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Madwoman

Author : Louisa Treger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448218035

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**A HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES** The extraordinary story of a woman's quest for the truth against all odds - and how her story changed the world 'A moving story' SUNDAY TIMES, Best historical fiction books of 2022 'A must read!' GILL PAUL 'Intriguing ... A fascinating read' HAZEL GAYNOR 'Remarkable' ESSIE FOX 'An astonishing tour de force' REBECCA MASCULL In 1887 young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take. But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down to her last dime and desperate to prove her worth, she comes up with a dangerous plan: to fake insanity and have herself committed to the asylum that looms on Blackwell's Island. There, she will work undercover to document - and expose - the wretched conditions faced by the patients. But when the asylum door swings shut behind her, she finds herself in a place of horrors, governed by a harshness and cruelty she could never have imagined. Cold, isolated and starving, her days of terror reawaken the traumatic events of her childhood. She entered the asylum of her own free will - but will she ever get out? An extraordinary portrait of a woman way ahead of her time, Madwoman is the story of a quest for the truth that changed the world. 'Madwoman is one of the best, a magnificent portrayal of Nelly Bly in all her journalistic integrity and daring' New York Journal of Books

Madwoman

Author : Louisa Treger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Biographical fiction
ISBN : 9781526657121

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'A moving story' SUNDAY TIMES, Best historical fiction books of 2022'A must read!' GILL PAUL'Intriguing ... A fascinating read' HAZEL GAYNOR'Remarkable' ESSIE FOX'An astonishing tour de force' REBECCA MASCULLIn 1887 young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take.But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down to her last dime and desperate to prove her worth, she comes up with a dangerous plan: to fake insanity and have herself committed to the asylum that looms on Blackwell's Island. There, she will work undercover to document - and expose - the wretched conditions faced by the patients.But when the asylum door swings shut behind her, she finds herself in a place of horrors, governed by a harshness and cruelty she could never have imagined. Cold, isolated and starving, her days of terror reawaken the traumatic events of her childhood. She entered the asylum of her own free will - but will she ever get out?An extraordinary portrait of a woman way ahead of her time, Madwoman is the story of a quest for the truth that changed the world.'Madwoman is one of the best, a magnificent portrayal of Nelly Bly in all her journalistic integrity and daring' New York Journal of Books

Madwoman

Author : Shara McCallum
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781938584411

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Haunting, alarming, transformative, and elusive, these poems bridge together the gaps between development stages: from girl, to woman, and then mother. With the complexities that intertwine them, can you be all three at once? Who shapes our identity, and who is in control here? How do we recognize, acknowledge, and honor the changing of who we are?

Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years

Author : Annette R. Federico
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826272096

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Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years by Annette R. Federico Pdf

When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. This thirtieth-anniversary collection adds both valuable reassessments and new readings and analyses inspired by Gilbert and Gubar’s approach. It includes work by established and up-and-coming scholars, as well as retrospective accounts of the ways in which The Madwoman in the Attic has influenced teaching, feminist activism, and the lives of women in academia. These contributions represent both the diversity of today’s feminist criticism and the tremendous expansion of the nineteenth-century canon. The authors take as their subjects specific nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers, the state of feminist theory and pedagogy, genre studies, film, race, and postcolonialism, with approaches ranging from ecofeminism to psychoanalysis. And although each essay opens Madwoman to a different page, all provocatively circle back—with admiration and respect, objections and challenges, questions and arguments—to Gilbert and Gubar's groundbreaking work. The essays are as diverse as they are provocative. Susan Fraiman describes how Madwoman opened the canon, politicized critical practice, and challenged compulsory heterosexuality, while Marlene Tromp tells how it elegantly embodied many concerns central to second-wave feminism. Other chapters consider Madwoman’s impact on Milton studies, on cinematic adaptations of Wuthering Heights, and on reassessments of Ann Radcliffe as one of the book’s suppressed foremothers. In the thirty years since its publication, The Madwoman in the Attic has potently informed literary criticism of women’s writing: its strategic analyses of canonical works and its insights into the interconnections between social environment and human creativity have been absorbed by contemporary critical practices. These essays constitute substantive interventions into established debates and ongoing questions among scholars concerned with defining third-wave feminism, showing that, as a feminist symbol, the raging madwoman still has the power to disrupt conventional ideas about gender, myth, sexuality, and the literary imagination.

Meeting the Madwoman

Author : Linda Schierse Leonard
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0553373188

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Meeting the Madwoman by Linda Schierse Leonard Pdf

The Madwoman is a powerful psychological and emotional energy that lives in us all—both men and women—and speaks to us all, inhabiting our dreams, our lives, our collective cultural memory. Ignored or suppressed, she becomes a force of self-destruction; acknowledged and understood, she becomes a source of creativity and power. In this remarkable and revolutionary book, Linda Schierse Leonard explores how we can overcome the inner turmoil of contemporary life—unexpressed rage, the buildup of guilt and anxiety—by harnessing this primal expression of our natural instincts. From Medea to Ophelia to Thelma and Louise, the paradox and patterns of “madness” are as old as time. But the chain can be broken; the Madwoman within each of us can and must be freed, openly expressed, and transformed into a source of constructive, creative energy. Leonard draws upon an extraordinary range of sources—ancient myths and fairy tales, films and literature, contemporary and historical women’s lives—to design a model of empowerment for women today. With its fresh perspectives and bold insights, Meeting the Madwoman is a provocative work of profound cultural significance, one whose ideas are sure to resonate for years to come. Praise for Meeting the Madwoman “A book loaded with practical insights that’s also fun to read . . . With refreshing originality, Leonard reverses some traditional perceptions.”—New Woman “A vigorous exploration . . . Throughout, Leonard writes passionately, seeing the Madwoman as an empowering symbol and the discovery process as a spiritual exercise—a kind of purification and ultimate triumph of the feminine spirit.”—Kirkus Reviews

The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones

Author : Sandra Tsing Loh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393244236

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The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones by Sandra Tsing Loh Pdf

From an “imaginatively twisted and fearless” writer (Los Angeles Times), a hilarious memoir of middle age. In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller coaster through "the change." This is not your grandmother's menopause story. Loh chronicles utterly relatable, everyday perils: raising preteen daughters, weathering hormonal changes, and the ups and downs of a career and a relationship. She writes also about an affair and the explosion of her marriage, while managing the legal and marital hijinks of her eighty-nine-year-old dad. The upbeat conclusion: it does get better.

The Madwoman's Reason

Author : Nancy J. Holland
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271038759

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The Madwoman's Reason by Nancy J. Holland Pdf

Most people want to be able to make valid moral judgments and to respect the ethical values of other cultural groups. Taking Jean Giraudoux's play THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT as a starting point, philosopher Nancy Holland draws on the work of Heidegger and Derrida in an effort to find a middle way in ethics between relativism and foundationalism.

The Madwoman Upstairs

Author : Catherine Lowell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501124211

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The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell Pdf

"A debut novel about the last remaining descendant of the Brontees who discovers that her recently deceased father has left her a treasure hunt that may lead to the long-rumored secret literary estate"--

The Madwoman in the Attic

Author : Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300246728

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The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert,Susan Gubar Pdf

Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later. "Gilbert and Gubar have written a pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World

The Madwoman in the Academy

Author : Deborah Schnitzer,Deborah Keahey
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781552380819

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The Madwoman in the Academy by Deborah Schnitzer,Deborah Keahey Pdf

An original and highly subversive critique of the academy by women affiliated with universities and colleges across Canada, The Madwoman in the Academy: Women Boldly Take on the Ivory Tower explores topics familiar to women working in academia around the world: the clash between family and work, the politics of academe, and the rifts between an academic career and political activism. Contributors offer writings in a wide range of genres, including personal essays, poetry, short stories, dialogues, and other innovative formats, daring to confront their experiences with energy, anger, wit, and humour. Ranging from the playful to the painful, The Madwoman in the Academy brings you names well known to literary communities alongside new but feisty voices that will forever change readers' ideas about the relationship between women and the academy.

Madwomen

Author : Gabriela Mistral
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226531892

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Madwomen by Gabriela Mistral Pdf

A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin American literature of the last century. The Locas mujeres poems collected here are among Mistral’s most complex and compelling, exploring facets of the self in extremis—poems marked by the wound of blazing catastrophe and its aftermath of mourning. From disquieting humor to balladlike lyricism to folkloric wisdom, these pieces enact a tragic sense of life, depicting “madwomen” who are anything but mad. Strong and intensely human, Mistral’s poetic women confront impossible situations to which no sane response exists. This groundbreaking collection presents poems from Mistral’s final published volume as well as new editions of posthumous work, featuring the first English-language appearance of many essential poems. Madwomen promises to reveal a profound poet to a new generation of Anglophone readers while reacquainting Spanish readers with a stranger, more complicated “madwoman” than most have ever known.

Ten Days a Madwoman

Author : Deborah Noyes
Publisher : Viking Books for Young Readers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780803740174

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Ten Days a Madwoman by Deborah Noyes Pdf

"A biography of Nellie Bly, the pioneering journalist whose showy but substantive stunts skyrocketed her to fame"--

The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman

Author : John S. Hughes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0872498409

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The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman by John S. Hughes Pdf

Andrew Sheffield's letters help us better understand the full range of behavior among women in the Victorian South & the limits of Southern womanhood near the end of the nineteenth century.

Madwoman of the Sacred Heart

Author : Alejandro Jodorowsky,Jean M. Giraud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 1569711364

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Madwoman of the Sacred Heart by Alejandro Jodorowsky,Jean M. Giraud Pdf

In a world of narco-terrorism, fifty-second soundbites, and multi-national corporations, how would we deal with a new Savior? Would we, like the Romans, even be aware of the birth of a new Messiah? Could we tell the difference between John the Baptist and just another sect of nuts?

The Madwoman of Serrano

Author : Dina Salústio
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912868315

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The Madwoman of Serrano by Dina Salústio Pdf

The first novel by a female author to be published in Cape Verde, and the first to be translated into English, The Madwoman of Serrano is a magical tale of rural ideals and urban ambition, underpinned by an exploration of female empowerment. Serrano is an isolated village where a madwoman roams. But is she really mad or is she marginalised because she is wise and a woman? Could her babbling be prophecy? One day a girl falls from the sky and is found in the forest by Jeronimo. The villagers are suspicious of the newcomer, but Jeronimo falls in love with her. When she gives birth and disappears, Jeronimo takes care of the child, naming her Filipa. Years later, estranged from Jeronimo after being taken from the village in mysterious circumstances, Filipa is a successful businesswoman in the city. Her memories of growing up in Serrano and her friendship with the madwoman become increasingly vivid. When the madwoman's warnings come true and Serrano's sheltered existence is threatened by plans to build a dam, Jeronimo heads for the city himself. Will he and Filipa finally be reunited?