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Musical Theater in Eighteenth-century Parma

Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform

By: Margaret Ruth Butler

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Musical Theater in Eighteenth-century Parma

Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform

By: Margaret Ruth Butler

How do you create a style of opera that speaks to everyone, when no one agrees on what it should say -- or how? French and Italian varieties of opera have intermingled and informed one another from the genre's first decades onward. Yet we still have only a hazy view of why and how those intersections occurred and what they meant to a givenopera's creators and audiences. Margaret Butler's Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma: Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform tackles these issues, examining performance, spectatorship, and politics in the Bourbon-controlled, northern Italian city of Parma in the mid-eighteenth century. Reconstructing the French context for Tommaso Traetta's Italian operas that consciously set out to fuse French and Italian elements, Butler explores Traetta's operas and recreations in Parma of operas and ballets by Jean-Philippe Rameau and other French composers. She shows that Parma's brand of entertainment is one in which Traetta's operas occupy points along a continuum representing a long and rich tradition of adaptation and generic play. Such a reading calls into question the very notion of operatic reform, showing the need for a more flexible conception of a volatile moment in opera's history. The book elucidates the complicated circumstances in which entertainments were created that spoke not only to Parma's multicultural audiences but also to an increasingly cosmopolitan Europe. MARGARET R. BUTLER is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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1580469019

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Keeping Family Secrets

Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s

By: Margaret K. Nelson

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Keeping Family Secrets

Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s

By: Margaret K. Nelson

From teen pregnancy and gay sexuality to Communism and disability, the startling secrets that families kept during the Cold War era All families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change with time. Nowadays A lesbian partnership, a “bastard” son, an aunt who is a prostitute, or a criminal grandfather might be of little or no consequence but could have unraveled a family at an earlier moment in history. Margaret K. Nelson is interested in how families keep secrets from each other and from outsiders when to do otherwise would risk eliciting not only embarrassment or discomfort, but profound shame and, in some cases, danger. Drawing on over 150 memoirs describing childhoods in the period between the aftermath of World War II and the 1960s, Nelson highlights the importance of history in creating family secrets and demonstrates the use of personal stories to understand how people make sense of themselves and their social worlds. Keeping Family Secrets uncovers hidden stories of same-sex attraction among boys, unwed pregnancies among teenage girls, the institutionalization of children with mental and physical disabilities, participation in left-wing political activities, adoption, and Jewish ancestry. The members of ordinary families kept these issues secret to hide the disconnect between the reality of their own family and the prevailing ideals of what a family should be. Personal accounts reveal the costs associated with keeping family secrets, as family members lie, hurl epithets, inflict abuse, and even deny family membership to protect themselves from the shame and danger of public knowledge. Keeping Family Secrets sheds light not only on decades-old secrets but pushes us to confront what secrets our families keep today.

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NYU Press

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1479815640

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9781479815647

Ruth Benedict

Stranger in This Land

By: Margaret M. Caffrey

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Ruth Benedict

Stranger in This Land

By: Margaret M. Caffrey

Poet, anthropologist, feminist—Ruth Fulton Benedict was all of these and much more. Born into the last years of the Victorian era, she came of age during the Progressive years and participated in inaugurating the modern era of American life. Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land provides an intellectual and cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of an important and remarkable woman. As a Lyricist poet, Ruth Benedict helped define Modernism. As an anthropologist, she wrote the classic Patterns of Culture and at one point was considered the foremost anthropologist in the United States—the first woman ever to attain such status. She was an intellectual and an artist living in a time when women were not encouraged to be either. In this fascinating study, Margaret Caffrey attempts to place Benedict in the cultural matrix of her time and successfully shows the way in which Benedict was a product of and reacted to the era in which she lived. Caffrey goes far beyond providing simple biographical material in this well-written interdisciplinary study. Based on exhaustive research, including access for the first time to the papers of Margaret Mead, Benedict's student and friend, Caffrey is able to put Benedict's life clearly in perspective. By identifying the family and educational influences that so sharply influenced Benedict's psychological makeup, the author also closely analyzes the currents of thought that were strong when Victorianism paralleled the Modernism that figured in Benedict's life work. The result is a richly detailed study of a gifted woman. This important work will be of interest to students of Modernism, poetry, and women's studies, as well as to anthropologists.

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626

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University of Texas Press

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0292753667

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9780292753662

The Lifeline

By: Margaret Mayhew

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The Lifeline

By: Margaret Mayhew

When a chilling discovery is made in one of the manor’s greenhouses, the Frog End villagers rely on the Colonel to reluctantly solve another baffling mystery. Following the untimely death of her mother, Ursula Swynford, Ruth Harvey has taken over the manor in Frog End, where she runs a successful plant-selling business and provides gardening therapy for an increasing number of her husband Dr Tom Harvey’s troubled patients: embittered Lawrence Deacon, lonely Joyce Reed, widowed Tanya Carberry and wheelchair-bound Johnny Turner, the young victim of a horrific motorbike crash. Gardening at the manor quickly becomes a much-needed lifeline for the group, and all seems to be going well – until the major stumbles across a body among the tomato plants in one of the greenhouses. Once again, the manor is the scene of a brutal murder – and, once again, the Colonel reluctantly finds himself drawn into solving the mystery.

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Severn House Publishers Ltd

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1448304148

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9781448304141

Babel unravelled

An annotated world bibliography of dictionary bibliographies, 1658–1988

By: Margaret Cop

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Babel unravelled

An annotated world bibliography of dictionary bibliographies, 1658–1988

By: Margaret Cop

Lexicographica. Series Maior features monographs and edited volumes on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the broader domain of lexicology are also included, provided they strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of lexicography and meta-lexicography. The almost 150 books published in the series since its founding in 1984 clearly reflect the main themes and developments of the field. The publications focus on aspects of lexicography such as micro- and macrostructure, typology, history of the discipline, and application-oriented lexicographical documentation.

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268

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111340600

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9783111340609

Bright Horizons

By: Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Denis Chauvet,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Frank Hui,Darren Burch,Margaret J Gordon,Roger Marshall,JZ Ferguson,Dan O'Shea

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Bright Horizons

By: Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Denis Chauvet,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Frank Hui,Darren Burch,Margaret J Gordon,Roger Marshall,JZ Ferguson,Dan O'Shea

The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm. At the crossroads between the Cathy Gale-era stricture of video tape and the glossy, surreal, comic-strip world of 'glorious Technicolor', the monochrome filmed Emma Peel season represents the artistic pinnacle of a show which was exported around the world and remains the only British television drama to be networked at 'primetime' in the USA. Bright Horizons draws on the knowledge of a broad range of experts and fans of The Avengers - including scriptwriter Roger Marshall - offering critical explorations of all twenty-six 'mini-films' which made up Season 4, the collective peak of an extraordinary television series.

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368

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Lulu.com

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1326120050

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9781326120054

Romancing the Tomes

Popular Culture, Law and Feminism

By: Margaret Thornton

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Romancing the Tomes

Popular Culture, Law and Feminism

By: Margaret Thornton

With contributions by scholars from the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, this provocative collection of essays explores the uneasy relationship between law and popular culture from a feminist perspective.

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Cavendish Publishing

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1843144832

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9781843144830

Dry Bones

By: Margaret Mayhew

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Dry Bones

By: Margaret Mayhew

The Colonel returns, in an atmospheric village mystery from best-selling author Margaret Mayhew. In his time living in the peaceful village of Frog’s End, the Colonel has learned that although the place looks as lively as a stagnant pond, there is plenty going on. When he receives a letter from an old friend of his late wife, telling him that ‘something horrible has happened’ and asking for his help, he is intrigued and happy to assist her. But when he travels up to see Cornelia, he is shocked by what he uncovers, and soon realizes that he must take the investigation into his own hands . . .

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139

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Severn House Publishers Ltd

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1780102917

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9781780102917

The Letters of Margaret Fuller

1817–1838

By: Margaret Fuller

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The Letters of Margaret Fuller

1817–1838

By: Margaret Fuller

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Cornell University Press

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1501725181

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9781501725180

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex

America's First Women in Space Program

By: Margaret A. Weitekamp

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America's First Women in Space Program

By: Margaret A. Weitekamp

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JHU Press

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0801879949

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9780801879944

The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth

By: Margaret Kohn

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The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth

By: Margaret Kohn

The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth draws on the theory of solidarism to develop a new defense of social rights. By envisioning the city as a common-wealth created by past generations and current residents, the book helps us rethink struggles over gentrification, public housing, transit, and public space.

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Oxford University Press

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0190606606

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9780190606602

Women Scientists in America

Forging a New World Since 1972

By: Margaret W. Rossiter

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Women Scientists in America

Forging a New World Since 1972

By: Margaret W. Rossiter

With the thoroughness and resourcefulness that characterize the earlier volumes, she recounts the rich history of the courageous and resolute women determined to realize their scientific ambitions.

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JHU Press

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1421402335

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9781421402338

Dorothea Dix

Advocate for Mental Health Care

By: Margaret Muckenhoupt

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Advocate for Mental Health Care

By: Margaret Muckenhoupt

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Oxford University Press

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0195129210

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Book's by Margaret Ruth Butler

Musical Theater in Eighteenth-century Parma

Musical Theater in Eighteenth-century Parma

Keeping Family Secrets

Keeping Family Secrets

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict

The Lifeline

The Lifeline

Babel unravelled

Babel unravelled

Bright Horizons

Bright Horizons

Romancing the Tomes

Romancing the Tomes

Dry Bones

Dry Bones

The Letters of Margaret Fuller

The Letters of Margaret Fuller

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex

The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth

The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth

Women Scientists in America

Women Scientists in America

Dorothea Dix

Dorothea Dix

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