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Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature

By: Mary Beth Rose

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Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature

By: Mary Beth Rose

Rose examines the glamorous, failed destinies of heroes in plays by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe ; Queen Elizabeth I's creation of a heroic identity in her public speaches ; autobiographies of four ordinary women thrust into the public sphere by civil war ; and the seducation of heroes into slavery in works by John Milton, Aphra Behn, and Mary Astell.--Back cover.

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0226725731

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The Expense of Spirit

Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

By: Mary Beth Rose

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The Expense of Spirit

Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

By: Mary Beth Rose

A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.

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1501723251

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Brief Confessional Writings: Grey, Stubbes, Livingstone, Clarksone

Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 2

By: Mary Ellen Lamb

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Brief Confessional Writings: Grey, Stubbes, Livingstone, Clarksone

Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 2

By: Mary Ellen Lamb

The works by the four protestant women authors collected in this volume participate in the ars moriandi (art of dying) tradition which became increasingly powerful over the 16th and 17th centuries. The moment of death was thought to reveal the ’true’ state of the individual’s soul. This volume provides four varying forms of heroic subjectivity offered by middle class and aristocratic women by the act of dying well. In all four cases their heroic deaths also proclaimed and thus helped to define specifically Protestant doctrines. When so few women’s words appeared in print, this ideological function probably represented a primary reason for the recording and publishing of these works.

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1351954792

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Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature

By: Mary Beth Rose

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Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature

By: Mary Beth Rose

This book explores the inconsistent literary representations of motherhood in diverse texts ranging from the fourth to the twentieth centuries. Mary Beth Rose unearths plots startling in their frequency and redundancy that struggle to accommodate —or to obliterate—the complex assertions of maternal authority as it challenges traditional family and social structures. The analysis engages two mother plots: the dead mother plot, in which the mother is dying or dead; and the living mother plot, in which the mother is alive and through her very presence in the text, puts often unbearable pressure on the mechanics of the plot. These plots reappear and are transformed by authors as diverse in chronology and use of literary form as Augustine, Shakespeare, Milton, Oscar Wilde, and Tony Kushner. The book argues that, insofar as women become the second sex, it is not because they are females per se but because they are mothers; at the same time the analysis probes the transformative political and social potential of motherhood as it appears in contemporary texts like Angels in America.

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3319404547

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The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Poems, translations, and correspondence

By: Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke

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The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Poems, translations, and correspondence

By: Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke

Replete with biographical introduction, discussions of sources and compositional methodology, this two volume work is the first to include all Mary Sidney Herbert's extant works.

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Oxford University Press

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0198112807

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Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

By: Mary Floyd-Wilson

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Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

By: Mary Floyd-Wilson

Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English understood their emotions and behavior to be influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies in the natural world. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All's Well That Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi, she demonstrates how these plays stage questions about whether women have privileged access to nature's secrets and whether their bodies possess hidden occult qualities. Discussing the relationship between scientific discourse and the occult, she goes on to argue that as experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women's presumed intimacy with nature's secrets was either diminished or demonized.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107036321

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Living with Saints

By: Mary O'Connell

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Living with Saints

By: Mary O'Connell

Praised for her "gift for mordant wit, which at its best is reminiscent of Lorrie Moore" ("The New York Times Book Review"), O'Connell draws upon the lives of the saints to show the divine at work in even the most mundane lives. Readers of all faiths (or none) will be delighted by these savvy and highly original modern visitations.

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Grove Press

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0802139264

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Elizabethan Silent Language

By: Mary E. Hazard

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Elizabethan Silent Language

By: Mary E. Hazard

Elizabethan Silent Language is an anatomy of an alternative or supplementary mode of communication in a culture prized for its literary contributions. Through the use of nonverbal media, Elizabethans coexpressed, enhanced, andøsometimes even subverted the medium of the written or spoken word. Besides written documents and works of art, extant material reveals new referents and deeper meaning for Elizabethan verbal expression. Funeral monuments, jewelry, costume, foodstuffs, protocol, sumptuary laws, portraits, architecture, management of public appearance, absence, and silence?all were forms of a silent language. The main elements of the semantic system of Elizabethan silent language were in many cases those of literal language, with resources in religion, in antiquity as translated through humanist tradition, in custom and law, in the Continental Renaissance, and in Tudor historiography?syntactic elements translated through word and practice and subject to personal inflection. Assumed as given values were the masculine norm, young adulthood, courtly service, discernment of ethical and aesthetic dimensions in all aspects of life, a comprehensive rule of decorum, and the preservation of religious, political, and social hierarchy. Elizabethan Silent Language is a unique book. Although Renaissance scholars have focused their attention on individual components of texts, such as ceremony, costume, architecture, protocol, and portrait, no other source synthesizes these components.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803223978

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The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700

Volume 2: Literature

By: Mary Ellen Lamb

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The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700

Volume 2: Literature

By: Mary Ellen Lamb

Presented in two volumes, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700 assesses the current state of scholarship on members of the Sidney family and their impact, as historical and/or literary figures, in the period 1500-1700. Volume 2: Literature, begins with an exploration of the Sidneys' books and manuscripts and how they circulated, followed by an overview of the contributions of family members -Sir Philip Sidney; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Lady Mary Wroth; Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester; and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke - in the genres of prose romance, drama, poetry, psalms and prose. These essays outline major controversies and areas for further research, as well as conducting literary analysis.

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135170110X

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The Book of Memory

A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

By: Mary J. Carruthers

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The Book of Memory

A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

By: Mary J. Carruthers

The Book of Memory is a magisterial and beautifully illustrated account of the workings and function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others in the period stretching from late antiquity through the Renaissance. The prominence given to memory has profound implications for the contemporary understanding of all creative activity, and the social role of literature and art. Drawing on a range of fascinating examples from Dante, Chaucer, and Aquinas to the symbolism of illuminated manuscripts, this unusually wide-ranging book offers new insights into the medieval world.

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0521429730

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Virtual Gender

Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment

By: Mary Ann O'Farrell,Lynne Vallone

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Virtual Gender

Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment

By: Mary Ann O'Farrell,Lynne Vallone

Explores notions of gender fantasy across time and culture, expanding the concept of virtuality to include people and events in history

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University of Michigan Press

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0472067087

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Familiar Words

By: Mary Kay McComas

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Familiar Words

By: Mary Kay McComas

Two single parents find love in small-town Idaho Jack Reardan is not easily seduced. But the beautiful, outspoken new high school English teacher is raising the temperature of every red-blooded male within striking distance. And tongues start wagging when Jack makes up his mind to get to know the skittish single mother a little bit better. The most eligible man in town is exactly the type that Beth Simms vowed to stay far away from. Jack Reardan might be an upstanding citizen with a delightful daughter, but Beth knows better than to trust that sexy smile. Even if her toddler son calls him “daddy” . . . even if the passion heating up between them could ignite the whole town. Then Jack whispers those three little words, and Beth knows she has finally come home—if she is ready to take a chance on a love that could make two families one. This ebook features an extended biography of Mary Kay McComas.

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1480484318

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A Summer Folly

By: Mary Kingsley

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A Summer Folly

By: Mary Kingsley

The author of A Maddening Minx offers a delightful tale set against the backdrop of the romantic Brighton seaside. Seven years ago, lovely Anne Templeton comes home to face the man sheiginal Regency Romance.

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Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature

By: Mary Beth Rose

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Four Inspirational Love Stories from Down Under

By: Mary Hawkins,Senior Lecturer School of Applied Social Science Mary Hawkins

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Four Inspirational Love Stories from Down Under

By: Mary Hawkins,Senior Lecturer School of Applied Social Science Mary Hawkins

Four Inspirational Love Stories from Down Under.

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The Expense of Spirit

Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

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The Expense of Spirit

Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

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Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature

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Vernacular Bodies

The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

By: Mary E. Fissell

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Vernacular Bodies

The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

By: Mary E. Fissell

Making babies was a mysterious process in early modern England. Mary Fissell employs a wealth of popular sources - ballads, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, Prayer Books, popular medical manuals - to produce the first account of women's reproductive bodies in early-modern cheap print. Since little was certain about the mysteries of reproduction, the topic lent itself to a rich array of theories. The insides of women's reproductive bodies provided a kind of open interpretive space, a place where many different models of reproductive processes might be plausible. These models were profoundly shaped by cultural concerns; they afforded many ways to discuss and make sense of social, political, and economic changes such as the Protestant Reformation and the Civil War. They gave ordinary people ways of thinking about the changing relations between men and women that characterized these larger social shifts. Fissell offers a new way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women's bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about gender relations and thus all relations of power. Where other histories of the body have focused on learned texts and male bodies, this study looks at the small books and pamphlets that ordinary people read and listened to - and provides new ways to understand how such people experienced political conflicts and social change.

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0191533564

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The Informant

By: Mary Burns

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The Informant

By: Mary Burns

When police informant Lisette Dorrien is killed, her husband Hugh is the logical suspect. Detective Mike Ceretzke knows he needs more than logic to convict this respected public figure, whose ties to a notorious crime figure are well hidden. Police agencies across the country are watching, not with the aim of helping him, but to ensure his case against Hugh Dorrien doesnt upset their investigation of his boss and to position themselves to take advantage of Hughs downfall. Mike begins his investigation hoping to prove Hughs guilt with hard evidence and preferably an eyewitness. Unfortunately, that hope soon evaporates when Beth McKinney, the woman who discovered Lisette and heard her dying words cant, or wont, identify the person she saw leaving the crime scene. When a news report says otherwise and Beths life is threatened, Mike awakens to the knowledge that he personally wants to keep her safe. He failed to keep his promise to watch over Lisette and that guilt plagues him, but this obligation is different. Inevitably, those hunting the evidence that Lisette died obtaining, begin targeting Lisettes friends. Mike realizes that he must use Beth as bait in his final bid to capture Hugh.

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1462831699

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Island of Last Resorts

By: Mary Ellis

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Island of Last Resorts

By: Mary Ellis

Private investigator Kate Weller knows her co-workers are in serious trouble when she is unable to reach them in the third enthralling Marked for Retribution mystery. Kate Weller’s boss, Nate Price, has some exciting news: Julian Frazier, a friend of one of the agency’s wealthy clients, has invited the Nate Price Investigations team and their partners on a trip of a lifetime to his home on Elysian Island, an exclusive retreat off the Georgian coast. But there’s a catch. Frazier has written his own murder mystery script, and the PIs must work out whodunnit. As they’re about to discover, though, the murder Frazier wants them to solve is a real cold case, and there's a killer twist that isn't in the script . . . Unable to reach Elysian Island and her co-workers, Kate is sure that someone wants her to stay away. Can she stop a ruthless killer and uncover the truth behind a deadly game?

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1448303192

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Aphra Behn

An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources

By: Mary Ann O'Donnell

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Aphra Behn

An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources

By: Mary Ann O'Donnell

This annotated bibliography constitutes a thoroughly revised and more easily readable study of Behn's publications, of those edited or translated by her, of publications that included her works, and of writings ascribed to her, along with an annotated bibliography of over 1600 works about her from 1671 to 2001, with an unannotated update covering 2002. The augmented primary bibliography describes all known editions and issues of her works to 1702, and adds a catalogue of editions to 2002, including on-line sources. The secondary bibliography adds close to 1000 items published since 1984 to the original 600 of the first edition along with about 175 more from 1671 to 1984, with attention to materials not in English. New appendices include a list of dedicatees, actors, recent productions (with reviews), and provenances. This volume will be invaluable for book dealers, collectors and librarians, as well as students and scholars of Aphra Behn and of Restoration literature.

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1351957791

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Talk of the Ton

By: Mary Nichols

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Talk of the Ton

By: Mary Nichols

Her name was on everyone's lips. They were agog to find out what Miss Elizabeth Harley had been doing down at the East India Docks. And in such shocking apparel! Why, her uncle's generosity in giving her a London season had been thrown back in his face. Elizabeth had not meant to sully her good name. All she'd craved was a chance to travel. Andrew Melhurst had come to her rescue when she needed him most, but should she consider marrying him to save her reputation?

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1426816928

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Secrets of the South Mysteries 4-in-1

By: Mary Ellis

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Secrets of the South Mysteries 4-in-1

By: Mary Ellis

Get caught up in the mystery and romance of the Deep South! For the first time ever, all four novels of bestselling author Mary Ellis' Secrets of the South Mysteries are collected into one ebook-only bundle. These complex crime dramas follow the team at Price Investigations as they make the world a better place…one case at a time. Enjoy the four full-length novels featuring these street-smart and savvy sleuths. In Midnight on the Mississippi, will newly-minted detective Nicki Price, recently relocated to New Orleans, be able to solve a stockbroker's murder and recover the missing millions, or will she let her growing attraction to one of the main suspects cloud her judgment and test her faith? Cousins Nate and Nicki Price travel to Memphis in What Happened on Beale Street, searching for their missing childhood friend. As their friend's sister seems reluctant to accept their help, will Nicki's overzealousness solve the case or get them killed? With Nate away in Magnolia Moonlight, Price Investigations remains in the hands of Beth Kirby and Michael Preston. Far from an ideal team, Beth resents working with someone who has no PI experience. Can they move past their differences to uncover the truth behind a beloved preacher's demise, or will tensions from within and without bring down these partners and destroy their faith? Sunset in Old Savannah rejoins Beth and Michael as they become embroiled in a murder mystery while on a routine surveillance job. With their client as the police's top suspect and more business than the team can handle, they bring in Kaitlyn Webb to assist. Will the ghosts of Kaitlyn's past threaten everyone's safety before the killer is put away? And can Mike and Beth move past their differences to find faith and love? It's up to these investigators to follow the trails of secrets. Will they find love, faith, and the culprits, or will their differences and inexperience put them and their clients in harm's way? Find out in Secrets of the South Mysteries 4-in-1!

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0736983333

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Delarivier Manley

Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 12

By: Mrs. Manley (Mary de la Rivière)

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Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 12

By: Mrs. Manley (Mary de la Rivière)

This volume includes Manley's plays 'The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband' and 'The Royal Mischief', her commemorative poems 'Thalia: The Comick Muse' and 'Melpomene: The Tragick Muse', as well her epistolary novella 'Letters Writen [sic] by Mrs Manley' and a commendatory poem, 'To The Author of Agnes de Castro'.

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0754606406

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Women & Christianity

By: Mary T. Malone

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Women & Christianity

By: Mary T. Malone

Students and scholars of Christian history will find Women & Christianity a refreshing and valuable resource. Women, Christian or otherwise, who seek an understanding of their past and their present will also find this book helpful."--BOOK JACKET.

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