Elected Stories Classic Reprint
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Elections, Electors and Elected
Excerpt from Elections, Electors and Elected: Stories of Elections Past and Present Those who wish for a complete guide to the conduct of a parliamentary election will have to consult the many text-books on that subject, though in these pages will be found many hints - useful hints, it is my hope - conducive to success, and not to be found elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Claims and Speculations
Janet Floyd (American studies, King's College, London, UK) looks at how "gold-rush" settings have been reflected in American high and popular arts, and what these works have to say about US cultures: of miners, artists, writers, and readers. This study looks at both popular and literary books set in and responding to the metal strikes in the American West between 1865 and 1905. Floyd also brings in visual art, as well as related mining cultures (such as Australian "mate" communities), but restricts this study to works produced in the gold-rush era. Though it is written as a work of academic scholarship, the book's prose is as skillful as many works of popular nonfiction. For this reason it will appeal to a readership beyond special-interest scholars in the subject. As a writer on literature, she cautions against making any theoretical argument that denies the range of human beings and motives in the American West. She explores the complex and multifaceted situations reflected both by gold-rush communities, and by the works of their own era that used them as their setting. Her own analyses reflect but cannot be reduced to a background in women's studies. Throughout, the author considers the idea that the people, the art, and the attitudes of the frontier's toughest places are more slippery than either liberal or conservative scholars have liked to imagine. Recommended both for its prose and its interest in the actual lives and cultures reflected in literary studies. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE-900 CE)
This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century BCE through a conceptual framework centered on textual production and transmission. It focuses on recuperating historical perspectives for the period it surveys, and attempts to draw connections between the past and present.