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Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections
This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form. It examines the formulation and idealization of this affective category in works by Isaac Watts, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Hays, William Godwin, Helen Maria Williams, and William Wordsworth. Part I outlines how affections are invested with utopian potential in theology, moral philosophy, and criticism, re-imagining what it might mean to know emotion. Part II considers attempts of writers at the end of the period to draw affections into literature as a means of negotiating a middle way between realism and idealism, expressivism and didacticism, particularity and abstraction, subjectivity and objectivity, femininity and masculinity, radicalism and conservatism, and the foreign and the domestic.
Days of Joy and Sorrow
'You were my first and you are my last, I promise you that. Ever yours, ever mine.' Luci Harrison is an Englishwoman in New York with a successful career as an economist, a happy family life ... and a guilty conscience. One rather large obstacle prevents her from agreeing on a wedding date with her fiance, David. Luci hasn't been completely honest with him. She's already married. Alex MacDonald, better known as British rock-star Xander Mack, enjoys international acclaim as guitarist and lead-singer with When We Were Gods, and an enviable lifestyle with his beautiful fiancee. But while Dana has patiently insisted on marriage before she will have his children, her tolerance is tested when he is suddenly thrust into fatherhood. Broken promises, secrets and surprise revelations force Alex and Luci to face the truth and the consequences of their decisions. True love endures but is it enough? Days of Joy and Sorrow is the second book in the Ever Mine Trilogy.
Literature's Children
"Literature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyses the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasising what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of so-called 'Golden Age' novels for children which continue to shape our understanding of what children's literature entails, including The Railway Children, The Wind in the Willows, The Hobbit, and mid-20th-century series fiction, it demonstrates how the child critic resists the processes of idealisation at work in such texts. By bringing together ideas from literary theory and the philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the philosopher John Dewey, it provides a compelling new account of the complex relationships between literary aesthetics and literary didacticism"--
Mother and Daughter
I am living proof that no one can predict or determine their future. When a devastating illness strikes your family, in some cases, no matter what steps you take or how you plan you will have no control over the outcome. One day, out of the blue, my father was diagnosed with cancer and then just a few months later, my husband was diagnosed with cancer as well. Watching a father and a husband battle a fatal disease together was more than a family should ever have to endure. Despite all the doctor consultations and treatment plans, nothing would suppress this insidious disease. Although they both fought bravely and effortlessly for only a short time, they both lost their lives to cancer. My family and I endured a double loss, losing two family members, at the same time, only a few days apart. Our lives were changed forever and unfortunately, we learned the hard way that life is a precious gift which can be taken away at any time and should never be taken for granted.
Memories of a Missionary Kid
Memoirs of Louise Joy (nee Gault) daughter of medical missionaries.
An Ethnography of the Gospel of Matthew
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Exeter, U.K., 2002.
Women's Literary Education, C. 1690-1850
Studies how women writers shaped long-eighteenth-century educational discourse through literature The essays in this volume reveal the complex, various and sometimes contradictory ways in which female literary authors interrogated and advanced educational philosophy and practice during the long eighteenth century. The collection explores how long-eighteenth-century discourses of education shaped what it meant for women to write and how women writers shaped discourses of education, spotlighting the influence of female authors on eighteenth-century debates about education as they are conducted in and through literary form. By identifying a discernible tradition of women's educational literatur...
Discover Your Joy
JOY! It's YOUR choice. Every day! A quick inspirational read every morning will have you on your way to discover moments of joy each day.
Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from eleventh-century France, to fifteenth-century Iberia and England, and ending with seventeenth-century Jesuit meditative literature. Essays in this book explore how particular emotional norms belonging to different socio-cultural communities (courtly, academic, urban elites) were subverted or re-shaped; engage with the study of emotions as sudden, but impactful, bursts of sensory experience and feelings; and analyze how emotions are filtered and negotiated through the prism of literary texts and the socio-political status of their authors.
Resounding Joy
A trip to swim with the humpback whales of the Silver Bank provided Louise Lindsay with many intimate encounters with the whales. She created a visual poem with twelve of her images of the whales, and wrote verbal poems for each image. Then she added spiritual quotes, in Hebrew and in English, which resonated with each image. Care is taken to print each image on archival paper with archival ink. Louise Lindsay is an award winning photographer, as well as a poet, who resides in the Florida Keys.
