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'Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art' boldly reasserts the importance of the Madwoman more than four decades after the publication of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s seminal work in feminist literary criticism, 'The Madwoman in the Attic'. Since Gilbert and Gubar’s work was published, the Madwoman has reemerged to do important work, rock the academic boat, and ignite social justice agency inside and outside of academic spaces, moving beyond the literary context that defined the Madwoman in the late 20th century. In this dynamic collection of essays, scholars, creative writers, and Mad activists come together to (re)define the Madwoman in pluralistic and expansive ...
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Analyses the theme of laziness in twentieth-century American LiteratureUncovers the ethical dimension of the writing of Stein, Hemingway, Barth, Barthelme and Wallace by situating them in the context of the 20th century non-normative ethical and aesthetic traditionShows how the Romantic interest in laziness plays out through the modernist and postmodernist moments in 20th century American literatureOffers an innovative model of ethical reading based on the concept of unproductivity as an alternative to the dominant post-Romantic trends in the field of ethical criticismPresents the first comprehensive study of laziness as a theoretical concept, which draws on a range of religious and philosop...
Gideon Macon (d.ca. 1702), probably of Huguenot lineage, immigrated from England to York County, Virginia during or before 1670, and moved to New Kent County about 1680. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and elsewhere.
Martin Petry (1757-ca. 1839/1840) was born in Orange County, Virginia, and was a son of Matthew Peatross. Martin married Ann Raines, and served in the Revolutionary War. They moved to Rockingham County, Virginia in 1785, and then made several other moves, finally moving after 1798 over the mountains to Summers County, West Vir- ginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and elsewhere. Includes probable ancestry and genealogical data in Virginia to the mid-1600s.
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