International arts and crafts

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Carol Berkin and Leslie Horowitz

Women's Voices, Women's Lives offers a wealth of primary sources on women's experiences in colonial America. Carol Berkin and Leslie Horowitz gather together a broad spectrum of documents that crossents race, class, and region, presenting the voices of African American, European, and Native American women, the rich and the poor, and women in the south, the middle colonies, and New England. The editors draw on diaries, letters, essays, court documents, sermons, wills, plantation records, newspapers, fiction, and advice manuals to reconstruct women's lives and roles during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Gene D. Phillips

"This new edition of Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinemas is a revised, updated, and expanded version of the previous edition. Gene D. Phillips focuses on fourteen American and British directors to tell the story of the history of cinema from the days of silent movies to the advent of sound, color, and widescreen. Phillips has chosen those moviemakers who have made enduring works that still appeal to filmgoers today, as attested by their availability on television and on videocassette. Moreover, Phillips seeks to represent the various trends in filmmaking that have evolved over the years, such as American film noir, which is included in the discussion of Alfred Hitchcock's films, and British social realism, which is included in the discussion of Bryan Forbes's films."--BOOK JACKET.

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Howard Kerr, John W. Crowley, and Charles L. Crow

Contents: Washington Irving and the American Ghost Story • essay by G. Richard Thompson [as by G. R. Thompson ] Phantasms and Death in Poe's Fiction • essay by J. Gerald Kennedy Philanthropy and the Occult in the Fiction of Hawthorne, Brownson, and Melville • essay by Carolyn L. Karcher "I must have died at ten minutes past one": Posthumous Reverie in Harriet Prescott Spofford's "The Amber Gods" • essay by Barton Levi St. Armand Ghostly Rentals, Ghostly Purchases: Haunted Imaginations in James, Twain, and Bellamy • essay by Jay Martin James's Last Early Supernatural Tales: Hawthorne Demagnetized, Poe Depoetized • essay by Howard Kerr Psychology and the Psychic in W. D. Howell's "A Sleep and a Forgetting" • essay by Charles L. Crow and John W. Crowley "When Other Amusements Fail": Mark Twain and the Occult • essay by Alan Gribben Jack London: Up from Spiritualism • essay by Charles N. Watson, Jr. The Color of "The Damned Thing": The Occult as the Supersensational • essay by Cruce Stark

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Karen O'Brien

Is there a common European identity? If so, what kinds of history does it possess? Narratives of Enlightenment examines the literary and historical achievements of major figures such as Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon and the American historian David Ramsay in the light of eighteenth-century political and national debates in France, Scotland, England and America. Undertaking a comparative reappraisal of these writers, Karen O'Brien investigates the degree and nature of their intellectual investments in the idea of a common European civilisation. This original and incisive study intervenes from the perspective of literary criticism in contemporary debates about Enlightenments past and present, the political uses for narrative, and the European contexts of national awareness.