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Authoritative account of Cricklade and neighbouring towns, in an
area immediately west of Swindon. Cricklade, the Anglo-Saxon
borough fortified by Alfred against the Danes, is the market town
at the heart of this volume. As a notorious rotten borough, its
corruption influenced the passing of the 1832 Parliamentary Reform
Act. The town and the surrounding parishes described here are
bordered by Gloucestershire to the north and Swindon to the East.
They extend along the upper Thames valley and over the Wiltshire
claylands to the limestone ridge in the south. The royal forest of
Braydon covered much of the area in the middle ages and provided
extensive grazing for livestock. Although disafforestation took
place under Charles I, agricultural exploitation was limited by
poor soils and parts were later returned to woodland or nature
reserve. The settlements of traditional limestone buildings were
remote until canal and rail transport increased trade in dairy
products and the expansion of employment opportunities in Swindon
resulted in their residential development, and an annexation of a
small part of the area by the growing town.
Does it matter when and where a poem was written? Or on what kind
of paper? How do the author's ideas about inspiration or how a poem
should be written precondition the moment of putting pen to paper?
This monograph explores these questions in offering the first
full-length study of Ted Hughes's poetic process. Hughes's
extensive archives held in the UK and US form the basis of the
book's unique exploration of his writing process. It analyses
Hughes's techniques throughout his career, arguing that his
self-conscious experimentation with the processes by which he wrote
profoundly affected both the style and subject matter of his work.
The book considers Hughes's changing ideas about how poetry 'ought'
to be written, discussing how these affect his creative process. It
presents a fresh exploration of Hughes's major collections across
the span of his career to build a detailed illustration of how his
writing methods altered. The book thus restores the materiality of
paper and ink to Hughes's poems, reading their histories, the
stories they tell of their composition, and of the intellectual and
creative environments in which they were gestated, born and
matured. In the process, it offers a template for new approaches in
authorship studies, reframing one of the twentieth century's most
iconic literary figures through the unseen histories of his
creative process.
The relative rise or decline of feminist movements across the globe
has been debated by feminist scholars and activists for a long
time. In recent years, however, these debates have gained renewed
momentum. Rapid technological change and increased use of digital
media have raised questions about how digital technologies change,
influence, and shape feminist politics. This book interrogates the
digital interface of transnational protest movements and local
activism in feminist politics. Examining how global feminist
politics is articulated at the nexus of the transnational/national,
we take contemporary German protest culture as a case study for the
manner in which transnational feminist activism intersects with the
national configuration of feminist political work. The book
explores how movements and actions from outside Germany's borders
circulate digitally and resonate differently in new local contexts,
and further, how these border-crossings transform grass-roots
activism as it goes digital. This book was originally published as
a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.
This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches
to the use and study of literary archives. Interrogating literary
and archival methodology and foregrounding new forms of textual
scholarship, the collection includes essays from both academics and
archivists to address the full complexity of the study of modern
literary archives. The authors examine the increasing prominence of
archives and their importance to the interdisciplinary study of
textual history in the 21st century, exploring both emerging and
established areas of literary history. The book is marked by its
attention to four distinct core threads that allow the authors to
traverse a range of historical periods and literary figures:
archival theory and textual production, authorial legacies and
digital cultures, gender issues in the archive, and the practical
concerns of archival research and curatorship. By offering an
investigation of material from a range of historical periods within
distinct methodological groupings, the volume seeks to encourage
interplay between scholars working in different fields around
similar essential questions of methodology, whilst presenting a
rich account of archives worldwide.
The relative rise or decline of feminist movements across the globe
has been debated by feminist scholars and activists for a long
time. In recent years, however, these debates have gained renewed
momentum. Rapid technological change and increased use of digital
media have raised questions about how digital technologies change,
influence, and shape feminist politics. This book interrogates the
digital interface of transnational protest movements and local
activism in feminist politics. Examining how global feminist
politics is articulated at the nexus of the transnational/national,
we take contemporary German protest culture as a case study for the
manner in which transnational feminist activism intersects with the
national configuration of feminist political work. The book
explores how movements and actions from outside Germany's borders
circulate digitally and resonate differently in new local contexts,
and further, how these border-crossings transform grass-roots
activism as it goes digital. This book was originally published as
a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.
This book is the first to investigate the effects of participation
in separation or divorce proceedings on femicide (murder of a
female), femicide-suicide, homicide, and suicide. Because
separation is one of the most significant predictors of domestic
violence, this book is exclusively devoted to theorizing,
researching, and preventing lethal domestic violence or other
assaults triggered by marital separation. The authors provide
evidence supporting the use of an estrangement-specific risk
assessment and estrangement-focused public education to prevent
murders and assaults. This information is needed not only by
instructors in criminal justice and sociology programs, but by
researchers theorizing about or investigating domestic violence. In
the world of practitioners, family court judges, divorce mediators,
family lawyers, prosecutors involved in bail hearings, shelter
staff, and family counselors urgently need this resource. Ellis et
al. include discussion questions and chapter objectives to support
learners in the classroom or in community-based settings, and
instructor support material includes PowerPoint lecture slides,
additional teaching and research resources, and a test bank. This
text advocates convincingly for prevention of domestic violence,
and gives academics and practitioners the tools they need. This
text advocates convincingly for prevention of domestic violence,
and gives academics and practitioners the tools they need.
This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches
to the use and study of literary archives. Interrogating literary
and archival methodology and foregrounding new forms of textual
scholarship, the collection includes essays from both academics and
archivists to address the full complexity of the study of modern
literary archives. The authors examine the increasing prominence of
archives and their importance to the interdisciplinary study of
textual history in the 21st century, exploring both emerging and
established areas of literary history. The book is marked by its
attention to four distinct core threads that allow the authors to
traverse a range of historical periods and literary figures:
archival theory and textual production, authorial legacies and
digital cultures, gender issues in the archive, and the practical
concerns of archival research and curatorship. By offering an
investigation of material from a range of historical periods within
distinct methodological groupings, the volume seeks to encourage
interplay between scholars working in different fields around
similar essential questions of methodology, whilst presenting a
rich account of archives worldwide.
This book is the first to investigate the effects of participation
in separation or divorce proceedings on femicide (murder of a
female), femicide-suicide, homicide, and suicide. Because
separation is one of the most significant predictors of domestic
violence, this book is exclusively devoted to theorizing,
researching, and preventing lethal domestic violence or other
assaults triggered by marital separation. The authors provide
evidence supporting the use of an estrangement-specific risk
assessment and estrangement-focused public education to prevent
murders and assaults. This information is needed not only by
instructors in criminal justice and sociology programs, but by
researchers theorizing about or investigating domestic violence. In
the world of practitioners, family court judges, divorce mediators,
family lawyers, prosecutors involved in bail hearings, shelter
staff, and family counselors urgently need this resource. Ellis et
al. include discussion questions and chapter objectives to support
learners in the classroom or in community-based settings, and
instructor support material includes PowerPoint lecture slides,
additional teaching and research resources, and a test bank. This
text advocates convincingly for prevention of domestic violence,
and gives academics and practitioners the tools they need. This
text advocates convincingly for prevention of domestic violence,
and gives academics and practitioners the tools they need.
More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and
reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former
German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume
considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East - and
how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous
presence - creates the cultural landscape of modern unified
Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by
examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and
historical narration and preservation.
Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and
intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of
public discourse on the political significance of the private
sphere. Carrie Smith-Prei focuses on debut works by German authors
considered to be part of the "new" and "black" realism movements:
Dieter Wellershoff, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Gisela Elsner, and
Renate Rasp. Each of the works by these authors uses depictions of
neurosis, disgust, vertigo, or violence to elicit a reaction in
readers that calls them to political, social, or ethical action.
Revolting Families thus extends the concept of negativity, which
has long been part of post-war German philosophical and aesthetic
theory, to the body in German literature and culture. Through an
analysis of these texts and of contextual discourse, Smith-Prei
develops a theoretical concept of corporeal negativity that works
to provoke socio-political engagement with the private sphere.
The increased use of digital tools for political activism has
triggered heated debates about the effectiveness of digital
campaigns for political change and feminist causes. While
technology's immediacy and transnational reach have broadened the
potential impact of activism, it has, at the same time, complicated
the goals, materiality, and consumption of feminist actions. In
Awkward Politics, Carrie Smith-Prei and Maria Stehle suggest that
awkwardness offers a means of engaging with twenty-first century
feminist activism by accounting for the uncertainty of popfeminist
moments and movements, its sometimes illegible meanings, affects,
and aesthetics. By investigating transnational media ranging from
popfeminist performance art, music, street activism, blogs, and
hashtags to literature, film, academic theory, and protests, the
authors demonstrate that viewing activist art through the lens of
awkwardness can yield a nuanced critique. By developing awkwardness
into a theoretical tool for intervention, a key concept of feminist
politics, and a moving target, this innovative study dramatically
alters the ways in which we approach activism, its forms,
movements, and effects. It also suggests a broad range of
applicability, from social movements to the academy. Breaking new
ground through the intersections of technology, consumerism, and
the political in popfeminist work, Awkward Politics highlights the
urgency of feminist politics and activism.
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