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Scents & Sensibility

Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture

By: Catherine Maxwell

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Scents & Sensibility

Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture

By: Catherine Maxwell

Explores Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses. A selection of poems, essays, and fiction, exploring these texts with reference to both the little-known cultural history of perfume use and the appreciation of natural fragrance in Victorian Britain. It shows how scent and perfume are used to convey not merely moods and atmospheres but the nuances of the aesthete or decadent's carefully cultivated identity, personality, or sensibility.

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Oxford University Press

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0198701756

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Serials to Graphic Novels

The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book

By: Catherine J. Golden

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Serials to Graphic Novels

The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book

By: Catherine J. Golden

The Victorian illustrated book came into being, flourished, and evolved during the long nineteenth century. While existing scholarship on Victorian illustrators largely centers on the realist artists of the "Sixties," this volume examines the entire lifetime of the Victorian illustrated book. Catherine Golden offers a new framework for viewing the arc of this vibrant genre, arguing that it arose from and continually built on the creative vision of the caricature-style illustrators of the 1830s. She surveys the fluidity of illustration styles across serial installments, British and American periodicals, adult and children’s literature, and--more recently--graphic novels. Serials to Graphic Novels examines widely recognized illustrated texts, such as The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Rabbit, and Trilby. Golden explores factors that contributed to the early popularity of the illustrated book—the growth of commodity culture, a rise in literacy, new printing technologies—and that ultimately created a mass market for illustrated fiction. Golden identifies present-day visual adaptations of the works of Austen, Dickens, and Trollope as well as original Neo-Victorian graphic novels like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Victorian-themed novels like Batman: Noël as the heirs to the Victorian illustrated book. With these adaptations and additions, the Victorian canon has been refashioned and repurposed visually for new generations of readers.

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University Press of Florida

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0813063736

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9780813063737

The Case Manager’s Handbook

By: Catherine M. Mullahy

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The Case Manager’s Handbook

By: Catherine M. Mullahy

Written by renowned author Catherine M. Mullahy, The Case Manager’s Handbook, Sixth Edition is an indispensable guide for case managers. Presented in an accessible and conversational style, this practical resource helps case managers learn the fundamentals, study for the Certified Case Manager (CCM) exam, and advance their careers after the exam. Completely updated and enhanced with information on the latest developments affecting case management, it reflects the rapidly changing healthcare landscape, including the significant effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Sixth Edition includes new chapters on pediatric case management, workers’ compensation case management, key factors driving today’s healthcare system, the case manager’s role in the era of value-based health care, case management and healthcare provider strategies for managing the high-risk or high-cost patient, and transformative healthcare approaches for the millennial generation.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284122050

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9781284122053

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective

By: Catherine Louisa Pirkis

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The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective

By: Catherine Louisa Pirkis

Able to assume a multitude of disguises and with analytical powers rivaling those of Sherlock Holmes, Loveday Brooke solves every perplexing crime in these seven atmospheric and entertaining Victorian mysteries.

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486846733

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9780486846736

Reading History in Children's Books

By: Catherine Butler,Hallie O'Donovan

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Reading History in Children's Books

By: Catherine Butler,Hallie O'Donovan

This book offers a critical account of historical books about Britain written for children, including realist novels, non-fiction, fantasy and alternative histories. It also investigates the literary, ideological and philosophical challenges involved in writing about the past, especially for an audience whose knowledge of history is often limited.

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Springer

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1137026030

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Intersex

By: Catherine Harper

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Intersex

By: Catherine Harper

Intersex' is the condition whereby an individual is born with biological features that are simultaneously perceived as male and female. Ranging from the ambiguous genitalia of the true 'hermaphrodite' to the 'mildly or internally intersexed', the condition may be as common as cleft palate. Like cleft palate, it is hidden and surgically altered, but for very different reasons. This important book draws heavily on the personal testimony of intersexed individuals, their loved ones, and medical carers. The impact of early sex-assignment surgery on an individual's later life is examined within the context of ethical and clinical questions. Harper challenges the conventional and radical 'treatment' of intersexuality through non-consensual infant sex-assignment surgery. In doing so she exposes powerful myths, taboos, and constructions of gender - the perfect phallus, a bi-polar model of gender and the infallibility of medical decisions. Handling sensitive material with care, this book deepens our understanding of a condition that has itself only been medically understood in recent years.

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Berg

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1847883397

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9781847883391

International Women in Science

A Biographical Dictionary to 1950

By: Catherine M.C. Haines

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International Women in Science

A Biographical Dictionary to 1950

By: Catherine M.C. Haines

A comprehensive biographical guide to the scientific achievements, personal lives, and struggles of women scientists from around the globe. International Women in Science: A Bibliographical Dictionary to 1950 presents the enormous contributions of women outside North America in fields ranging from aviation to computer science to zoology. It provides fascinating profiles of nearly 400 women scientists, both renowned figures like Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie and women we should know better, like Rosalind Franklin, who, along with James Watson and Francis Crick, uncovered the structure of DNA. Students and researchers will see how the lives of these remarkable women unfolded, and how they made their place in fields often stubbornly guarded by men, overcoming everything from limited education and professional opportunities, to indifference, ridicule, and cultural prejudice, to outright hostility and discrimination. Included are a number of living scientists, many of whom provide insights into their lives and scientific times. Those contributions, plus additional previously unavailable material, make this a volume of unprecedented scope and richness.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576075591

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9781576075593

Posting It

The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing

By: Catherine J Golden

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Posting It

The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing

By: Catherine J Golden

Although "snail mail" may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today. Until Queen Victoria instituted the Postal Reform Act of 1839, mail was a luxury affordable only by the rich. Allowing anyone, from any social class, to send a letter anywhere in the country for only a penny had multiple and profound cultural impacts. Golden demonstrates how cheap postage--which was quickly adopted in other countries--led to a postal "network" that can be viewed as a forerunner of computer-mediated communications. Indeed, the revolution in letter writing of the nineteenth century led to blackmail, frauds, unsolicited mass mailings, and junk mail--problems that remain with us today.

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University Press of Florida

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0813047889

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9780813047881

British Drama, 1533-1642: 1609-1616

By: Martin Wiggins,Catherine Teresa Richardson

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British Drama, 1533-1642: 1609-1616

By: Martin Wiggins,Catherine Teresa Richardson

This is the sixth volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years between the English Reformation to the English Revolution, covering every known play, extant and lost, including some which have never before been identified. It is based on a complete, systematic survey of the whole of this body of work, presented in chronological order. Each entry contains comprehensive information about a single play: its various titles, authorship, and date; a summary of its plot, list of its roles, and details of the human and geographical world in which the fictional action takes place; a list of its sources, narrative and verbal, and a summary of its formal characteristics; details of its staging requirements; and an account of its early stage and textual history.

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Oxford University Press

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0198739117

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Final Analysis

The Untold Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case

By: Catherine Crier

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Final Analysis

The Untold Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case

By: Catherine Crier

In October 2002, Susan Polk, a California housewife and mother of three, was arrested for the brutal murder of her husband, Felix. More than twenty years her senior, Felix was teenage Susan's psychologist when their unorthodox romantic entanglement began, eventually leading to a difficult marriage, disturbing allegations of abuse from both sides, and Felix's gruesome murder. What followed was an extraordinary trial that captivated a nation—as police, attorneys, and the media tried to understand what pushed a seemingly devoted homemaker over the edge.

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Harper

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0061148016

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Missionary Strategies in the New World, 1610-1690

An Intellectual History

By: Catherine Ballériaux

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Missionary Strategies in the New World, 1610-1690

An Intellectual History

By: Catherine Ballériaux

Missionaries who travelled to the New World in the 17th century encountered an array of cults and rituals. Catholics and Calvinists were united in viewing this idolatry as superstitious. Ballériaux presents a study of French, Spanish and English missions to the Americas, based on a comparative analysis of the goals expressed in their writings.

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Routledge

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1317271505

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Working in America

By: Catherine Reef

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Working in America

By: Catherine Reef

Presents an overview of the history of American labor using excerpts from primary source documents, short biographies of influential people, and more.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108141

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British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture

Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses

By: Catherine Butler

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British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture

Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses

By: Catherine Butler

Whether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children's books, visiting Harry Potter sites in Britain or eating at Alice in Wonderland-themed restaurants in Tokyo, the Japanese have a close and multifaceted relationship with British children's literature. In this, the first comprehensive study to explore this engagement, Catherine Butler considers its many manifestations in print, on the screen, in tourist locations and throughout Japanese popular culture. Taking stock of the influence of literary works such as Gulliver's Travels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Tom's Midnight Garden, and the Harry Potter series, this lively account draws on literary criticism, translation, film and tourist studies to explore how British children's books have been selected, translated, understood, adapted and reworked into Japanese commercial, touristic and imaginative culture. Using theoretically informed case studies this book will consider both individual texts and their wider cultural contexts, translations and adaptations (such as the numerous adaptations of British children's books by Studio Ghibli and others), the dissemination of distinctive tropes such as magical schools into Japanese children's literature and popular culture, and the ways in which British children's books and their settings have become part of way that Japanese people understand Britain itself.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350195499

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Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

By: Catherine Delafield

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Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

By: Catherine Delafield

Using private diary writing as her model, Catherine Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-fictional diaries and the practice of diary-writing, she assesses the interaction between the fictional diary and other forms of literary production such as epistolary narrative, the periodical, the factual document and sensation fiction. The discrepancies between the private diary and its use as a narrative device are explored through the writings of Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Brontë, Dinah Craik, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker. The ideological function of the diary, Delafield suggests, produces a conflict in fictional narrative between that diary's received use as a domestic and spiritual record and its authority as a life-writing opportunity for women. Delafield considers women as writers, readers, and subjects and contextualizes her analysis within nineteenth-century reading practice. She demonstrates ways in which women could becomes performers of their own story through a narrative method which was authorized by their femininity and at the same time allowed them to challenge the myth of domestic womanhood.

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Routledge

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1351871331

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Stanley Cavell and Film

Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema

By: Catherine Wheatley

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Stanley Cavell and Film

Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema

By: Catherine Wheatley

“Film is made for philosophy,” asserted Stanley Cavell. In addition to his work on scepticism, morality, and the intentions and meanings of ordinary language, the American philosopher wrote fascinatingly about cinema, arguing that film can reveal new ground for thinking through old philosophical problems. In this book, Catherine Wheatley draws upon Cavell's explicitly film-inspired works, key philosophical concepts and autobiographical writings, examining his analyses of films from Hollywood's Golden Age, the French New Wave, contemporary action cinema, silent film heroes Chaplin and Keaton, directors Cocteau and Hitchcock, and performers Greta Garbo and Ginger Rogers. Revealing the ways in which Cavell's thinking was shaped by the movies, Wheatly poses the question: what was it about film that taught the philosopher how best to live in the world?

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350113239

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Sound Citizens

Australian Women Broadcasters Claim their Voice, 1923–1956

By: Catherine Fisher

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Sound Citizens

Australian Women Broadcasters Claim their Voice, 1923–1956

By: Catherine Fisher

In 1954 Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives, argued that radio had ‘created a bigger revolution in the life of a woman than anything that has happened any time’ as it brought the public sphere into the home and women into the public sphere. Taking this claim as its starting point, Sound Citizens examines how a cohort of professional women broadcasters, activists and politicians used radio to contribute to the public sphere and improve women’s status in Australia from the introduction of radio in 1923 until the introduction of television in 1956. This book reveals a much broader and more complex history of women’s contributions to Australian broadcasting than has been previously acknowledged. Using a rich archive of radio magazines, station archives, scripts, personal papers and surviving recordings, Sound Citizens traces how women broadcasters used radio as a tool for their advocacy; radio’s significance to the history of women’s advancement; and how broadcasting was used in the development of women’s citizenship in Australia. It argues that women broadcasters saw radio as a medium that had the potential to transform women’s lives and status in society, and that they worked to both claim their own voices in the public sphere and to encourage other women to become active citizens. Radio provided a platform for women to contribute to public discourse and normalised the presence of women’s voices in the public sphere, both literally and figuratively.

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ANU Press

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1760464317

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Long Eclipse

The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920-1970

By: Catherine Gidney

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Long Eclipse

The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920-1970

By: Catherine Gidney

Taking a social and cultural history approach, Gidney argues that for much of the twentieth century a liberal Protestant establishment imparted its own particular vision of moral and intellectual purpose to denominational and non-denominational campuses alike. Examining administrators' pronouncements, the moral regulation of campus life, and student religious clubs, she demonstrates that Protestant ideals and values were successfully challenged only in the post-World War II period when a number of factors, including a loosening of social mores, a more religiously diverse student body, and the ascent of the multiversity finally eroded Protestant hegemony. Only in the late 1960s, however, can one begin to speak of a university whose public voice was predominantly secular and where the voice of liberal Protestantism had been reduced to one among many.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773572325

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9780773572324

Milton Among the Puritans

The Case for Historical Revisionism

By: Catherine Gimelli Martin

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Milton Among the Puritans

The Case for Historical Revisionism

By: Catherine Gimelli Martin

A radical reassessment of Milton's religious identity, Milton among the Puritans challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry. Surveying the largely secular provenance of so much of Milton's thought, Catherine Martin clearly demonstrates that received ideas about the Puritan Milton are neither as well-established as most scholars believe, nor as historically defensible as most literary critics still assume.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409408566

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9781409408567

Free to a Good Home

By: Catherine Deveny

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Free to a Good Home

By: Catherine Deveny

Take two reality pills and call me in the morning. Swine Flu. Financial meltdown. It's been a bad year for pigs and pigs in suits. The only thing for it is a good dose of Catherine Deveny, who each week in the Age puts everything into perspective with her trademark iconoclastic wit. Free to a Good Home includes her thoughts on gifted children and breakfast television, sexy billboards and the bill of rights. She reflects on her youngest child's first day at school, and on how to be happy in hard times. Fearlessly funny and always provocative, Deveny is the perfect antidote to the modern world's ills. Can anyone explain why I did this? I went to the chemist and bought this crap I put on my face to make me look younger. I put the jar on the counter. The chemist girl said, 'Is this stuff any good?' I said, 'Yeah.' She said, 'Really?' I said, 'I'm sixty.' Eyes like saucers, mouth agape, she gasped, 'OH MY GOD! Sixty! Toula! Fatima! Kelly! Come and check out this old lady. She's sixty!' So the other chemist girls scurried over and after a bit of oohing and aahing one said, 'Oh my God! Sixty? You look like you're forty-five!' I'm forty. Chemist girls, one. Smart-arse, zero.

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Black Inc.

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192182557X

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9781921825576

Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England

The Framing of the 1842 Copyright Act

By: Catherine Seville

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Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England

The Framing of the 1842 Copyright Act

By: Catherine Seville

This text was the first study of the controversial bills leading to the Copyright Act 1842.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521621755

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Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885

By: Catherine Delafield

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Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885

By: Catherine Delafield

Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Delany, Catherine Winkworth, Jane Austen and George Eliot, situating these women in their epistolary culture and in relation to one another as exemplary women of the period. She traces the role of their editors in the publishing process and considers how a model of representation in letters emerged from the publication of Burney’s Diary and Letters and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Brontë. Delafield contends that new correspondences emerge between editors/biographers and their biographical subjects, and that the original epistolary pact was remade in collaboration with family memorials in private and with reviewers in public. Women’s Letters as Life Writing addresses issues of survival and choice when an archive passes into family hands, tracing the means by which women’s lives came to be written and rewritten in letters in the nineteenth century.

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Routledge

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100002511X

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It's Not My Fault They Print Them

By: Catherine Deveny

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It's Not My Fault They Print Them

By: Catherine Deveny

If I wasn't such a loudmouth, I'd be an enigma. Each week in the pages of the Age, Catherine Deveny tackles the big issues of modern life with hilarity and passion and in her own inimitable style. From 4WD owners to Nick Giannopolous to women who take their husband's name, Deveny isn't backward in coming forward. It's Not My Fault They Print Them collects Deveny's funniest, most biting work, published and unpublishable (till now). Bound to spark heated debate and riotous laughter, it includes her views on elective caesareans, private education, McLeod's Daughters, Sam Newman and much, much more. Prepare to be tickled, cajoled, outraged, baited and amused. ''The most memorable flash of the Beaconsfield mining disaster coverage for me was the moment I saw Eddie McGuire down at the Beaconsfield Pub holding a beer and saying 'mate' a lot. Like many people, my first thought was, 'Haven't these people been through enough?''' - Catherine Deveny.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458798674

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9781458798671

Hollywood 1938

Motion Pictures' Greatest Year

By: Catherine Jurca

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Hollywood 1938

Motion Pictures' Greatest Year

By: Catherine Jurca

“While 1938 may have been a turkey of a year for Hollywood cinema, Catherine Jurca’s book is a genuine feast. Hollywood 1938 is both an intense, up-close study of the big budget films and box office tactics behind the film industry’s annus horribilis, and a savvy meditation on the whole swoop and scope of cinema in Hollywood’s Golden Age. Scrupulously researched and engagingly written, Jurca captures the industry infighting, publicity battles, and audience responses to Hollywood’s ‘greatest year’ with easy erudition and penetrating insight.”—Thomas Doherty, author of Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration. “Catherine Jurca has taken a nearly forgotten event in the history of Hollywood and demonstrated how much it can tell us about the state of the motion picture industry and its frailties, as well as its relationship with its audience, at a critical moment in its development. She deftly challenges claims about the centrality of Hollywood to American culture in the 1930s, questions its relationship with the public, and examines the ways in which the industry’s perceptions of that public shaped how it made and marketed movies. This is both excellent scholarship and marvelous storytelling.”—Richard Maltby, author of Hollywood Cinema.

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Univ of California Press

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0520271807

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Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines

By: Catherine Delafield

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Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines

By: Catherine Delafield

Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield re-reads five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins by situating them in the context of periodical publication. She traces the roles of the author and editor in the creation and dissemination of the texts and considers how first publication affected the consumption and reception of the novel through the periodical medium. Delafield contends that a novel in volume form has been separated from its original context, that is, from the pattern of consumption and reception presented by the serial. The novel's later re-publication still bears the imprint of this serialized original, and this book’s investigation into nineteenth-century periodicals both generates new readings of the texts and reinstates those which have been lost in the reprinting process. Delafield's case studies provide evidence of the ways in which Household Words, Cornhill Magazine, Good Words, All the Year Round and Cassell's Magazine were designed for new audiences of novel readers. Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines addresses the material conditions of production, illustrates the collective and collaborative creation of the serialized novel, and contextualizes a range of texts in the nineteenth-century experience of print.

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Routledge

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1317057015

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9781317057017

Telling It Like It Wasn’t

The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction

By: Catherine Gallagher

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Telling It Like It Wasn’t

The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction

By: Catherine Gallagher

Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy or as pop culture fodder, but in Telling It Like It Wasn’t, Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down as an object of dispassionate study. She doesn’t take a moral or normative stand on the practice, but focuses her attention on how it works and to what ends—a quest that takes readers on a fascinating tour of literary and historical criticism. Gallagher locates the origins of contemporary counterfactual history in eighteenth-century Europe, where the idea of other possible historical worlds first took hold in philosophical disputes about Providence before being repurposed by military theorists as a tool for improving the art of war. In the next century, counterfactualism became a legal device for deciding liability, and lengthy alternate-history fictions appeared, illustrating struggles for historical justice. These early motivations—for philosophical understanding, military improvement, and historical justice—are still evident today in our fondness for counterfactual tales. Alternate histories of the Civil War and WWII abound, but here, Gallagher shows how the counterfactual habit of replaying the recent past often shapes our understanding of the actual events themselves. The counterfactual mode lets us continue to envision our future by reconsidering the range of previous alternatives. Throughout this engaging and eye-opening book, Gallagher encourages readers to ask important questions about our obsession with counterfactual history and the roots of our tendency to ask “What if...?”

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University of Chicago Press

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022651241X

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9780226512419

Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879

By: Catherine Reilly

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Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879

By: Catherine Reilly

These two volumes list late-and mid-Victorian poets, with brief biographical information and bibliographical details of published works. The major strength of the works is the 'discovery' of very many minor poets and their work, unrecorded elsewhere.

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A&C Black

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0720123186

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9780720123180

Champagne and Shambles

The Arkwrights and the Country House in Crisis

By: Catherine Beale

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Champagne and Shambles

The Arkwrights and the Country House in Crisis

By: Catherine Beale

In January 1870, Johnny Arkwright was the largest landowner in Herefordshire. From the processions and balls which celebrated his coming of age, to facing financial ruin at his own sons birthday and the eventual sale of the estate, this book shows, through the example of a prominent family, the downfall of the landed classes.

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The History Press

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0750951400

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9780750951401

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