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Expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a
nineteenth-century author, Amanda Adams takes up the concept of
performative, embodied authorship in relationship to the
transatlantic lecture tour. Adams argues that these tours were a
central aspect of nineteenth-century authorship, at a time when
authors were becoming celebrities and celebrities were
international. Spanning the years from 1834 to 1904, Adams's book
examines the British lecture tours of American authors such as
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain, and the
American lecture tours of British writers that include Harriet
Martineau, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and Matthew Arnold. Adams
concludes her study with a discussion of Henry James, whose
American lecture tour took place after a decades-long absence. In
highlighting the wide range of authors who participated in this
phenomenon, Adams makes a case for the lecture tour as a microcosm
for nineteenth-century authorship in all its contradictions and
complexity.
Expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a
nineteenth-century author, Amanda Adams takes up the concept of
performative, embodied authorship in relationship to the
transatlantic lecture tour. Adams argues that these tours were a
central aspect of nineteenth-century authorship, at a time when
authors were becoming celebrities and celebrities were
international. Spanning the years from 1834 to 1904, Adams's book
examines the British lecture tours of American authors such as
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain, and the
American lecture tours of British writers that include Harriet
Martineau, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and Matthew Arnold. Adams
concludes her study with a discussion of Henry James, whose
American lecture tour took place after a decades-long absence. In
highlighting the wide range of authors who participated in this
phenomenon, Adams makes a case for the lecture tour as a microcosm
for nineteenth-century authorship in all its contradictions and
complexity.
Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing
our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet,
labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been
sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental
humanities for its profound role in climate change and other
crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to
rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the
Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing
planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of
work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more
sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene
frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in
regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and
storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates
reviving notions of work as craft.
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New York Tableaux (Paperback)
Valenti Gomez-Oliver; Translated by Keith Adams, Amanda Adams
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R749
Discovery Miles 7 490
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Revitalize your relationship, reconnect with your partner, and
rekindle your romance. When two people are committed to the same
goals, nothing can stop them. This book provides the road map to
get you there. The 48 Hour Relationship Retreat is your
step-by-step guide for designing your very own, customized
relationship retreat. After just 48 hours together you will have:
Connected in a deeper way with your partner Identified the goals
that will help you to create your future Created plans for making
your dreams a reality Made your relationship the best it can be
Amanda Adams-Barney and Richard Barney created this proven system
for relationship success and excellence over the last 17 years by
connecting through their own 48 hour retreat every year. Blending
Amanda's professional meeting management background with Richard's
career in business leadership, they discovered and developed their
approach to a thriving, connected, rewarding relationship into a
do-it-yourself handbook for identifying your dreams and achieving
them together. With a light, easy, sometimes sarcastic style, The
48 Hour Relationship Retreat is both fun and transformational. So
fasten your seat belts and secure all loose objects, because this
is going to be a wild & fun ride
Told in family stories, poetry, drawings and photos by two sisters
and a brother, this book is about an impoverished Kentucky Mountain
family, eight children and a widowed mother, and what became of
them. When things were darkest, they heard an angel sing and the
'sweet song filled the house until the rafters rang.' The older
children's love for the younger ones, their labors to support and
sustain them until they could make their own way inspired the
author, the seventh child, to bring together their stories with a
short biography of each. She also includes a compilation of their
ancestral history in the second part of the book. Many pioneered
the Kentucky Mountains. Surnames included are: Adams, Franklin,
Bentley, Craft, Whitaker, Polly, Mullins, Yonts, Hale, Honeycutt,
Stamper, Amburgey, Reynolds, Ashley, Smith, Garland, Cox, Grizzle,
Hamons, Reeves, Blevins and Phipps.
Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing
our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet,
labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been
sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental
humanities for its profound role in climate change and other
crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to
rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the
Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing
planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of
work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more
sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene
frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in
regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and
storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates
reviving notions of work as craft.
The first women archaeologists were Victorian era adventurers who
felt most at home when farthest from it. Canvas tents were their
domains, hot Middle Eastern deserts their gardens of inquiry and
labor. Thanks to them, prevailing ideas about feminine nature --
soft, nurturing, submissive -- were upended. Ladies of the Field
tells the story of seven remarkable women, each a pioneering
archaeologist, each headstrong, smart, and courageous, who burst
into what was then a very young science. Amanda Adams takes us with
them as they hack away at underbrush under a blazing sun, battle
swarms of biting bugs, travel on camelback for weeks on end, and
feel the excitement of unearthing history at an archaeological
site. Adams also reveals the dreams of these extraordinary women,
their love of the field, their passion for holding the past in
their hands, their fascination with human origins, and their utter
disregard for convention.
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