffering strangers routine, these British and American activists laid the groundwork for later generations' global undertakings. From Empire to Humanity offers new perspectives on the history of philanthropy, as well as the Atlantic world and colonial and postcolonial history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1780
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081756995

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London Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119431787

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American World Literature: An Introduction by Paul Giles Pdf

A scholarly review of American world literature from early times to the postmodernist era American World Literature: An Introduction explores how the subject of American Literature has evolved from a national into a global phenomenon. As the author, Paul Giles – a noted expert on the topic – explains, today American Literature is understood as engaging with the wider world rather than merely with local or national circumstances. The book offers an examination of these changing conceptions of representation in both a critical and an historical context. The author examines how the perception of American culture has changed significantly over time and how this has been an object of widespread social and political debate. From examples of early American literature to postmodernism, the book charts ways in which the academic subject areas of American Literature and World Literature have converged – and diverged – over the past generations. Written for students of American literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and in all areas of historical specialization, American World Literature offers an authoritative guide to global phenomena of American World literature and how this subject has undergone crucial changes in perception over the past thirty years.

Author : William Betham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : Baronetage
ISBN : UOM:39015082589642

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The Baronetage of England by William Betham Pdf

Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:C2643728

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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum by British Museum. Department of Printed Books Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455941

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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books by Anonim Pdf