Niagaras of Ink Famous Writers at the Falls.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Excelsior Editions Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Prologue: Seeing Niagara with Different Eyes
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Lost Pages
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Value of What Has Been Lost
- (1803-1882)
- Recovery
- An Anthology of Anecdotes
- Chapter 1 Old Worlds, New Voices
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Captivating History
- (1789-1867)
- David Cusick: Appearing in Print
- (c. 1780-c. 1840)
- Margaret Fuller: Sublime Satire
- (1810-1850)
- Chapter 2 Clean Water and Clean Air
- Washington Irving: The Canal and Cholera
- (1783-1859)
- Henry David Thoreau: Breath and Botany
- (1817-1862)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Mourning and Melancholy
- (1807-1882)
- Chapter 3 The Falls and Fame
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Riding the Tide of Tourism
- (1804-1864)
- Oscar Wilde: Nothing to Declare but Disappointment
- (1854-1900)
- Chapter 4 Copyrights and Wrongs
- Charles Dickens: Boz's Two Cents
- (1812-1870)
- Mark Twain: The Cost of Travel
- (1835-1910)
- Guides, Photographers and Such
- A Dismal Experience
- Chapter 5 Books That Started a War
- Harriet Beecher Stowe and Josiah Henson: Fiction and Truth
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- (1811-1896)
- Rev. Josiah Henson
- (1789-1883)
- Chapter 6 Bridge Traffic
- Harriet Tubman: "The Line of Danger"
- (c. 1820-1913)
- Walt Whitman: Suspended in Time
- (1819-1892)
- Chapter 7 Words of Art
- William Dean Howells: "O feeble pen"
- (1837-1920)
- Henry James: "It Beats Michael Angelo"
- (1843-1916)
- Chapter 8 War, and Peace
- Anthony Trollope: The Civil War
- (1815-1882)
- Rupert Brooke: "The Great War"
- (1887-1915)
- Chapter 9 Case Closed?
- James Fenimore Cooper: Historical Fictions
- (1789-1851)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock and Spiritualism
- (1859-1930)
- Jack London: Not So Civilized
- (1876-1916)
- Chapter 10 Save Niagara
- H. G. Wells: War of the Words
- (1866-1946)
- Epilogue: Still Seeing Niagara
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index