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Author: Alison Booth Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501722794 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 332
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In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the possibility of feminine greatness.
Author: Alison Booth Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501722794 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 332
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In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the possibility of feminine greatness.
Author: Alison Booth Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501722808 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 424
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The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppress the need to strive for greatness. In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the possibility of feminine greatness. Examining the achievements of Eliot and Woolf in their social contexts, she provides a challenging model of feminist historical criticism.
Author: Brenda R. Weber Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113477219X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 313
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Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of visibility in relation to gender, sex, and the body. Looking both at discursive patterns and specific Anglo-American texts that foreground the figure of the successful woman writer, Weber argues that authors such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Mary Cholmondeley, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Robins, Eliza Potter, and Elizabeth Keckley helped create an intelligible category of the famous writer that used celebrity as a leveraging tool for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity. Doing so, Weber demonstrates, involved an intricate gender/sex negotiation that had ramifications for what it meant to be public, professional, intelligent, and extraordinary. Weber's persuasive account elucidates how Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Brontë served simultaneously to support claims for Brontë's genius and to diminish Brontë's body in compensation for the magnitude of those claims, thus serving as a touchstone for later representations of women's literary genius and celebrity. Fanny Fern, for example, adapts Gaskell's maneuvers on behalf of Charlotte Brontë to portray the weak woman's body becoming strong as it is made visible through and celebrated within the literary marketplace. Throughout her study, Weber analyzes the complex codes connected to transatlantic formations of gender/sex, the body, and literary celebrity as women authors proactively resisted an intense backlash against their own success.
Author: Kidada E. Williams Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814795358 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 294
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"Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans' bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering this violence engendered was at once too painful to put into words yet too horrible to suppress. Despite the trauma it could incur, many African Americans opted to publicize their experiences by testifying about the violence they endured and witnessed." "In this evocative and deeply moving history, Kidada Williams examines African Americans' testimonies about racial violence. By using both oral and print culture to testify about violence, victims and witnesses hoped they would be able to graphically disseminate enough knowledge about its occurrence that federal officials and the American people would be inspired bear witness to thier suffering and support their demands for justice. In the process of testifying, these people created a vernacular history of the violence they endured and witnessed, as well as the identities that grew from the experience of violence. This history fostered an oppositional consciousness to racial violence that inspired African Americans to form and support campaigns to end violence. The resulting crusades against racial violence became one of the political training grounds for the civil rights movement." -- Book Cover.
Author: Steven Shankman Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1725208458 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 268
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The cultures of ancient China and ancient Greece have exerted immeasurable influence on later civilizations. The texts and cultural values of classical China spread throughout East Asia and became the foundation of learning in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Greek learning and culture receive credit for many of the intellectual paradigms of the West. Probably the one which is most distinctly Western is the tradition of logical proof and the related assumption that, as Aristotle put it in 'Metaphysics' 980, 'we all desire to know.' In contrast, the Chinese tradition, as exemplified by Laozi's 'Dao de jing,' cautions that through our desire to know we may forfeit wisdom, thus engendering a split between knowledge and wisdom. 'The Siren and the Sage' is a comparative study of what some of the most influential writers of ancient China and ancient Greece thought it meant to know and whether they distinguished knowledge from wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from roughly the eighth through the second centuries BCE, focusing on the 'Odyssey,' the ancient Chinese 'Classic of Poetry,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' Sima Qian's 'Records of the Historian,' Plato's 'Symposium,' Laozi's 'Dao de jing' and the writings of Zhuangzi. The intention, through such juxtaposition, is to introduce foundational texts of each tradition, texts which continue to influence most of the world's peoples. It is intriguing to ask what awareness, if any, these distinctive cultures had of each other. A considerable body of scholarship comparing ancient Greece and ancient China now exists. Scholars are presenting evidence that the two cultures may actually have been aware of each other's presence, even though that awareness was presumably indirect, perhaps mediated by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia. While not directly contributing evidence, the authors argue that comparing the cultures of Greece and China will continue to be an irresistible and important scholarly debate. The book offers a provocative study which is accessible to students and general readers and at the same time contributes to the debate.
Author: Various Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317202783 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 2846
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Beginning with the publication of their joint collection of poems Lyrical Ballads in 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were instrumental in helping to establish the Romantic Movement as a major force in nineteenth century British literature. Two of the movement’s greatest figures, they were responsible for composing some of the most well-known poems in the British literary canon and influenced generations of acolytes. They were also the foremost literary critics of the period, contributing influential writings on literary theory and philosophy — exemplified by Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria. ‘Routledge Library Editions: Wordsworth and Coleridge’ assembles a wide range of scholarship and criticism that covers all aspects of their diverse output and charts the vicissitudes of their lives — examining their poetry, criticism, philosophy and sources of inspiration. It will also help introduce them to newer readers and explain notoriously difficult to understand works like Wordsworth’s The Prelude. This set reissues 14 books originally published between 1960 and 1991 and will be of interest to students of literature and literary history.
Author: Ted Holt Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317209117 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 138
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First published in 1983, this books aims to guide Wordsworth students through his difficult masterpiece by reading it in continuous sequence and making its sense emerge. The special value of this commentary is that it explains the structure of The Prelude by encouraging study of the poem as a continuous whole rather than selectively looking at individual sections — an approach that has typified modern criticism of the work. This depends upon a close attention to the careful arrangement of the verse paragraphs, all of which make an indispensable contribution to the overall thought pattern, thus leading to a fuller appreciation and understanding of the poem.
Author: Aldéric Au Publisher: Hawksbill ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 432
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A very realistic geopolitical thriller, with all the elements of hybrid warfare, that begins with a murder. In Beijing, the delayed 22nd Communist Party Congress offers an opportunity to the PLA. The elite power brokers and party elders are unable to agree the new leadership line-up. The political stand-off starts fueling international tension surrounding Taiwan and the Diaoyu Islands. The PLA, taking advantage of the situation, seeks to bring matters to a head and resolve the Taiwan, South China Sea and Diaoyu island disputes by force. Or is it that simple? The ambition and designs of China create opportunities for others. In Mexico City, a multi-billionaire uses the conflict to further his ambitions for Mexico. In a diplomatic initiative with echoes of the 1917 Zimmermann Telegram, China makes a move to ensure Mexican and wider Latin American support for China. The implications dawn on a shocked America. As China unleashes its accumulated reserves of financial, economic and diplomatic power, will the debt-burdened and divided United States be able to respond? Will China’s massive gold and foreign exchange reserves and its dominance in global trade and world GDP help it prevail? The US finds itself isolated in confronting China. The Pentagon's attempts to gain the upper hand display a hopeless misunderstanding of the nature of the challenge. As World War Three threatens, is conflict with China inevitable? The First Battle of the Philippine Sea was a decisive naval battle of World War II, which eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy and decided the war. Will the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea be the decisive naval battle of World War III? In the tradition of all great naval battles both sides will try to inflict a strategic disaster on the other, while avoiding such a fate themselves. Will victory favor the aggressive leadership and battle plan of the Americans or the conservative battle plan of the Chinese? As the crisis deepens and war looms, both sides field their latest technological secrets, in an unseen war in space and the cyber-sphere, as each seeks the virtual high ground in this prescient technothriller. Will we witness a reordering of the international hierarchy - the yielding of global hegemony - as an old empire attempts to replace the new and reclaim its rightful position? Is this fictional account of a clash between the United States and China - that has the unsettling qualities of a techno thriller deploying real and recognizable technical, financial, and military developments discernible today - what we can expect in 2032?
Author: Juliette Atkinson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199572135 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 326
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Through an examination of numerous biographies, from the lives of working-class scientists to minor women writers, Victorian Biography Reconsidered examines how and why nineteenth-century biographers challenged the contemporary obsession with 'Great Men' and brought to public attention the lives of neglected or unknown men and women.
Author: Emily Blair Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791479927 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 302
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In Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel, Emily Blair explores how nineteenth-century descriptions of femininity saturate both Woolf's fiction and her modernist manifestos. Moving between the Victorian and modernist periods, Blair looks at a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sources, including the literature of conduct and household management, as well as autobiography, essay, poetry, and fiction. She argues for a reevaluation of Woolf's persistent yet vexed fascination with English domesticity and female creativity by juxtaposing the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant, two popular Victorian novelists, against Woolf's own novels and essays. Blair then traces unacknowledged lines of influence and complex interpretations that Woolf attempted to disavow. While reconsidering Woolf's analysis of women and fiction, Blair simultaneously deepens our appreciation of Woolf's work and advances our understanding of feminine aesthetics.
Author: Alison Booth
Author: Alison Booth
Author: Alison Booth
Author: Brenda R. Weber
Author: Kidada E. Williams
Author: Steven Shankman
Author: Various
Author: Ted Holt
Author: Aldéric Au
Author: Juliette Atkinson
Author: Emily Blair