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This title was first published in 2001. Focusing attention on the
neglected area of relations between brothers and sisters during the
early modern period, this volume explores the sibling dynamics that
shaped family relations in Italy, England, France, Spain, and
Germany. Using an array of feminist and cultural studies
approaches, prominent scholars consider sibling ties from a range
of interdisciplinary perspectives - including art history,
musicology, literary studies, and social history - to articulate
underlying paradigms according to which sibling relations were
constructed.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This title was first published in 2000: Care-givers in the early
modern period included not only mothers and stepmothers, but also
midwives and nurses, tutors and educators, wise women and witches.
The contributors to this volume present research and criticism on a
wide range of early modern care-giving roles by women in England,
Italy, Spain, France, Latin America, Mexico and the New World. The
essays are not only cross-cultural but also interdisciplinary,
spanning literature, history, music and art history; and they focus
on differences of gender, class and race. A wide variety of
scholarly and critical approaches are represented. Essays are
grouped in categories on conception and lactation; maternal nurture
and instruction; domestic production; and social authority.
This is a collection of original essays about how Shakespeare and his plays are increasingly being used as a means of furthering literacy, language arts, creative and dramatic learning for children in and out of the classroom. It is divided into three sections comprising essays by well-known children's book authors, literary scholars and teachers, who approach the subject from a wide range of perspectives.
The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by
contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers
interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern
audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators
themselves, who, be they saints or midwives, visual artists or
poets and playwrights, stand out for their roles as active
practitioners of their own arts and for their accomplishments as
creators. Whether they delivered infants or governed as monarchs,
or produced embroideries, letters, paintings or poems, their
visions, the authors argue, have endured across the centuries. As
the title of the volume suggests, the essays gathered here
participate in a wider conversation about the relation between
biography, historical fiction, and the growing field of biofiction
(that is, contemporary fictionalizations of historical figures),
and explore the complicated interconnections between celebrating
early modern women and perpetuating popular stereotypes about them.
" Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587-1653) wrote the first sonnet sequence
in English by a woman, one of the first plays by a woman, and the
first published work of fiction by an Englishwoman. Yet, despite
her status as a member of the distinguished Sidney family, Wroth
met with disgrace at court for her authorship of a prose romance,
which was adjudged an inappropriate endeavor for a woman and was
forcibly withdrawn from publication. Only recently has recognition
of Wroth's historical and literary importance been signaled by the
publication of the first modern edition of her romance, The
Countess of Mountgomeries Urania. Naomi Miller offers an
illuminating study of this significant early modern woman writer.
Using multiple critical/theoretical perspectives, including French
feminism, new historicism, and cultural materialism, she examines
gender in Wroth's time. Moving beyond the emphasis on victimization
that shaped many previous studies, she considers the range of
strategies devised by women writers of the period to establish
voices for themselves. Where previous critics have viewed Wroth
primarily in relation to her male literary predecessors in the
Sidney family, Miller explores Wroth's engagement with a variety of
discourses, reading her in relation to a broad range of English and
continental authors, both male and female, from Sidney, Spenser,
and Shakespeare to Aemilia Lanyar, Elizabeth Cary, and Marguerite
de Navarre. She also contextualizes Wroth's writing in relation to
a variety of nonliterary texts of the period, both political and
domestic. Thanks to Miller's sensitive readings, Wroth's writings
provide a lens through which to view gender relations in the early
modern period.
This latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians'
Buildings of the United States series analyzes the architecture,
landscape, and planning patterns of the capital of Massachusetts
and forty surrounding cities and towns that fan out from Boston
Harbor. The term "metropolitan" here emphasizes both the range of
the project and the importance of this area in introducing regional
planning to the United States. Extensively illustrated with
photographs and maps, and supplemented with a glossary and
bibliography, the book assesses built form from initial colonial
settlement in the 1630s through twenty-first-century additions to
the Boston area landscape. The authors selected both exemplary and
representative buildings and sites for inclusion. Here are
structures of international reputation and buildings that
characterize the vernacular housing patterns of the region. Because
of the exceptional importance of the Boston area to the history of
landscape architecture and city planning, those issues have been
addressed in both the narrative introduction and the 640 entries.
In contrast to other existing architectural guides, which do not
move beyond central Boston and Cambridge, The Buildings of
Massachusetts: Metro Boston canvasses the twelve sections of
central Boston, its eight annexed neighborhoods, five sections of
Cambridge (the district's second largest municipality), and forty
surrounding communities have been examined. This volume has been
designed to complement a second guidebook in the Buildings of the
United States series that will focus on the buildings of
Massachusetts from Cape Cod to the Berkshires.
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Sophie's New Home (Paperback)
Naomi Miller, Macy Morrows; Photographs by Rachel L Miller
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R243
Discovery Miles 2 430
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The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of
available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific
region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to
examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies.
Contributors include: Gary W. Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and Jack
R. Harlan.
A remarkable life lost to history is brought into sharp focus
England, 1575. Young Mary Sidney is bearing a devastating loss
while her father plans her alliance to Henry Herbert, Earl of
Pembroke. But Mary is determined to make her mark on the world as a
writer and scientist. As Mary Sidney Herbert steps into her new
life with the earl at his home, Wilton House, an unusual friendship
is forged between her and servant Rose Commin, a country girl with
a surprising artistic gift, that will change their lives for ever.
Defying the conventions of their time, mistress and maid will face
the triumphs, revelations and dangers that lie ahead together.
In Tudor England, two women dare to be different ... Two women. One
bond that will unite them across years and social divides. England,
1575. Mary Sidney is a fourteen-year-old navigating grief and her
first awareness of love and desire. Her sharp mind is less
interested in the dynastic alliances and marriages that concern her
father, but will she be able to forge a place for herself and her
writing in the years to come? Rose Commin, a young country girl
with a surprising talent for drawing, is desperate to shrug off the
slurs of witchcraft which have tarnished life at home. The
opportunity to work at Wilton House, the Earl of Pembroke's
Wiltshire residence, is her chance. Defying the conventions of
their time, these two women, mistress and maid, will find
themselves facing the triumphs, revelations and dangers that lie
ahead together.
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