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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Bestsellers"”.
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Southern Bestsellers In The Twenty-First Century
This thesis explores the concept of bestsellers in the twenty-first century, with a particular focus on six novels written by contemporary southern authors. These novels are analyzed through the lens of social consciousness, with attention to how they reflect current social issues, and how they …
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The Myth of Superwoman: A Comparative Study of Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States
In the last ten or fifteen years, women's bestselling fiction has assumed important financial and ideological dimensions in the publishing centers of major industrialized countries. Linked to the bestseller system, contemporary women's fiction in France and the United States provides women with …
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A Social Gospel for Millions: The Religious Bestsellers of Charles Sheldon, Charles Gordon, and Harold Bell Wright (Ralph Connor)
… of the social gospel, the most popular religious bestsellers between 1897 and 1917 were examined according five questions that comprise a culture's belief system. The religious bestsellers were In His Steps by Charles Sheldon, Black Rock by "Ralph Connor" (Charles Gordon), and The Shepherd of the …
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Norman Vincent Peale's best-sellers through the lens of metaphoric criticism and invitational rhetoric
This study analyzes Norman Vincent Peale's bestsellers, A Guide to Confident Living and The Power of Positive Thinking, through the lenses of metaphoric criticism and invitational rhetoric. Invitational rhetoric includes characteristics such as openness, equality, mutual respect and reciprocal …
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Creating a Chapter Book: The Evolution of Foxy and the Grump
… books over the past thirty years to reveal five bestsellers that are also multiple-award winners and have earned the prestigious Newbery Medal. The only chapter book in this elite group is Patricia MacLachlan's Sarah, Plain and Tall. Thus, attention to the qualities of Sarah has helped determine …
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Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon
… autobiographies, with the majority becoming bestsellers. Comedian autobiographies are a contemporary publishing phenomenon that has become increasingly popular in the past 20 years, but they are without any academic study so far. This PhD thesis investigates comedian autobiographies and …
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The construction of Anglo-Indian spaces in middlebrow works of Raj fiction, 1880-1914
Although bestsellers in their time, works of Raj fiction produced by women such as Maud Diver, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Alice Perrin, and Bithia May Croker have since fallen into obscurity with the general reading public and as a source of academic inquiry. This thesis readdresses this oversight …
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Chinese Spirit, Russian Soul, and American Materialism: Images of America in Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Travelogues
… whose travelogues about the United States became bestsellers in China. Therefore, all these books played a substantial role in creating images of the United States in China and the Soviet Union. The travelogues were written before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 when socialism was seen as …
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The Representation of the Environment in Children's Literature
This study is a descriptive research project which examines a purposeful census of the best selling children's books for 0-8 year olds in the United States in 2003. This cross-sectional study of these social artifacts evaluates the extent to which the ideologies of the environmental movement have …
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Midwestern Americanism: Fiction of the 'Middle Border,' 1900-1930
This PhD dissertation examines a neglected strand of Midwestern rural writing from the early twentieth century to ask how it responded to and, in many ways, contributed to key contemporary debates in American literature. In 1921, Carl Van Doren’s ‘Revolt from the Village’ essay substantially …
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The midlife crisis, gender, and social science in the United States, 1970–2000
This thesis provides the first rigorous history of the concept of midlife crisis. It highlights the close connections between understandings of the life course and social change. It reverses accounts of popularization by showing how an idea moved from the public sphere into academia. Above all, it …