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Focusing on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Robinson and Mary
Shelley, this book uses key concepts of androgyny, subjectivity and
the re-creative as a productive framework to trace the fascinating
textual interactions and dialogues among these authors. It crosses
the boundary between male and female writers of the Romantic period
by linking representations of gender with late Enlightenment
upheavals regarding creativity and subjectivity, demonstrating how
these interrelated concerns dismantle traditional binaries
separating the canonical and the noncanonical; male and female;
poetry and prose; good and evil; subject and object. Through the
convergences among the writings of Coleridge, Mary Robinson, and
Mary Shelley, the book argues that each dismantles and reconfigures
subjectivity as androgynous and amoral, subverting the centrality
of the male gaze associated with canonical Romanticism. In doing
so, it examines key works from each author's oeuvre, from
Coleridge's "canonical" poems such as Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
through Robinson's lyrical poetry and novels such as Walsingham, to
Mary Shelley's fiction, including Frankenstein, Mathilda, and The
Last Man.
According to both popular myth and traditional histories, Mary
Tudor was a failure. Known primarily as Bloody Mary, she has
usually been contrasted unfavorably with her younger sibling and
heir, Elizabeth I. This negative view of Mary has most recently
been perpetuated in David Starkey's TV documentaries and biography
of the young Elizabeth, which present the new queen as deliberately
forging a path that was quite different from that of her
half-sister. The time has come for a rethink. Susan Doran and Tom
Freeman have gathered an outstanding team of international
historians to look at the traditional presentation of Mary and her
reign, and why we should question this view. This incisive
collection will appeal to students, scholars and general
readers.Features: * Challenges the accepted view of Mary as a
tyrant, presenting a more balanced and nuanced portrait * Based on
the latest cutting-edge and controversial thinking in Early Modern
history
* Traces the growth and development of the myth of 'Bloody Mary'
This text will be essential reading for graduate courses on Tudor
history.
Multigenerational Family Therapy is a book about honoring and
helping families. Rich with personal reflections and anecdotes from
the author's many years as a family therapist, this volume's major
strength lies in its precise definition of the process and content
of the therapy itself. As the family is the major resource system
available to an individual, this important book provides therapists
with the keys for helping family members help each other and
provides a framework for understanding how the family, as a
multigenerational system, moves through various stages of the
therapeutic process. By emphasizing the importance of family
members utilizing the past as a positive force for change and
featuring complete transcripts of family therapy sessions, this
sensitive book clearly illustrates how therapists can use the
positive forces of family for dealing with today's uncertainties
and dilemmas. The step-by-step approach details how family
therapists can work with families in a positive, healing manner.
Several chapters illustrate the transition from the beginning to
middle phases of family therapy to the terminating phase and
provide a framework for how therapy evolves over time. Other
chapters discuss the special skills required to work with various
family constellations, such as couples, parents with children,
siblings, adult children with aged parents, and individuals as well
as extended family members. Helpful advice on how to deal with
special issues and dilemmas of family therapy such as
secret-keeping, affairs, co-therapy, crises and emergencies is also
included in this comprehensive book. Beginning and advanced family
therapy practitioners, students of family theory and therapy,
faculty of social work practice, clinical psychology, nursing,
family life education, and counseling psychology will find many
positive ideas for working with families in this detailed book.
Between 1990 and 2010, the English language learner (ELL)
population in U.S. schools grew by 80 percent. While the highest
concentration of English language learners, now more commonly
referred to as emergent bilinguals (EBLs) remains in the
traditional immigrant destination states of California, Texas, New
York, Florida, Illinois, and New Jersey, in all 50 states there are
growing numbers of emergent bilinguals. Interest in these learners
has encouraged research and publications, but most of this research
has centered on the students themselves and the politics
surrounding their education. Publications featuring the research of
teacher educators preparing teachers to work with EBLs in schools
are much needed. Teacher educators must know how to help inservice
teachers provide effective instruction to the increasing number of
linguistically diverse students in the schools.
Teacher educators need to be able to not only teach preservice
teachers how to teach language arts, math, social studies, or
science, but also to teach the language their students need to
talk, read, and write about these subjects. Despite this need,
there is a lack of research on how best to prepare preservice
teachers to teach emergent bilinguals. In this book, teacher
educators from institutions across the U.S. report their research
with preservice teachers in large cities, suburban communities, and
rural border areas. In each chapter, the authors explain what they
have learned as they have conducted research on education for
preservice teachers who will teach emergent bilinguals in
mainstream, bilingual, and ESL.
Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English
Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and
mocked, but rarely ignored. In his many guises - model Renaissance
prince, Defender of the Faith, rapacious plunderer of the Church,
obese Bluebeard-- he has featured in numerous works of fact and
faction, in books, magazines, paintings, theatre, film and
television. Yet despite this perennial fascination with Henry the
man and monarch, there has been little comprehensive exploration of
his historiographic legacy. Therefore scholars will welcome this
collection, which provides a systematic survey of Henry's
reputation from his own age through to the present. Divided into
three sections, the volume begins with an examination of Henry's
reputation in the period between his death and the outbreak of the
English Civil War, a time that was to create many of the tropes
that would dominate his historical legacy. The second section deals
with the further evolution of his reputation, from the Restoration
to Edwardian era, a time when Catholic commentators and women
writers began moving into the mainstream of English print culture.
The final section covers the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,
which witnessed an explosion of representations of Henry, both in
print and on screen. Taken together these studies, by a
distinguished group of international scholars, offer a lively and
engaging overview of how Henry's reputation has been used, abused
and manipulated in both academia and popular culture since the
sixteenth century. They provide intriguing insights into how he has
been reinvented at different times to reflect the cultural,
political and religious demands of the moment; sometimes as hero,
sometimes as villain, but always as an unmistakable and iconic
figure in the historical landscape.
Concepts of Christian martyrdom changed greatly in England from the
late middle ages through the early modern era. The variety of
paradigms of Christian martyrdom (with, for example, virginity or
asceticism perceived as alternate forms of martyrdom) that existed
in the late medieval period, came to be replaced during the English
Reformation with a single dominant idea of martyrdom: that of
violent death endured for orthodox religion. Yet during the
seventeenth century another transformation in conceptions of
martyrdom took place, as those who died on behalf of overtly
political causes came to be regarded as martyrs, indistinguishable
from those who died for Christ. The articles in this book explore
these seminal changes across the period from 1400-1700, analyzing
the political, social and religious backgrounds to these
developments. While much that has been written on martyrs,
martyrdom and martyrologies has tended to focus on those who died
for a particular confession or cause, this book shows how the
concepts of martyrdom were shaped, altered and re-shaped through
the interactions between these groups. THOMAS S. FREEMAN is
Research Officer at the British Academy John Foxe Project, which is
affiliated with the University of Sheffield. THOMAS F. MAYER is
Professor of History at Augustana College. Contributors: JOHN
COFFEY, BRAD S. GREGORY, VICTOR HOULISTON, ANDREW LACEY, DANNA
PIROYANSKY, RICHARD REX, ALEC RYRIE, WILLIAM WIZEMAN
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of
Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. An
essential history of the English Reformation and a seminal product
of it, no English printed book before it had been as long or as
lavishly illustrated. Examining the research behind the work and
also its financing, printing and dissemination, Elizabeth Evenden
and Thomas S. Freeman argue that, apart from Foxe's zeal and
industry, the book was only made possible by extensive cooperation
between its printer, John Day, and the Elizabethan government.
Government patronage, rather than market forces, lay behind the
book's success and ensured the triumph of a Protestant
interpretation of the Reformation for centuries to come. Based on
little-used manuscript sources, this book offers a unique insight
not only into the 'Book of Martyrs' and the history of the English
book, but into English history itself.
Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English
Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and
mocked, but rarely ignored. In his many guises - model Renaissance
prince, Defender of the Faith, rapacious plunderer of the Church,
obese Bluebeard-- he has featured in numerous works of fact and
faction, in books, magazines, paintings, theatre, film and
television. Yet despite this perennial fascination with Henry the
man and monarch, there has been little comprehensive exploration of
his historiographic legacy. Therefore scholars will welcome this
collection, which provides a systematic survey of Henry's
reputation from his own age through to the present. Divided into
three sections, the volume begins with an examination of Henry's
reputation in the period between his death and the outbreak of the
English Civil War, a time that was to create many of the tropes
that would dominate his historical legacy. The second section deals
with the further evolution of his reputation, from the Restoration
to Edwardian era, a time when Catholic commentators and women
writers began moving into the mainstream of English print culture.
The final section covers the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,
which witnessed an explosion of representations of Henry, both in
print and on screen. Taken together these studies, by a
distinguished group of international scholars, offer a lively and
engaging overview of how Henry's reputation has been used, abused
and manipulated in both academia and popular culture since the
sixteenth century. They provide intriguing insights into how he has
been reinvented at different times to reflect the cultural,
political and religious demands of the moment; sometimes as hero,
sometimes as villain, but always as an unmistakable and iconic
figure in the historical landscape.
This book is the first of its kind to focus specifically on
children's attachment to fathers, and explores the connections
among fathering, family dynamics, and attachment relationships. It
includes theoretical, methodological and research reports written
by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from around the globe.
The purpose of this book is to familiarize the reader with the
conceptualization, measurement and provisions of the attachment
bond between children and their fathers, from infancy through young
adulthood and across diverse individual, family, community, and
cultural systems. Recent empirical findings suggest that new
methods of measuring child-father attachment are warranted, and
that attachment to fathers may be unique from, but complementary to
attachment to mothers. These findings also suggest that attachment
to fathers uniquely predicts children's healthy developmental
outcomes, and these findings are robust across various contexts,
but these predictive relationships are best understood within
context. This book provides a summary of current scholarly
knowledge of fathering and attachment, and describes future
directions to be explored by professionals, policy makers and
practitioners within family services, education, and social work
settings. It is also of interest to the general public. This book
was published as a special issue of Early Child Development and
Care.
This book is the first of its kind to focus specifically on
children's attachment to fathers, and explores the connections
among fathering, family dynamics, and attachment relationships. It
includes theoretical, methodological and research reports written
by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from around the globe.
The purpose of this book is to familiarize the reader with the
conceptualization, measurement and provisions of the attachment
bond between children and their fathers, from infancy through young
adulthood and across diverse individual, family, community, and
cultural systems. Recent empirical findings suggest that new
methods of measuring child-father attachment are warranted, and
that attachment to fathers may be unique from, but complementary to
attachment to mothers. These findings also suggest that attachment
to fathers uniquely predicts children's healthy developmental
outcomes, and these findings are robust across various contexts,
but these predictive relationships are best understood within
context. This book provides a summary of current scholarly
knowledge of fathering and attachment, and describes future
directions to be explored by professionals, policy makers and
practitioners within family services, education, and social work
settings. It is also of interest to the general public. This book
was published as a special issue of Early Child Development and
Care.
The essays in this volume seek to analyze biographical films as
representations of historical individuals and the times in which
they lived. To do this, contributors examine the context in which
certain biographical films were made, including the state of
knowledge about their subjects at that moment, and what these films
reveal about the values and purposes of those who created them.
This is an original approach to biographical (as opposed to
historical) films and one that has so far played little part in the
growing literature on historical films. The films discussed here
date from the 1920s to the 2010s, and deal with males and females
in periods ranging from the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth
century. In the process, the book discusses how biographical films
reflect changing attitudes towards issues such as race, gender and
sexuality, and examines the influence of these films on popular
perceptions of the past. The introduction analyses the nature of
biographical films as a genre: it compares and contrasts the nature
of biography on film with written biographies, and considers their
relationship with the discipline of history. As the first
collection of essays on this popular but understudied genre, this
book will be of interest to historians as well as those in film and
cultural studies.
Multigenerational Family Therapy is a book about honoring and
helping families. Rich with personal reflections and anecdotes from
the author's many years as a family therapist, this volume's major
strength lies in its precise definition of the process and content
of the therapy itself. As the family is the major resource system
available to an individual, this important book provides therapists
with the keys for helping family members help each other and
provides a framework for understanding how the family, as a
multigenerational system, moves through various stages of the
therapeutic process. By emphasizing the importance of family
members utilizing the past as a positive force for change and
featuring complete transcripts of family therapy sessions, this
sensitive book clearly illustrates how therapists can use the
positive forces of family for dealing with today's uncertainties
and dilemmas. The step-by-step approach details how family
therapists can work with families in a positive, healing manner.
Several chapters illustrate the transition from the beginning to
middle phases of family therapy to the terminating phase and
provide a framework for how therapy evolves over time. Other
chapters discuss the special skills required to work with various
family constellations, such as couples, parents with children,
siblings, adult children with aged parents, and individuals as well
as extended family members. Helpful advice on how to deal with
special issues and dilemmas of family therapy such as
secret-keeping, affairs, co-therapy, crises and emergencies is also
included in this comprehensive book. Beginning and advanced family
therapy practitioners, students of family theory and therapy,
faculty of social work practice, clinical psychology, nursing,
family life education, and counseling psychology will find many
positive ideas for working with families in this detailed book.
New contributions to the most important critical debates of the
period. The themes of 'image' and 'representation' play a major
part in the essays collected in this volume; subjects explored
include the religious sympathies of townsfolk and gentry and their
physical manifestations, the cultural setting for the activities of
leading families of the period and the interaction of Crown and
community of the realm. As the fruit of original archival research
on the later Middle Ages, overall the contributions offer the most
up-to-date scholarship on the period, and a snapshot of the most
crucial issues in current research. Contributors: CLIVE BURGESS,
PAUL CAVILL, JON DENTON, THOMAS S. FREEMAN, ALASDAIR HAWKYARD,
STEPHEN MILESON, JENNI NUTTALL, COLIN RICHMOND, ANNE F. SUTTON
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of
Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. An
essential history of the English Reformation and a seminal product
of it, no English printed book before it had been as long or as
lavishly illustrated. Examining the research behind the work and
also its financing, printing and dissemination, Elizabeth Evenden
and Thomas S. Freeman argue that, apart from Foxe's zeal and
industry, the book was only made possible by extensive cooperation
between its printer, John Day, and the Elizabethan government.
Government patronage, rather than market forces, lay behind the
book's success and ensured the triumph of a Protestant
interpretation of the Reformation for centuries to come. Based on
little-used manuscript sources, this book offers a unique insight
not only into the 'Book of Martyrs' and the history of the English
book, but into English history itself.
In her study of newly recovered works by British women, Kathryn
Freeman traces the literary relationship between women writers and
the Asiatic Society of Bengal, otherwise known as the Orientalists.
Distinct from their male counterparts of the Romantic period, who
tended to mirror the Orientalist distortions of India, women
writers like Phebe Gibbes, Elizabeth Hamilton, Sydney Owenson,
Mariana Starke, Eliza Fay, Anna Jones, and Maria Jane Jewsbury
interrogated these distortions from the foundation of gender.
Freeman takes a three-pronged approach, arguing first that in spite
of their marked differences, female authors shared a common
resistance to the Orientalists' intellectual genealogy that allowed
them to represent Vedic non-dualism as an alternative subjectivity
to the masculine model of European materialist philosophy. She also
examines the relationship between gender and epistemology, showing
that women's texts not only shift authority to a feminized
subjectivity, but also challenge the recurring Orientalist
denigration of Hindu masculinity as effeminate. Finally, Freeman
contrasts the shared concern about miscegenation between
Orientalists and women writers, contending that the first group
betrays anxiety about intermarriage between East Indian Company men
and indigenous women while the varying portrayals of intermarriage
by women show them poised to dissolve the racial and social
boundaries. Her study invites us to rethink the Romantic paradigm
of canonical writers as replicators of Orientalists' cultural
imperialism in favor of a more complicated stance that accommodates
the differences between male and female authors with respect to
India.
Being A Review Of Prehistoric Races And An Account Of The Earliest
Settlement By The White Man And Subsequent Events And Development
To The Present Day.
Focusing on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Robinson and Mary
Shelley, this book uses key concepts of androgyny, subjectivity and
the re-creative as a productive framework to trace the fascinating
textual interactions and dialogues among these authors. It crosses
the boundary between male and female writers of the Romantic period
by linking representations of gender with late Enlightenment
upheavals regarding creativity and subjectivity, demonstrating how
these interrelated concerns dismantle traditional binaries
separating the canonical and the noncanonical; male and female;
poetry and prose; good and evil; subject and object. Through the
convergences among the writings of Coleridge, Mary Robinson, and
Mary Shelley, the book argues that each dismantles and reconfigures
subjectivity as androgynous and amoral, subverting the centrality
of the male gaze associated with canonical Romanticism. In doing
so, it examines key works from each author's oeuvre, from
Coleridge's "canonical" poems such as Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
through Robinson's lyrical poetry and novels such as Walsingham, to
Mary Shelley's fiction, including Frankenstein, Mathilda, and The
Last Man.
Do you approve of censoring the works of great writers? Some might contend that to bowdlerize a great writer's work would be to diminish its overall quality. Others, like Thomas Bowdler, whose eraser danced over every Shakespeare play, would argue that all modest people should be able to read a great work without blushing. For attacking the classics, Mr. Bowdler has been immortalized as the world's best-known, self-appointed literary censor. And because of his efforts the term bowdlerize has become eponymous with his name. Alternatively, the word bikini--defined as a two- piece bathing suit for women--has been a linguistic mystery since 1947 when these suits were first seen on the beaches of the French Riviera, a year after the United States began testing atom bombs on the Bikini atoll of the Marshall Islands. Some shocked people said that the impact of the scanty swimsuit on male beach loungers was like the devastating effect of the atomic bomb. Whoosh! A simpler and more credible notion is that the daring swimsuits resembled the attire worn by women on the Bikini atoll. Created about a century ago, the term eponym is itself a coinage from two Greek words, epi, "on" or "upon," and onama, "a name." But its broadened meaning, as dictionaries set it out, refers to a word derived from a proper name. For instance, Salisbury steak--a popular diner menu item created from common hamburger and dressed up with brown gravy to make it more appealing--is named for James H. Salisbury, an English physician who promoted a diet of ground beef. A Dictionary of Eponyms explores the origins of hundreds of these everyday words from Argyle socks to zeppelins. Written in an entertaining and anecdotal style, and with a foreword by Edwin Newman, the book includes a brief biography of the individual whose name became associated with an item or concept as well as information on how and when the name entered the language. If you've ever wondered just where terms like cardigan sweater, pamphlet, and robot come from, Morton Freeman does more than simply define them--he brings them to life.
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