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A Player and a Gentleman: The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor
Hardworking actor, playwright, and stage manager Harry Watkins (1825–94) was also a prolific diarist. For fifteen years Watkins regularly recorded the plays he saw, the roles he performed, the books he read, and his impressions of current events. Performing across the U.S., Watkins collaborated with... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America
In the nineteenth century, long before film and television arrived to electrify audiences with explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that offered audiences such thrills, with "sensation scenes" of speeding trains, burning buildings, and endangered bodies, often in mel... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
National Museums: New Studies from Around the World
by Simon J. Knell • Jennifer Carter • Amy Jane Barnes • Peter Aronsson • Stuart Burch • Arne Bugge Amundsen • Viviane Gosselin • Sarah A. Hughes • Alan KirwanNational Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how these national museums have been ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Writers of the Future Volume 31
by Rebecca Moesta • Larry Niven • Orson Scott Card • L. Ron Hubbard • David Farland • Tim Napper • Martin L. Shoemaker • Amit Dutta • Choong Nyung Yoon • Krystal Claxton • Quinlan Septer • Samantha Murray • Taylor Payton • Emily Siu • Tung Chi Lee • Alex Brock • Sharon Joss • Daniel J. Davis • Michelle Lockamy • Amy H. Hughes • Kary English • Daniel Tyka • Zach Chapman • Kevin A. Anderson • Megen Nelson • Scott R. Parkin • Michael T. Banker • Auston Habershaw • Megan Kelchner • Shuangjian Liu • Steve PantazisThe future is here...the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging star... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015