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Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson

A Biography

By: Elizabeth Maslen

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Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson

A Biography

By: Elizabeth Maslen

Margaret Storm Jameson (1891–1986) is primarily known as a compelling essayist; her stature as a novelist and champion of the dispossessed is largely forgotten. In Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson, Elizabeth Maslen reveals a figure who held her own beside fellow British women writers, including Virginia Woolf; anticipated the Angry Young Women, such as Doris Lessing; and was an early champion of such European writers as Arthur Koestler and Czesław Miłosz. Jameson was a complex character whose politics were grounded in social justice; she was passionately antifascist—her novel In the Second Year (1936) raised the alarm about Nazism—but always wary of communism. An eloquent polemicist, Jameson was, as president of the British P.E.N. during the 1930s and 1940s, of invaluable assistance to refugee writers. Elizabeth Maslen’s biography introduces a true twentieth century hedgehog, whose essays and subtly experimental fiction were admired in Europe and the States.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810167670

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Billie's Kiss

By: Elizabeth Knox

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Billie's Kiss

By: Elizabeth Knox

With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and surprising, earthy, and magical qualities, this irresistible novel is set on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, one half of which looks historically and geographically towards Catholic Ireland, the other toward the Protestant north and Scandinavia. In the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the island, drowning many of the passengers and crew in the icy waters of Stolnsay harbor. Young, strawberry-blonde-haired Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Clumsy, illiterate, and suddenly alone, Billie will not say why, before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore, and so falls under the immediate suspicion of her fellow passenger, Murdo Hesketh, and his cousin and employer, Lord Hallowhulme, who owns the island—and has controversial plans for improving the lives of its inhabitants. Gloriously inventive and vividly atmospheric, Billie’s Kiss conjures up a way of life hurtling toward a brave new world in an enchanting novel that brings together murder and eugenics, progress, prejudice, and the loss of innocence.

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Victoria University Press

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0864737270

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9780864737274

The Emblematics of the Self

Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Ancient Greek Romance

By: Elizabeth B. Bearden

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The Emblematics of the Self

Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Ancient Greek Romance

By: Elizabeth B. Bearden

The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization. The Emblematics of the Self shows how the women, foreigners, and non-Christians of these tales reveal their identities and desires in their responses to the ‘verbal pictures’ of romance. Elizabeth B. Bearden illuminates how ‘verbal pictures’ enliven characterization in English, Spanish, and Neolatin romances from 1552 to 1621. She notes the capacity for change among characters — such as cross-dressed Amazons, shepherdish princesses, and white Mauritanians — who traverse transnational cultural and aesthetic environments. Engaging and rigorous, The Emblematics of the Self breaks new ground in understanding hegemonic and cosmopolitan European conceptions of the ‘other,’ as well as new possibilities for early modern identities, in an increasingly global Renaissance.

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University of Toronto Press

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144269615X

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9781442696150

Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology

'Were all Men Wise and Innocent...'

By: Elizabeth S. Dodd

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Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology

'Were all Men Wise and Innocent...'

By: Elizabeth S. Dodd

The seventeenth-century poet and divine Thomas Traherne finds innocence in every stage of existence. He finds it in the chaos at the origins of creation as well as in the blessed order of Eden. He finds it in the activities of grace and the hope of glory, but also in the trials of misery and even in the abyss of the Fall. Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne’s Poetic Theology traces innocence through Traherne’s works as it transgresses the boundaries of the estates of the soul. Using grammatical and literary categories it explores various aspects of his poetic theology of innocence, uncovering the boundless desire which is embodied in the yearning cry: ’Were all Men Wise and Innocent...’ Recovering and reinterpreting a key but increasingly neglected theme in Traherne’s poetic theology, this book addresses fundamental misconceptions of the meaning of innocence in his work. Through a contextual and theological approach, it indicates the unexplored richness, complexity and diversity of this theme in the history of literature and theology.

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Routledge

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1317172930

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9781317172932

Maternal Modernism

Narrating New Mothers

By: Elizabeth Podnieks

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Maternal Modernism

Narrating New Mothers

By: Elizabeth Podnieks

Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity. Tracing the period from the end of the nineteenth century through the twentieth, this study explores how some of the numerous elements and forces we identify with modernism are manifested in equally diverse and often competing representations of mothers, mothering and motherhood. It investigates how historical personages and fictional protagonists used and were constructed within textual spaces where they engaged critically with the maternal as institution, identity and practice, from perspectives informed by gender, sexuality, nationhood, race and class. The matrifocal literatures examined in this book exemplify how feminist motherhoods feature as a prominent thematic of the long modernist era and how rebellious New Woman mothers provocatively wrote maternity into text and history.

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Springer Nature

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3031089111

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9783031089114

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

By: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

By: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521299551

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9780521299558

Imagining Early Modern Histories

By: Elizabeth Ketner,Allison Kavey

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Imagining Early Modern Histories

By: Elizabeth Ketner,Allison Kavey

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of different approaches to understand the relationship between history, fiction, and broader themes in early modern culture. They analyze the ways fiction writers use historical sources, fictional texts translate ideas about the past into a vernacular accessible to broad audiences, fictional depictions and interpretations shape historical action, and the ways in which nonfictional texts and accounts were given fictional histories of their own, intentionally or not, through transmission and interpretation. By combining the already contested idea of fiction with performance, action, and ideas/ideology, this collection provides a more thorough consideration of fictional histories in the early modern period. It also covers more than two centuries of primary material, providing a longer perspective on the changing and complex role of history in forming early modern national, gendered, and cultural identities.

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Routledge

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1134803907

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9781134803903

Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England

By: Elizabeth L. Swann

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Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England

By: Elizabeth L. Swann

Elizabeth Swann investigates the relationship between the physical sense of taste and taste as a figurative term associated with knowledge and judgment in early modern literature and culture. She argues that - unlike aesthetic taste in the eighteenth century - discriminative taste was entwined with embodied experience in this period. Although taste was tarnished by its associations with Adam and Eve's fall from Eden, it also functioned positively, as a source of useful, and potentially redemptive, literary, spiritual, experimental, and intersubjective knowledge. Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England juxtaposes canonical literary works by authors such as Shakespeare with a broad range of medical, polemical, theological, philosophical, didactic, and dietetic sources. In doing so, the book reveals the central importance of taste to the experience and articulation of key developments in the literate, religious, and social cultures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108802281

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9781108802284

Encyclopedia of World Scientists

By: Elizabeth H. Oakes

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Encyclopedia of World Scientists

By: Elizabeth H. Oakes

Contains short biographies of almost 1,000 scientists from around the world who made great contributions to science throughout history.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438118821

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9781438118826

Doris Lessing

By: Elizabeth Maslen

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Doris Lessing

By: Elizabeth Maslen

This study covers the full range of Doris Lessing's work and explores in detail both its form and content. From 'The Grass is Singing' through to 'Alfred and Emily' her main concerns are shown to have a remarkable continuity, both in her commitment to political and cultural issues and in her explorations of inner space.

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Liverpool University Press

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0746312245

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9780746312247

AgeLess

Take Control of Your Age and Stay Youthful for Life

By: Edward L. Schneider, M.D.,Elizabeth Miles

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Take Control of Your Age and Stay Youthful for Life

By: Edward L. Schneider, M.D.,Elizabeth Miles

Are you aging too fast? Edward Schneider, M.D., Dean of the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and one of the field's leading gerontologists, refutes the myth that age equals loss-- of our health and our physical and mental vigor. You can't live forever. (If people tell you otherwise, says Dr. Schneider, don't believe them!) But you can control your aging to significantly reduce your risk of disability and illness and to feel vital and productive throughout your lifespan. By adopting the simple lifestyle measures outlined here, every one of us can live longer by living well. In AgeLess, Dr. Schneider has taken the latest and best research findings in each of the key areas known to affect your healthspan-- nutrition, exercise, weight, sleep, social engagement, and hormones-- and developed his easy-to-follow, science-based New Rules of Aging Less. Some of these New Rules may surprise you. Worried about your weight? Read the science behind New Weight Rule #1-- those few extra pounds may save your life. Or save money with this New Nutrition Rule: Toss out your multivitamins and most of your other supplements-- they may be doing you more harm than good. Do you think a good night's sleep is a relic of lost youth? Read the Dean's AgeLess tips for getting your nightly seven to nine hours-- it's essential to your healthspan. And if you're determined to look as young as you feel, Dr. Schneider also rates cosmetic interventions-- alpha hydroxy acid skin creams, laser peels, Botox injections, and more-- to reveal which ones really work and those that don't. To get started, take Dr. Schneider's Longevity Quotient Quizzes. These comprehensive questionnaires will help you rate your current lifestyle habits-- you'll learn the areas in which you're doing okay and where you need to improve. An AgeLess future is within reach-- start living yours today!

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Rodale Books

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1579546218

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9781579546212

Doris Lessing

By: Elizabeth Maslen

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By: Elizabeth Maslen

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Liverpool University Press

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Political and Social Issues in British Women’s Fiction, 1928–1968

By: E. Maslen

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Political and Social Issues in British Women’s Fiction, 1928–1968

By: E. Maslen

In Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 , Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new-wave feminism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels, Maslen analyses how writers chose to represent such issues as pacifism and the threat of fascism, war, race and class, and gender, exploring in the process how the writers' priorities affect their decisions on how to write.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0333729536

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9780333729533

Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson

A Biography

By: Elizabeth Maslen

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Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson

A Biography

By: Elizabeth Maslen

Elizabeth Maslen's excellent biography offers a fresh look at the intersection of Jameson's life and work and the way these intersected with figures from Rebecca West to Arthur Koeslter to Czeslaw Milosz.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810129795

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9780810129795

Book's by Elizabeth Maslen

Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson

Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson

Billie's Kiss

Billie's Kiss

The Emblematics of the Self

The Emblematics of the Self

Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology

Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology

Maternal Modernism

Maternal Modernism

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

Imagining Early Modern Histories

Imagining Early Modern Histories

Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England

Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England

Encyclopedia of World Scientists

Encyclopedia of World Scientists

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

AgeLess

AgeLess

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

Political and Social Issues in British Women’s Fiction, 1928–1968

Political and Social Issues in British Women’s Fiction, 1928–1968

Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson

Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson

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