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The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists

By: Lisa Pace Vetter

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The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists

By: Lisa Pace Vetter

This book traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth in shaping American political thinking. They understood the relationship between sexism, racism and economic inequality. Their efforts to expand the reach of America's founding ideals laid the groundwork not only for women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery, but for the broader expansion of civil, political, and human rights that would characterize much of the twentieth century and continues to unfold today.

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NYU Press

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1479893250

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9781479893256

Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors

By: Lisa Appignanesi

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Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors

By: Lisa Appignanesi

“[A work of] wit, wisdom and richness. . . . A grand tour of derangement, from matricide to anorexia.” —John Leonard, Harper’s This fascinating history of mind doctors and their patients probes the ways in which madness, badness, and sadness have been understood over the last two centuries. Lisa Appignanesi charts a story from the days when the mad were considered possessed to our own century when the official psychiatric manual lists some 350 mental disorders. Women play a key role here, both as patients—among them Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Marilyn Monroe—and as therapists. Controversially, Appignanesi argues that women have significantly changed the nature of mind-doctoring, but in the process they have also inadvertently highlighted new patterns of illness.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039306994X

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9780393069945

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 4

By: Alysa Levene,Steven King,Alannah Tomkins,Thomas Nutt,Peter King,Deborah A Symonds,Lisa Zunshine

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Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 4

By: Alysa Levene,Steven King,Alannah Tomkins,Thomas Nutt,Peter King,Deborah A Symonds,Lisa Zunshine

Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040249396

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9781040249390

Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists

Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip

By: Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

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Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists

Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip

By: Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back accompanied only by their guide and chauffeur, a gregarious Russian Jewish immigrant and his American-born, Russian-speaking wife. They immortalized their journey in a popular travelogue that condemned American inequality and racism even as it marvelled at American modernity and efficiency. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs the epic journey of the two Soviet funnymen and their encounters with a vast cast of characters, ranging from famous authors, artists, poets and filmmakers to unemployed hitchhikers and revolutionaries. Using the authors' notes, US and Russian archives, and even FBI files, she reveals the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations as Ilf, Petrov and the immigrants, communists, and fellow travelers who served as their hosts, guides, and translators became creative actors in cultural exchange between the two countries.

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355

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Cambridge University Press

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1009006231

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9781009006231

The Plot Thickens

Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

By: Mary Elizabeth Leighton,Lisa Surridge

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The Plot Thickens

Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

By: Mary Elizabeth Leighton,Lisa Surridge

In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making. These illustrated serial novels offered Victorians a reading experience that was both verbal and visual, based on complex effects of flash-forward and flashback as the placement of illustrations revealed or recalled significant story elements. Victorians’ experience of what are now canonical novels thus differed markedly from that of modern readers, who are accustomed to reading single volumes with minimal illustration. Even if modern editions do reproduce illustrations, these do not appear as originally laid out. Modern readers therefore lose a crucial aspect of how Victorians understood plot—as a story delivered in both words and images, over time, and with illustrations playing a key role. In The Plot Thickens, Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge uncover this overlooked narrative role of illustrations within Victorian serial fiction. They reveal the intricacy and richness of the form and push us to reconsider our notions of illustration, visual culture, narration, and reading practices in nineteenth-century Britain.

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Ohio University Press

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0821446495

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9780821446492

Birthing the Nation

Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons

By: Lisa Forman Cody

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Birthing the Nation

Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons

By: Lisa Forman Cody

Birthing the Nation analyses two intertwined narratives that shaped eighteenth-century British life: the development of the modern British state, and the emergence of the man-midwife as the pre-eminent authority over sex and childbirth. By exploring peculiar episodes in the history of the reproductive body and the body politic, from stories of pregnant men to rumours that a midwife had foisted a 'suppositious' child on the nation as the Prince of Wales, this original andprovocative work proposes how national, religious, ethnic, and gendered identities were experienced through and symbolized by birth and midwifery.

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376

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199268649

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9780199268641

The Interactional Instinct

The Evolution and Acquisition of Language

By: Namhee Lee,Lisa Mikesell,Anna Dina L. Joaquin,Andrea W. Mates,John H. Schumann

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The Interactional Instinct

The Evolution and Acquisition of Language

By: Namhee Lee,Lisa Mikesell,Anna Dina L. Joaquin,Andrea W. Mates,John H. Schumann

The Interactional Instinct explores the evolution of language from the theoretical view that language could have emerged without a biologically instantiated Universal Grammar. In the first part of the book, the authors speculate that a hominid group with a lexicon of about 600 words could combine these items to make larger meanings. Combinations that are successfully produced, comprehended, and learned become part of the language. Any combination that is incompatible with human mental capacities is abandoned. The authors argue for the emergence of language structure through interaction constrained by human psychology and physiology. In the second part of the book, the authors argue that language acquisition is based on an "interactional instinct" that emotionally entrains the infant on caregivers. This relationship provides children with a motivational and attentional mechanism that ensures their acquisition of language. In adult second language acquisition, the interactional instinct is no longer operating, but in some individuals with sufficient aptitude and motivation, successful second-language acquisition can be achieved. The Interactional Instinct presents a theory of language based on linguistic, evolutionary, and biological evidence indicating that language is a culturally inherited artifact that requires no a priori hard wiring of linguistic knowledge.

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Oxford University Press

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0199724962

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9780199724963

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 5

By: Alysa Levene,Steven King,Alannah Tomkins,Thomas Nutt,Peter King,Deborah A Symonds,Lisa Zunshine

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Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 5

By: Alysa Levene,Steven King,Alannah Tomkins,Thomas Nutt,Peter King,Deborah A Symonds,Lisa Zunshine

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Taylor & Francis

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1040244106

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9781040244104

Toward Logical Form

An Exploration of the Role of Syntax in Semantics

By: Lisa A. Reed

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Toward Logical Form

An Exploration of the Role of Syntax in Semantics

By: Lisa A. Reed

First Published in 1997. This book is devoted to an in-depth investigation of some of the properties of Logical Form (LF). The syntactic analyses argued for in this book are couched in terms of Chomsky’s Principles and Parameters approach prior to its most recent version known as “Minimalism” (Chomsky, 1995). However, the model of the syntax-semantics interface advocated in this book remains intact under minimalist assumptions, as the aspects of the syntactic representation known as LF investigated here have remained unaltered in the most recent version of generative syntax.

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339

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Routledge

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1135636869

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9781135636869

Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction

DCI Shakespeare

By: Lisa Hopkins

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Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction

DCI Shakespeare

By: Lisa Hopkins

This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid. It also looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series, most notably Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and considers the special sub-genre of detective stories in which a lost Shakespeare play is found. It shows how Shakespeare facilitates discussions about what constitutes justice, what authorises the detective to track down the villain, who owns the countryside, national and social identities, and the question of how we measure cultural value.

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Springer

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1137538759

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9781137538758

All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

By: Lisa Appignanesi

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All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

By: Lisa Appignanesi

An intimate and illuminating look at how love shapes our culture and our lives. Unruly, unpredictable—love is a maddening deity. In this insightful and eloquent meditation on that many-splendored thing, Lisa Appignanesi draws together psychology, literature, popular culture, and her own experiences in order to tangle with love's paradoxes across the span of our lives. Beginning with the rose-tinted raptures of first love, she proceeds to love in marriage, triangulated love, jealousy and adultery, love in the family, and friendship. By illuminating the expectations, the joys and difficulties, and the cultural undercurrents that accompany each stage, Appignanesi raises provocative questions about love in the twenty-first century: Has the unbinding of obstacles to love emptied it of meaning? Do our desires for variety and experimentation result in increased anxiety? What gains and losses have come from greater openness and equality and the burgeoning sphere of virtual fantasy? As rewarding as it is captivating, All about Love will leave you a little wiser about the emotion that rules our lives.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393081931

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9780393081930

The Real George Eliott

By: Lisa Tippings

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The Real George Eliott

By: Lisa Tippings

The Real George Eliot revisits the life of the groundbreaking nineteenth century novelist. Eliot was a writer who explored such important questions as the role of women in society and the education they were allowed to access, religion and the restrictions it could sometimes place on individuals, and the struggle between a person’s public and private persona. Her own private life was the cause of much speculation and notoriety. Eliot chose to ignore most of the conventions of Victorian society in order to pursue her own happiness, and her relationship with George Henry Lewes scandalized many members of ‘polite’ society. Regardless of this, however, she overcame such prejudice and in later life enjoyed the company of some of the greatest thinkers and academics of the time, and this is a testament to her formidable intelligence. The fact that she is still so widely read today, is a sign of the longevity of her skills as a writer.

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270

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Pen and Sword History

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152675455X

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9781526754554

The Spectacle of Women

Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-14

By: Lisa Tickner

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The Spectacle of Women

Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-14

By: Lisa Tickner

Too "artistic" for political history, too political for the history of art, the visual history of the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain has long been neglected. In this comprehensive and pathbreaking study, Lisa Tickner discusses and illustrates the suffragist use of spectacle—the design of banners, posters and postcards, the orchestration of mass demonstrations—in an unprecedented propaganda campaign.

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380

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University of Chicago Press

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0226802450

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9780226802459

The Scientific Revolution

By: Harry Henderson,Lisa Yount

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The Scientific Revolution

By: Harry Henderson,Lisa Yount

Describes scientific discoveries that took place between 1550 and 1900, examines the development of the scientific method, and discusses the impact of science on people's views of their world.

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114

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Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

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1560062835

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9781560062837

Frommer's New England, 1994

By: Lisa Legarde,Tom Brosnahan,Dale Northrup

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Frommer's New England, 1994

By: Lisa Legarde,Tom Brosnahan,Dale Northrup

Whether they're looking for a romantic hideaway on Cape Cod, a charming country inn in Vermont, a top-rated seafood restaurant in Maine, or a guide to Boston's historic and cultural attractions, travelers turn to Frommer's to discover the best of New England. Maps.

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520

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Prentice Hall

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0671866559

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9780671866556

All the Old Familiar Places

By: Lisa Martineau

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All the Old Familiar Places

By: Lisa Martineau

A working-class neighbourhood in war-torn London; the older generation haunted by 'our war back when we was young'; the damage wrought by a woman's lie; a girl with 'ideas above her station'; the enigmatic American whom she loves 'more than life itself'; his London, 'the most luxurious siege in history': two worlds, two wars; the truth too far out to reach...

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CreateSpace

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1453748679

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9781453748671

Book's by Lisa Martineau

The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists

The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists

Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors

Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 4

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 4

Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists

Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists

The Plot Thickens

The Plot Thickens

Birthing the Nation

Birthing the Nation

The Interactional Instinct

The Interactional Instinct

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 5

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 5

Toward Logical Form

Toward Logical Form

Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction

Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction

All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

The Real George Eliott

The Real George Eliott

The Spectacle of Women

The Spectacle of Women

The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution

Frommer's New England, 1994

Frommer's New England, 1994

All the Old Familiar Places

All the Old Familiar Places

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