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Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson

By: Anna Faktorovich

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Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson

By: Anna Faktorovich

When three of Britain's best-loved and best-selling authors each publish at least two novels with a historical rebellion theme, there might be an interesting pattern worth examining. This is a long overdue study of the previously overlooked rebellion novel genre, with a close look at the works of Sir Walter Scott (Waverly and Rob Roy), Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities and Barnaby Rudge), and Robert Louis Stevenson (Kidnapped and The Young Chevalier). The linguistic and structural formulas that these novels share are presented, along with a comparative study of how these authors individualized the genre to adjust it to their needs. Scott, Dickens and Stevenson were led to the rebellion genre by direct radical interests. They used the tools of political literary propaganda to assist the poor, disenfranchised and peripheral people, with whom they identified and hoped to see free from oppression and poverty.

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McFarland

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147660147X

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Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia

By: Mitchell Rolls,Anna Johnston

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Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia

By: Mitchell Rolls,Anna Johnston

Walkabout' was one of the most popular magazines in mid-twentieth century Australia, educating local and international readers about the Australian landscape, its peoples and industry. It featured many of the most interesting writers, natural scientists and commentators. This book investigates 'Walkabout’ magazine's pivotal role in Australian cultural history.

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Anthem Press

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178308538X

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A Truth Universally Acknowledged

33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

By: C. S. Lewis,Virginia Woolf,Anna Quindlen

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A Truth Universally Acknowledged

33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

By: C. S. Lewis,Virginia Woolf,Anna Quindlen

Why are we so fascinated with Jane Austen’s novels? Why is Austen so universally beloved? The essayists in this volume offer their thoughts on the delightful puzzle of Austen’s popularity. Classic and contemporary writers—novelists, essayists, journalists, scholars, and a filmmaker—discuss the tricks and treasures of Austen’s novels, from her witty dialogue, to the arc and sweep of her story lines, to her prescriptions for life and love. Virginia Woolf examines Austen’s maturation as an artist and speculates on how her writing would have changed had she lived another twenty years, while Anna Quindlen examines the enduring issues of social pressure and gender politics that make Pride and Prejudice as vital today as ever. From Harold Bloom to Martin Amis, Somerset Maugham to Jay McInerney, Eudora Welty to Amy Bloom, each writer reflects on Austen’s place in both the literary canon and our cultural imagination.

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322

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0812980018

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9780812980011

Anna Lee

Memoir of a Career on General Hospital and in Film

By: Anna Lee,Barbara Roisman Cooper

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Anna Lee

Memoir of a Career on General Hospital and in Film

By: Anna Lee,Barbara Roisman Cooper

Born Joan Boniface Winnifrith on January 2, 1913, Anna Lee is best known for her portrayal of General Hospital's Lila Quartermaine, a character who she brought to life for over two decades. From her early years in England to her final days in Hollywood, she recounts details of her extraordinary life in her memoir. Expressed in her energetic style, Anna Lee tells of her childhood as the daughter of an English clergyman and her early determination to become an actress. She writes of her teenage struggles to realize her dream, two failed marriages, and the difficulties she faced raising a family while maintaining her career. Finally, we see the picture of a mature Anna Lee--a successful actress playing a role she loved while enjoying an ideal marriage to writer Robert Nathan. Personal remembrances from her family and General Hospital co-stars round out this touching, entertaining self-portrait of the actress' life. A complete filmography and list of television appearances is also included.

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McFarland

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1476603596

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9781476603599

Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India

Text and Archaeology

By: Anna Aleksandra Ślączka

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Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India

Text and Archaeology

By: Anna Aleksandra Ślączka

This book is a thorough study, based on both the textual and archaeological data, of the three important temple consecration rituals of the Hindu tradition.

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429

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BRILL

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900415843X

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9789004158436

Artists in the Life of Charleston

Through Colony and State from Restoration to Reconstruction

By: Anna Wells Rutledge

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Artists in the Life of Charleston

Through Colony and State from Restoration to Reconstruction

By: Anna Wells Rutledge

Charleston's greatest contribution to American painting was timely patronage of men of ability. Contents: Historical intro.; Art and artists from the 16th to the mid-18th cent.; Jeremiah Theus, Alexander Gordon, and the mid-18th cent.; Prosperous Pre-Revolutionary years; The Revolutionary years; Federal years; The academic tradition and native talent in the first quarter of the 19th cent.; Fraser, Allston, White, and Cogdell; The South Carolina Acad. of Fine Arts; Sculpture; Theatrical and decorative painters; The silhouettists; Backgrounds; Native talent and visiting strangers; "Female artists" and talented families; The daguerreotype and photography; Pre-war decades; and The war years -- 1861-1865. Illus. This is a print on demand publication.

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American Philosophical Society

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1422377083

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William Morris and the Idea of Community

Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914

By: Anna Vaninskaya

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William Morris and the Idea of Community

Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914

By: Anna Vaninskaya

The great polymath William Morris and his contemporaries and followers--from H. Rider Haggard to H. G. Wells--are the focus of this study. Anna Vaninskaya draws upon a wide array of primary sources: from working-class fiction and articles in fringe socialist newspapers to historical treatises, autobiographies and diaries, in order to explore the many ways Victorians and Edwardians talked about community and modernity. Vaninskaya's narrative moves from the realm of romance bestsellers and sniggering reviews to debates in weighty historical tomes, and then to the headquarters of revolutionary parties, to street-corners and shabby lecture halls. She demonstrates how in each domain the dream of community clashed with the reality of the modern state and market.

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240

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748643729

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9780748643721

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Meaning and Culture

By: Anna Wierzbicka

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Meaning and Culture

By: Anna Wierzbicka

This book argues that rather than denying the existence and continued relevance of the cultural 'baggage' embedded in English ('Anglo' English), it is important to explore the contents of that baggage - important for practical, as well as intellectual, reasons.

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Oxford University Press

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0195174747

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9780195174748

A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery

Reflections on art and national identity

By: Anna Tietze

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A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery

Reflections on art and national identity

By: Anna Tietze

In South Africa, with its highly contested and changing understandings of national identity, its National Gallery is no less a contested space. A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery considers questions of artistic and cultural identity, from the late 19th century to the present day. It explores how the gallery has understood its function and its public, as a ‘national’ gallery from 1930 and, before that, the chief gallery of the Cape Colony. This question is investigated through a study of the gallery’s administration, collection and exhibition practices over the last 150 years. What is understood by and expected of a national gallery varies considerably worldwide. Should it regard itself as part of a broad international cultural discourse, or should it be representative of a specifically national – or even regional – identity? The gallery is a microcosm of the greater debate: how the South African nation relates to the larger world and how, if at all, it understands the concept of a shared culture. In the last 20 years, Museum Studies have become a major part of the field of Cultural Studies. There is a vast literature on what might be called the ‘history’ museum, but far less on the art museum or gallery. To date, there has been no large-scale historical inquiry into the Iziko SANG, the country’s national gallery. The absence of such a history marks a serious gap in the literature, which this study aims to fill.

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Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd

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1775822168

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9781775822165

Semantics, Culture, and Cognition

Universal Human Concepts in Culture-specific Configurations

By: Anna Wierzbicka

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Semantics, Culture, and Cognition

Universal Human Concepts in Culture-specific Configurations

By: Anna Wierzbicka

This study ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures in an attempt to identify concepts which are truly universal and to explore whether certain words are culture-specific.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195073266

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9780195073263

Protection and Politics

Conservative Economic Discourse, 1815-1852

By: Anna Gambles

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Protection and Politics

Conservative Economic Discourse, 1815-1852

By: Anna Gambles

Examination of debate within the Conservative party over the principles of free trade. The complex and troubled relationship between protectionism and Conservatism in nineteenth-century Britain is the focus of this book. It looks at how the developing free-trade orthodoxy was challenged within Conservatism, and offers new perspectives on the intellectual controversies which precipitated the Conservative party's split of 1846 and the intricate denouement of 1846-52. In contrast to traditional accounts, it also seeks to explore the intellectual character of opposition to the evolving mid-Victorian consensus framed around free trade, laissez-faire and sound money, revealing how Conservatives debated key aspects of economic policy. Through an exhaustive reading of Conservative journals, pamphlets and contributions to parliamentary debates, the author is able to expose an alternative set of ideas about the direction of British economic and social change and the role of government in moulding it. Dr ANNA GAMBLES is lecturer in modern British history, University of Kent at Canterbury.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0861932447

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9780861932443

Impressionism in Britain

By: Kenneth McConkey,Anna Gruetzner Robins

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Impressionism in Britain

By: Kenneth McConkey,Anna Gruetzner Robins

Late in his career, Claude Monet returned to London to paint the fog that had entranced him years before. The resulting sequence of pictures represents some of the fascination that French painters felt for Britain. Similarly, many British collectors and young painters embraced and were influenced by the work of the French Impressionists. This book describes the activities of the French Impressionist painters on their visits to Britain, considers the dissemination of Impressionist painting through British dealers and collectors, explores the response of artists from Britain and Ireland to the Impressionist movement, and sets all of these against the backdrop of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. McConkey and Robins describe the work of Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, and other Impressionists working in London, showing how this art influenced the community of young British painters disenchanted with British art schools and art exhibiting standards. The authors investigate the role played by two innovative painters who were American expatriates, James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. And they explain how such artists as William Orpen, George Clausen, Stanhope Forbes, Henry La Thangue, Walter Sickert, and Philip Wilson Steer sought out new and radical approaches to picture making, formed new secessionist art societies, and articulated new concepts of the role of art, rejecting historical pageants and fashionable aestheticism and focusing on modern rural and urban conditions. The book is the catalogue of an exhibition that will be at the Barbican Art Gallery in London from January to March 1995, and then move to Dublin.

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Yale University Press

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0300063342

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9780300063349

Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words

English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese

By: Anna Wierzbicka

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Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words

English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese

By: Anna Wierzbicka

This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has "key concepts," expressed in "key words," which reflect the core values of a given culture. She shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared, and explained to outsiders through their key concepts, and that the analytical framework necessary for this purpose is provided by the "natural semantic metalanguage," based on lexical universals, that the author and colleagues have developed on the basis of wide-ranging cross-linguistic investigations. Appealing to anthropologists, psychologists, and philosophers as well as linguists, this book demonstrates that cultural patterns can be studied in a verifiable, rigorous, and non-speculative way, on the basis of empirical evidence and in a coherent theoretical framework.

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Oxford University Press

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0190208430

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9780190208431

Women of the Suffrage Movement: Memoirs & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes

Including 6 Volume History of Women's Suffrage (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent G. Fawcett, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Catt, Alice Paul)

By: Jane Addams,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Ida Husted Harper,Anna Howard Shaw,Millicent Garrett Fawcett,Emmeline Pankhurst,Alice Stone Blackwell

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Women of the Suffrage Movement: Memoirs & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes

Including 6 Volume History of Women's Suffrage (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent G. Fawcett, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Catt, Alice Paul)

By: Jane Addams,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Ida Husted Harper,Anna Howard Shaw,Millicent Garrett Fawcett,Emmeline Pankhurst,Alice Stone Blackwell

This meticulously edited collection presents the most prominent figures of the Women's suffrage movement in the United States of America and the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul. This edition includes as well the complete 6 volume history of the movement - from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) was a British feminist, intellectual, political and union leader, and writer. Jane Addams (1860-1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist, public philosopher, sociologist, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist.

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8026884787

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Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson

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Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia

Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia

A Truth Universally Acknowledged

A Truth Universally Acknowledged

Anna Lee

Anna Lee

Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India

Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India

Artists in the Life of Charleston

Artists in the Life of Charleston

William Morris and the Idea of Community

William Morris and the Idea of Community

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English

A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery

A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery

Semantics, Culture, and Cognition

Semantics, Culture, and Cognition

Protection and Politics

Protection and Politics

Impressionism in Britain

Impressionism in Britain

Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words

Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words

Women of the Suffrage Movement: Memoirs & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes

Women of the Suffrage Movement: Memoirs & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes

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