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Unseen Shadows: Modern Haunted Houses of the United States

by Erwin Timothy ...

Prepare to venture into the shadows of America's modern-day haunted houses, where the living and the dead collide in mysterious and spine-chilling ways. Unseen Shadows: Modern Haunted Houses of the United States is an exploration of the paranormal encounters that lurk in the corners of today's society, transcending the boundaries of traditional ghost stories and offering a fresh perspective on the ... Read more

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Prepare to venture into the shadows of America's modern-day haunted houses, where the living and the dead collide in mysterious and spine-chilling ways. Unseen Shadows: Modern Haunted Houses of the United States is an exploration of the paranormal encounters that lurk in the corners of today's society, transcending the boundaries of traditional ghost stories and offering a fresh perspective on the
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Textual Vision

Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture

by Timothy Erwin ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
A stylish critique of literary attitudes towards painting, TextualVision explores the simultaneous rhetorical formation and empirical fragmentation of visual reading in enlightenment Britain. Beginning with an engaging treatment of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Timothy Erwin takes the reader on a guided tour of the pointed allusion, apt illustration, or the subtle appeal to the mind's eye within a wide ... Read more

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A stylish critique of literary attitudes towards painting, TextualVision explores the simultaneous rhetorical formation and empirical fragmentation of visual reading in enlightenment Britain. Beginning with an engaging treatment of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Timothy Erwin takes the reader on a guided tour of the pointed allusion, apt illustration, or the subtle appeal to the mind's eye within a wide
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The Bergdoll Boys

America's Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers

by Timothy W. Lake ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette, Louis Erwin Bergdoll, Timothy W Lake ...

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19 hours 12 min

Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Then, just as Grover is trying to buy a bigger plane to set more records and attempt to fly to Europe a decade before Lindbergh, they're snared by vengeful local military draft officials. Running and ... Read more

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Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Then, just as Grover is trying to buy a bigger plane to set more records and attempt to fly to Europe a decade before Lindbergh, they're snared by vengeful local military draft officials. Running and
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Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment

The Genius of Every Place

by Kevin L. Cope, Samara Anne Cahill, Stephen Clarke, Greg Clingham, Bärbel Czennia, Stephen DeMaria Jr., Timothy Erwin, Stephen Karian, A. W. Lee, Maximillian Novak0, David Nunnery1, Philip Smallwood2, David Venturo3, Lance Wilcox4, James Engell5 ...

Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift, Dryden, Hogarth, and other major authors and artists of the period. In the sections that ... Read more

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Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift, Dryden, Hogarth, and other major authors and artists of the period. In the sections that
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Beyond Sense and Sensibility

Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth

by Leslie A. Chilton, Timothy Erwin, Evan Gottlieb, Christopher D. Johnson, Heather King, Rhona Brown, James Noggle, Adrianne Wadewitz, Adam Rounce ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How ... Read more

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During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How
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Reconsidering Biography

Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

by Martine Watson Brownley, Greg Clingham, Timothy Erwin, Christopher D. Johnson, Thomas Kaminski, Myron D. Yeager, O M Brack Jr., Martine W. Brownley ...

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting ... Read more

$85.99 USD

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting
... Read more
The Bergdoll Boys

America's Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers

by Timothy W. Lake ...

A biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century. Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Grover, the most notorious, is celebrated for his daring record ... Read more

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A biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century. Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Grover, the most notorious, is celebrated for his daring record
... Read more

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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29)

by Deborah Kennedy, Angelina Dulong, Mona Scheuermann, Paul Tankard, Christina Ionescu, Catherine J. Lewis Theobald, Jeanne M. Britton, Timothy Erwin, Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Ileana Baird, Yanzhang Cui, Duane Coltharp, Thomas Hothem, John C. Traver, Christopher Trigg, Paul deGategno, Courtney A. Hoffman, Elizabeth Kraft, John Knapp, Gefen Bar-On Santor, Susan Spencer, Greg Clingham, Christopher D. Johnson, Leigh G. Dillard, Anthony W Lee ...

Series Book 29 - 1650-1850
Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement. Welcoming ... Read more

$115.99 USD

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement. Welcoming
... Read more

The Barn

The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

by Wright Thompson ...

**The instant New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Slate, Vanity Fair, TIME, Buzzfeed, Smithsonian, BookPage, KCUR, Kirkus, and Boston Globe • Nominated for a PEN America Literary Award“It literally changed my outlook on the world…incredible.” —Shonda Rhimes"The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the ... ... Read more

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**The instant New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Slate, Vanity Fair, TIME, Buzzfeed, Smithsonian, BookPage, KCUR, Kirkus, and Boston Globe • Nominated for a PEN America Literary Award“It literally changed my outlook on the world…incredible.” —Shonda Rhimes"The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the ...
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City of Scoundrels

The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

by Gary Krist ...

The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling,
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The Secret Life of Words

How English Became English

by Henry Hitchings ...

"A colorful, thematic history of the English language . . . a fine choice for libraries and a 'smorgasbord' for language aficionados. Highly recommended." —E. L. Battistella, ChoiceWords are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think ... Read more

$12.99 USD

"A colorful, thematic history of the English language . . . a fine choice for libraries and a 'smorgasbord' for language aficionados. Highly recommended." —E. L. Battistella, ChoiceWords are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think
... Read more
Rising Tide

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

by John M. Barry ...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long ... Read more

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long
... Read more

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