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A study of Luis de Gongora's ""Soledades"", the pastoral poems which have sparked controversy ever since they were first circulated at court in 1612-1614. It shows that the ""Soledades"" are in essence a court masque, an elaborate theatrical genre that combines a variety of cultural forms.

A literary biography of Pauline Avery Crawford, an American expatriate who wrote for the Paris edition of the ""New York Herald Tribune"" in the 1930s and 1940s. Interspersed in the biography are numerous quotations from Crawford's poems and letters, and an account of her life in Paris.

This work aims to meet the instructional needs of classrooms. It incorporates geography, civics, economics, anthropology, and sociology with history to give students a chance to learn about their world on several different levels.

Arguably one of 19th-century America's most ardent feminists, this work focuses on Margaret Fuller's development of a powerful language of cultural critique and myth-making in the years preceding her famous book ""Woman in the Nineteenth Century"".

This study explores the implications of Bernard Lonergan's approach to the philosophy of history in a number of distinct but related contexts, covering a variety of intellectual disciplines. The book offers a dialogue between Lonergan's critical realism and Voegelin's existential exegesis.

A memoir by the German writer Heinrich Hauser about his experiences while farming in southeast Missouri. It tells how they salvaged neglected fields and restored an old farmhouse. It also includes an account of Hauser's teenage son learning to farm and hunt.

This work investigates the lives and work of some of America's leading post-war historians. Each essay profiles a historian, most of whom have broken new ground or have met and surpassed new standards in their work. Their quality of work amd level of influence are examined.

This memoir narrates the military career of William S. Triplet. After serving in World War I, he became a tank commander and, along with his men, fought in the Baltic, preventing many German troops from joining in the defence of Berlin.

This volume examines the autobiographies of 19th-century African American women evangelists, along with their 18th-century forerunner Belinda. It studies how black women evangelists employed dialogue created by socioeconomic conditions.

Using recently declassified documents from Spain and the United States, personal interviews and unpublished and published Spanish, German, British and US records, this work seeks to make a significant contribution to the understanding of Hispano-German relations during the 1930s and 1940s.

This biography of Edward Thompson - novelist, journalist, historian of India and friend of Nehru and Gandhi - tells the story of this liberal advocate for Indian culture. His first visits to India as a Methodist missionary are recorded, as are his years spent teaching in Oxford.

A History of Missouri, 1820 to 1860 covers the years of Missouri's adolescence - from statehood to the outset of the Civil War.

This volume includes essays by Russian scholars who have examined the history of American political parties and the role they played in American history. The dialogue is then developed through commentaries by American historians and through counter-responses by the Russian authors.

An assessment of the work of William Hoffman. It includes commentary and analysis from fellow writers such as Fred Chappell and George Garrett, as well as from established and emerging critics, including Martha Cook, Jeanne Nostrandt and Gordon Van Ness.

Harry S. Truman made plain speaking his trademark and it was a common belief that he spared few words. However, this collection of letters that he never mailed seeks to prove that conception wrong. Addressed to admirers and enemies alike, they cover subjects such as the atomic bomb and human greed.

This reference contains biographies of more than 700 individuals who have in some way made a contribution to the course of Missouri's state and national history. Covering all time periods as well as regions of the state, it exemplifies the state's cultural, racial and ethnic diversity.

A critical analysis of the dialogue between Shelley's poetry and its contemporary reviewers. The author argues that Shelley's idealism can be recovered through the study of its reception and integrates a reception-based methodology with careful textual analysis.

The English civil wars loom large in 17th-century history and literature and the period was one of profound change. This work helps to provide an understanding of the English civil wars' manifold and sometimes indirect presence in the literature of the period.

Loners of one sort or another populate this collection of short stories, from a young man discharged from the marines and working as a social gamekeeper to a Vietnam veteran turned professor who exchanges favourable grades for sexual favours from his students.

This collection of photographs by Edward J. Kemper captures the day-to-day life of the German-American community of Hermann during the years 1895 to 1920. Accompanied by supporting commentary from the editors, the images explore the economic, cultural and social life of the community.

In this study, Clare Eby argues that the writings of Theodore Dreiser and Thorstein Veblen form a neglected chapter in the history of US cultural criticism, and how they anticipated many topics that occupy cultural studies today.

A challenge to the literary community to embrace truth, even the tentative truth, rather than make-believe. Galligan examines the work of writers including Josef Skvorecky, George V. Higgins and Mary Lee Settle, presenting interpretations of concepts such as that language is grounded in talk.

The images collected in this text, showcase virtually the entire Ozark region - Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. River bluffs and rock formations, crystal-clear streams and lakes, waterfalls, historic covered bridges and mills, and wildlife are just some of the scenes pictured.

This biography of President Harry S. Truman covers such topics as his relationship with Thomas Pendergast, the seeming conflict between Truman's midwestern conservatism and his belief in equality for American blacks, and his decision to use the atomic bomb to end World War II.

A study of Eliot's major poetry, as well as an examination of what America means to its poets. Investigating Eliot's literary heritage through his familial traditions, the author addresses all phases of his career as a poet, and constructs a way of comparing Eliot to other American poets.

This biography focuses upon Laura Ingalls Wilder's years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. Utilizing her unpublished autobiography, letters, newspaper stories and other documentary evidence, John E. Miller fills the gaps in Wilder's autobiographical novels, separating fact from fiction.