Author: Michael Davitt Bell
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: history, literary, idea, cultural, studies, american, realism, problem
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0226042022
ISBN-13: 9780226042022

Ever since William Dean Howells declared his "realism war" in the 1880s, literary historians have regarded the rise of realism and naturalism as the signal development in post-Civil War American fiction. Questioning this generalization, Michael Davitt Bell investigates the role that these terms played in the social and literary discourse of the 1880s and 1890s. He argues that "realism" and "naturalism" were ideological categories used to promote a version of "reality" based on radically anti-"literary" and heavily gendered assumptions.In chapters on William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, Mark Twa

Authors:Sarah Orne Jewett, Michael Davitt Bell,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: stories, amp, country, library, sketches, america, college, editions, firs, pointed, orne, jewett, deephaven, sarah, doctor, novels
Number of Pages: 960
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1883011345
ISBN-13: 9781883011345

All of Jewett’s best fiction, including her three novels, "Deephaven," "A Country Doctor," and "The Country of the Pointed Firs," and 28 funny, satirical, and poignant sketches and stories. Set against long Maine winters, hardscrabble farms, and the sea, Jewett’s stories of gruff, capable farmers and seafolk--and of the rewards and trials of family and communal ties--have a very modern resonance. This comprehensive collection reveals the full stature of the unjustly neglected writer Willa Cather ranked with Mark Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Authors:Sarah Orne Jewett, Michael Davitt Bell,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: stories, country, selected, landing, amp, dunnet, library, sketches, america, pointed, jewett, orne, novels, deephaven, sarah, doctor, firs
Number of Pages: 950
Published: 1994-02-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0940450747
ISBN-13: 9780940450745

All of Jewett’s best fiction, including her three novels, "Deephaven," "A Country Doctor," and "The Country of the Pointed Firs," and 28 funny, satirical, and poignant sketches and stories. Set against long Maine winters, hardscrabble farms, and the sea, Jewett’s stories of gruff, capable farmers and seafolk--and of the rewards and trials of family and communal ties--have a very modern resonance. This comprehensive collection reveals the full stature of the unjustly neglected writer Willa Cather ranked with Mark Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Authors:Michael Bell, Peter Poellner, Michael Bell, Peter Poe
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Keywords: modernity, making, myth
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 1998-01
List price: $70.50
ISBN-10: 9042005831
ISBN-13: 9789042005839

The contributors to this collection of essays on the literary use of myth in the early twentieth century and its literary and philosophical precedents from romanticism onwards draw on a range of disciplines, from anthropology, comparative literature, and literary criticism, to philosophy and religious studies. The underlying assumption is that modernist myth-making does not retreat from modernity, but projects a mode of being for the future which the past could serve to define. Modernist myth is not an attempted recovery of an archaic form of life so much as a sophisticated self-conscious eq

Author: Keith Davitt
Publisher: Quarry Books
Keywords: gardens, beautiful, spaces, small
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1564969738
ISBN-13: 9781564969736

If you love gardens but don’t think you have enough outdoor space to cultivate one, this book is for you. Written by a 20-year veteran of landscape design, this imaginative guide features 18 hardworking profiles of gorgeous small garden paradises. Through step-by step instructions, before-and-after photos, and detailed plans, landscape architect Keith Davitt offers ingenious tips and techniques for creating the illusion of space through terracing, enlarging through dividing, adding texture and color, and more. Keith Davitt has been designing, building, photographing, and writing

Author: Davitt Sigerson
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: faithful
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-03-08
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1400034841
ISBN-13: 9781400034840

Nick and Trish married within two months of meeting each other. A thoroughly modern couple with demanding careers–Nick is a stock trader, Trish works in international marketing–they are drawn together by a fiercely erotic bond. Trish has a voracious sexual appetite, and Nick considers himself the luckiest man in the world. As they negotiate the pitfalls of a new marriage–background differences, meddlesome friends, ghosts of former lovers–they slowly grow comfortable and find bliss in domestic preparations for the blessing of pregnancy. But, when Trish’s past rears its head, she’s f

Author: Keith Davitt
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: concept, construction, gardens, small, features, water
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0881925969
ISBN-13: 9780881925968

Celebrated designer Keith Davitt brings the delights of the water garden within reach of everyone in Water Features for Small Gardens. With a clear eye to design, construction, materials, and maintenance, Davitt offers alternatives for every style of garden and every budget. Detailed case studies depict actual gardens progressing from the planning stage to planting, and the author shows step by step how such features are created using only modest building skills. Types of water gardens discussed include: natural, formal, and informal pools; raised and in-ground formal fountains; wall fountains