Stowe and her foremothers: The Newport female society in The Minister's Wooing
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The Minister's Wooing is built around the historical character of Samuel Hopkins, one of the generation of New Divinity theologians and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hopkins was also an antislavery activist, prodding his Newport congregants to exercise disinterested benevolence and withdraw from the sinful practice. It is also mediation on how to write Congregational history since the community of women surrounding Stowe's fictional character has a historical counterpart, the Osborn Society.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2005
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Oeditorial repression: The case histories of Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds
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Modernists defied the theory that biology determines literary destiny and defined their movement along with the classic Freudian assumption that sexuality is the mainspring of virtually everything, including literary merit. ModernismEs swaggering canonicity masks a castration anxiety that debilitated F. Scott Fitzgerald and even bedeviled Papa Hemmingway in The Garden of Eden.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2005
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MacSong: karaoke and the academy
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The review on the quotation written by Walter Benjamin in the 1930s is presented. In this sentence he made comment about the change of a reader into a writer, and the new directions of the press, which provides more and more chances for the readers.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2003
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