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This best-selling, calculus-based text is recognized for its carefully crafted, logical presentation of the basic concepts and principles of physics. Raymond Serway, Robert Beichner, and contributing author John W. Jewett present a strong problem-solving approach that is further enhanced through increased realism in worked examples. Problem-solving strategies and hints allow students to develop a systematic approach to completing homework problems. The outstanding ancillary package includes full multimedia support, online homework, and a content-rich Web site that provides extensive support for instructors and students. The CAPA (Computer-assisted Personalized Approach), WebAssign, and University of Texas homework delivery systems give instructors flexibility in assigning online homework.
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The BEST Introductory Physics Book EVER.......2003-05-29
To be honest, I didn't even need to buy this book, but I did it anyway. Having worked with Serway's Texts before, I new this was going to be an exellent book. This text contains hundreds of illustrations to help a student of physics grasp the underlying concepts. The book also has many diversified problems to help the student obtain the tools needed to be successful in physics. I would recommend this book to anybody, even those not interested in physics, because by the time your through with this book, you'll be interested alright.
Un libro facil de entender, para estudiantes de ingenieria.......2003-05-18
yo he utilizado el tomo 1 y 2 y me parecen muy facil de entender tiene buenos ejemplos, recordando que es un libro de fisica basico
Good book, longer wait than others.........2002-08-29
The book was in excellent condition for a used book, although it took 2 weeks for the book to arrive. All-in-all I would buy from this guy again.
Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Vol. II, 5th Ed........2002-06-19
The service was excellent, she had the book shipped out within 2 days, and I received the book in 4 business days!
What is the problem?.......2002-05-29
This is a great introductory physics text. Many have complained about lack of examples and explanation with respect to the end of the chapter exercises. However, they are not the truth. I worked most of the exercises, and almost all of them were explained in the text. The catch is that this text is meant for physics or engineering majors. Therefore, in order to find some of the answers you have to THINK and solve the problems without the text holding your hand. I think that the idea of thinking to solve problems outweighs copying an equation out of a text.
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This stand-alone collection of problems provides extensive practice for applying the central concepts of physics. Features an abundance of
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a tutorial, friendly, conversational style
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A "textbook" that is both funny and useful? You bet!.......2007-07-25
This book was recommended for my Physics 7B class at UC Berkeley, so I bought it. This volume consists of exercises related to electricity and magnetism. It includes many example problems and detailed solutions that students can use to check their work. At the end of the book, there are several practice exams that students can use to prepare for their actual exams.
I would definitely recommend this book if you are taking a physics class.
Excellent .......2007-04-14
A big help for college Physics II. It presents a concept in a way that is easy to understand.
Life Saver.......2000-06-22
If it wasn't for this book, there is no way I could have passed my physics class. The textbook used was absolutely incomprehensible, but this book led me through problems and helped me understand the concepts rather than just come up with the correct answers.
You should get this book........2000-03-01
This book explained things much more clearly than my textbook. If you're taking physics you should get it.
Awesome Help.......1999-10-02
Andy Elby provides a really good set of problems and solutions for E&M. He shows you typical problems that your professor will ask you, explains what the problem wants you to do, and finally how to go about solving the problem. Helped me ace Physics 7B at Berkeley. Ideal source for those who look at a physics problem and don't know where to start. Especially with E and M, the correct problem solving path is not always obvious, since Electricity and Magnetism isn't something you can touch or visualize as easily as mechanics.
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Appropriate for both scientists and engineers. A comprehensive introduction to calculus-based physics which presents balance between theory and applications, between concepts and problem-solving, between mathematics and physics, and finally, between technology and traditional pedagogical methods. Maintains theoretical coverage, but supplements it with applications boxes, on topics such as: timed traffic lights, jet engines, simple machines, drag racing, flight navigator, cranes, quartz watches, smoke detectors, capacitors as power sources for laptop computers, television antennas, and fiber optics. Places emphasis on concepts, showing the motivation for the physics. This conceptual emphasis has been maintained, but supporting problem-solving apparatus has been dramatically revised. All mathematics in the book is self-contained, and major mathematical tools are introduced as needed. Vectors, a topic that requires a lot of practice, are covered in depth.
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Great textbook for those willing to learn.......2007-05-15
Regardless of what the engineering undergrads say, this textbook is great. Previously an engineering undergrad myself - turned physics, this is by far the best physics textbook i've come in contact with. Higher physics textbooks are usually very dry, but this book makes entry level physics fun to learn. The reason all of the engineering undergrads have a problem with this book is because they are used to plugging numbers into equations. If you seek to get an actual UNDERSTANDING of the concepts and wish to brush up on your calculus, this is an excellent book for you. If you don't, I wouldn't recommend this or any other physics textbook.
Not the best, but acceptable.......2007-01-28
This text book is not the best physics book I've ever used, but if you're good at calculus and you're a natural you shouldn't have too much trouble.
Problems with the book:
1.) Almost every solution given in the back of the book or the solutions manual is entirely wrong. So you will just have to trust that you worked it out correctly or take it to someone who knows what they are doing and ask them to verify concepts that you are having trouble with or that you don't think you understand to the full capacity.
2.) The definitions given are vague and often inconsistent, so you will have to do most of the thinking yourself and derive the definitions from common sense.
Pro's of the book:
1.) If you read the introduction and go through the in-chapter examples concentrating very hard, you should come out with a pretty good understanding of the material and be able to work out most of the problems in the back.
2.) If you go to this website: http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_fishbane_physics_3
It gives you a summary for each chapter, all of the important formulas for that chapter, and it gives you "practice problems" which are incredibly helpful.
You can understand it, but there are easier ways.......2006-08-15
I am an engineering student, and this book was the required text for my University Physics course. My teacher sucked big time, and I couldn't grasp ANYTHING from lectures alone. I thought by concentrating on the textbook alone, I could get the material. One thing I can tell you is that if you read the book with utmost concentration, you can understand the material to a moderate level. HOWEVER, this process takes up much of your time, because the book is filled with derivations of several formulae that you don't really need to know, and the syntax can confuse you often. If Physics is your true passion and you WANT to learn EVERYTHING about it (and have enough free time to read through this book without ever feeling a little bored), then this book will be useful for you. Otherwise, you're better off with a study guide and also, another physics text for reference.
Do the authors come from some 5th dimension?!.......2005-10-22
I took calculus I, and taking calculus II at the same time with my physics course. As a physics fan, I am pretty much disatisfied with this book. If you have already known some basic concepts in physics, you may find that this book provides more confusion than understanding. If you don't know anything about physics, you should not use this book as a base for your knowledge in physics. The author explains things as if he assumes that you know what is going on in his mind!
I have more to say about the problem exercises in this book. There are a couple of typos that if you have to use this book as your textbook for physics course, you may find out. The problems in the book are divided into 3 levels according to their difficulties: level I, II, and III. Sometimes, if don't want to say many times, I have no significant difficulties in solving a level III problem, but have a painful experience in solving level II problems. Level I is usually easy, but can be tricky. A major difficulty in solving problems in this book, even though you understand the physics concepts, is that you don't know what the problems are asking for. It is because the questions are often very ambiguous. You can check out some examples: problem 11 page 54 (note that the value 39.25 is a typo), 15 page 113, 24(c) page 204. These are just a few examples to give you a sense. If you are "lucky" enough to have this book as your textbook, and have to solve the problems in there for your homework, you will experience more!
Tough Subject.......2005-09-05
Physics is no easy subject, especially when every aspect is supposed to be understood. Even high school physics is no laughing matter, and so I can understand the frustration some of the people voice on this book. If you want a book that will allow you to plug in specifically easy problems into the specific couple of equations you learned in the chapter, this book is not for you. However, if you desire a book that will give you all the tools and understanding to solve almost any general problem that is thrown at you, you better not wait another second to buy this book.
This book harnesses Calculus to provide more powerful equations. While the derivations of equations look frighteningly daunting, if you read them carefully and do not move on until you understand how the authors got to it, your ability to ad-lib on other problems will be tremendously increased. I must admit, however, that the sample problems do not always prepare you adequately for the end of the chapter problems. The level one problems are too easy. The level two problems are adequate but can usually be solved by searching through the chapter and sticking in the number into an equation found there. And the level three problems are nearlly impossible, but, if solved, give you a tremendous sense of accomplishment.
If you are ready to be challenged and wish to learn true physics, you have nothing to be afraid of to buy this book.
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Conférence Moshé Flato 1999: Quantization, Deformations, and Symmetries Volume II (Mathematical Physics Studies)
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These two volumes constitute the Proceedings of the `Conférence Moshé Flato, 1999'. Their spectrum is wide but the various areas covered are, in fact, strongly interwoven by a common denominator, the unique personality and creativity of the scientist in whose honor the Conference was held, and the far-reaching vision that underlies his scientific activity.
With these two volumes, the reader will be able to take stock of the present state of the art in a number of subjects at the frontier of current research in mathematics, mathematical physics, and physics. Volume I is prefaced by reminiscences of and tributes to Flato's life and work. It also includes a section on the applications of sciences to insurance and finance, an area which was of interest to Flato before it became fashionable. The bulk of both volumes is on physical mathematics, where the reader will find these ingredients in various combinations, fundamental mathematical developments based on them, and challenging interpretations of physical phenomena.
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Integrable Hierarchies and Modern Physical Theories (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Volume 18)
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A self-contained collection of reviews, reports and survey articles describing the background to and recent developments in integral systems and their applications in modern theoretical physics. Some articles discuss the connection of integrable models to Seiberg-Witten theory and its generalization to many gauge models possessing hidden integrability on a moduli space. New ideas are also presented on higher dimensional integrable systems and skyrmions. Other topics include two dimensional sigma and WZW models; affine and boundary integrable Toda field theories and related perturbed conformal quantum field theories; boronic and supersymmetric, discrete and differential KP and Toda-type hierarchies, their various symmetry reductions, boronic and fermionic, isospectral and non-isospectral, local and non-local flows; trigonometric Calogero-Moser systems; conjugate, orthogonal and Egorov nets.
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Itep Lectures on Particle Physics and Field Theory (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics, Volumes I and II)
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For almost two decades Prof. Shifman, a clear and pedagogical expositor, has been giving review lectures on frontier topics in theoretical high energy physics. This two-volume book is a collection of some of the best of those lectures. The lectures written in the 1980's and early 1990's have been revised and updated specifically for this publication. The lectures in this book are intended for beginners - graduate students and young researchers - who are about to delve into the intricacies of the theory. They were used by the author in his course "Advanced Modern Field Theory and Its Applications", given in the academic year 1994/95 at the University of Minnesota.
A wide range of key topics is covered. In Volume 1, the first two chapters are devoted to quantum chromodynamics as the theory of hadrons. The author gives an in-depth discussion of a variety of powerful methods based on Wilson's operator product expansion. Chapter 3 (written together with V Novikov, A Vainshtein, and V Zakharov) is the most systematic and pedagogical presentation of instantons in the gauge theories one can find in the literature. Chapter 4 introduces supersymmetry. Chapter 5, concluding this volume, reviews the fascinating dynamics of supersymmetric gauge theories in the strong coupling regime. Chapter 6, which opens Volume 2, is a culmination of the supersymmetric theme. It gives a state-of-the-art description of the breakthrough developments in supersymmetric gauge theories. It has been written specifically for this book by A Vainshtein and the author. Chapter 7 is designed as a primer of two-dimensional conformal field theory, which constitutes the basis of modern string theory. Chapter 8, the last, presents remarkable new findings in quantum mechanics. Every chapter contains exercises and a list of recommended literature.
Prof. Shifman has been an active participant and significant contributor in the development of the ideas presented in this book. This accounts for the historical remarks and digressions interspersed in the book, enhancing its pedagogical role. The book will serve as a comprehensive reference and textbook for all graduate students and researchers interested in modern particle physics. It will also be a useful guide for lecturers.
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume II, Chapters 23-39
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This refreshing, new text is a friendly companion to help students master the challenging concepts in a standard two-or three-semester, calculus-based physics course. Dr. Lerner carefully develops every concept with detailed explanations while incorporating the mathematical underpinnings of the concepts. This juxtaposition enables students to attain a deeper understanding of physical concepts while developing their skill at manipulating equations.
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In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh, Sara Parton, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Virginia Terhune, Susan Warner, and Augusta Evans Wilson. These women shared more than commercial success. Collectively they created fictions that Kelley terms "literary domesticity," books that both embraced and called into question the complicated expectations shaping the lives of so many nineteenth-century women. Matured in a culture of domesticity and dismissed by a male writing establishment, they struggled to reconcile public recognition with the traditional roles of wife and mother.
Drawing on the 200 volumes of published prose and on the letters, diaries, and journals of these writers, Kelley explores the tensions that accompanied their unprecedented literary success. In a new preface, she discusses the explosion in the scholarship on writing women since the original 1984 publication of Private Woman, Public Stage and reflects on the book's ongoing relevance.
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This book reprints for the first time since the 1850s three short works by George Thompson (1823--c. 1873), one of antebellum America's most successful and prolific authors of sensational fiction. Beginning in the 1840s, he wrote stories for sporting papers like "Life in Boston and New York," edited the humorous New York weekly "The Broadway Belle," and contributed regularly to the sexually explicit "Venus' Miscellany." He also published dozens of novels, most of which were set in Northeastern cities. His writing blends entertainment and social protest, combining commentary on such issues as urbanization, poverty, race, and class with some of the era's most shocking depictions of sex and violence. The three works in this volume offer a rich representative sample of Thompson's writing. The two novels-"Venus in Boston" and "City Crimes"--depict the American city as a place of dark mystery, bawdy humor, and near-universal corruption peopled with con artists and criminals of all kinds. In each novel, a complex narrative structure interweaves multiple stories of exploited labor, abuse of power, seduction, intrigue, and crime. Thompson's autobiography, "My Life," presents the author's life in terms nearly as lively as his fiction. Thompson's zestful, unconventional writings fly in the face of the stereotypical view of Victorian America as strait-laced and sentimental. Ideal for use as a classroom text, this new edition includes a scholarly introduction and an extensive bibliography.
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Grand Guignol at its best..........2005-06-16
These two samples of Nineteenth Century popular fiction make
for lurid and thrilling, if somewhat violent reading.
"City Crimes" especially would be a film far more gripping
than "Gangs of New York", although not for the faint-hearted.
Most of the works of this genre exist only on reels of
microfilm and hopefully one day will become more accessible.
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With The Other Nineteenth Century, we offer a new collection focussing on Avram Davidsons distinctive historical fantasies, tales of strange Mitteleuropas, and of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier.
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Excellent strange stories of a 19th century that never was.......2002-09-26
The Other Nineteenth Century is the third recent hardcover collection of a selection of Avram Davidson's short fiction, after The Avram Davidson Treasury (1998) and The Investigations of Avram Davidson (1999). Needless to say this is very welcome -- perhaps a reissue of the complete Eszterhazy stories (rumoured to be in the works), and a first collection of the complete Limekiller stories, and maybe one more collection of excellent leftover pieces would be nice. This collection is theoretically of stories set in some version or other of the 19th Century, though a few stories are actually set in the 20th Century, and one or two may be set in the 18th or earlier. But no point quibbling.
The collection is marvelous. It displays Davidson's trademark wonderfully discursive prose, and his autodidact-style erudition, and his deep interest in the nooks and crannies of history. The stories span pretty much Davidson's whole career. Among the best: "What Strange Stars and Skies", about a virtuous do-gooder woman ministering to people in the slums of London who runs afoul of "that unspeakably evil Eurasian, Motilal Smith". "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" aka "The Price of a Charm", about a man in the early part of this century deciding whether to buy a love charm or a hunting charm -- with significant results. "The Montavarde Camera" is a spooky story about a man with a nagging wife who buys the title camera only to learn its terrible power. The rather late "Twenty-Three", in which we slowly learn the horrible secret of an old family. Another late story, "El Vilvoy de las Islas", about a strange man living on a remote South African island. One of the last (perhaps it was the last) Eszterhazy stories, "The Odd Old Bird", more of a jape than anyhing. "Dragon Skin Drum", a dark story about two American servicemen in China, and Mao's revolution, and the ignorance of Westerners. And so on, and so on ... excellent excellent stuff.
Wishing for more.......2002-03-08
Davidson's quirky stories are a delight to read and reread. Well worth the investment and a worthy supplement to The Avram Davidson Treasury & The Avram Davidson Investigations. One hopes that the Jake Limekiller stories will be collected soon and that an expanded volume of Adventures In Unhistory is next on the list of publication.
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Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century U.S. Women Writers
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Shadow And Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture
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An important though little understood aspect of the response to nature of nineteenth-century Americans is the widespread interest in the scenery of swamps, jungles and other waste lands. Dark Eden focuses on this developing interest in order to redefine cultural values during a transformative period of American history. Professor Miller shows how, for many Americans in the period around the Civil War, nature came to be regarded less as a source of high moral insight and more as a sanctuary from an ever more urbanized and technological environment. In the swamps and jungles of the South a whole range of writers found a set of strange and exotic images by which to explore the changing social realities of the times and the deep-seated personal pressures that accompanied them.
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Readers)
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women's expression. Complete texts, many never reprinted or anthologized, come from a wide range of both traditional and rediscovered genres, including: advice and manners, travel writing, myth, children's writing, sketch, utopia, journalism, humor, poetry, oral narrative, sampler verse, short fiction, thriller and detective, spiritual autobiography, letter, and diary.
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"an impressive range of writings...invaluable".......1998-07-17
"Generic diversity is one of the book's greatest strengths: in addition to familiar genres such as poetry and short fiction, Kilcup has also included travel writing, satire, personal narratives (autobiographies, diaries, and letters), domestic pieces (manners, advice, and cookbook writing), and children's literature. The "Selected Contents by Genre" lists others categories which help define the range of writing by American women in the nineteenth century--elegy and obituary; essay, oratory, and journalism; and the macabre, thriller, supernatural, and detective fiction. The diversity of authors is equally impressive. Kilcup has gathered work by women of different races, classes, levels of education, and political stances. . . . The headnotes are brief but illuminating, offer relevant author biography (if known), context, and significance of the work. Many of these prefatory notes refer to other pieces in the anthology, which encourages readers to make conn! ! ections among the selections and provides a sense of continuity among women writers of different generations, classes, and ethnicities. . . . The diversity of material, the insightful supporting apparatus, and the reasonable paperback price make this book invaluable to anyone interested in nineteenth-century American women writers. . . . [The anthology offers] an impressive range of writings which will introduce beginners to the diversity and complexity of early American women, and inspire more seasoned scholars to continue recovering and discussing this crucially important work."
A wonderful exploration that leaves one wanting to read more.......1998-04-04
The offerings in "Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers" are not only unique, but a great read as well. There are compelling and diverse materials here that you will not find anywhere else. The editor has clearly spent considerable time in researching and assembling the volume to make an original contribution--the anthology is indeed the first and only of its kind. This care to detail can also be seen in the accessible and well informed introduction which manages a tour-de-force discussion of the contents. The book's production unlike that of cut-rate presses is of top quality; the cover--like the contents--is a stunning work of an unheralded American women artist of the period. All in all this volume sets the standard for collections of nineteenth-century American women writers while appealing to an educated general audience. Would recommend to readers without hesitation.
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Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Gregg Camfield
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In this rich, exciting new book, Gregg Camfield explores nineteenth-century American humor from the perspective of gender and domestic ideology, challenging recent theory asserting a broad gulf between men's and women's humor during the period and contributing vital new insights to the study of humor in general. Capturing in part I a vision of humor unique to the era, Camfield examines the period's faith in what was called "amiable humor," a genial and supple comic mode whose non- aggression makes it resist easy assimilation to theories stressing humor's basis in hostility, negation, rage, and other combative or displaced energies. Seeking to illuminate this distinct comedy, Camfield probes a related, central cultural strand--the domesticity ideal--that so often is a subject of this humor, carefully tracking contact between the two discourses and identifying their common social and intellectual roots. Turning next to four literary case-studies powerfully revealing of this contact, Camfield in part II pairs male and female humorists--Washington Irving and Fanny Fern; Harriet Beecher Stowe and Herman Melville; Mark Twain and Marietta Holley; and George Washington Harris and Mary Wilkins Freeman--not only to demonstrate the way these influential writers approach domesticity with genial humor, but also to support his claim that gender difference does not always correlate to differences in viewpoint and practice within this common style. Where many argue nineteenth- century women's humor constitutes a genre unto itself, Camfield finds that like women, men filtered reaction to the constraints and opportunities of home life through genial comedy, and that women, like their male counterparts, wrote humor marked by extravagance, expansion, caricature, fantasy, and posturing. Broadening out to an intriguing consideration of humor theory in part III, Camfield draws on recent work in psychology, culture studies, neo-pragmatist philosophy, and neuroscience to model a compelling alternative view of humor capable of negotiating both the complexities of nineteenth-century American humor and the comic art of periods before and since. Students and scholars of humor, nineteenth-century American literature and culture, and women's writing, will find Necessary Madness to be a provocative, essential achievement.
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Realism and the Romance: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and American Fiction (Nineteenth-Century Studies)
Elissa Greenwald
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The Patchwork Quilt: Ideas of Community in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction
Suzanne V. Shepard
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Nineteenth-century American women's patchwork-quilt fiction sought to redefine the concept of "brotherhood," established in Winthrop's "city upon a hill," by providing an inclusive and matriarchal model for the communal experiment that was America. Patchwork-quilt fiction, from such domestic writers as Susan Warner to local colorists like Sarah Orne Jewett, combines realistic detail with women's metaphors like the hearth, home, kitchen, garden, and quilt, to express feminine ideas about community.
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