Book Description
In this delightful and engagingly eccentric treasury of life lessons, redoubtable Victorian Elspeth Marr (1871-1947) reflects on the fundamental topics of life as well as the nuts and bolts of everyday living.
Author : Elspeth Marr
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1843178311
In this delightful and engagingly eccentric treasury of life lessons, redoubtable Victorian Elspeth Marr (1871-1947) reflects on the fundamental topics of life as well as the nuts and bolts of everyday living.
Author : Beth Rodgers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319326244
This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It argues that there was a preoccupation with defining, characterising and naming adolescent girlhood at the fin de siècle. These ‘daughters of today’, ‘juvenile spinsters’ and ‘modern girls’, as the press variously termed them, occupying a borderland between childhood and womanhood, were seen to be inextricably connected to late nineteenth-century modernity: they were the products of changes taking place in education and employment and of the challenge to traditional conceptions of femininity presented by the Woman Question. The author argues that the shifting nature of the modern adolescent girl made her a malleable cultural figure, and a meeting point for many of the prevalent debates associated with fin-de-siècle society. By juxtaposing diverse material, from children’s books and girls’ magazines to New Woman novels and psychological studies, the author contextualises adolescent girlhood as a distinct but complex cultural category at the end of the nineteenth century.
Author : Nathaniel Wallace
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004316213
Nathaniel Wallace’s Scanning the Hypnoglyph chronicles a contemporary genre that exploits sleep’s evocative dimensions. While dreams, sleeping nudes, and other facets of the dormant state were popular with artists of the early twentieth century (and long before), sleep experiences have given rise to an even wider range of postmodern artwork. Scanning the Hypnoglyph first assesses the modernist framework wherein the sleeping subject typically enjoys firm psychic grounding. As postmodernism begins, subjective space is fragmented, the representation of sleep reflecting the trend. Among other topics, this book demonstrates how portrayals of dormant individuals can reveal imprints of the self. Gender issues are taken up as well. “Mainstream,” heterosexual representations are considered along with depictions of gay, lesbian, and androgynous sleepers.
Author : Christopher Rush
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857902520
“A book about war that, like The Naked and the Dead or Catch-22, manages to be about very much more” (Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening). Odysseus is returning to Ithaca after nearly twenty years—half of it spent as a soldier and the other half as a soldier of fortune. During his absence, his wife, Penelope, has remained faithful, despite Odysseus being missing and presumed dead. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he confronts those who have been trying to seduce his wife and kills them all. Based on Homer’s ancient epics, this is a novel about war and peace—and about how returning soldiers can find peace more horrible than war and home more hellish than the battlefield. “The narrative of the novel drives along fast, and Odysseus’s adventures on his long journey home are vividly presented. Readers already familiar with them are unlikely to be disappointed; many who come to them fresh will be enthralled.” —The Scotsman “Startlingly original.” —The Times
Author : Polly Bloom
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782431624
A treasure trove of age-old customs and time-honoured advice, as well as intriguing old wives' tales.
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Page : 598 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Drugstores
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1672 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)
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Page : 680 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
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Page : 624 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Pharmacy
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410343170
A Study Guide for Robert Lipsyte's "The Contender," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.