Fatherhood Authority And British Reading Culture 1831 1907

Author : Melissa Shields Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317136309

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Fatherhood, Authority, and British Reading Culture, 1831-1907 by Melissa Shields Jenkins Pdf

During a period when the idea of fatherhood was in flux and individual fathers sought to regain a cohesive collective identity, debates related to a father’s authority were negotiated and resolved through competing documents. Melissa Shields Jenkins analyzes the evolution of patriarchal authority in nineteenth-century culture, drawing from extra-literary and non-narrative source material as well as from novels. Arguing that Victorian novelists reinvent patriarchy by recourse to conduct books, biography, religious manuals, political speeches, and professional writing in the fields of history and science, Jenkins offers interdisciplinary case studies of Elizabeth Gaskell, George Meredith, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Samuel Butler, and Thomas Hardy. Jenkins’s book contributes to our understanding of the part played by fathers in the Victorian cultural imagination, and sheds new light on the structures underlying the Victorian novel.

Author : James L. Machor
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801899331

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Reading Fiction in Antebellum America by James L. Machor Pdf

James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-century Americans shaped not only the experiences of these writers at the time but also the way the writers were received in the twentieth century. What Machor reveals is that these authors were received in ways strikingly different from how they are currently read, thereby shedding significant light on their present status in the literary canon in comparison to their critical and popular positions in their own time. Machor deftly combines response and reception criticism and theory with work in the history of reading to engage with groundbreaking scholarship in historical hermeneutics. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798464434219

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Through the Magic Door Illustrated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Through the Magic Door (1907) is an essay by Arthur Conan Doyle: his subject is the charisma and charm of books. Doyle invites readers to enjoy the greatest minds of all times through what they have left behind and argues that, when we read, the selfishness and hopelessness of the world can be left behind.

Author : Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Authority
ISBN : 9781584772750

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Authority in the Modern State by Harold Joseph Laski Pdf

Laski [1893-1950] intended this work to be a sequel to Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917). He argues that sovereignty is best understood as a type of authority, and he supports his case with examples drawn principally from modern French history. After tracing the origins of his subject, Laski considers the significance of Bonald, Lamennais, Royer-Collard and the Syndicalist movement.

Author : Ronald Carter,John McRae
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 0415243173

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The Routledge History of Literature in English by Ronald Carter,John McRae Pdf

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

Author : Tony Bennett,Lawrence Grossberg,Meaghan Morris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118725412

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New Keywords by Tony Bennett,Lawrence Grossberg,Meaghan Morris Pdf

Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere. Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists Showcases 142 signed entries – from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West – that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society Builds on and updates Raymond Williams’s classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing The book is supported by a website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/newkeywords.

Author : Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Common law
ISBN : 9781584771371

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A Concise History of the Common Law by Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett Pdf

Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.

Author : Madge Dresser,Andrew Hann
Publisher : Historic England Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1848020643

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Slavery and the British Country House by Madge Dresser,Andrew Hann Pdf

The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.

Author : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476784694

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The Promise of Canada by Charlotte Gray Pdf

What does it mean to be a Canadian? What great ideas have changed our country? An award-winning writer casts her eye over our nation’s history, highlighting some of our most important stories. From the acclaimed historian Charlotte Gray comes a richly rewarding book about what it means to be Canadian. Readers already know Gray as an award-winning biographer, a writer who has brilliantly captured significant individuals and dramatic moments in our history. Now, in The Promise of Canada, she weaves together masterful portraits of nine influential Canadians, creating a unique history of our country. What do these people—from George-Étienne Cartier and Emily Carr to Tommy Douglas, Margaret Atwood, and Elijah Harper—have in common? Each, according to Charlotte Gray, has left an indelible mark on Canada. Deliberately avoiding a top-down approach to history, Gray has chosen Canadians—some well-known, others less so—whose ideas, she argues, have become part of our collective conversation about who we are as a people. She also highlights many other Canadians from all walks of life who have added to the ongoing debate, showing how our country has reinvented itself in every generation since Confederation, while at the same time holding to certain central beliefs. Beautifully illustrated with evocative black-and-white historical images and colorful artistic visions, and written in an engaging style, The Promise of Canada is a fresh, thoughtful, and inspiring view of our historical journey. Opening doors into our past, present, and future with this masterful work, Charlotte Gray makes Canada’s history come alive and challenges us to envision the country we want to live in.

Author : Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781906924270

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The End and the Beginning by Hermynia Zur Mühlen Pdf

First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : William Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : England
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030038422947

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The Growth of English Industry and Commerce ... by William Cunningham Pdf

Author : George Hamlin Fitch
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547232773

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Comfort Found in Good Old Books by George Hamlin Fitch Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Comfort Found in Good Old Books" by George Hamlin Fitch. 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 : Hicks, Kathleen A,Friends of the Mississauga Library System
Publisher : Mississauga, Ont. : Friends of the Mississauga Library System
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Lakeview (Peel, Ont.)
ISBN : 0969787367

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Lakeview : Journey from Yesterday by Hicks, Kathleen A,Friends of the Mississauga Library System Pdf

Author : Arie Wallert,Erma Hermens,Marja Peek
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892363223

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Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice by Arie Wallert,Erma Hermens,Marja Peek Pdf

Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022099571

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Historical Abstracts by Anonim Pdf