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A tour de force that reconceptualizes literary history and repositions British literature to claim the imperial and trans-Atlantic origins of the British novel. "—Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, author of Disorderly Conduct "A very exciting piece of work, with important implications for how we conceive projects in literary, intellectual, and cultural history. . . . It is sure to be a controversial study, but it will get serious attention, not just as...

A tour de force that reconceptualizes literary history and repositions British literature to claim the imperial and trans-Atlantic origins of the British novel. "—Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, author of Disorderly Conduct "A very exciting piece of work, with important implications for how we conceive projects in literary, intellectual, and cultural history. . . . It is sure to be a controversial study, but it will get serious attention, not just as...

Kee ist ein kleiner Indianerjunge, vom Volk der Navajo. Als Soldaten auftauchen, um sie aus der Heimat zu vertreiben, verändert sich sein Leben für immer. Hintergrund: 1864 wurden die Navajo-Indianer durch die U.S. Kavallerie gezwungen, ihre angestammte Heimat in Arizona zu verlassen. Sie wurden zu einem Gewaltmarsch in ein Internierungslager der Regierung gezwungen, das 300 Meilen entfernt war. Der lange Marsch der Navajo ist die Geschichte ...

This is a story about a little boy who learns that everything that is fun cannot always be found in a toy box, or even in a book. A story about a little red house with no windows, no doors, and a star inside. Jimmy starts out on an adventure that takes him many places, meets many people, and learns to trust in others as well as himself. This is a wonderful story about the love and trust a mother has for her son. Also, a story about always beli...

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Nancy Armstrong is Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English at Duke University and author of Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing: The American Example. ¿ John Marx is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis and author of Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011.

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Nancy Armstrong is the Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English at Duke University. She is author of How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900 and Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism. Leonard Tennenhouse is Professor of English at Duke University. He is author of several books, most recently, The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850...

A leading literary scholar offers a striking account of how the novel created the modern individual.

Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person a place commensurate with his or her individual worth. Once the novel had created this figure, readers understood themselves in terms of a narrati...

Victorians were fascinated with how accurately photography could copy people, the places they inhabited, and the objects surrounding them. Much more important, however, is the way in which Victorian people, places, and things came to resemble photographs. In this provocative study of British realism, Nancy Armstrong explains how fiction entered into a relationship with the new popular art of photography that transformed the world into a pictur...

Fans have a long history in the decorative arts in Spain. This book concentrates on the infinite variety of materials used to make fans, both the importation of those materials and their handling. Some fans were grand and gem-encrusted emblems of authority, others were mass-produced paper trifles with political advertisements on them. Spanish-dominated Central and South American countries provided brilliantly colored fans made from iridescent ...

It is said, "When the camp bug bites you're hooked for life!" Nancy and her husband Tom caught that bug during their youth and jumped at the opportunity to own and direct a summer camp in southern Maine when they retired. Retired again, they enjoy life at their cottage off Cape Cod, where Nancy, always a story teller, writes about a new camper's experiences at a camp called, Hideaway somewhere in northern Maine. It's a must read for new camper...

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The tale of Kee, a young Navajo boy who must face the devastation of his culture. After the soldiers burn their crops and drive away their livestock, the Navajos realize they must follow the soldiers to Fort Sumner or face starvation. All children will benefit from this sensitive story of survival through cooperation.