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“The Golden Cobweb”

The Exotic Journey of an Englishman Who Became Genealogist for the Thai Royal Family

By: Barbara Schofield Suleiman

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“The Golden Cobweb”

The Exotic Journey of an Englishman Who Became Genealogist for the Thai Royal Family

By: Barbara Schofield Suleiman

This is a memoir about two cousins who started to exchange letters when one cousin, Beatrice, left for the States. They had grown up in an extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins in the north of England. Set initially in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, their lives were closely entwined. Cousin Jeffrey had, at a very early age, become enamoured with the theatre of ritual so richly displayed by the royals. As such he became a highly skilled genealogist focusing on the royal families of Europe and then the FarEast. He was eventually chosen as Genealogist for the Thai Royal Family.

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1665563486

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In Search of the Swan Maiden

A Narrative on Folklore and Gender

By: Barbara Fass Leavy

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In Search of the Swan Maiden

A Narrative on Folklore and Gender

By: Barbara Fass Leavy

In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. --The New York Times Book Review This is a study of the meaning of gender as framed by the swan maiden tale, a story found in the folklore of virtually every culture. The swan maiden is a supernatural woman forced to marry, keep house, and bear children for a mortal man who holds the key to her imprisonment. When she manages to regain this key, she escapes to the otherworld, never to return. These tales have most often been interpreted as depicting exogamous marriages, describing the girl from another tribe trapped in a world where she will always be the outsider. Barbara Fass Leavy believes that, in the societies in which the tale and its variants endured, woman was the other--the outsider trapped in a society that could never be her own. Leavy shows how the tale, though rarely explicitly recognized, is frequently replayed in modern literature. Beautifully written, this book reveals the myriad ways in which the folktales of a society reflect its cultural values, and particularly how folktales are allegories of gender relations. It will interest anyone involved in literary, gender, and cultural studies.

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NYU Press

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0814752683

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9780814752685

Censored Sentiments

Letters and Censorship in Epistolary Novels and Conduct Material

By: Barbara Maria Zaczek

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Letters and Censorship in Epistolary Novels and Conduct Material

By: Barbara Maria Zaczek

Samuel Richardson's Clarissa illustrates this shift because it proves the inefficacy of the control imposed from the outside and advocates the necessity of placing responsibility onto the letter writer tutored in decorum by conduct books. Clarissa commits a "sin of communication" that leads to her "ruin" and death because she has disregarded the guidelines for safe correspondence provided by conduct-book writers. Clarissa reflects the gradual substitution of the letter as a means of transgression to the letter as a means of control and manipulation.

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220

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University of Delaware Press

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0874136083

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9780874136081

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