Browsing English by Author "Bechtold, Rebeccah B."
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Book review: Poe's Silent Music
Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, 2018)That scarce awake, thy soul shall deem / My words the music of a dream," proclaims the speaker of Poe's "Serenade" to his love, Adeline [Works, 1:223]. In so doing, "Serenade," titled after a type of nocturnal music, ... -
Book review: Why we left: untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants
Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (University of California Press, 2016-09)North America in the seventeenth century was far from a "land of opportunity" to early Anglo-American peasant migrants, or so Joanna Brooks argues in Why We left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants. The ... -
Middle-class identity and corporeal attachments in The Wide, Wide World
Dejmal, Rachel (Wichita State University, 2015-12)Early nineteenth century industrialization and capitalism stimulated growth in public labor forces and consumer markets. Though largely conceived as a male-centered history, industrialization upended the lives of women; ... -
The Quietude of Conscience and the magnetism of sound: listening to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables
Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (MIT Press, 2017-03)In :The House of the Seven Gables" Nathaniel Hawthorne employs a soundscape particularly attuned to the modern dissonances and spiritual soundings of antebellum America. His novel interrogates the impact of these ... -
A revolutionary soundscape musical reform and the science of sound in early America, 1760-1840
Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-10)American colonists initially encountered music in community settings, during worship services and public performances, as well as at dances and other social functions. The rise of singing schools in the 1720s and the growing ... -
The Quaker City: George Lippard's critique of capitalism through sensational advocacy for the disenfranchised
Dickerson, Lillian (Wichita State University, 2019-12)Nineteenth-century author and journalist George Lippard advocated for the underprivileged by devoting himself to his self-founded labor union, "The Brotherhood of the Union," as well as by incorporating fresh and fiery ...