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Over recent decades, the notion of leadership has become
increasingly significant in organisational and management
literature. Leadership: A Critical Review and Guide provides both a
map of the leadership territory, and a guide through it. The book
presents an overview of the main strands of the theoretical and
empirical evidence associated with the study of leadership;
highlights the different ways in which leadership is envisaged; and
explores current developments in the thinking and practice of
leadership. In so doing, it discusses and reviews some of the most
important contributions to this field of study. Leadership: A
Critical Review and Guide is designed for students of leadership;
those working in leadership positions; and for human resource
professionals and management academics.
Castle Nowhere is Constance Woolson's collection of stories set for
the most part in the Great Lakes, in particular northern Lake
Michigan and Lake Huron near Detroit.
Several themes inhabit Woolson's writing: an environmental
consciousness and concern with landscapes; an awareness of the
complexities of race; and an abidingly careful eye for the
shallowness that sometimes accompanies wealth or social
pretensions. She also had a unique perspective as a woman who
pioneered the use of controversial subjects -- such as unrequited
or misplaced passion -- and methods in fiction during a time that
valorized domesticity.
As Margot Livesey notes in her introduction, reading about thwarted
love is only one of the pleasures to be found in Castle Nowhere.
"The majority of these stories are set in remote areas on the
shores of Lake Michigan, which Woolson evokes with great vividness
and beauty while always remaining keenly aware that beauty in no
way mitigates hardship. As a writer, she was nearly always looking
over her shoulder, and many, if not all, of these stories were
written at a time when she no longer visited the Lake and her
beloved Mackinac Island."
Contemporary readers will find a curiously modern atmosphere in
Woolson's stories, as well as a distinct regional flavor in her
careful renderings of the Great Lakes landscape. As such, Castle
Nowhere represents a rare woman's voice in literature of its period
and setting.
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) was born in New Hampshire
and moved to Cleveland shortly thereafter. She spent time on
Mackinac Island, Michigan, then traveled to Florida before moving
to Europe. Much of her time there was spent in Italy. She died
inVenice in 1894. Novelist Margot Livesey is the author of Eva
Moves the Furniture and Homework.
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