The Origin of the Veil. A Poem. By Dr. Langhorne
Author : John Langhorne
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 1773
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Author : John Langhorne
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 1773
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Author : Aneeka Ayanna Henderson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469651777
In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, music by Anita Baker, and films such as The Best Man. Seeking to move beyond simple assessments of marriage as "good" or "bad" for African Americans, Henderson critically examines popular and influential late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts alongside legislation such as the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and the Welfare Reform Act, which masked true sources of inequality with crisis-laden myths about African American family formation. Using an interdisciplinary approach to highlight the influence of law, politics, and culture on marriage representations and practices, Henderson reveals how their kinship veils and unveils the fiction in political policy as well as the complicated political stakes of fictional and cultural texts. Providing a new opportunity to grapple with old questions, including who can be a citizen, a "wife," and "marriageable," Veil and Vow makes clear just how deeply marriage still matters in African American culture.
Author : David Drake
Publisher : Tor Fantasy
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429911697
Epic Fantasy author David Drake continues his saga The Lord of the Isles with Queen of Demons In the world of the Isles, the elemental forces of magic are rising to a thousand-year peak. A small bank of companions has set forth across a world in the process of transformation in search of their destinies. Now their epic adventure continues. “David Drake's Lord of the Isles is an epic with the texture of the legends of yore, and rousing action and characters to cheer for.” --Terry Goodkind At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Journalism
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Author : Ella March Chase
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250006295
A richly imagined, gorgeously written historical novel set in the Stuart court featuring a unique hero: Jeffrey Hudson, a dwarf tasked with spying on the beautiful but vulnerable queen It's 1629, and King Charles I and his French queen Henrietta Maria have reigned in England for less than three years. Young dwarf Jeffrey Hudson is swept away from a village shambles and plunged into the Stuart court when his father sells him to the most hated man in England—the Duke of Buckingham. Buckingham trains Jeffrey to be his spy in the household of Charles' seventeen-year-old bride, hoping to gain intelligence that will help him undermine the vivacious queen's influence with the king. Desperately homesick in a country that hates her for her nationality and Catholic faith, Henrietta Maria surrounds herself with her "Royal Menagerie of Freaks and Curiosities of Nature"—a "collection" consisting of a giant, two other dwarves, a rope dancer, an acrobat/animal trainer and now Jeffrey, who is dubbed "Lord Minimus." Dropped into this family of misfits, Jeffrey must negotiate a labyrinth of court intrigue and his own increasingly divided loyalties. For not even the plotting of the Duke nor the dangers of a tumultuous kingdom can order the heart of a man. Though he is only eighteen inches tall, Jeffrey Hudson's love will reach far beyond his grasp—to the queen he has been sent to destroy. Full of vibrant period detail, The Queen's Dwarf by Ella March Chase is a thrilling and evocative portrait of an intriguing era.
Author : Jennifer Heath
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2008-07-02
Category : Design
ISBN : 0520255186
Veiling is a globally polarizing issue, a locus for the struggle between Islam and the West and between contemporary and traditional interpretations of Islam. This book examines the vastly misunderstood and multi-layered world of the veil. It explores and analyzes the cultures, politics, and histories of veiling.
Author : Edgcumbe Staley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "King René d'Anjou and His Seven Queens" by Edgcumbe Staley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Henry Strafford
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Cattle
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Author : George William MacArthur Reynolds
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Prophecy
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Author : D. G. Kehl
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1610978366
When he was a student at Oxford University, C. S. Lewis wrote to a friend expressing his great admiration of and enthusiasm for the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, particularly The House of the Seven Gables and Transformation (British title of The Marble Faun). This study examines the parallels between these two kindred spirits and their works, focusing on their similar worldviews, their personal backgrounds and lifestyles, and the "Ultimates" they both pondered. It discusses common themes in their works, such as myth, scientism, and "the great power of blackness." Their respective attitudes toward these issues and others, such as faith, repentance, heaven and hell, confession, church attendance, the clergy, and Puritanism are strikingly similar. Considerable attention is given to "companion pieces" of the two writers, with discussion of the so-called "Fortunate Fall" in The Marble Faun and Perelandra, veil imagery in "The Minister's Black Veil," The Blithedale Romance, and Till We Have Faces, influence of Bunyan's allegory on The Pilgrim's Regress and "The Celestial Railroad," and multiform love in The Four Loves and The House of the Seven Gables. Examination of such affinities between these two writers and their works provides mutual illumination and enhanced appreciation of each.