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A Community of One

Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Martin A. Danahay

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A Community of One

Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Martin A. Danahay

Complementing recent feminist studies of female self-representation, this book examines the dynamics of masculine self-representation in nineteenth-century British literature. Arguing that the category "autobiography" was a product of nineteenth-century individualism, the author analyzes the dependence of the nineteenth-century masculine subject on autonomy or self-naming as the prerequisite for the composition of a life history. The masculine autobiographer achieves this autonomy by using a feminized other as a metaphorical mirror for the self. The feminized other in these texts represents the social cost of masculine autobiography. Authors from Wordsworth to Arnold, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Stuart Mill, and Edmund Gosse, use female lovers and family members as symbols for the community with which they feel they have lost contact. In the theoretical introduction, the author argues that these texts actually privilege the autonomous self over the images of community they ostensibly value, creating in the process a self-enclosed and self-referential "community of one.

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SUNY Press

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0791415112

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9780791415115

Gender at Work in Victorian Culture

Literature, Art and Masculinity

By: Martin A. Danahay

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Gender at Work in Victorian Culture

Literature, Art and Masculinity

By: Martin A. Danahay

Martin A. Danahay's lucidly argued and accessibly written volume offers a solid introduction to important issues surrounding the definition and division of labor in British society and culture. 'Work,' Danahay argues, was a term rife with ideological contradictions for Victorian males during a period when it was considered synonymous with masculinity. Male writers and artists in particular found their labors troubled by class and gender ideologies that idealized 'man's work' as sweaty, muscled labor and tended to feminize intellectual and artistic pursuits. Though many romanticized working-class labor, the fissured representation of the masculine body occasioned by the distinction between manual labor and 'brain work' made it impossible for them to overcome the Victorian class hierarchy of labor. Through cultural studies analyses of the novels of Dickens and Gissing; the nonfiction prose of Carlyle, Ruskin and Morris; the poetry of Thomas Hood; paintings by Richard Redgrave, William Bell Scott, and Ford Madox Brown; and contemporary photographs, including many from the Munby Collection, Danahay examines the ideological contradictions in Victorian representations of men at work. His book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of English literature, history, and gender studies.

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186

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Routledge

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1351934694

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9781351934695

The Complete Jack The Ripper A-Z - The Ultimate Guide to The Ripper Mystery

By: Paul Begg & Martin Fido

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The Complete Jack The Ripper A-Z - The Ultimate Guide to The Ripper Mystery

By: Paul Begg & Martin Fido

Hugely respected, extensively quoted and widely regarded as the 'bible' of Ripper studies, The Complete Jack the Ripper A to Z is the ultimate reference for anyone fascinated by the Jack the Ripper mystery. This new, rewritten, up-to-date edition includes sources and well over 100 photographs.The Complete jack the Ripper A-Z has an entry for almost every person involved in the case, from suspects and witnesses to policemen and journalists, plus the ordinary people who became caught up in the unfolding drama.Written by three of the world's leading authorities on the case, it takes a completely objective look at theories old and new, describes all the key Ripper books and gives potted biographies of many of the authors.Whether you are new to the mystery of Jack the Ripper or an experienced 'Ripperologist' The Complete Jack the Ripper A-Z will keep you turning the pages. Fascinating and entertaining reading in its own right, it is the essential reference to have beside you when you venture into the dark alleys of Victorian Whitechapel.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1784182796

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9781784182793

War Without Bodies

Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War

By: Martin Danahay

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War Without Bodies

Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War

By: Martin Danahay

Introduction: Two photographs -- Sacrificial bodies : Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light Brigade -- The soldier's body and sites of mourning -- War games -- Trauma and the soldier's body -- Sophie Ristelhueber : landscape as body -- Conclusion: Future war without bodies.

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155

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Rutgers University Press

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1978819196

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9781978819191

Writing Wrongs

Common Errors in English

By: Robert M. Martin

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Writing Wrongs

Common Errors in English

By: Robert M. Martin

Writing Wrongs is a concise and thoughtful guide to common errors in English. It covers frequently confused and misused words along with problems of grammar, punctuation, and style, and offers a brief and up-to-date guide to major citation styles. Though it provides guidelines and recommendations for usage, Writing Wrongs acknowledges the evolution of language over time and the fact that different contexts have different rules—it is not narrowly prescriptive. A friendly, flexible, and easy-to-read reference, Writing Wrongs will be useful to students and general readers alike.

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Broadview Press

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1554813913

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Challenging the System?

A Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School

By: Martin Forsey

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Challenging the System?

A Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School

By: Martin Forsey

The book is written with great clarity, and a strong awareness of the importance of the school's social milieu. Forsey cuts through the mealy mouthed official rhetoric of "education for all" and shows the massive, continuing influence of social class inequalities in Australian society. Class interests shape not only this school but the whole education system around it, public and private. Ravina High is seen as a "good school" largely because of its comfortable middle-class catchment.

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206

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IAP

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160752581X

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9781607525813

Ovid on Screen

A Montage of Attractions

By: Martin M. Winkler

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Ovid on Screen

A Montage of Attractions

By: Martin M. Winkler

The first study of Ovid, especially his Metamorphoses, as inherently visual literature, explaining his pervasive importance in our visual media.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108485405

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War without Bodies

Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War

By: Martin Danahay

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War without Bodies

Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War

By: Martin Danahay

Historically the bodies of civilians are the most damaged by the increasing mechanization and derealization of warfare, but this is not reflected in the representation of violence in popular media. In War Without Bodies, author Martin Danahay argues that the media in the United States in particular constructs a “war without bodies” in which neither the corpses of soldiers or civilians are shown. War Without Bodies traces the intertwining of new communications technologies and war from the Crimean War, when Roger Fenton took the first photographs of the British army and William Howard Russell used the telegraph to transmit his dispatches, to the first of three “video wars” in the Gulf region in 1990-91, within the context of a war culture that made the costs of organized violence acceptable to a wider public. New modes of communication have paradoxically not made more war “real” but made it more ubiquitous and at the same time unremarkable as bodies are erased from coverage. Media such as photography and instantaneous video initially seemed to promise more realism but were assimilated into existing conventions that implicitly justified war. These new representations of war were framed in a way that erased the human cost of violence and replaced it with images that defused opposition to warfare. Analyzing poetry, photographs, video and video games the book illustrates the ways in which war was framed in these different historical contexts. It examines the cultural assumptions that influenced the reception of images of war and discusses how death and damage to bodies was made acceptable to the public. War Without Bodies aims to heighten awareness of how acceptance of war is coded into texts and how active resistance to such hidden messages can help prevent future unnecessary wars.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978819218

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9781978819214

Gender at Work in Victorian Culture

Literature, Art and Masculinity

By: Martin A. Danahay

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Literature, Art and Masculinity

By: Martin A. Danahay

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A Community of One

Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Martin A. Danahay

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Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Martin A. Danahay

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State University of New York Press

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1438400438

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A Community of One

A Community of One

Gender at Work in Victorian Culture

Gender at Work in Victorian Culture

The Complete Jack The Ripper A-Z - The Ultimate Guide to The Ripper Mystery

The Complete Jack The Ripper A-Z - The Ultimate Guide to The Ripper Mystery

War Without Bodies

War Without Bodies

Writing Wrongs

Writing Wrongs

Challenging the System?

Challenging the System?

Ovid on Screen

Ovid on Screen

War without Bodies

War without Bodies

Gender at Work in Victorian Culture

Gender at Work in Victorian Culture

A Community of One

A Community of One

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