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Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The upper classes could increasingly afford to distance themselves from the suffering they claimed to feel more exquisitely than did their supposedly less refined contemporaries and antecedents. The five US literary realists examined in this study resisted this contemporary revulsion from pain without going so far as to join those who celebrated suffering for its invigorating effects. William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton,...
Secession on Trial
This book explores the treason trial of President Jefferson Davis, where the question of secession's constitutionality was debated.
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana
"With tables of the cases and principal matters" (varies).
Ann Arbor
Celebrated photographer-artist Cynthia Davis captures the spirit of Ann Arbor with her unique pictures
Vendetta
The saga of the Panarellis' Butchie, the Strafford's and with the introduction of Dillon Doherty an Irish American mobster make "Vendetta" a must read, offering the reader a continuing thrilling tale into the charted waters of anger, vengeance, treachery and betrayal. Retribution for these characters and by these characters is the only devious choice for them to make that will eliminate the anguish they possess in their minds and unforgiving souls
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Beloved Leah
Davis brings the Old Testament saga to life in the setting of Haran, four thousand years ago. Leah's life-long journey in the shadow of her sister, Rachel, has consumed her with jealousy and bitterness. It is rumored that she will never marry; but, by the clever deception of her father, Leah is finally wed to her cousin, Jacob bar Isaac.
