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Revolutions & Watersheds
The years between 1775 and 1815 constitute a crucial episode in the evolutionary history of Europe and America. Between the start of the American Revolution, with the first armed clashes between British regulars and American militiamen at Concord and Lexington, and the closing act of the French Revolution, with the eclipse of Napoleon's dreams of pan-European glory on the battlefield of Waterloo, America and Europe witnessed the rise and fall of radicalism, which left virtually no aspect of public and private life untouched. While the American colonies managed to wrench themselves away from their colonial parent, and while France careered down the stormy rapids of its own Revolution, Great B...
Democracy and Schooling in California
This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through the lens of a joint biography of these two extraordinary women, Heffernan, the California Commissioner of Rural and Elementary Education between 1926 and 1965, and Seeds, the Director of the University Elementary school at UCLA between 1925 and 1957.
Women Writing Greece
Women Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender in travel and cross-cultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of 'the Greek journey', traditionally seen as an antiquarian or Byronic pursuit. This collection aims to cast new light on women's participation in the discourses of Hellenism and Orientalism, examining their ideological rendering of Greece as at once a luminous land and a site crossed by contradictory cultural memories. Arranged chronologically, the essays discuss encounters with Greece by, among others, Lady Elizabeth Craven, Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Montagu, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley, Felicia Skene, Emily Pfeiffer, Eva Palmer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, Christa Wolf, Penelope Storace and Gillian Bouras, and analyse them through a variety of critical, historical, contextual and theoretical frames.
The Female Body in Medicine and Literature
Drawing on a range of texts from the seventeenth century to the present, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature explores accounts of motherhood, fertility, and clinical procedures for what they have to tell us about the development of women's medicine. The essays here offer nuanced historical analyses of subjects that have received little critical attention, including the relationship between gynecology and psychology and the influence of popular art forms on so-called women's science prior to the twenty-first century. Taken together, these essays offer a wealth of insight into the medical treatment of women and will appeal to scholars in gender studies, literature, and the history of medicine.
Body Matters
Why do bodies matter? Body Matters is a collection of essays by feminists working in literary and cultural studies which addresses this question from a range of theoretical perspectives.
The Secrets of Generation
From theories of conception and concepts of species to museum displays of male genitalia and the politics of breastmilk, The Secrets of Generation is an interdisciplinary examination of the many aspects of reproduction in the eighteenth century. Exploring the theme of generation from the perspective of histories of medicine, literature, biology, technology, and culture, this collection offers a range of cutting-edge approaches. Its twenty-four contributors, scholars from across Europe and North America, bring an international perspective to discuss reproduction in British, French, American, German, and Italian contexts. The definitive collection on eighteenth-century generation and its many milieus, The Secrets of Generation will be an essential resource for studying this topic for years to come.
Beauty and the Beast
Preliminary Material --Acknowledgements /Peter Liebregts and Wim Tigges --Introduction: Beauty and the Beast /Wim Tigges --Christina Rossetti in and Out of Grace /C.C. Barfoot --Christina Rossetti: Sisters, Brothers and the "Other Woman" /Amanda Gilroy --Wrapped in a Dream: Katharine Tynan and Christina Rossetti /Peter van De Kamp --Walter Pater's Versatility as a Critic /Billie Andrew Inman --After Studies: Walter Pater's Cancelled Book, or Dionysus and Gay Discourse in the 1870s /Laurel Brake --Walter Pater, George Moore and R.L. Stevenson /Peter Costello --The Influence of Walter Pater in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Picture of Dorian Gray /Ans Kabel --Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde, and Count Dracu...
Everybody's Jane
The first book to investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of her novels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her, and why they create works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels and life.The voices of everyday readers emerge from both published and unpublished sources, including interviews conducted with literary tourists and archival research into the founding of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the exceptional Austen collection of Alberta Hirshheimer Burke of Baltimore.Additional topics include new Austen portraits; portrayals of Austen, and of Austen fans, in film and fiction; and hybrid works that infuse Austen's writings with horror, erotica, or explicit Christianity.Everybody's Jane will appeal to all those who care about Austen and will change how we think about the importance of literature and reading today.
The Eyes of My Mind
Travel with Richard who flies all over the United States when he goes to sleep at night. During his waking hours, he places himself in danger as he struggles to keep up with his extraordinary dreams. Richard had always been just a regular kid who did regular kid stuff like going to school and church and playing baseball. He hung out with his friends, rode his bike, and ate pizza and ice cream. His life changes abruptly when he begins to fly in his dreams, and he can see things that are happening in real time but in far-away places. When he wakes up in the morning, he knows he has to do something about the potential tragedies he has found out about while he was dreaming. He desperately tries to convince others to help him save lives. But who is going to believe a boy who says he has dreamed it all? Even Richard does not understand his special powers. He learns about the kidnapping of a little girl, and he scrambles to enlist help to rescue her. Richard saves the day when he dreams about the San Diego Zoo, the Ferris wheel on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, and a visit to Washington, D.C. by a Russian dissident.
White Horizon
Bridging historical and literary studies, White Horizon explores the importance of the Arctic to British understandings of masculine identity, the nation, and the rapidly expanding British Empire in the nineteenth century. Well before Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, polar space had come to represent the limit of both empire and human experience. Using a variety of texts, from explorers' accounts to boys' adventure fiction, as well as provocative and fresh readings of the works of Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins, Jen H ill illustrates the function of Arctic space in the nineteenth-century British social imagination, arguing that the desolate north was imagined as a "pure" space, a conveniently blank page on which to write narratives of Arctic exploration that both furthered and critiqued British imperialism.
