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1 online resource (206 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Excelsior Editions Ser.
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Excelsior Editions Ser.
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue: Seeing Niagara with Different Eyes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Lost Pages -- Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Value of What Has Been Lost -- (1803-1882) -- Recovery -- An Anthology of Anecdotes -- Chapter 1 Old Worlds, New Voices -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Captivating History -- (1789-1867) -- David Cusick: Appearing in Print -- (c. 1780-c. 1840) -- Margaret Fuller: Sublime Satire -- (1810-1850) -- Chapter 2 Clean Water and Clean Air -- Washington Irving: The Canal and Cholera -- (1783-1859) -- Henry David Thoreau: Breath and Botany |
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(1817-1862) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Mourning and Melancholy -- (1807-1882) -- Chapter 3 The Falls and Fame -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Riding the Tide of Tourism -- (1804-1864) -- Oscar Wilde: Nothing to Declare but Disappointment -- (1854-1900) -- Chapter 4 Copyrights and Wrongs -- Charles Dickens: Boz's Two Cents -- (1812-1870) -- Mark Twain: The Cost of Travel -- (1835-1910) -- Guides, Photographers and Such -- A Dismal Experience -- Chapter 5 Books That Started a War -- Harriet Beecher Stowe and Josiah Henson: Fiction and Truth -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- (1811-1896) -- Rev. Josiah Henson |
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(1789-1883) -- Chapter 6 Bridge Traffic -- Harriet Tubman: "The Line of Danger" -- (c. 1820-1913) -- Walt Whitman: Suspended in Time -- (1819-1892) -- Chapter 7 Words of Art -- William Dean Howells: "O feeble pen" -- (1837-1920) -- Henry James: "It Beats Michael Angelo" -- (1843-1916) -- Chapter 8 War, and Peace -- Anthony Trollope: The Civil War -- (1815-1882) -- Rupert Brooke: "The Great War" -- (1887-1915) -- Chapter 9 Case Closed? -- James Fenimore Cooper: Historical Fictions -- (1789-1851) -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock and Spiritualism -- (1859-1930) -- Jack London: Not So Civilized |
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(1876-1916) -- Chapter 10 Save Niagara -- H. G. Wells: War of the Words -- (1866-1946) -- Epilogue: Still Seeing Niagara -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- In literature.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Authors, American -- Travel -- Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
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Authors, American -- Travel. |
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Authors, American. |
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Authors, English -- Travel -- Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
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Authors, English -- Travel. |
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Literature. |
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North America -- Niagara Falls. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Carr, Jamie M. Niagaras of Ink : Famous Writers at the Falls Albany : State University of New York Press,c2020 9781438479989 |
| ISBN |
1438479999 |
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9781438479996 (electronic book) |
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