Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s

Pop Culture Icon Interpretations of the Effect of Stowe\u27s Novel When Harriet Beecher Stowe visited the White House in the 1860s, President Lincoln is said to have greeted her with the words: So you are the little lady who started the great war. Today, while historians debate abo...

The N2K Consortium. I. A Hot Saturn Planet Orbiting HD 88133

The N2K ("next 2000") consortium is carrying out a distributed observing campaign with the Keck, Magellan, and Subaru telescopes, as well as the automatic photometric telescopes of Fairborn Observatory, in order to search for short-period gas giant planets around metal-rich stars. We have established a reservoir of more than 14,000 main-sequence and subgiant stars closer than 110 pc, brighter than V = 10.5, and with 0.4 0.1 dex for this survey. We outline the strategy and report the detection of a planet orbiting the metal-rich G5 IV star HD 88133 with a period of 3.41 days, semivelocity amplitude K = 35.7 m s^(-1), and M sin i = 0.29M_J. Photometric observations reveal that HD 88133 is constant on the 3.415 day radial velocity period to a limit of 0.0005 mag. Despite a transit probability of 19.5%, our photometry rules out the shallow transits predicted by the large stellar radius

Review of \u3ci\u3eAlexander\u27s Bridge. \u3c/i\u3e By Willa Cather

Willa Cather tried to disown Alexander\u27s Bridge (1912). In her 1922 preface reprinted in this impressive scholarly edition, she compared her first novel invidiously to her second, O Pioneers! (1913): The difference in quality in the two books is an illustration of the fact that it is not always easy for the inexperienced writer to distinguish between his own material and that which he would like to make his own. Whereas most of Cather\u27s long fiction would concentrate on the Great Plains, the region she knew best and loved most deeply, this first novel takes place in Boston, England, and Canada; and it does mimic work by others, particularly Edith Wharton and Henry James. Cather was right that she found herself as a novelist in O Pioneers!, not Alexander\u27s Bridge. Yet this eighth volume in the University of Nebraska Press\u27s prestigious and meticulously produced Cather Edition nevertheless makes an important contribution to both Cather Studies and Great Plains Studies. While most of the novel is set in Boston and London, the energy of the principal character, the bridge-building engineer Bartley Alexander, comes from the Plains. Born and raised there, Alexander represents a study in what Cather clearly perceived as Western genius, sexual magnetism, and irrepressible rebellion against social convention. As the bridge builder struggles to stay content in his cool marriage to a lovely, elegant Bostonian, and cannot end an adulterous affair with an Irish actress that consumes him with guilt, Cather\u27s transplanted Westerner-a man in the prime of life with all the markers of success: money, professional fame, a rich wife, a beautiful mistress- de constructs psychologically. So too the triumph of his engineering acumen, a huge cantilever bridge in Canada, collapses, taking with it the lives of many workingmen. If the book lacks the power of Cather\u27s western fiction, it also contains the seeds of that work, the class and regional affinities and the emotional values that would animate her later writing

Brave New Words How Literature Will Save the Planet

Brave New Words challenges present and future literary scholars and teachers to look beyond mere literary critique toward the concrete issue of social change and how to achieve it. Calling for a profound realignment of thought and spirit in the service of positive social change, Ammons argues for the continued importance of multiculturalism in the twenty-first century despite attacks on the concept from both right and left. Concentrating on activist U.S. writers--from ecocritics to feminists to those dedicated to exposing race and class biases, from Jim Wallis and Cornel West to Winona LaDuke and Paula Moya and many others--she calls for all humanists to link their work to the progressive literature of the last half century, to insist on activism in the service of positive change as part of their mission, and to teach the power of hope and action to their students.Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Postmodern Fundamentalism -- 2. What David Walker and Harriet Beecher Stowe Still Have to Teach Us -- 3. The Multicultural Imperative -- 4. Rising Waters -- 5. Jesus, Marx, and the Future of the Planet -- Acknowledgment -- A Note on Method -- Works Cited -- IndexBrave New Words challenges present and future literary scholars and teachers to look beyond mere literary critique toward the concrete issue of social change and how to achieve it. Calling for a profound realignment of thought and spirit in the service of positive social change, Ammons argues for the continued importance of multiculturalism in the twenty-first century despite attacks on the concept from both right and left. Concentrating on activist U.S. writers--from ecocritics to feminists to those dedicated to exposing race and class biases, from Jim Wallis and Cornel West to Winona LaDuke and Paula Moya and many others--she calls for all humanists to link their work to the progressive literature of the last half century, to insist on activism in the service of positive change as part of their mission, and to teach the power of hope and action to their students.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

Edith Wharton's Heroines: Studies in Aspiration and Compliance

211 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD