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Interest in Christopher Isherwood's work has grown since his death
in 1986, and this interest has included a revisiting of his later
work as well as his earlier writing from his time in 1930s Berlin,
and the immense success of Mr Norris Changes Trains. His
autobiographical writing has also found new readers for his work,
as his diaries continue to be published. Traditionally study and
explanation of Isherwood's work has always concentrated on the
earlier work, and he has been seen largely as a writer of the
1930s, along with Auden, Spender and MacNeice. But Stephen Wade
here introduces and explains aspects of Isherwood's later religious
fiction as well as covering the Berlin writings. This study guide
will expand the reader's knowledge of a writer who is increasingly
being rated as one of the major novelists and memoirists of the
last century.
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Some were industrialists and businessmen who stamped their name
there. Others were writers and artists who made Leeds their source
of inspiration. On the dark side we also love the villains: Most
unusually, however, the book includes some forgotten names: quiet,
steady 'heroes' who add that solid, dedicated work so necessary to
civic urban community. It is a book about some of the men and women
who made Leeds a powerful and fascinating City.
Curious Tales from Lincolnshire is filled with hilarious and
surprising examples of folklore, eccentrics, historical and
literary events, and popular culture from days gone by, all taken
from Lincolnshire's tumultuous history. Here the reader will meet
forgers, poets, aristocrats, politicians and some less likely
residents of the county, including Spring-Heeled Jack - whose
spectral figure reportedly jumped over Newport Arch - and the
appearance of an angel in Gainsborough. There has always been much
more to Lincolnshire than farm lands and sea-side towns: this is
the county that brought us Lord Tennyson (whose brother was treated
at an experimental asylum in the area), John Wesley and, in
contrast, William Marwood, the notorious hangman; here too were
found the Dam Busters, the first tanks and the fishing fleets of
Grimsby. All may be found within the pages of this book, bound to
delight residents and visitors alike.
Sarah Jacob was the Carmarthenshire farm girl who dominated the
national and regional press for almost all of 1869. In the popular
imagination she was 'the Welsh fasting girl' and although she was
not the first anorexic, she was arguably the first to cause a
national furore, and become something of a celebrity. She died
despite a team of nurses from Guy's Hospital stationed at her home
in Lletherneuadd, and after the best minds in British medicine had
set theorised about the cause of her apparently supernatural
existence - living in spite of starvation, losing no weight yet
clearly suffering in all kinds of ways. Sarah's was not the only
story here. Her parents were charged with murder and eventually
convicted of manslaughter. The Girl Who Lived on Air retells this
human story of an anorexic made to be the centre of a lucrative and
also media-hungry 'spin' on the nineteenth century nexus of
knowledge between science and superstition, folk-belief and
religious asceticism. Stephen Wade covers new ground in examining
the medical issues surrounding the case, the legal complexities
(including the use of Welsh in court) and the interpretation on a
newly enacted law which reformulated serious crime, the prison life
of Sarah's parents, and the significance of folklore and
superstition in an unusual and yet all too familiar story.
A guide for those who wish to develop their professional writing
skills, this book explains fundamental skills such as carrying out
research for your book or project, identifying your target
readership and submitting copy to editors.
Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre
within post-war literature. In this book Stephen Wade offers a
student guide to major writers, their key works and to influential
background factors including the postmodern, the masternarrative
and metafiction. The themes, issues and philosophies of writers
including Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Isaac Bashevis Singer are
inter-related and wider literary and historical topics are alluded
to and explained. Covering women's writing, novels, poetry and
drama, the author offers a readable guide to the achievements of a
key group of writers in twentieth-century American literature. Key
Features * A student guide to major writers in post-war American
literature * A chapter on each of the 5 main writers * Covers
theoretical aspects -- the postmodern, the masternarrative and
metafiction -- in an easily accessible way * Offers background
material to situate the work of the writers
In 1941, Beryl Baxter, a dressmaker from Grimsby, signed up to do
her bit in the Battle of Britain. She was to serve as a plotter as
aircraftswoman in the WAAF and, upon discharge in 1949 she began
life as a welfare worker for the Women's Voluntary Service. Her
postings included the Korean War, Japan, Hong Kong and Iraq.
Throughout these years of service she fulfilled the roles of
mother, sister and girlfriend to thousands of servicemen, both
conscripts and regulars. Presenting a dramatic narrative from
several theatres of war, this book recalls Beryl's life, based on a
large archive of letters and documents that she preserved, allowing
the reader to go on these journeys to war alongside a brave and
enterprising independent woman.
Who else wants to be able to analyse the War Poets? There is a
profound sense of discovery for each generation who comes to read
the work of the war poets. The reader has to comprehend the sheer
enormity and loss of life in a theatre that was at once hellish and
paradoxically a cause of massive social change. In this Studymate,
the reader is shown how to consider the writing of war and conflict
in general and then to understand the historical context. The
author then explains the cathartic response of transmuting pain
into art or literature. Publisher: Stusymates ISBN: 9781842851432
Number of pages: 128 Dimensions: 215 x 135 mm Edition: 2nd UK ed.
The purpose of this series is to promote the study of writing in
the English language through the introduction of the major figures
writing in English throughout the ages. They provide an analytical
and historical framework for understanding their subjects. Stephen
Wade provides an interpretation of W.H. Auden's major themes and
preoccupations throughout his long career as a poet. Auden's
technical ability and interest in experimental poetic forms were
not always succesful, but contain insights into modern society.
Despite the too-frequent intellectualism, personal allusion and
highly-idiosyncratic diction inherent in Auden's method, Wade
pinpoints the strength of his work.
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