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Virginia Woolf’s Good Housekeeping Essays

By: Christine Reynier

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Virginia Woolf’s Good Housekeeping Essays

By: Christine Reynier

In the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published ‘Six Articles on London Life’ in Good Housekeeping magazine, a popular magazine where fashion, cookery and house decoration is largely featured. This first book-length study of what Woolf calls ‘little articles’ proposes to reassess the commissioned essays and read them in a chronological sequence in their original context as well as in the larger context of Woolf’s work. Drawing primarily on literary theory, intermedial studies, periodical studies and philosophy, this volume argues the essays which provided an original guided tour of London are creative and innovative works, combining several art forms while developing a photographic method. Further investigation examines the construct of Woolf’s essays as intermedial and as partaking both of theory and praxis; intermediality is closely connected here with her defense of a democratic ideal, itself grounded in a dialogue with her forebears. Far from being second-rate, the Good Housekeeping essays bring together aesthetic and political concerns and come out as playing a pivotal role: they redefine the essay as intermedial, signal Woolf’s turn to a more openly committed form of writing, and fit perfectly within Woolf’s essayistic and fictional oeuvre which they in turn illuminate.

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0429841183

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Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-garde

War, Civilization, Modernity

By: Christine Froula

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Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-garde

War, Civilization, Modernity

By: Christine Froula

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that Europe "might really be on the brink of becoming civilized," as Leonard Woolf put it. For pacifist Bloomsbury, heir to Europe's unfinished Enlightenment project of human rights, democratic self-governance, and world peace—and, in E. M. Forster's words, "the only genuine movement in English civilization"— the 1914 "civil war" exposed barbarities within Europe: belligerent nationalisms, rapacious racialized economic imperialism, oppressive class and sex/gender systems, a tragic and unnecessary war that mobilized sixty-five million and left thirty-seven million casualties. An avant-garde in the twentieth-century struggle against the violence within European civilization, Bloomsbury and Woolf contributed richly to interwar debates on Europe's future at a moment when democracy's triumph over fascism and communism was by no means assured. Woolf honed her public voice in dialogue with contemporaries in and beyond Bloomsbury— John Maynard Keynes and Roger Fry to Sigmund Freud (published by the Woolfs'Hogarth Press), Bertrand Russell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, and many others—and her works embody and illuminate the convergence of aesthetics and politics in post-Enlightenment thought. An ambitious history of her writings in relation to important currents in British intellectual life in the first half of the twentieth century, this book explores Virginia Woolf's narrative journey from her first novel, The Voyage Out, through her last, Between the Acts.

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Columbia University Press

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0231508786

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9780231508780

Glamour in Six Dimensions

Modernism and the Radiance of Form

By: Judith Christine Brown

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Glamour in Six Dimensions

Modernism and the Radiance of Form

By: Judith Christine Brown

Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions, Judith Brown looks at the historical and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism. In the clean lines of modernism she finds the ideal conditions for glamour-blankness, polish, impenetrability, and the suspicion of emptiness behind it all. Brown focuses on several cultural products that she argues helped to shape glamour's meanings: the most significant perfume of the twentieth century, Chanel No. 5; the idea of the Jazz Age and its ubiquitous cigarette; the celebrity photograph; the staging of primitivism; and the invention of a shimmering plastic called cellophane. Alongside these artifacts, she takes up the development, refinement, and analysis of glamour in Anglo-American poetry, film, fiction, and drama of the period. Glamour in Six Dimensions thus asks its reader to see the proximity between the vernacular and elite cultures of modernism, and particularly how glamour was animated by artists working at the crossroads of the mundane and the extraordinary: Wallace Stevens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Josephine Baker, D. H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and others.

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Cornell University Press

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0801447798

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9780801447792

Encyclopedia of British Writers

19th and 20th Centuries

By: Christine L. Krueger

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Encyclopedia of British Writers

19th and 20th Centuries

By: Christine L. Krueger

This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108702

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9781438108704

Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction

Literacy, Textiles, and Activism

By: Christine Bayles Kortsch

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Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction

Literacy, Textiles, and Activism

By: Christine Bayles Kortsch

In her immensely readable and richly documented book, Christine Bayles Kortsch asks us to shift our understanding of late Victorian literary culture by examining its inextricable relationship with the material culture of dress and sewing. Even as the Education Acts of 1870, 1880, and 1891 extended the privilege of print literacy to greater numbers of the populace, stitching samplers continued to be a way of acculturating girls in both print literacy and what Kortsch terms "dress culture." Kortsch explores nineteenth-century women's education, sewing and needlework, mainstream fashion, alternative dress movements, working-class labor in the textile industry, and forms of social activism, showing how dual literacy in dress and print cultures linked women writers with their readers. Focusing on Victorian novels written between 1870 and 1900, Kortsch examines fiction by writers such as Olive Schreiner, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Margaret Oliphant, Sarah Grand, and Gertrude Dix, with attention to influential predecessors like Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. Periodicals, with their juxtaposition of journalism, fiction, and articles on dress and sewing are particularly fertile sites for exploring the close linkages between print and dress cultures. Informed by her examinations of costume collections in British and American museums, Kortsch's book broadens our view of New Woman fiction and its relationship both to dress culture and to contemporary women's fiction.

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Routledge

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1317148002

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The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-century Literature

Englishness and Nostalgia

By: Christine Berberich

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The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-century Literature

Englishness and Nostalgia

By: Christine Berberich

Christine Berberich shows that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Paying particular attention to the relationship of nostalgia to 'Englishness', Berberich demonstrates that twentieth-century depictions of the gentleman have much to tell us about rapidly changing conceptions of national, class, and gender identity.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754661261

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9780754661269

The Reader's Repentance

Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Social Discourse

By: Christine L. Krueger

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The Reader's Repentance

Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Social Discourse

By: Christine L. Krueger

A woman preaching is like a dog walking on its hind legs," Dr. Johnson pronounced. "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." The prejudice embodied in this remark has persisted over time, impeding any proper assessment of the female preaching tradition and its role in shaping social and literary discourse. The Reader's Repentance recovers this tradition, and in doing so revises the history of nineteenth-century women's writing. Christine L. Krueger persuasively argues that Evangelical Christianity, by assuming the spiritual equality of women and men and the moral superiority of middle-class women, opened a space for the linguistic empowerment of women and fostered the emergence of women orators and writers who, in complex and contradictory ways, became powerful public figures. In the light of unpublished or long out-of-print writing by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women preachers, Krueger shows how these women drew on religious language to critique forms of male domination, promote female political power, establish communities of women, and, most significantly, feminize social discourse. She traces the legacy of these preachers through the work of writers as diverse as Hannah More, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot—women who, despite political differences, shared an evangelical strategy for placing women's concerns on the social agenda of their time. Documenting and analyzing the tradition of women's preaching as a powerful and distinctly feminist force in the development of nineteenth-century social fiction, The Reader's Repentance reconstitutes a significant chapter in the history of women and culture. This original work will be of interest to students of women's history, literature, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century society.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226454886

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9780226454887

Sentencing and Punishment

The Quest for Justice

By: Susan Easton,Susan M. Easton,Christine Piper

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Sentencing and Punishment

The Quest for Justice

By: Susan Easton,Susan M. Easton,Christine Piper

Balanced coverage, supportive learning features, and a chance to dive into all the key theories and debates: the essential guide for sentencing and punishment students. Examining the theory behind the headlines and engaging with all the current debates. Sentencing and Punishment provides thoughtful, reliable, and unbiased coverage of sentencing and punishment in the UK to make the perfect companion for your course. Thorough and systematic approach, Topics examined from legal, philosophical, and practical perspectives, In-depth and detailed coverage, covering both sentencing and punishment, to match to UK courses, Discussion questions, case studies, and sentencing exercises in each chapter so you can apply your knowledge, Fully reworked, restructured, and updated incorporating changes following the 2015 general election Book jacket.

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Oxford University Press

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019874482X

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Now a Major Motion Picture

Film Adaptations of Literature and Drama

By: Christine Geraghty

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Now a Major Motion Picture

Film Adaptations of Literature and Drama

By: Christine Geraghty

Going beyond the process of adaptation, Geraghty is more interested in the films themselves and how they draw on our sense of recall. While a film reflects its literary source, it also invites comparisons to our memories and associations with other versions of the original. For example, a viewer may watch the 2005 big-screen production of Pride and Prejudice and remember Austen's novel as well as the BBC's 1995 television movie. Adaptations also rely on the conventions of genre, editing, acting, and sound to engage our recall--elements that many movie critics tend to forget when focusing solely on faithfulness to the written word.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742538214

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Canon Fanfiction

Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature

By: Christine Schott

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Canon Fanfiction

Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature

By: Christine Schott

Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studies. The limitation of these two fields is that adaptation studies focuses narrowly on retelling, usually in the form of film adaptations, but is not as well equipped to treat other uses of source material like prequels, sequels, and spinoffs. On the other hand, fanfiction studies has the broad reach adaptation studies lacks but is generally interested in "underground" production rather than material that goes through the official publication process and thus enters the literary canon. This book sits in the gap between these fields, discussing published novels and their contribution to the scholarly engagement with their pre- and early modern source material as well as applying that creative framework to the teaching of literature in the college classroom.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1501515985

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9781501515989

Pick Me! Pick Me!

By: Christine Woolf

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Pick Me! Pick Me!

By: Christine Woolf

Tucked deep within the heart of everyone is a greatness that is locked away. This greatness commands praise to God as its final result. You have known it your entire life; you just didnt know all the details. There is an indescribable unction that wont go away. It is a calling of God. Pick Me! Pick Me! will help unlock that calling regardless of any years of neglect, abuse, or confusion. Perhaps along lifes journey your heart has been wounded, which only lead to more rubble on top of your calling. Today, God is calling you to believe Him and His words, that you were created to do great works, that people would see them and want to praise Him because of them. Let Him remove the rubble and finish the work He started before you were ever born. The Holy Spirits anointing, your cooperation, and Pick Me! Pick Me! will combine to direct you in finding life abundant and full. We were created to bring God glory; lets start digging! You are picked!

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WestBow Press

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1490848290

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9781490848297

Magill's Cinema Annual

By: Christine Tomassini

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Magill's Cinema Annual

By: Christine Tomassini

Magill's Cinema Annual provides comprehensive information on the theatrical releases of each year. Featured are extensive essays, cast and character listings, production credits, running time, country of origin, MPAA rating, nine comprehensive indexes and more.

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Saint James Press

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1558624597

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All Souls

By: Christine Schutt

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All Souls

By: Christine Schutt

In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astra's friends try to reconcile the sick girl's suffering with their own fierce longings and impetuous attachments. Car writes unsparing letters, which the dirty Marlene, in her devotion, then steals. Other classmates carry on: The silly team of Suki and Alex pursue Will Bliss while the subversive Lisa Van de Ven makes dates with Miss Wilkes. The world of private schools and privilege in New York City is funny, poignant, cruel, and at its heart is a sick girl, Astra Dell, "that pale girl from the senior class, the dancer with all the hair, the red hair, knotted or braided or let to fall to her waist, a fever and she consumed." National Book Award Finalist Christine Schutt has created a wickedly original tale of innocence, daring and illness.

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HarperCollins

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0156034522

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Virginia Woolf’s Good Housekeeping Essays

Virginia Woolf’s Good Housekeeping Essays

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-garde

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-garde

Glamour in Six Dimensions

Glamour in Six Dimensions

Encyclopedia of British Writers

Encyclopedia of British Writers

Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction

Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction

The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-century Literature

The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-century Literature

The Reader's Repentance

The Reader's Repentance

Sentencing and Punishment

Sentencing and Punishment

Now a Major Motion Picture

Now a Major Motion Picture

Canon Fanfiction

Canon Fanfiction

Pick Me! Pick Me!

Pick Me! Pick Me!

Magill's Cinema Annual

Magill's Cinema Annual

All Souls

All Souls

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