Professor Julie Nash's Books

Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell

By: Professor Julie Nash

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Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell

By: Professor Julie Nash

Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. Julie Nash shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and novels such as Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Belinda, and Helen and Gaskell's North and South and Cranford. Servant characters, Nash contends, enable these writers to give voice to the contradictions inherent in the popular paternalistic philosophy of their times because the situation of domestic servitude itself embodies such inconsistencies. Servants, whose labor was essential to the economic and social function of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British society, made up the largest category of workers in England by the nineteenth century and yet were expected to be socially invisible. At the same time, they lived in the same houses as their masters and mistresses and were privy to the most intimate details of their lives. Both Edgeworth and Gaskell created servant characters who challenge the social hierarchy, thus exposing the potential for dehumanization and corruption inherent in the paternalistic philosophy. Nash's study opens up important avenues for future scholars of women's fiction in the nineteenth century.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409489876

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9781409489870

Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

By: Professor Thomas Tracy

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Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

By: Professor Thomas Tracy

In The Wild Irish Girl, the powerful Irish heroine's marriage to a heroic Englishman symbolizes the Anglo-Irish novelist Lady Morgan's re-imagining of the relationship between Ireland and Britain and between men and women. Using this most influential of pro-union novels as his point of departure, Thomas J. Tracy argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity often revolved around representations of Irishness, especially Irish womanhood. He maps out the genealogy of this development, from Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent through Trollope's Irish novels, focusing on the pivotal period from 1806 through the 1870s. Tracy's model enables him to elaborate the ways in which gender ideals are specifically contested in fiction, the discourses of political debate and social reform, and the popular press, for the purpose of defining not only the place of the Irish in the union with Great Britain, but the nature of Britishness itself.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475190

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9781409475194

The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790–1860

By: Professor Bridget M Marshall

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The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790–1860

By: Professor Bridget M Marshall

Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows these devices reflect an outpouring of anxiety about the nature of justice. On both sides of the Atlantic, novelists like William Godwin, Mary Shelley, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hannah Crafts question the foundations of the Anglo-American justice system through their portrayals of criminal and judicial procedures and their use of found documents and legal forms as key plot devices. As gothic villains, from Walpole's Manfred to Godwin's Tyrrell to Stoker's Dracula, manipulate the law and legal system to expand their power, readers are confronted with a legal system that is not merely ineffective at stopping villains but actually enables them to inflict ever greater harm on their victims. By invoking actual laws like the Black Act in England or the Fugitive Slave Act in America, gothic novels connect the fantastic horrors that constitute their primary appeal with much more shocking examples of terror and injustice. Finally, the gothic novel's preoccupation with injustice is just one element of many that connects the genre to slave narratives and to the horrors of American slavery.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409476324

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9781409476320

Ordinary in Brighton?: LGBT, Activisms and the City

By: Ms Leela Bakshi,Professor Kath Browne

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Ordinary in Brighton?: LGBT, Activisms and the City

By: Ms Leela Bakshi,Professor Kath Browne

Ordinary in Brighton? offers the first large scale examination of the impact of the UK equalities legislation on lesbian, gay, bi- and trans (LGBT) lives, and the effects of these changes on LGBT political activism. Using the participatory research project, Count Me In Too, this book investigates the material issues of social/spatial injustice that were pertinent for some - but not all- LGBT people, and explores activisms working in partnership that operated with/within the state. Ordinary in Brighton? explores the unevenly felt consequences of assimilation and inclusion in a city that was compelled to provide a place (literally and figuratively) for LGBT people. Brighton itself is understood to be exceptional, and exploring this specific location provides insights into how place operates as constitutive of lives and activisms. Despite its placing as ‘the gay capital’ and its long history as a favoured location of LGBT people, there is very little academic or popular literature published about this city. This book offers insights into the first decade of the 21st century when sexual and gender dissidents supposedly became ordinary here, rather than exceptional and transgressive. It argues that geographical imaginings of this city as the ‘gay capital’ formed activisms that sought positive social change for LGBT people. The possibilities of legislative change and urban inclusivities enabled some LGBT people to live ordinary lives, but this potential existed in tension with normalisations and exclusions. Alongside the necessary critiques, Ordinary in Brighton? asks for conceptualisations of the creative and co-operative possibilities of ordinariness. The book concludes by differentiating the exclusionary ideals of normalisation from the possibilities of ordinariness, which has the potential to render a range of people not only in-place, but commonplace. All royalties from this book will be donated to Allsorts Youth Project, Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard, The Clare Project and Mind Out.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472412966

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9781472412966

A Gentleman of Color : The Life of James Forten

The Life of James Forten

By: Boston Julie Winch Professor of History University of Massachusetts

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A Gentleman of Color : The Life of James Forten

The Life of James Forten

By: Boston Julie Winch Professor of History University of Massachusetts

In A Gentleman of Color, Julie Winch provides a vividly written, full-length biography of James Forten, one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Forten was born in 1766 into a free black family. As a teenager he served in the Revolution and was captured by the British. Rejecting an attractive offer to change sides, he insisted he was a loyal American. By 1810 he was the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia, where he became well known as an innovative craftsman, a successful manager of black and white employees, and a shrewd businessman. He emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. He was especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison, to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. Forten was also the founder of a remarkable dynasty. His children and his son-in-law were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. When James Forten died in 1842, five thousand mourners, black and white, turned out to honor a man who had earned the respect of society across the racial divide. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the pantheon of African-Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198024762

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9780198024767

War Paint

Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945

By: Brian Foss,Professor of Art History School for Studies in Art and Culture Brian Foss

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War Paint

Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945

By: Brian Foss,Professor of Art History School for Studies in Art and Culture Brian Foss

In this groundbreaking examination of British war art during the Second World War, Brian Foss delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people at a time when the nation's very survival was under threat. Foss probes the impact of war art on the relations between art, state patronage, and public interest in art, and he considers how this period of duress affected the trajectory of British Modernism. Supported by some two hundred illustrations and extensive archival research, the book offers the richest, most nuanced view of mid-century art and artists in Britain yet written. The author focuses closely on Sir Kenneth Clark's influential War Artists' Advisory Committee and explores topics ranging from censorship to artists' finances, from the depiction of women as war workers to the contributions of war art to evolving notions of national identity and Britishness. Lively and insightful, the book adds new dimensions to the study of British art and cultural history.

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280

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Yale University Press

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0300108907

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9780300108903

Adult Development and Aging

Growth, Longevity, and Challenges

By: Julie Hicks Patrick,Bert Hayslip, Jr.,Lisa Hollis-Sawyer

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Adult Development and Aging

Growth, Longevity, and Challenges

By: Julie Hicks Patrick,Bert Hayslip, Jr.,Lisa Hollis-Sawyer

Topically organized, Adult Development and Aging: Growth, Longevity and Challenges provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the aging process in adulthood from multiple perspectives. The authors use principles of lifespan development to show readers the directionality of changes in early, middle, and late adulthood. Within its framework of scientific literacy, the text charts four key themes to guide learners: a focus on aging as development; a global perspective on contexts; a vibrant, integrated approach to diverse coverage; and psychological science that translates into real-life experiences. A final chapter focuses on ways to improve the experience of aging for all adults. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.

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SAGE Publications

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1544361688

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9781544361680

Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels

By: Professor Maya Higashi Wakana

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Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels

By: Professor Maya Higashi Wakana

Focusing on James's last three completed novels – The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl – Maya Higashi Wakana shows how a microsociological approach to James's novels radically revises the widespread tradition of putting James's characters into historical and cultural contexts. Wakana begins with the premise that day-to-day living is inherently theatrical and thus duplicitous, and goes on to show that James's art relies significantly on his powerful sense of the agonizing and even dangerous complications of mundane face-to-face rituals that pervade his work. Centrally informed by social thinkers such as G. H. Mead and Erving Goffman, Wakana's study discloses the richness, complexity, and singularity of the interpersonal connections depicted in James's late novels. Persuasively argued, and rich in original close readings, her book makes an important contribution to James's studies and to theories of social interaction.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475557

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9781409475552

More Room in a Broken Heart

The True Adventures of Carly Simon

By: Stephen Davis

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The True Adventures of Carly Simon

By: Stephen Davis

The first full-length biography of Carly Simon, from an acclaimed music journalist who has known her for decades. Carly Simon has won two Grammys and an Academy Award, and her albums have sold more than forty million copies.

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Avery

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1592407439

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9781592407439

Women, Work, and Politics

The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

By: Torben Iversen,Frances McCall Rosenbluth,Professor Frances Rosenbluth, PhD

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Women, Work, and Politics

The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

By: Torben Iversen,Frances McCall Rosenbluth,Professor Frances Rosenbluth, PhD

This book presents an original and groundbreaking approach to gender inequality. Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, the authors demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labor outside the home, which is a function of structural, political, and institutional conditions.--[book jacket].

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Yale University Press

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0300153104

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9780300153101

The African-American Odyssey Media Research Update

By: Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History Darlene Clark Hine,Darlene Clark Hine,William C. Hine,Stanley Harrold

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The African-American Odyssey Media Research Update

By: Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History Darlene Clark Hine,Darlene Clark Hine,William C. Hine,Stanley Harrold

For one/two-semester, undergraduate courses in African-American History, African-American Studies, and United States History. The Media and Research update edition includes a new CD-ROM-bound into every book-- that includes over 150 primary source documents in African American history each accompanied by essay questions. In addition, the CD ROM also contains media-rich activities that explore key episodes and developments. Finally, free access to Research Navigator is included in the Evaluating Online resources booklet that is packaged with all new copies of the text. With it students can access this powerful research tool with one site. Written by leading scholars, The African-American Odyssey is a clear and comprehensive narrative of African-American history, from its African roots to the 21st century. This text places African-American history at the center, and in the context, of American History.

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372

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Prentice Hall

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0131899317

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9780131899315

America

Past and Present to 1877

By: George W Littlefield Professor of American History Robert A Divine,Robert A. Divine,William Smith Mason Professor of American History T H Breen,George M. Fredrickson,R. Hal Williams,Ariela J. Gross,H. W. Brands,Distinguished Professor of History Randy Roberts,Edgar E Robinson Professor of United States History Emeritus George M Fredrickson,Professor of Law Ariela J Gross

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America

Past and Present to 1877

The Primary Sources Edition of America Past and Present integrates the social and political dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative and includes two to three primary sources per chapter with critical thinking questions for each source. This edition features all of the strengths found in the successful comprehensive text: a compelling narrative, clear organization, and exceptional pedagogy. An attractive four-color design highlighted with numerous maps and photos will engage students and instructors alike.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321365720

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9780321365729

Book's by Professor Julie Nash

Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell

Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell

Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790–1860

The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790–1860

Ordinary in Brighton?: LGBT, Activisms and the City

Ordinary in Brighton?: LGBT, Activisms and the City

A Gentleman of Color : The Life of James Forten

A Gentleman of Color : The Life of James Forten

War Paint

War Paint

Adult Development and Aging

Adult Development and Aging

Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels

Performing the Everyday in Henry James's Late Novels

More Room in a Broken Heart

More Room in a Broken Heart

Women, Work, and Politics

Women, Work, and Politics

The African-American Odyssey Media Research Update

The African-American Odyssey Media Research Update

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