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Collaborative Dickens

Authorship and Victorian Christmas Periodicals

By: Melisa Klimaszewski

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Collaborative Dickens

Authorship and Victorian Christmas Periodicals

By: Melisa Klimaszewski

From 1850 to 1867, Charles Dickens produced special issues (called “numbers”) of his journals Household Words and All the Year Round, which were released shortly before Christmas each year. In Collaborative Dickens, Melisa Klimaszewski undertakes the first comprehensive study of these Christmas numbers. She argues for a revised understanding of Dickens as an editor who, rather than ceaselessly bullying his contributors, sometimes accommodated contrary views and depended upon multivocal narratives for his own success. Klimaszewski uncovers connections among and between the stories in each Christmas collection. She thus reveals ongoing conversations between the works of Dickens and his collaborators on topics important to the Victorians, including race, empire, supernatural hauntings, marriage, disability, and criminality. Stories from Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and understudied women writers such as Amelia B. Edwards and Adelaide Anne Procter interact provocatively with Dickens’s writing. By restoring links between stories from as many as nine different writers in a given year, Klimaszewski demonstrates that a respect for the Christmas numbers’ plural authorship and intertextuality results in a new view of the complexities of collaboration in the Victorian periodical press and a new appreciation for some of the most popular texts Dickens published.

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406

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Ohio University Press

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0821446738

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9780821446737

Hang-ups, Hook-ups, and Holding Out

Stuff You Need to Know about Your Body, Sex, and Dating

By: Melisa Holmes,Trish Hutchison,Patricia Hutchison

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Hang-ups, Hook-ups, and Holding Out

Stuff You Need to Know about Your Body, Sex, and Dating

By: Melisa Holmes,Trish Hutchison,Patricia Hutchison

In question-answer format, provides information for girls about sex, dating, drugs, and body changes.

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274

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Hci

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0757305865

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9780757305863

Designing Homeliness

Everyday Practices of Care

By: Melisa Duque

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Designing Homeliness

Everyday Practices of Care

By: Melisa Duque

Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home. The book situates homeliness as a continual process of creating, maintaining, and restoring meanings and experiences of home. Melisa Duque draws from her design ethnographic practice with people using smart home lighting, gardening, jigsaw puzzles, and op-shopping to present everyday examples in dialogue with theoretical discussions, revealing the role of homeliness in generating wellbeing. The research projects featured in this book were conducted in rural, regional, remote, and metropolitan areas in Australia, at familiar and unfamiliar living sites, including people’s homes, a mental health hospital unit, a residential aged care facility, and a charity shop revaluing domestic things. This book offers conceptualisations and practical tools to advance home studies while engaging with broader discussions on ageing, wellbeing, and sustainability. Led by design research and social science analysis, this book will be of value for students, researchers, and practitioners at these intersections, including design, anthropology, and human geography.

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180

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Taylor & Francis

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1040151744

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9781040151747

Brief Lives: Wilkie Collins

By: Melisa Klimaszewski

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Brief Lives: Wilkie Collins

By: Melisa Klimaszewski

Author of the first detective novel in English, Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular authors in Victorian England. In this illuminating biography, Melisa Klimaszewski situates the writer within his own milieu and demonstrates how his work sparks new understandings of Victorian life and letters. A close friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens, Collins secured his own fame with sensational novels that feature intricate legal plots, mistaken identities, and complex crimes. Boldly challenging the mores of Victorian society by maintaining two families and shunning the institution of marriage, Collins was also one of the most unconventional public figures of his day. His life story, succinctly told in this elegant biography, promises to instruct and to entertain.

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153

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Hesperus Press

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1780940068

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9781780940069

Archaeology in Antarctica

By: Andrés Zarankin,Michael Pearson,Melisa A. Salerno

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Archaeology in Antarctica

By: Andrés Zarankin,Michael Pearson,Melisa A. Salerno

Archaeology in Antarctica outlines the history of archaeology in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. The book details for the first time all past archaeological work in Antarctica, relating to both its use for conservation and research purposes, drawing on published, unpublished and oral information. This work has addressed historic and current scientific bases, explorers’ huts, whaling stations and sealing shelters. The ongoing and long-term research on the sealing shelters and sites in the South Shetland Islands features prominently. The archaeology enables new perspectives on the impact of global modernity and empire in the Antarctic and challenges established dominant discourses on the ‘heroic’ nature of human interaction with the continent. The work on sealing sites gives voice to the experiences of the sealer as a subaltern group previously largely overlooked by historical sources. This book will appeal to students and researchers in archaeology, history and heritage as well as readers interested in the human and historical aspects of Antarctica’s past and present.

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289

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Taylor & Francis

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0429574878

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9780429574870

World-walker

By: Melisa C. Michaels

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World-walker

By: Melisa C. Michaels

Melisa Michaels' newest novel, "World-Walker," is a tale of alternate realities, love, and the possible destruction of the universe. The creation of Central, with its corps of trained world-walkers, signaled the beginning of the end of the Ages of Chaos, but it took generations to restore peace, order, and the integrity of the worlds. It is common wisdom that unregulated travel between the countless parallel worlds that make up our universe weakens their boundaries and in the long term threatens them all. But common wisdom is not always accurate. Suli Grail is a world-walker whose sworn duty is to uphold the integrity of worlds. Jesse Farrell, known to Central as the Other, was Suli's lover . . . until he stole her gatestone so he could walk where he pleased, searching for the one perfect world that would bring him peace. In his travels, the Other enters the world of another Jesse Farrell, thus knocking him out of it. Now Suli must capture or kill her lover. Jesse Farrell must find his way back to his world without losing the woman he has come to love in his new world, and the Other must face his past to learn the secret of the gates between worlds . . . or die trying. Melisa Michaels lives in North Dakota.

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364

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Five Star Trade

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1594142157

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9781594142154

Girlology

A Girl's Guide to Stuff That Matters

By: Melisa Holmes,Patricia Hutchison

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Girlology

A Girl's Guide to Stuff That Matters

By: Melisa Holmes,Patricia Hutchison

Presents straight talk about friendships, parents, sexuality, teen relationships, media influences, and values to empower girls to build confidence, understand their bodies, and envision their potential.

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255

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HCI Teens

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0757302955

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9780757302954

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Collaborative Dickens

Collaborative Dickens

Hang-ups, Hook-ups, and Holding Out

Hang-ups, Hook-ups, and Holding Out

Designing Homeliness

Designing Homeliness

Brief Lives: Wilkie Collins

Brief Lives: Wilkie Collins

Archaeology in Antarctica

Archaeology in Antarctica

World-walker

World-walker

Girlology

Girlology

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