Georg Forster : German Cosmopolitan / by Kontje, Todd

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Sensitive negotiations : indigenous diplomacy and British Romantic poetry / by Hessell, Nikki

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The power of (poetic) promises -- Truth and reconciliation : the case of "the Monster Brandt" -- Romanticism and removal : Elias Boudinot, Felicia Hemans, and the Cherokee Phoenix -- Digressive diplomacy : George Copway and Byron's lines on the Rhine -- "Always build a fence around the king's word" : Sol Plaatje and The deserted village -- Petitions and repetitions : Rēweti Kōhere and the ashes of Byron and Macaulay -- Conclusion: Coming to terms with Romantic poetry.…”
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Dashiell Hammett and the movies / by Mooney, William H., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Early films: Roadhouse nights (1930), City streets (1931), and Mister Dynamite (1935) -- The Thin man (1934) -- After The thin man: from sequel to series Woman in the dark (1934) and Watch on the Rhine (1943) -- The Maltese falcon (1931), Satan met a lady (1936), and The Maltese falcon (1941) -- The glass key (1935 and 1942) -- Hammett in retrospect: Miller's crossing -- Conclusion: Dashiell Hammett and the movies.…”
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Dashiell Hammett and the movies / by Mooney, William H., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Three early films: Roadhouse nights (1930), City streets (1931), and Mister Dynamite (1935) -- Celebrity: The Thin man (1934) -- After The thin man: from sequel to series -- Lillian Hellman: Woman in the dark (1934) and Watch on the Rhine (1943) -- Sexual Politics: The Maltese falcon (1931), Satan met a lady (1936), and The Maltese falcon (1941) -- Ethnic Politics: The glass key (1935 and 1942) -- Hammett in retrospect: Miller's crossing (1990) -- Conclusion: Dashiell Hammett and the movies.…”

A dark and stormy oeuvre : crime, magic and power in the novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton / by Huckvale, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803/1873) -- Pelham, or, The adventures of a gentleman -- The disowned -- Devereux -- Paul Clifford -- Eugene Aram: a tale -- Godolphin -- The last days of Pompeii (1834) and The pilgrims of the Rhine -- Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes -- Ernest Maltravers (1836) and Alice -- First interlude: Leila; or, The siege of granada (1838), Zicci: a tale (1838) and early Victorian occultism -- Night and morning -- Zanoni -- The last of the barons -- Lucretia, or, The children of the night -- Harold, the last of the Saxon kings -- Second interlude: Bulwer-Lytton's realist period: The Caxtons: a family picture (1849), My novel; or, Varieties in Eglish life (1853), What will he do with it? …”

Broadway goes to war : American theater during World War II / by McLaughlin, Robert L., 1957-2022, Parry, Sally E.

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The late Roman world and its historian : interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus /

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Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic : Legacies and Innovations. by Hudson, Kathleen

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustration -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Alternative Genealogies: (Re)tracing the Origins of Women's Gothic in Sophia Lee's The Recess and Mrs Carver's The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey -- 2 Gothic before Gothic: Minerva Press Reviews, Gender and the Evolution of Genre -- 3 What 'Poor Mrs Kelly' Saw: Isabella Kelly Reads The Monk -- 4 Mary Robinson's Gothic and the Prison of Gender -- 5 Adopting the 'Orphan': Literary Exchange and Appropriation in Eleanor Sleath's The Orphan of the Rhine…”
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Perceptions of Germany in British travel literature / by Kassis, Dimitrios

Table of Contents: “…Robert Gray : letters during a course of a tour through germany -- Ann Radcliffe : journey made in the summer of 1794 -- Sir John Carr : a tour through Holland along the left and right banks of the Rhine -- Thomas Raffles : letters during a tour through some parts of France, Savoy, Switzerland and Germany and the netherlands in the year 1817 -- richard boyle Bernard : a tour through some parts of france, switzerland, savoy, germany and belgium during the summer and autumn of 1814 -- John Thomas James : journal of a tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland in 1813-14 -- John Russel : a tour in Germany and some of the northern provinces of the Austrian kingdom in 1820, 1821,1822 -- Seth William Stevenson : a tour in France, Savoy, northern Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands in the summer of 1825 -- William Howitt : the rural and domestic life of Germany : with characteristic sketches of its cities and scenery -- James William Massie : recollections of a tour. a summer rumble in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland.…”

Staging the war : American drama and World War II / by Wertheim, Albert

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Knowledge, text and practice in ancient technical writing /

Table of Contents: “…/ Philip van der Eijk and Marco Formisano -- The poetics of knowledge / Marco Formisano -- Machines on paper: from words to acts in ancient mechanics / Markus Asper -- Architecture as "the art of the possible" / Elisa Romano -- Caesar's Rhine bridge and its feasibility in Giovanni Giocondo's Expositio pontis / Ronny Kaiser -- From words to acts: on the applicability of Hippocratic therapy / Pilar Pérez Cañizares -- Naso magister erat -- sed cui bono? …”
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Beautiful death : Jewish poetry and martyrdom in medieval France / by Einbinder, Susan L., 1954-

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A new literary history of modern China /

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The essential J. Frank Dobie / by Dobie, J. Frank 1888-1964

Table of Contents: “…Europe amid two world wars: ... from two letters to Bertha -- Dobie during World War I -- A day with the Basques -- Birds under bombs: in England during World War II -- Across the Rhine: travels in postwar Germany -- Part 8. Texas needs brains: Texas needs brains -- True patriots and Pappy O'Daniel -- Only a man with eyes in the back of his head -- ... …”
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The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner. by Shanes, Eric

Table of Contents: “…First-Rate, taking in stores, Loss of an East Indiaman; Borthwick Castle; England: Richmond Hill on the Prince Regent's Birthday; MARXBOURG and BRUGBERG on the RHINE; Passage of Mont Cenis; More Park, near Watford, on the River Colne; Norham Castle, on the River Tweed; Dover Castle; A Storm (Shipwreck); Roslin Castle; Rye, Sussex; Totnes, on the River Dart; Boscastle, Cornwall; The Battle of Trafalgar; Rise of the River Stour at Stourhead; Grenoble Bridge; Portsmouth; Richmond Hill; Bolton Abbey; Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland; Richmond Castle and Town, Yorkshire.…”
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Inside the Texas Revolution : the enigmatic memoir of Herman Ehrenberg / by Ehrenberg, Herman, 1816-1866

Table of Contents: “…-- The Mexican Death-March, and a Texan Triumph, Toasted with Milk -- Der Fang des Rheinpreussen = The Capture of the Rhine-Prussian -- The Return of Colonel Holzinger (and of John Adams) -- Santa Anna = Santa Anna -- Face to Face with El Presidente? …”
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