Westbrook Ellen (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; square, uncreased spine; moderate fading along the spine, a pair of short wrinkles at the top left rear, and some rubbing at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Articles in addition to above.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. By Perry D. Westbrook. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., (1965). First edition. A critical and biographical study of Mary Ellen Chase, the educator, teacher, scholar and author renowned for her depictions of Maine and New England. Twayne's U.S. Authors Series #86 edited by Sylvia E. Bowman. Cobalt-blue end-papers loosing their color and age-toning as usual, else very nearly fine, square and tight in polished blue imitation leather with bright gilt embossed titles, rules, and U.S. Eagle emblem to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles and rules to the spine; in a very good plus slightly rubbed dust jacket with a small chip at the upper spine edge. Octavo; 176 pages; chronology; notes and references; bibliography; index. NOT an ex-library copy.…

very good dust-jacket, very good brown cloth, probably unused, small fold mark on corner of front endpapers done by me by mistake. LOWANCE, MASON I. / WESTBROOK, ELLEN E. / DE PROSPO, R. C. The Stowe debate: rhetorical strategies in Uncle Tom's cabin. Edited by Mason I. Lowance, Jr., Ellen E. Westbrook, R.C. De Prospo. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994, vi, 318pp., . "This collection of essays addresses the continuing controversy surrounding Uncle Tom's Cabin. On publication in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel sparked a national debate about the nature of slavery and the character of those who embraced it. Since then, critics have used the book to illuminate a host of issues dealing with race, gender, politics, and religion in antebellum America. They have also argued about Stowe's rhetorical strategies and the literary conventions she appropriated to give her book such unique force." "The thirteen contributors to this volume enter these debates from a variety of critical perspectives. They address questions of language and ideology, the tradition of the sentimental novel, biblical influences, and the rhetoric of antislavery discourse. As much as they disagree on various points, they share a keen interest in the cultural work that texts can do and an appreciation of the enduring power of Uncle Tom's Cabin." - CONTENTS: "Magic of the Real Presence of Distress" : sentimentality and competing rhetorics of authority / Catharine E. O'Connell -- Flirting with patriarchy : feminist dialogics / Melanie J. Kisthardt -- Rhetoric and satire / Jan Pilditch -- Pliable rhetoric of domesticity / S. Bradley Shaw -- Sentimentality and the uses of death / Isabelle White -- Matriarchy and the rhetoric of domesticity / Susan L. Roberson -- Confronting Antichrist : the influence of Jonathan Edwards's millennial Vision / Helen Petter Westra -- Biblical typology and the allegorical mode : the prophetic strain / Mason I. Lowance, Jr. -- Myths and rhetoric of the slavery debate and Stowe's comic vision of slavery / James Bense -- Stowe's construction of an African persona and the creation of white identity for a new world order / Sarah Smith Ducksworth -- Toward a rhetoric of equality : reflective and refractive images in Stowe's language / Michael J. Meyer -- Rhetoric of race / Susan Marie Nuernberg. 9780870239519 ISBN 0870239511. …

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Inscribed by editor Mason I. Lowance. Inscribed by Author(s).