Author: Matthew Baigell
Publisher: New York : Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: Henry James
Publisher: New York : Harper
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Carmenita Higginbotham
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271063935
Category : African Americans in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Examines the portrayal of race in interwar American art. Focuses on the works of urban realist Reginald Marsh and his contemporaries to show how black figures acted as cultural and visual markers and embodied complex concerns about the presence of African Americans in urban centers.

Author: Ruth Lilly Westphal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300034813
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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An engaging and delightfully illustrated account of the impact of railroads on the American built environment and on American culture from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1930's.

Author: Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674424432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Will American Jews survive their success? Or will the United States' uniquely hospitable environment lead inexorably to their assimilation and loss of cultural identity? This is the conundrum that Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab explore in their wise and learned book about the American Jewish experience. Jews, perhaps more than any ethnic or religious minority that has immigrated to these shores, have benefited from the country's openness, egalitarianism, and social heterogeneity. This unusually good fit, the authors argue, has as much to do with the exceptionalism of the Jewish people as with that of America. But acceptance for all ancestral groups has its downside: integration into the mainstream erodes their defining features, diluting the loyalties that sustain their members. The authors vividly illustrate this paradox as it is experienced by American Jews today--in their high rates of intermarriage, their waning observance of religious rites, their extraordinary academic and professional success, their commitment to liberalism in domestic politics, and their steadfast defense of Israel. Yet Jews view these trends with a sense of foreboding: "We feel very comfortable in America--but anti-Semitism is a serious problem"; "We would be desolate if Israel were lost--but we don't feel as close to that country as we used to"; "More of our youth are seeking some serious form of Jewish affirmation and involvement--but more of them are slipping away from Jewish life." These are the contradictions tormenting American Jews as they struggle anew with the never-dying problem of Jewish continuity. A graceful and immensely readable work, Jews and the New American Scene provides a remarkable range of scholarship, anecdote, and statistical research--the clearest, most up-to-date account available of the dilemma facing American Jews in their third century of citizenship.

Author: Richard H. Love
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580460248
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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Throughout his life Peters depicted the ordinary places and people of America. From Rochester to Rockport, Peters made an amazingly coherent group of fascinating, masterful American pictures.

Author: Henry James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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In New York Revisited, first published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in 1906, Henry James describes turn-of-the-century New York in vivid detail. Although written in 1904-1905, when James returned to the U.S. after living abroad for more than 20 years, the essay is as pertinent today as it was 100 years ago. The text appears as it was originally published and is enhanced with period illustrations and photographs. Beautifully bound and with a spectacular view of the Flatiron building on the cover, this book is a literary treasure.

Author: Dickran Tashjian
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520038547
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: Stuart Hutchinson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230373194
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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The American Scene considers major texts of nineteenth century American literature: The Leatherstocking Tales, Poe's fiction, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Leaves of Grass, Dickinson's poetry, Huckleberry Finn, James's The American Scene. It sees these works as attempts to articulate relationships between the self and the New World. The indeterminacy of the relationships is expressed in the formal instability of the works themselves. In these respects, nineteenth century American literature is shown to offer a striking contrast to comparable English literature.