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This text contains essays on writers from the 1840s to the 1890s,
and includes well-known writers such as Anne Bronte, Wilkie
Collins, and Bram Stoker, as well as lesser known writers such as
Geraldine Jewsbury, Charles Reade, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore,
Sarah Grand and Mary Ward. The contributors explore important
thematic concerns such as the relationship between private and
public realms, gender and social class, sexuality and the
marketplace, and male and female cultural identity.
Victorian literature has been an important critical focus for
feminist scholarship, but feminist criticism has also established
its own canon of central authors-most frequently focusing on the
rich accomplishments of Emily Bront', Charlotte Bront', and George
Eliot, and the disappointments of Charles Dickens and Henry James.
This collection of essays expands the canon to include works not
frequently accorded attention either in literary criticism broadly
conceived, or in feminist literary scholarship.
The book includes essays on writers from the 1840s to the 1890s,
investigating some authors in whom readers are already interested
(Anne Bront', Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker), and those to whom they
wish to gain access (Geraldine Jewsbury, Charles Reade, Margaret
Oliphant, George Moore, Sarah Grand, Mary Ward, and others). The
essays explore important thematic concerns: the relation between
private and public realms, gender and social class, sexuality and
the marketplace, and male and female cultural identity.
This collection facilitates interpretation of key underread texts
for scholars who seek new information and insights. Additionally,
the biographical headnote and brief bibliographic survey that
accompany each essay are helpful to students and teachers of
19th-century literature, feminist literature and criticism, and
cultural studies. Most importantly, the volume offers a richer
conception of 19th-century literature and thus contributes both to
literary history and classroom instruction.
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Everywhere Babies (Hardcover)
Susan Meyers; Illustrated by Marla Frazee
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Every day, everywhere, babies are born. They're kissed and dressed
and rocked and fed--and completely adored by the families who love
them. With an irresistible rhyming text and delightfully endearing
illustrations, here is an exuberant celebration of playing,
sleeping, crawling, and of course, very noisy babies doing all the
wonderful things babies do best.
Most contemporary public managers will work in some type of
collaborative or networked arrangement at some time in their
professional careers. More and more work in public administration
and policy is now being done in collaborative formats, and while
there are many studies, articles, and cases describing successful
endeavors, a good deal of confusion persists about what, exactly,
makes them work. What are the best practices? This book focuses on
the processes, protocols, and incentives needed for successful
collaborative endeavors. Moving beyond new public governance
theories and the limits of new public management, Chandler uniquely
focuses on the facilitative skills and tools that members and
facilitators need for success in collaborative work. Written by an
author with both academic and practical experience in organizing,
developing, leading, and facilitating public-private
collaboratives, this book has both an academic thrust and an action
focus, drawing on case studies from the fields of health and human
services to highlight important theoretical and/or practice points.
Making Collaboratives Work is required reading for undergraduate
and graduate public-administration students of collaborative
management, nonprofit administration, organizational theory and
practice, communications, public policy, and leadership. The book
is also ideally suited to public administrators and nonprofit
managers asked to work in public-private partnerships and
collaboratives to solve complex problems.
Maddy is a social worker trying to balance her career and three
children. Years ago, she fell in love with Ben, a public defender,
drawn to his fiery passion, but now he's lashing out at her. She
vacillates between tiptoeing around him and asserting herself for
the sake of their kids - until the rainy day when they're together
in the car and Ben's volatile temper gets the best of him, leaving
Maddy in the hospital fighting for her life. RS Meyers takes us
inside the hearts and minds of her characters, alternating among
the perspectives of Maddy, Ben, and their fourteen-year-old
daughter. Accidents of Marriage is a provocative and stunning novel
that will resonate deeply with women from all walks of life,
ultimately revealing the challenges of family, faith, and
forgiveness.
Describes babies and the things they do from the time they are born until their first birthday.
Every day, everywhere, babies are born. They're kissed and dressed
and rocked and fed - and completely adored by families that love
them. With an irresistible rhyming text and delightfully endearing
illustrations, this book is an exuberant celebration of playing,
sleeping, crawling, and, of course, very noisy babies doing all the
wonderful things babies do best. This is a lap board book edition
and includes a 'Baby on Board' window cling.
With an irresistible rhyming text and delightfully endearing
illustrations, here is an exuberant celebration of playing,
sleeping, crawling, and of course, very noisy babies doing all the
wonderful things babies do best. Every day, everywhere, babies are
born. They're kissed and dressed and rocked and fed-and completely
adored by the families who love them. New York magazine's The
Strategist chose Everywhere Babies as one of the "Best (Nonobvious)
Baby Books to Bring to a Shower." As The Strategist stated: "Babies
love looking at other babies, and this book is filled with all
kinds of adorable ones." Plus the book's art is "really layered and
thoughtful in representing all kinds of babies and parents." The
Strategist's kids loved the "really pleasing cadence and rhyme
structure." Marla Frazee's popular books include two Caldecott
Honor winners, the Clementine series, and The Boss Baby, among many
others.
Check This Box If You Are Blind is the story of one man's journey
into blindness. Andy, 42, loves dogs, Dracula, vintage cars,
unicorns, and Olivia Newton-John. He's sensitive. Stubborn. And
blind. Andy disagrees about the blind part. His lost sight, he
says, will be back any minute now. He has decided to pass as
sighted until his vision returns. "Because my true self is my
sighted self," he explains. But Andy's sight is fading fast. He's
making more mistakes these days: at work, at home, losing things,
bumping into things. He's putting his job, many friendships, and
even his personal safety at risk. When is it wrong to talk someone
you love out of a wish that can't come true? Susan Meyers is Andy's
older sister and protector. She used to hold his fat little hand in
hers every morning and walk him to school when they were small. She
lives far away now, but she can't stop picturing Andy feeling for
the smoothness of walls with his hands, for the suddenness of
stairs with his feet. She's supposed to save her brother, to swoop
in and perform some sort of rescue, right here, right now. But how?
And she has questions. Why is blindness so frightening? What is her
brother losing, exactly, and why can't he find a way to live
without it? This is the wonderful, engaging story of a sister's
struggle to protect her brother, a man who calls her his guardian
angel but refuses to be guarded. Beautifully written and
sensitively told, it takes up questions that brothers, sisters, and
caregivers of all stripes must ask.
Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day
before Lulu's tenth birthday their father drives them into a
nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girls'
self-obsessed mother; after she throws him out, their troubles turn
deadly.
Lulu had been warned to never to let her father in, but when he
shows up drunk, he's impossible to ignore. He bullies his way past
Lulu, who then listens in horror as her parents struggle. She runs
for help, but discovers upon her return that he's murdered her
mother, stabbed her five-year-old sister, and tried,
unsuccessfully, to kill himself.
Lulu and Merry are effectively orphaned by their mother's death
and father's imprisonment, but the girls' relatives refuse to care
for them and abandon them to a terrifying group home. Even as they
plot to be taken in by a well-to-do family, they come to learn
they'll never really belong anywhere or to anyone--that all they
have to hold onto is each other.
For thirty years, the sisters try to make sense of what
happened. Their imprisoned father is a specter in both their lives,
shadowing every choice they make. One spends her life pretending
he's dead, while the other feels compelled, by fear, by duty, to
keep him close. Both dread the day his attempts to win parole may
meet success.
A beautifully written, compulsively readable debut, The
Murderer's Daughters is a testament to the power of family and the
ties that bind us together and tear us apart.
The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs
persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at
Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three
nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily
Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these
domestic novelists uses race relations as a metaphor through which
to explore the relationships between men and women at home in
England. In the fiction of, for example, Anthony Trollope and
Charles Dickens, as in nineteenth-century culture more generally,
the subtle and not-so-subtle comparison of white women and people
of color is used to suggest their mutual inferiority. The Bronte
sisters and George Eliot responded to this comparison, Meyer
contends, transforming it for their own purposes. Through this
central metaphor, these women novelists work out a sometimes
contentious relationship to established hierarchies of race and
gender. Their feminist impulses, in combination with their use of
race as a metaphor, Meyer argues, produce at times a surprising, if
partial, critique of empire. Through readings of Jane Eyre,
Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda, and
Charlotte Brontë's African juvenilia, Meyer traces the
aesthetically and ideologically complex workings of the racial
metaphor. Her analysis is supported by careful attention to textual
details and thorough grounding in recent scholarship on the idea of
race, and on literature and imperialism.
The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs
persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at
Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three
nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily
Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these
domestic novelists uses race relations as a metaphor through which
to explore the relationships between men and women at home in
England. In the fiction of, for example, Anthony Trollope and
Charles Dickens, as in nineteenth-century culture more generally,
the subtle and not-so-subtle comparison of white women and people
of color is used to suggest their mutual inferiority. The Bronte
sisters and George Eliot responded to this comparison, Meyer
contends, transforming it for their own purposes. Through this
central metaphor, these women novelists work out a sometimes
contentious relationship to established hierarchies of race and
gender. Their feminist impulses, in combination with their use of
race as a metaphor, Meyer argues, produce at times a surprising, if
partial, critique of empire. Through readings of Jane Eyre,
Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda, and
Charlotte Brontë's African juvenilia, Meyer traces the
aesthetically and ideologically complex workings of the racial
metaphor. Her analysis is supported by careful attention to textual
details and thorough grounding in recent scholarship on the idea of
race, and on literature and imperialism.
Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural
winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the
South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length
collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her examination of
life's ordinary moments and the seemingly ordinary images that
abide in them to reveal the extraordinary. From minutia to
marriage, crumbs to crows, nothing is too commonplace to escape her
attention as she traverses terrains of childhood, loss,
relationships, and death. Mostly lyrical and often elegiac, the
poems of Keep and Give Away move along the rifts between the past
and present, the lived and desired. The dominant emotions of the
verses are deepened by observations rooted in our natural world,
where birds are "yeses quickening the air" and the sky can "lap you
up, and up." In the book's final section, marriage poems turn to
fishing and gardening for their truths, contemplations that
recognize the realities of a world governed by luck, imperfection,
contraries, and-most of all-love.
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