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This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely
contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular
but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit
key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor,
motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions.
The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of
women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has
been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the
first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana
Wallace tracks its development across the century. She combines a
comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers,
including Naomi Mitchison, Georgette Heyer, Sylvia Townsend Warner,
Margaret Irwin, Jean Plaidy, Mary Renault, Philippa Gregory and Pat
Barker.
The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of
women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has
been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the
first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana
Wallace tracks its development across the century. She combines a
comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers,
including Naomi Mitchison, Georgette Heyer, Sylvia Townsend Warner,
Margaret Irwin, Jean Plaidy, Mary Renault, Philippa Gregory and Pat
Barker.
What happens when two women love the same man? This is the first
book to examine female rivalry as a distinctive theme in women's
fiction and to analyze the female-identified erotic triangle, where
two women are rivals for the same man, as a narrative pattern which
has a special resonance for inter-war women writers. Focusing on
five key writers, Diana Wallace offers a reconsideration of
inter-war women's writing and an examination of the links and
rivalries between women writers themselves.
Open the pages of so many children's classics—Stuart Little,
Charlotte's Web, Mister Dog, The Cricket in Times Square, The
Rescuers, the Little House books—and you will see page after page
of the artistry that brought those stories to life. And behind the
illustrations sparking the imagination of generations was a man who
had an extraordinary existence. Born in New York City in 1912,
Williams was educated in England and trained on the continent.
After enduring the Blitz in London, he returned to New York, where
he encountered the vibrant art and cultural scene of the 1940s. He
made his home first in New York, then Aspen, and finally
Guanajuato, Mexico and was married four times. During his life he
met people who shaped and exemplified the twentieth century:
Winston Churchill, E. B. White and Ursula Nordstrom, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, and countless more. This is a biography of Garth Williams
as an artist and an illustrator. It is the story of how his journey
led him from winning sculpture awards at the Royal College of Art
in London, to capturing the essence of frontier life in the
American West, to rendering the humanity of beloved animal
characters. The biography also explores the historical context that
affected Williams' life and art, both in the old world and the new.
Against the frenetic pace of post-war suburbanization, Williams'
illustrations nurtured a connection with the animal world and with
a vanishing agrarian life. By tapping into American themes,
Williams spoke to a postwar yearning for simplicity. Complete with
more than 60 illustrations, this is the first full biography of
Garth Williams written with the help and cooperation of his family.
This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of
medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn.
A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure
powerfully in premodern imagining.
Recreates places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer,
Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others.
Begins with Calais - peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558 and
ends with Surinam - traded for Manhattan by the English in 1667.
Other particular locations discussed include Flanders, Somerset,
Genoa, and the Fortunate Islands (Canary Islands).
Includes fascinating anecdotes, such as the story of an English
merchant learning love songs in Calais.
Provides insights into major historical narratives, such as race
and slavery in Renaissance Europe.
Crosses the traditional divide between the medieval and Renaissance
periods.
This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely
contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular
but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit
key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor,
motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical
directions.
This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of
medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn.
A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure
powerfully in premodern imagining.
Recreates places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer,
Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others.
Begins with Calais - peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558 and
ends with Surinam - traded for Manhattan by the English in 1667.
Other particular locations discussed include Flanders, Somerset,
Genoa, and the Fortunate Islands (Canary Islands).
Includes fascinating anecdotes, such as the story of an English
merchant learning love songs in Calais.
Provides insights into major historical narratives, such as race
and slavery in Renaissance Europe.
Crosses the traditional divide between the medieval and Renaissance
periods.
In 1958 100 women were written up in the literature with
endometriosis on the lung causing it to fill up with fluid and
collapse. The catamenial pneumothorax was considered extremely
rare. Now record numbers of women in 2005 have been diagnosed with
this disease, and still many physicians and women, have never heard
of it.
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