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Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : New England
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005582072
Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600056279
Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : UIUC:30112002400494
Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:684004274
Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1346069212
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1331254256
Excerpt from Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England Life Before the Civil War, I had for several years been a regular contributor to the New York Ledger. During that great conflict I had almost entirely ceased writing for it. But when the war was closed, I was not unwilling to seek rest or relaxation from the exhausting excitement of public affairs, by turning my mind into entirely new channels of thought and interest. In this mood I received Mr. Bonner's proposal to write a story for the Ledger. Had it been a request to carve a statue or build a man-of-war, the task would hardly have seemed less likely of accomplishment. A very moderate reader, even, of fictions, I had never studied the mystery of their construction. Plot and counterplot, the due proportion of parts, the whole machinery of a novel, seemed hopelessly outside of my studies. But after-considerations came to my relief. I reflected that any real human experience was intrisically interesting; that the life of a humble family for a single day, even if not told as skilfully as Wordsworth sung the humble aspects of the natural world, or as minutely faithful as Crabbe depicted English village-life, could hardly fail to win some interest. The habit of looking upon men as the children of God, and heirs of immorality, can hardly fail to clothe the simplest and most common elements of daily life with importance, and even with dignity. Nothing is trivial in the education of the King's Son! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293684074
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1978-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0849237262
Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020312505
Beecher's charming novel portrays life in a small New England town in the mid-19th century. Full of rich, vivid characters and expertly written prose, Norwood is a must-read for fans of classic American literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Joseph S. Wood
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801866138
New England colonists, Wood argues, brought with them a cultural predisposition toward dispersed settlements within agricultural spaces called "towns" and "villages." Rarely compact in form, these communities did, however, encourage individual landholding. By the early nineteenth century, town centers, where meetinghouses stood, began to develop into the center villages we recognize today. Just as rural New England began its economic decline, Wood shows, romantics associated these proto-urban places with idealized colonial village communities as the source of both village form and commercial success.
Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 037182544X
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Author : Joseph A. Conforti
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807875063
Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape.
Author : Osterhout Free Library (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.),Osterhout Free Library (Wilkesbarre, Pa.).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080253032
Author : John Evelev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192647320
Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and literary history of mid-nineteenth century America. It argues that the picturesque was not simply a landscape aesthetic, but also a discipline of seeing and imaginatively shaping the natural that was widely embraced by bourgeois Americans to transform the national landscape in their own image. Through the picturesque, mid-century bourgeois Americans remade rural spaces into tourist scenery, celebrated the city streets as spaces of cultural diversity, created new urban public parks, and made suburban domesticity a national ideal. This picturesque transformation was promoted in a variety of popular literary genres, all focused on landscape description and all of which trained readers into the protocols of picturesque visual discipline as social reform. Many of these genres have since been dubbed "minor" or have been forgotten by our literary history, but the ranks of the writers of this picturesque literature include everyone from the most canonical (Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe), to major authors of the period now less familiar (such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Margaret Fuller), to those now completely forgotten. Individual chapters of the book link picturesque literary genres to the spaces that the genres helped to transform and, in the process, create what is recognizably our modern American landscape.
Author : Miles Orvell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807837566
For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic allure of the small town in all its forms, illustrating how Americans continue to reinscribe these images on real places in order to forge consensus about inclusion and civic identity, especially in times of crisis. Orvell underscores the fact that Main Street was never what it seemed; it has always been much more complex than it appears, as he shows in his discussions of figures like Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Frank Capra, Thornton Wilder, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. He argues that translating the overly tidy cultural metaphor into real spaces--as has been done in recent decades, especially in the new urbanist planned communities of Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany--actually diminishes the communitarian ideals at the center of this nostalgic construct. Orvell investigates the way these tensions play out in a variety of cultural realms and explores the rise of literary and artistic traditions that deliberately challenge the tropes and assumptions of small-town ideology and life.
