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Illustrated museum handbook: a guide to the collections in the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia
(The Curators of the University of Missouri, 1982)
"In twenty-five years of collecting, the Museum of Art and Archaeology has acquired substantial holdings of Classical archaeology and Western art, as well as representative examples of most other artistic traditions, ...
Thomas Stothard : the mechanisms of art patronage in England circa 1800
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
Thomas Stothard (1755-1834) was probably the most prolific illustrator of his times, executing
designs for everything from landscape, sculpture, and history painting to ceramics, silverwork, and book illustration. The ...
Charles Perrault : memoirs of my life
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
It is impossible to know whether Perrault intended the Memoirs to be published. There are early references to "your uncles," identifying Perrault's children as his immediate audience; however, he offered nothing about his ...
Richard Crashaw : an annotated bibliography of criticism, 1632-1980
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
Roberts provides a "fully annotated, comprehensive enumerative bibliography of the criticism on Richard Crashaw that contains, in addition to editions of his poetry, all books; parts of book-length studies; monographs; and ...
A wild civility : interactions in the poetry and thought of Robert Graves
(University of Missouri Press, 1980)
Keane explores the interaction of emotion and artistry within the poetry and personality of Robert Graves, while analyzing Graves' allusion to earlier English poetry.
History of the Department of Poultry Science, 1967-1985
(College of Agriculture, University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
Galdos : the early historical novels
(University of Missouri Press, 1986)
are no longer always taken at face value. The present volume complements the previous study, Galdos: The Mature Thought, in which the twenty-six episodios
written between 1898 and 1912 are examined in their ideological context....
The great western land pirate : John A. Murrell in legend and history
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
John A. Murrell lived in Tennessee when Andrew Jackson was president. According to legend, he was an able
man who had been raised to be a rascal by his unscrupulous mother. Flogged and imprisoned as a youth, he swore eternal ...
A great and necessary measure : George Grenville and the genesis of the Stamp Act, 1763-1765
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
George Grenville could have upheld Parliament's
sovereignty, raised a revenue, reduced smuggling, and asserted British control over the colonies by lowering the duty on foreign molasses imported into America from sixpence ...
Donald Barthelme's fiction : the ironist saved from drowning
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
So doth, so is religion : John Donne and diplomatic contexts in the Reformed Netherlands
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
Sellin examines the view of the Protestant Reformation as held by John Donne by recounting the poet's actions and words as a diplomat at the Hague, as well as throughout the Netherlands.
Themes in cultural psychiatry, an annotated bibliography, 1975-1980
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
While expanding on the previous compilation, Anthropological and Cross-Cultural Themes in Mental Health: An Annotated Bibliography, 1925-1974, Favazza anthologizes the next five years of literature on cultural psychiatry. ...
Twenty towns : their histories, town plans, and architecture (1985)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division., 1985)
"This book reports on the statewide project Town Puzzles: Putting the Pieces Together, which originated in the Department of Community Development and was conducted in 1983-1984 through the University of Missouri-Columbia Extension Division. In each...
Commerce des lumières : John Oswald and the British in Paris, 1790-1793
(University of Missouri Press, 1986)
"My subject is the involvement of British intellectuals in revolutionary thought and action between the end of the American Revolution and the fourth year of the French Revolution. John Oswald, briefly famous as a herald ...
The chivalric world of Don Quijote : style, structure, and narrative technique
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
The purpose of this book is to examine the characters, style, themes, structure, and narrative technique of that chivalric world. I hope to show, among other things, that Don Quijote begins to retreat from his chivalric ...
Completing the circuit : a century of electrical education at MSMUMR
(University of Missouri Printing Services, 1984)
Shakespeare's vast romance : a study of The winter's tale
(University of Missouri Press, 1980)
In the past few decades, no group of Shakespeare's plays has increased more in public and scholarly esteem than the four late comedies - Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winters Tale, and The Tempest - generally collected in modern ...
The humor of irony and satire : in the Tradiciones peruanas
(University of Missouri Press, 1986)
The richness and vastness of Palma's narrative contribution have long demanded a more illustrative approach, such as that employed by Rosenblat and Hatzfeld in their studies of Cervantes' language. Accordingly, I have ...
Fast talk & flush times : the confidence man as a literary convention
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
Lenz provides a historical overview of the American confidence man, and its role as a literary convention.