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Prisoner of History

Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition

By: Madeleine Mary Henry

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Prisoner of History

Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition

By: Madeleine Mary Henry

Aspasia of Miletus, next to Sappho and Cleopatra, is one of the best known women of the classical world. This study traces the construction of Aspasia's biographical tradition and shows how it has prevented her from taking her rightful place as a contribut

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0195087127

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Prisoner of History

Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition

By: Madeleine Mary Henry

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Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition

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Grosse Pointe, 1880-1930

By: Madeleine Socia,Suzy Berschback

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Grosse Pointe, 1880-1930

By: Madeleine Socia,Suzy Berschback

If Detroit was characterized as "The Paris of the Midwest" at the turn of the 20th century, then Grosse Pointe was the Riviera. There wealthy summer colonists, influential transplants from the bustle of the metropolis, founded private clubs where they could pursue polite pleasures and high society soirees away from the honky-tonk atmosphere of the area roadhouses which shared the shoreline of Lake St. Clair. Architecturally significant mansions on rambling estates soon replaced quaint French farm houses a nd gingerbread "cottages." As the good times rolled, no one was willing to let a little thing like Prohibition spoil the fun! The fact that the residents' elegant yachts and iceboats had to share the waters with rumrunners and federal agents only added to the excitement of an area fast becoming one of America's premier suburban enclaves. This new publication successfully captures the magical spirit of the Pointes. With photographs from personal and public collections, the authors have painted a wonderful picture of what it was like to live in Grosse Pointe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738508403

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9780738508405

Louisa May Alcott

A Biography

By: Madeleine B. Stern

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Louisa May Alcott

A Biography

By: Madeleine B. Stern

Chronicles the life and literary success of the author of the enduring classic, "Little Women.

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UPNE

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1555534171

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A History of Christianity in Wales

By: David Ceri Jones,Barry Lewis,Madeleine Gray,D. Densil Morgan

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A History of Christianity in Wales

By: David Ceri Jones,Barry Lewis,Madeleine Gray,D. Densil Morgan

Christianity, in its Catholic, Protestant and Nonconformist forms, has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the defining and shaping of Welsh identity over the past two thousand years. Biblical place names, an urban and rural landscape littered with churches, chapels, crosses and sacred sites, a bardic and literary tradition deeply imbued with Christian themes in both the Welsh and English languages, and the songs sung by tens of thousands of rugby supporters at the national stadium in Cardiff, all hint at a Christian presence that was once universal. Yet for many in contemporary Wales, the story of the development of Christianity in their country remains little known. While the history of Christianity in Wales has been a subject of perennial interest for Welsh historians, much of their work has been highly specialised and not always accessible to a general audience. Standing on the shoulders of some of Wales’s finest historians, this is the first single-volume history of Welsh Christianity from its origins in Roman Britain to the present day. Drawing on the expertise of four leading historians of the Welsh Christian tradition, this volume is specifically designed for the general reader, and those beginning their exploration of Wales’s Christian past.

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396

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University of Wales Press

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1786838222

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9781786838223

Princesse De Cleves: The Princesse De Montpensier; The Comtesse De Tende

The Princesse De Montpensier ; The Comtesse De Tende

By: Madame de La Fayette (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne)

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Princesse De Cleves: The Princesse De Montpensier; The Comtesse De Tende

The Princesse De Montpensier ; The Comtesse De Tende

By: Madame de La Fayette (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne)

This new translation of The Princesse de Cleves also includes two shorter works also attributed to Mme de Lafayette, The Princesse de Montpensier and The Comtesse de Tende.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0192837265

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9780192837264

Henry Irving and The Victorian Theatre

By: Madeleine Bingham

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Henry Irving and The Victorian Theatre

By: Madeleine Bingham

Originally published in 1978. Henry Irving achieved an astounding success in Britain and America as an actor; yet he lacked good looks, had spindly legs, and did not have a good voice. He said so himself. Today Irving is regarded as the archetype of the old-time actor, but in his own time he was regarded as a great theatrical innovator. Even Bernard Shaw, who attacked him pitilessly, even unto death, called him ‘modern’ when he first saw him act. Irving, the man, with his tenacious, obsessive talent, his human limitations and weaknesses, and his ephemeral glory is brought most sympathetically to life in this biography. It is written from contemporary sources, and from criticisms, lampoons, caricatures and gossip columns. If Irving reflected certain aspects of his age, this book underlines the Victorian ethic to which he appealed and the backcloths against which it was set – the extraordinary lavishness of the Lyceum productions and the incredible extravagance of social entertaining. Not the least absorbing aspect of this biography is the fascinating account of the long partnership between Irving and Ellen Terry, still in many respects an enigmatic one, but here portrayed with lively insight into character combined with understanding and deep knowledge of the social and theatrical context of the Victorian age.

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321

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Routledge

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1317386124

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The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1526-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538

Volume 2

By: Madeleine Hope Dods,Ruth Dodds

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The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1526-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538

Volume 2

By: Madeleine Hope Dods,Ruth Dodds

Originally published in 1915, The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 examines this period of British Tudor history in great detail, including chapters on the council of the North, the White Rose Party, and the Exeter Conspiracy. This is the second of two volumes written by these authors on this period in history.

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394

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Routledge

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0429590385

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9780429590382

The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Madeleine Callaghan

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The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Madeleine Callaghan

The book is an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays on one of the greatest of all English poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It covers a wide range of topics, exploring Shelley's life and work from various angles.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199558361

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9780199558360

Selected Poems and Translations

A Bilingual Edition

By: Madeleine de l'Aubespine

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Selected Poems and Translations

A Bilingual Edition

By: Madeleine de l'Aubespine

Madeleine de l’Aubespine (1546–1596), the toast of courtly and literary circles in sixteenth-century Paris, penned beautiful love poems to famous women of her day. The well-connected daughter and wife of prominent French secretaries of state, l’Aubespine was celebrated by her male peers for her erotic lyricism and scathingly original voice. Rather than adopt the conventional self-effacement that defined female poets of the time, l’Aubespine’s speakers are sexual, dominant, and defiant; and her subjects are women who are able to manipulate, rebuke, and even humiliate men. Unavailable in English until now and only recently identified from scattered and sometimes misattributed sources, l’Aubespine’s poems and literary works are presented here in Anna Klosowska’s vibrant translation. This collection, which features one of the first French lesbian sonnets as well as reproductions of l’Aubespine’s poetic translations of Ovid and Ariosto, will be heralded by students and scholars in literature, history, and women’s studies as an important addition to the Renaissance canon.

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168

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University of Chicago Press

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0226141950

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9780226141954

The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy

By: Madeleine Ward

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The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy

By: Madeleine Ward

How did the early Quakers understand the relationship between Quakerism and Christianity? Did they think faith in Jesus was necessary? What did they mean by the ‘Light within’? These were the central issues in the Keithian controversy: an explosive schism which broke out among Philadelphian Quakers in the 1690s when George Keith – arguably the most influential Quaker theologian of the seventeenth century – was accused of focusing too heavily on the Incarnate Jesus in his preaching. Keith left the movement under a cloud, and the Keithian controversy has often been explained away in terms of personality and politics. However, this volume presents a theological reading of the dispute. Through a study of Keith’s personal theological development, Madeleine Ward presents his departure from the movement as a significant case-study in the contested relationship between Quakerism and Christianity – and, ultimately, as a battle for the spiritual heart of the Religious Society of Friends.

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BRILL

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9004396896

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9789004396890

Narrative Transvestism

Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

By: Madeleine Kahn

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Narrative Transvestism

Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

By: Madeleine Kahn

Many of the earliest canonical novels—including Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana and Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa—were written by men who assumed the first-person narrative voice of women. What does it mean for a man to write his "autobiography" as if he were a woman? What did early novelists have to gain from it, in a period when woman's realm was devalued and woman's voice rarely heard in public? How does the male author behind the voice reveal himself to readers, and how do our glimpses of him affect our experience of the novel? Does it matter if the woman he has created is believable as a woman? Why does "she" inevitably rail against the perfidy of men? Kahn maintains that the answers to such questions lie in the nature of "narrative transvestism" -her term for the device through which a male author directs the reader's interpretation by temporarily abandoning himself to a culturally defined female voice and sensibility and then reasserting his male voice. In her innovative readings of key eighteenth-century English novels, Kahn draws upon a range of contemporary critical approaches. Lucid and witty, Narrative Transvestism will serve as a model of analysis for readers interested in issues of gender in narrative, including feminist theorists, students and scholars of the eighteenth-century novel, and critics interested in the applications of psychoanalysis to literature.

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187

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Cornell University Press

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1501721852

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9781501721854

Neaera

Writing a Prostitutes Life

By: Madeleine Henry

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Neaera

Writing a Prostitutes Life

By: Madeleine Henry

Highlighting the role women played in Athenian society, Madeleine Henry here examines the fascinating life of Neaera. In the course of her life Neaera occupied almost every role that was played by a women in Athens: child, daughter, wife, mother, and 'lady of the house'; slave, freed, free; prostitute, living with one man, working for pay; upstanding and respectable, criminal and adulterous. Her life story, real or otherwise, will fascinate students of classical studies through the publication of this significant book.

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0415331501

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9780415331500

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Prisoner of History

Prisoner of History

Prisoner of History

Prisoner of History

Grosse Pointe, 1880-1930

Grosse Pointe, 1880-1930

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

A History of Christianity in Wales

A History of Christianity in Wales

Princesse De Cleves: The Princesse De Montpensier; The Comtesse De Tende

Princesse De Cleves: The Princesse De Montpensier; The Comtesse De Tende

Henry Irving and The Victorian Theatre

Henry Irving and The Victorian Theatre

The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1526-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538

The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1526-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538

The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Selected Poems and Translations

Selected Poems and Translations

The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy

The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy

Narrative Transvestism

Narrative Transvestism

Neaera

Neaera

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