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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0820312843ISBN 13: 9780820312842
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2nd ed. First published in 1962, Frederick Rudolph's groundbreaking study, The American College and University, remains one of the most useful and significant works on the history of higher education in America. Bridging the chasm between educational and social history, this book was one of the first to examine developments in higher education in the context of the social, economic, and political forces that were shaping the nation at large.Surveying higher education from the colonial era through the mid-twentieth century, Rudolph explores a multitude of issues from the financing of institutions and the development of curriculum to the education of women and blacks, the rise of college athletics, and the complexities of student life. In his foreword to this new edition, John Thelin assesses the impact that Rudolph's work has had on higher education studies. The new edition also includes a bibliographic essay by Thelin covering significant works in the field that have appeared since the publication of the first edition.At a time when our educational system as a whole is under intense scrutiny, Rudolph's seminal work offers an important historical perspective on the development of higher education in the United States.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0820320668ISBN 13: 9780820320663
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Crackers in the Glade is an account of bygone days in the Everglades. The largest remaining subtropical wilderness in the United States, the Everglades holds a unique place among all the world's wetlands. Through his writings and illustrations, fisherman, guide, and self-taught artist Rob Storter transports us to the remote, half-wild frontier of southwest Florida in the early part of the twentieth century. There, the events of a day could range from a hurricane to a face-to-face encounter with a panther to the arrival of the latest packet from Key West.As Storter recalls his travels through the great swamp and its estuaries, he imparts an old-timer's grasp of the fantastic array of plant and animal life the Everglades once supported. Looking back over a life closely linked to the water, he chronicles how mechanized methods eclipsed the more sustainable approach of fishing as the livelihood of locals who were attuned to natural cycles and worked by necessity on a small scale. Crackers in the Glade is also a story of family and community, of daily joys and setbacks.
Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0820318752ISBN 13: 9780820318752
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Since 1960, powerful and influential law firms in America have shifted from professional service organizations to profit-oriented businesses. To explain how and why this transformation has occurred and how it has affected both lawyers and clients, Profit and the Practice of Law examines the histories of the eight largest firms in Atlanta, Georgia, and similar firms around the country.Over the past thirty-six years, the number of lawyers in the United States has risen more than 225 percent, large law firms have grown by more than 700 percent, and compensation has increased greatly in excess of inflation. Ironically, as these firms have prospered, their lawyers have become unhappier and more dissatisfied, and the public has become more distrustful and disdainful of them.Profit and the Practice of Law discusses possible remedies for this malaise and what can be done to reduce the cost of legal services and to reform the practice of law for the benefit of clients, lawyers, and the community as a whole.
Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0820308153ISBN 13: 9780820308159
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Offers a chronological account of the Civil War, reexamines theories for the South's defeat, and analyzes Confederate and Union military strategy.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1986
ISBN 10: 0820308757ISBN 13: 9780820308753
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Softcover. Condition: used. 257pages including References, Select Bibliography, and Index. University of Georgia Press, 1986. Paperback.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0820319163ISBN 13: 9780820319162
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presents a behind-the-scenes account of a 1988 lawsuit by several white managers against the Shoney's restaurant chain, which they accused of firing them for refusing to execute the company's racist hiring practices, a landmark case watched by corporations nationwide. UP.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0820318566ISBN 13: 9780820318561
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Herman Melville is a towering figure in American literature - arguably the country's greatest nineteenth-century writer. Revising a number of entrenched misunderstandings about Melville in his later years, this is a remarkable and unprecedented account of the aged author giving himself over to a life of the mind. Focusing exclusively on a period usually associated with the waning of Melville's literary powers, William B. Dillingham shows that he was actually concentrating and intensifying his thoughts on art and creativity to a greater degree than ever before.What sustained Melville during that final period of ill health and near-poverty, says Dillingham, was his "circle," not of close friends but of works by a number of writers that he read with appreciative, yet discriminating, affinity, including Matthew Arnold, James Thomson, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Honore de Balzac. Dillingham relates these readings to Melville's own poetry and prose and to a rich variety of largely under-appreciated topics relevant to Melville's later life, from Buddhism, the School of Pessimism, and New York intellectual life to Melville's job at the ever-corrupt customs house, his fear of disgrace and increased self-absorption, and his engagement with both the picturesque and the methaphorical power of roses in art and literature.This portrait of the great writer's final years is at once a biography, an intellectual history, and a discerning reading of his mature work. By showing that Melville's isolation was a conscious intellectual decision rather than a psychological quirk, Melville and His Circle reveals much that is new and challenging about Melville himself and about our notions of age and the persistence of imagination and creativity.
Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1979
ISBN 10: 0820304654ISBN 13: 9780820304656
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Black/white Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Second Library copy- San Diego Air and Space Museum.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0820313696ISBN 13: 9780820313696
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Having won renown in the 1850s for his vivid warfront dispatches from the Crimea, William Howard Russell was the most celebrated foreign journalist in America during the first year of the Civil War. As a special correspondent for The Times of London, Russell was charged with explaining the American crisis to a British audience, but his reports also had great impact in America. They so alienated both sides, North and South, that Russell was forced to return to England prematurely in April 1862.My Diary North and South (1863), Russell's published account of his visit remains a classic of Civil War literature. It was not in fact a diary but a narrative reconstruction of the author's journeys and observations based on his private notebooks and published dispatches. Despite his severe criticisms of American society and conduct, Russell offered in that work generally sympathetic characterizations of the Northern and Southern leadership during the war. In this new volume, Martin Crawford brings together the journalist's original diary and a selection of his private correspondence to resurrect the fully uninhibited Russell and to provide, accordingly, a true documentary record of this important visitor's first impressions of America during the early months of its greatest crisis.Over the course of his visit, Russell traveled widely throughout the Union and the new Confederacy, meeting political and social leaders on both sides. Included here are spontaneous - and often unflattering - comments on such prominent figures as William H. Seward, Jefferson Davis, Mary Todd Lincoln, and George B. McClellan, as well as quick sketches of New York, Washington, New Orleans, and other cities. Also revealed for the first time are the anxiety and despair that Russell experienced during his visit - a state induced by his own self-doubt, by concern over the health and situation of his wife in England, and, finally, by the bitter criticism he received in America over his reports, especially his famous description of the Union retreat from Bull Run in July 1861.A sometimes vain and pompous figure, Russell also emerges here as an individual of exceptional tenacity - a man who abhorred slavery and remained convinced of the essential rectitude of the Northern cause even as he criticized Northern leaders, their lack of preparedness for war, and the apparent disunity of the Northern population. In calmer times, Crawford notes, Russell's independent qualities might have brought him admiration, but in the turbulent climate of Civil War America they succeeded only in arousing deep suspicion.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0820322768ISBN 13: 9780820322766
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. Whether used on its own or in conjunction with Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, this reader is a theoretical, analytical, and historical introduction to the study of popular culture within cultural studies. The readings cover the culture and civilization tradition, culturalism, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism, feminism, and postmodernism, as well as current debates in the study of popular culture.New to this edition:Four new readings by Stuart Hall, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, and Savoj iekFully revised general and section introductions that contextualize and link the readings with key issues in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An IntroductionFully updated bibliographyIdeal for courses in:cultural studiesmedia studiescommunication studiessociology of culturepopular culturevisual studiescultural criticism.
Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1995
ISBN 10: 0820316954ISBN 13: 9780820316956
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This volume brings together representative selections of Lewis Mumford's major writings on the central concerns of his life. Praised by Malcolm Cowley as "the last of the great humanists," Mumford (1895-1990) produced a body of cultural criticism and commentary that for its range and richness is unmatched in modern American letters. Author of countless articles and more than thirty books - including the landmark works The Culture of the Cities and The City in History - Mumford is arguably this century's foremost architectural critic. In addition, he shaped some of the most important public policy debates of our time, writing with vigor on such issues as urban development, transportation policy, land planning, the environment, nuclear disarmament, and the problems and promises of technology.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0820320366ISBN 13: 9780820320366
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In Niger, where access to rail and air travel requires overcoming many obstacles, roads are the nations lifeline. For a year in the early 1990s, Peter Chilson traveled this desert country by automobile to experience West African road culture. He crisscrossed the same roads again and again with bush taxi driver Issoufou Garba in order to learn one driver's story inside and out. He hitchhiked, riding in cotton trucks, and traveled with other bush taxi drivers, truckers, road engineers, an anthropologist, Niger's only licensed woman commercial driver, and a customs officer.The road in Africa, says Chilson, is more than a direction or a path to take. Once you've booked passage and taken your seat, the road becomes the center of your life. Hurtling along at eighty miles an hour in a bush taxi equipped with bald tires, no windows, and sometimes no doors, travelers realize that they've surrendered everything.Chilson uses the road not to reinforce Africa's worn image of decay and corruption but to reveal how people endure political and economic chaos, poverty, and disease. The road has reflected the struggle for survival in Niger since the first automobile arrived there, and it remains a useful metaphor for the fight for stability and prosperity across Africa.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0820320323ISBN 13: 9780820320328
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A conclusion to the renowned "science-in-fiction" tetralogy by an award-winning chemist follows two married scientists who develop breakthroughs in human reproduction and find themselves engulfed in a whirlwind of fame, fortune, and celebrity. UP.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0820318442ISBN 13: 9780820318448
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Spanning nearly a century, the letters in this collection revolve around a central event in the history of a southern family: the death of the eldest son owing to sickness contracted during service in the Confederate Army. The letters reveal a slaveowning family with keen interests in art, music, and nature and an unshakable belief in their religion and in the Confederate cause.William Seagrove Smith was a private in the signal corps of the Eighteenth Battalion, Georgia Infantry. Smith was part of the force defending Savannah until it fell in late 1864, and then marched with General William J. Hardee in his famous retreat out of the city and through the Carolinas. Like so many other soldiers on both sides of the conflict, William Smith fell not at the hands of an enemy but from disease. He died in Raleigh, North Carolina, on July 7, 1865. A parallel and complementary story about William's younger brother, Archibald, also emerges in the letters. As a cadet at Georgia Military Institute, Archibald was (as his parents fervently wished) exempt from service; however, he ultimately saw--and survived--action before the war's end.Scattered among the many lines in the letters that are devoted to the two brothers are a wealth of particulars about agricultural, industrial, and social life in the family's north Georgia community of Roswell, the Smith family's flight from Sherman's invasion force, their lives as refugees in south Georgia, and a final reunion of the Smith brothers outside of Savannah just after the city's fall. Also included are a number of moving exchanges between the Smiths and the family that cared for William in his final days.A brief history of the Smith family through 1863 begins the correspondence, while the letters following the war reveal their fortitude in the face of William's death and the hardships of Reconstruction. The volume concludes with selected letters from the subsequent generation of Smiths, who conjure images of the Old South and revive the memory of William. Like the most distinguished Civil War-era letter collections, The Death of a Confederate introduces a personal dimension to its story that is often lost in histories of this sweeping event.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0820304646ISBN 13: 9780820304649
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Walter L Williams.
Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1990
ISBN 10: 0820311618ISBN 13: 9780820311616
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Depicts city life between the wars.
Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1992
ISBN 10: 0820314692ISBN 13: 9780820314693
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This popular guide enables users to quickly and confidently identify any of the trees of the southeastern United States, from the common loblolly pine or red mulberry to the rare Pinckneya (fever-tree) or goat willow. The guide treats more than 300 species--every one known to occur in the region, from the Coastal Plain to the highest elevations. Included are trees native to the region as well as those introduced and now reproducing. Helpful features include easy identification keys, common and scientific names, distribution maps, an introductory section on basic leaf, flower, and stem structures, and a glossary of descriptive and identifying terms.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0820309338ISBN 13: 9780820309330
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. The most influential historian of our time, C. Vann Woodward has forged his place in American learning and culture from two sometimes opposing, sometimes complementary urges: to work for social justice and to reveal the past without bias. Underlying his career has been the knowledge that his native South, because of its traumatic experience of defeat and disgrace, holds within its past truths that could instruct the nation as a whole, perhaps ease it through the dilemmas and racial inequality and social strife, and guide it away from the mad pursuits of war and political repression.C. Vann Woodward, Southerner is a chronicle of Woodward's life, of the tumultuous times that have engaged him and shaped his thought, and of the historical profession that has accorded him its highest honors of respect and unstinting criticism. Jack Roper begins with Woodward's birth, in 1908, to an aristocratic family in eastern Arkansas and his youth in the Oachita valley. By the time Woodward left his home state to study at Emory University, he had already demonstrated the urge toward dissent that drove him, throughout the first decades of his career, to confront social and racial injustice, to press relentlessly outward from his own position of security and confront the civil strife that simmered outside the hedgerows of academia. In Chapel Hill and Atlanta, in New York and Baltimore, in his books and in his actions, Woodward spoke to the present even as he wrote of the past.By no means uncritical of Woodward's works, Roper nonetheless shows that books such as Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel, Origins of the New South, and The Strange Career of Jim Crow have effectively defined the terms of historical debate, often asking the "impertinent first question" that spurred other historians to seek fuller answers. Of those books, The Strange Career of Jim Crow is closest to Woodward's ultimate concerns and has caused him his gravest doubts--for a time he almost disowned the book that Martin Luther King, Jr. called "the bible of the civil rights movement." Those doubts came at a time in American history that Woodward found particularly ominous: the Vietnam years when it seemed that the lights of civil rights and social progress had lost their steady glow. In the mid-1970s, however, Woodward regained his political engagement, and today he continues his work of bringing--through numerous book reviews and essays--the insights of the historical profession to the intelligent, concerned reader."What has the historian to do with hope?" These words of Woodward's late colleague David Potter in response to The Strange Career of Jim Crow encapsulate the conflict that both inspired and occasionally beset that book's author. For it is Woodward's almost continual commitment to social change that made his books so powerful when they were published, so diminished in strength when examined in later decades. This tension between advocacy and scholarship, between experience and learning both marks the greatest challenge for Woodward and defines his greatness as a cultural figure, as a conscience for his profession and for our time.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0820314870ISBN 13: 9780820314877
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Later Edition. Confederate scout and sharpshooter Berry Greenwood Benson witnessed the first shot fired on Fort Sumter, retreated with Lee's Army to its surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, and missed little of the action in between. This memoir of his service is a remarkable narrative, filled with the minutiae of the soldier's life and paced by a continual succession of battlefield anecdotes.Three main stories emerge from Benson's account: his reconnaissance exploits, his experiences in battle, and his escape from prison. Though not yet eighteen years old when he left his home in Augusta, Georgia, to join the army, Benson was soon singled out for the abilities that would serve him well as a scout. Not only was he a crack shot, a natural leader, and a fierce Southern partisan, but he had a kind of restless energy and curiosity, loved to take risks, and was an instant and infallible judge of human nature. His recollections of scouting take readers within arm's reach of Union trenches and encampments. Benson recalls that while eavesdropping he never failed to be shocked by the Yankees' foul language; he had never heard that kind of talk in a Confederate camp!Benson's descriptions of the many battles in which he fought--including Cold Harbor, The Seven Days, Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg--convey the desperation of a full frontal charge and the blind panic of a disorganized retreat. Yet in these accounts, Benson's own demeanor under fire is manifest in the coolly measured tone he employs.A natural writer, Benson captures the dark absurdities of war in such descriptions as those of hardened veterans delighting in the new shoes and other equipment they found on corpse-littered battlefields. His clothing often torn by bullets, Benson was also badly bruised a number of times by spent rounds. At one point, in May 1863, he was wounded seriously enough in the leg to be hospitalized, but he returned to the field before full recuperation.Benson was captured behind enemy lines in May 1864 while on a scouting mission for General Lee. Confined to Point Lookout Prison in Maryland, he escaped after only two days and swam the Potomac to get back into Virginia. Recaptured near Washington, D.C., he was briefly held in Old Capitol Prison, then sent to Elmira Prison in New York. There he joined a group of ten men who made the only successful tunnel escape in Elmira's history. After nearly six months in captivity or on the run, he rejoined his unit in Virginia. Even at Appomattox, Benson refused to surrender but stole off with his brother to North Carolina, where they planned to join General Johnston. Finding the roads choked with Union forces and surrendered Confederates, the brothers ultimately bore their unsurrendered rifles home to Augusta.Berry Benson first wrote his memoirs for his family and friends. Completed in 1878, they drew on his--and partially on his brother's--wartime diaries, as well as on letters that both brothers had written to family members during the war. The memoirs were first published in book form in 1962 but have long been unavailable. This edition, with a new foreword by the noted Civil War historian Herman Hattaway, will introduce this compelling story to a new generation of readers.
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1975
ISBN 10: 0820303534ISBN 13: 9780820303536
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. B/w (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Book by Bingham Duncan.
Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1978
ISBN 10: 0820304379ISBN 13: 9780820304373
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Book by Edmondson, C.Earl.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1984
ISBN 10: 082030638XISBN 13: 9780820306384
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Published by Brand: University of Georgia Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0820312282ISBN 13: 9780820312286
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A detailed study of American political consciousness in the colonial period and early years of the republic, this suggests that proslavery thought originated in conservative New England and was brought to the South by clergymen, where it was embraced and developed into full-blown ideology.
Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1990
ISBN 10: 0820312355ISBN 13: 9780820312354
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 0. Fine copy.
Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1977
ISBN 10: 0820303917ISBN 13: 9780820303918
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Views tragedy as a philosophical orientation rather than a literary genre, focusing on works by Shakespeare, Tennyson, Housman, Conrad, Shaw, O'Neill, and Miller.
Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1988
ISBN 10: 0820309850ISBN 13: 9780820309859
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Person, Leland S.
Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1982
ISBN 10: 0820305723ISBN 13: 9780820305721
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ball, Milner S.
Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1989
ISBN 10: 0820311189ISBN 13: 9780820311180
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Essays discuss the American Revolution, slavery, and the Kennedy and Nixon administrations.
Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1989
ISBN 10: 0820310956ISBN 13: 9780820310954
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st US. Essays discuss the American Revolution, slavery, and the Kennedy and Nixon administrations.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1989
ISBN 10: 0820311081ISBN 13: 9780820311081
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The richness of Victorian theatre has often been neglected because of the eras most celebrated productions of Shakespeares plays. Judith L. Fisher and Stephen Watt present a vigorous collection of eighteen essays covering the vast expanse of this other theatre, including social dramas, Christmas pantomimes, and adaptations of Gothic novels such as Guy Mannering and Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags .Reflecting both the longings and values of the public and the theatrical conventions of the times, Victorian productions could capture audiences with the historical verisimilitude of William Charles Macreadys production of Richelieu or incite a storm of public outrage with the too explicitly fallen woman in Olga Nethersoles interpretation of Sapho . Playwrights worked at adapting such popular classic works as The Count of Monte Cristo or devising new melodramas such as Rent Day and Luke the Labourer . Pandering to the tastes of an expanding middle-class audience, theatre bills reflected popular fascination with the daily newspapers stories of social maladies. Transposed to the stage, bad men and women could be punished for wrongdoings in a way that was unlikely or impossible in real life. Emphasizing the variety of stagecraft in the Victorian age, the contributors to When They Werent Doing Shakespeare present a composite portrait of the vibrant theatrical worlds that existed in both nineteenth-century New York and London.