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Product Description: Everyone Got marrIed In the 1950s, then moved to the suburbs to have the children of the soon-to-be-famous baby boom. For Americans who had survived the Great Depression and World War II, prosperous married life was a triumph. The unwed were objects of pity, scorn, even suspicion...read more
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9781609384616 | Univ of Iowa Pr, August 15, 2016, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Everyone Got marrIed In the 1950s, then moved to the suburbs to have the children of the soon-to-be-famous baby boom.
Hardcover:
9781468505214 | Author Solutions, December 30, 2011, cover price $28.99
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9781468505221 | Author Solutions, December 30, 2011, cover price $19.95
Product Description: Little America is for anyone who has ever considered just getting in the car and driving away. Here the ribbon of Western road is a metaphor for the heartâs strange longings, providing hard, sometimes hilarious, lessons on the improbability of escape, the possibility of salvation, and the elusiveness of self-knowledge...read more
Hardcover:
9780814292587 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, May 28, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Little America is for anyone who has ever considered just getting in the car and driving away.
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9780814251782 | Ohio State Univ Pr, May 28, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Little America is for anyone who has ever considered just getting in the car and driving away.
Widely read in the age of British imperialism and still popular today, the five writers studied here have allowed millions to participate vicariously in the imperial project. Yet all of these writers, so instrumental in popularizing the imperial agenda of power and dominance, bore deep emotional scars and as adults bolstered their fragile psychic states through fantasies of empire. While soldiers and politicians may know to bury or at least camouflage their fears and desires, inner fantasy is the necessary ingredient of literature, and popular fiction often offers the opportunity to probe the mind of an age. Â
The connection between childhood loss and the desire for imperial escape, power and dominance is illuminated by De Quinceyâs mad screeds against the Chinese as both terrifyingly powerful and laughably weak, while Stevensonâs romances, though written from an invalidâs bed, are credited with Âsellingâ the idea of empire as manly adventure. Conan Doyleâs tales of a Britain menaced at home by imperial blowback are models of Great Power paranoia that resonate today, and Kiplingâs stories of imperial Britain grow increasingly grandiose as childhoodâs psychic wounds are re-opened. Finally, Dinesen portrays plantation life in British East Africa as a gentle romance in which displaced African Âsquattersâ serve as loyal and adoring retainers, providing the aristocratic aura for which the author yearns. It is sometimes said that, ÂLoveâs loss is empireâs gain,â and for these writers, Simmons shows, empire presented a magnificent opportunity to compensate for childhood calamity.
Hardcover:
9781845191566 | 1 edition (Sussex Academic Pr, January 1, 2007), cover price $57.95
Paperback:
9781845191573 | 1 edition (Sussex Academic Pr, January 1, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Widely read in the age of British imperialism and still popular today, the five writers studied here have allowed millions to participate vicariously in the imperial project.
Hardcover:
9780762770779 | Lea edition (Western Horseman, July 1, 2002), cover price $39.95
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9780805746211 | Twayne Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: A critical and biographical analysis of the works of Maxine Hong Kingston explores her writing in the context of Chinese and Chinese American experience
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9781885266033 | Reprint edition (Story Line Pr, April 1, 1995), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Simmons, Diane
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9780805739947 | Twayne Pub, October 1, 1994, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: A critical examinination of the works of Jamaica Kincaid reveals the influence of colonial domination in the West Indies, where she was born, and racial domination in the United States, to which she migrated as a teenager
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