Millicent Min, girl genius / by Yee, Lisa

Evil genius / by Jinks, Catherine

An abundance of Katherines / by Green, John, 1977-

The drama of the American short story, 1800-1865 / by Collins, Michael J. 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Irving brothers at the Park Theatre, 1802 -- "No garden of thought, nor elysium of fancy": Washington Irving's The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent -- The rites of pure brotherhood: fraternalism and performance in Poe and Lippard -- "The rule of men entirely great": Richelieu, ritual, and republicanism in Melville's diptychs -- The "child of nature," or the "wonder of the age": Melville's child prodigies -- "Contending for an empire": performing sincerity in Hawthorne's New England -- Epilogue: Louisa May Alcott's theatrical realism.…”

The drama of the American short story, 1800-1865 / by Collins, Michael J. 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Irving brothers at the Park Theatre, 1802 -- "No garden of thought, nor elysium of fancy": Washington Irving's The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent -- The rites of pure brotherhood: fraternalism and performance in Poe and Lippard -- "The rule of men entirely great": Richelieu, ritual, and republicanism in Melville's diptychs -- The "child of nature," or the "wonder of the age": Melville's child prodigies -- "Contending for an empire": performing sincerity in Hawthorne's New England -- Epilogue: Louisa May Alcott's theatrical realism.…”
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Childhood and innocence in American culture : heartaches and nightmares /

Table of Contents: “…Curtis -- Finding (and losing) the American child : interiority ad the wilderness of the self in Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman Cycle / Rebecca Long -- 'Growing up too fast, too soon' : the child prodigy in late postmodernist literature / Oliver J. …”

Jean Cocteau : a life / by Arnaud, Claude

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; ONE: The Child Prodigy; TWO: Ariel; THREE: The Living God; FOUR: The Molting; FIVE: The War as Opéra; SIX: The Ordeal of Bohemia; SEVEN: The Parade of Peace; EIGHT: With Radiguet; NINE: All Against Dada; TEN: The Miraculous Years; ELEVEN: Genealogy of a Tragedy; TWELVE: The Angel's Dream; THIRTEEN: La Croix et la Bannière; FOURTEEN: "Raymond Has Returned"; FIFTEEN: The Sound of the Fall; SIXTEEN: The Tragic Years; SEVENTEEN: The Decadent One; EIGHTEEN: The Resurrection; NINTEEN: The Occupied; TWENTY: In the Heart of the Furnace.…”
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Mama Rose's turn : the true story of America's most notorious stage mother / by Quinn, Carolyn

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Ballad for Sophie / by Melo, Filipe