Franklin Delano Roosevelt - A President leading a nation by Ulrike Miske

A Journey into Steinbeck's California (ArtPlace)

This half paintings ebook, half biography, and half trip advisor bargains perception into how landscapes and townscapes motivated John Steinbeck's inventive strategy and the way, in flip, his legacy has motivated smooth California. quite a few different types of readers will take pleasure in the knowledge during this guide—literary pilgrims will examine extra concerning the country featured so prominently in Steinbeck's paintings, travelers can stopover at an analogous structures that he lived in and wrote approximately, and historians will savor the engrossing viewpoint on way of life in early and mid 20th-century California.

Ziele und Hintergrund Claude McKays primitivistischer Strategie in 'Home to Harlem': Die Probleme eines jungen afroamerikanischen Autors (German Edition)

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, observe: 2,0, Freie Universität Berlin (John-F. -Kennedy-Institut), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar, 12 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Claude McKay, eine der wichtigsten literarischen Figuren der Harlem Renaissance, kann guy keiner politischen Strömung eindeutig zuordnen.

Power Politics in Marriage and Medical Attitudes in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Seminar paper from the yr 2015 within the topic American stories - Literature, grade: 1,7, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), direction: Women’s Literature: From Anti-Slavery to monetary Independence, language: English, summary: In my paper i want to ascertain how Gilman’s nineteenth century brief tale "The Yellow Wallpaper" engages with the facility politics of marriage and the clinical attitudes in the direction of ladies within the 19th-century U.

"The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories (Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century)

"Perhaps it truly is no accident that the 19th century—the century whilst, it's been stated, sexuality as such (and a number of taxonomized sexual identities) have been invented—is the interval whilst American brief tales have been invented, and after they have been the queerest. "—Christopher Looby, from the IntroductionA guy in small-town the USA wears the garments of his spouse and sisters; happy ultimately that he has "a ideal go well with of clothes applicable for my sex," he commits suicide, asking purely that he be buried dressed as a girl.