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Blanchard, Mary Warner:
Oscar Wilde's America : Counterculture in the Gilded Age
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1998 (1st Edition).
xiii + 302pp with numerous b/w illus. From the d/w flap "In 1882 Oscar Wilde toured America as the "Apostle of Aestheticism", his wit and brilliance and deliberate outrageousness creating controversy among audiences across the continent. The America visited by Wilde was a nation still badly shaken by the trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In this atmosphere Wilde's message of regeneration through art and beauty seemed to many Americans to open new horizons of social possibility. In this book, the first cultural history of the aesthetic movement in the United States, Mary W. Blanchard provides an account of a neglected dimension of American cultural history. American Victorian culture will never look as monolithic, nor as prudish, again. Blanchard shows that the aestheticism was a wide-ranging popular movement, implemented by an array of tastemakers, resisted by the moral guardians of Victorianism. She constructs the lives of the female visionaries who used the decorative arts to assault the conventions of middle-class milieu and to advance in the social and business worlds of the Gilded Age. She also shows how the movement allowed new forms of identity for men - in particular feminized or homosexual roles that were profoundly at odds with Victorian notions of manliness. Drawing on evidence from material culture, popular media, and history and literature, Blanchard reveals aestheticism as an oppositional movement in the American Gilded Age. " Fine cond : fine cond d/w. 10 x 7 inches
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Item number: 4039.
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Haney, Robert W.
Comstockery in America. Patterns of Censorship and Control.
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston [1960].
xii, 199 p., index. Chapters include Taking Liberties with Liberty; Blushes and Leers as Guides to Crime; From Ulysses to Howl; Obscenity: Freedom or License?; How Shall We Deal with ‘Smut'?; The Moral Kindergarten; ‘Morality' and the Search for Meaning; Bibliography (pp. 179-191). Dj worn; VG. Stock#22650.
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The Owl at the Bridge.
Item number: 22650.
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Larkin, Oliver W.
Art and Life in America. Revised and Enlarged Edition
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY [1960]..
xvii, 559 p., index, illus., color plates; 28.5 cm. Bibliographical notes": p. 491-525. First pub. 1949. Stock# 36,743. Vg, ink owner's name/ dj lightly worn, a small tear in rear,
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AUD 29.41 | CAD 30.93 | EUR 23.26 | GBP 19.87 | JPY 2,727.27 | MXN 333.33 | ZAR 300.00 |
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The Owl at the Bridge.
Item number: 36743.
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Litchman, Charles H.
Official History Of The Improved Order Of Red Men Compiled Under Authority
Publisher: Boston, Fraternity Publishing Company, G.S.D.= 1893..
623 p. illus. 24 cm. "The Order teaches and exemplifies the priniciples of friendship and brotherly helpfulness." This is one of the fraternities which had their origins in the colonial patriotic societies (the best known example being the Tammany Society in New York), and, in fact in Medieval Europe. This Order was first organized in Baltimore in 1813. It served as insurance for dues paying members who got illness and death benefits. It is a stage in the development of social structures to support the growth of urban America. The organization covered the whole country and the annual reports reflect the larger problems of the country such as the Civil War. In the original gilt stamped boards, with a sturdy replacement leather spine. United States History OB 129.
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Item number: OB129.
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Partisan Review.
America and the Intellectuals. A Symposium
Publisher: NY: Partisan Review, 1953..
Printed gray wraps. PR Series Number 4. Closed tears top front cover, chip out of bottom corner, o/w VG. A Symposium with Newton Arvin, William Barrett, Jacques Barzun, Louise Bogan, James Burnham, Richard Chase, Horace Gregory, Sidney Hook, Irving Howe, Soft Cover
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AUD 14.71 | CAD 15.46 | EUR 11.63 | GBP 9.93 | JPY 1,363.64 | MXN 166.67 | ZAR 150.00 |
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Albatross Books.
Item number: 4561.
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Ross, Ralph, editor.
Makers of American Thought. An Introduction to Seven American Writers. Edited by Ralph Ross.
Publisher: Univ. Minnesota Press, Minneapolis [c1974]. Minnesota Library on American Writers.
301 p., 22.5 cm. Essays by Auchincloss on Henry Adams, Allen on William James, Wagner on Mencken, Paul on Bourne, Wasserstrom on Brooks, Brown on Burke, Scott on Niebuhr; selected bibliographies, author sketches, index. Dj; minor wear; VG+. 34911.
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Item number: 34911.
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Wentz, Roby
*Signed* Eleven Western Presses, an Account of How the First Printing Press Came to Each of the Eleven Western States
Publisher: Printing House c.1956 Los Angeles, CA 1956.
Condition: Good. Jacket condition: No DJ Issued. Hard Back. 1st Printing. Signed. Good. rubbing corners, dents top board edges *Signed* No dj issued, (57p) SIGNED/AUTOGRAPHED* by Roby Wentz on fly page, Black Spine, Map Illustration covering boards, Overszie Thin, biopredation silverfish covers. Authors Note: To Sylvia, with musch affection-Roby., No DJ Issued . Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS.
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Item number: BOOKS019416I.
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