In the closing decades of the sixteenth century, England attempted its first colonial expansion into the New World through planned settlements in Ireland, Newfoundland, Virginia, and Guiana. All of these colonial efforts were unsuccessful. Yet these projects were a significant cultural force in early modern England. Influenced by recent work in postcolonial theory and cultural studies, Shannon Miller's "Invested with Meaning" examines the documentary and material remains of these vanished colonies to explore the multiple influences of the Irish and New World encounters on English culture.
Miller contends that the projects sponsored by the Raleigh circle were inextricably bound to the economic and social transformations of English systems, including the transition from a feudal-based economy to an emergent capitalism, the redefinition of the patron-client relationship, and challenges to the categories of gentry and merchant. These social and economic transitions shaped the goals of the colonization projects and dictated the ways in which the writers and artists of these enterprises could frame the New World and its people; influenced by the changes in England, their construction of the New World both reflected and helped to constitute a sense of English national identity.

Engendering the Fall John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers Shannon Miller "This is an ambitious book, tackling some central issues in the study of seventeenth-century literature and history, and the first book to bring interpretations of the Fall story by Milton and his female contemporaries, from the Jacobean period to the end of the century, into a sustained dialogue."--David Norbrook, University of Oxford ""Engendering the Fall" enriches our view of Milton, of women writers, and of the literature of gender and statecraft."--"TLS" The narrative of the Garden of Eden infused seventeenth-century political thought no less than it reflected attitudes toward the relationship between the sexes. Within the contemporary debate over political legitimacy, theorists who supported or questioned the monarchy turned explicitly to the narrative of the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve to articulate their theories of governmental authority. Engaging this foundational relationship between gendered interpersonal and governmental organization, Shannon Miller turns to a body of texts produced in England that replot the story of the Garden. She sets a series of writings by women into conversation with the period's most important poetic rendering of the Fall, Milton's "Paradise Lost," to illustrate how significant gender was to accounts of social and political organization, and to demonstrate how the Garden narrative plots the role of gender. Her multidirectional and multilayered conversation between numerous seventeenth-century women--such as Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Lucy Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish, and Mary Chudleigh--and Milton's Genesis epic crystallizes the interplay between the narrative of the Fall, the organization of political structures, and the extent to which both were shaped by cultural debates over the role of women. Shannon Miller is Associate Professor of English at Temple University and the author of "Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World," also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008 288 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8122-4086-3 Cloth $65.00s 42.50 World Rights Literature, Women's/Gender Studies Short copy: "Engendering the Fall" argues that early seventeenth-century women's writing influenced "Paradise Lost," while later seventeenth-century texts reworked central aspects of Milton's epic in order to reconfigure the politically resonant gendered hierarchy laid out by the story of the Fall.

A collection of short works by Shannon L Miller and her Muse from 2005-2008. Covers poetry, flash fiction and short stories ranging from humorous fiction, science fiction and fantasy.

Got guilt? If you, or anyone you know, suffers from guilt then this book is a "Must Read"! What are the different types of guilt, why do I suffer from guilt and how can I rid myself of guilt forever? Find the answers to these questions and more as the author illustrates each point using experiences from actual clients to guide you through the gift, the curse, the cure and the method. Get started on your way to freedom from guilt forever.

The modern school library supports education in a variety of ways. One essential role librarians play is that of a leader who works collaboratively to build relationships, mold culture and climate, and advocate for the needs of students and the community. In this book, a librarian and an education leader team up to reflect on the librarian’s ability to build connections in two ways. First, they discuss the benefits of bringing the outside world into the library through the use of social media, videoconferencing and other tools that allow librarians to partner with others. Then they expand upon these connections by addressing how librarians can lead in the greater educational community by sharing resources and strategies, and partnering with school leaders to tell the story of the school community. Through this book, librarians will discover the influence they can have on the school community as the library becomes the heart of the school, a place where problems are solved, content is explored, connections are made and discovery happens.