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Ceramics in the Victorian Era

Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature

By: Rachel Gotlieb

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Ceramics in the Victorian Era

Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature

By: Rachel Gotlieb

This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in recent scholarship, Ceramics in the Victorian Era: Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature argues that the signification of a pot, a jug, or a tableware pattern can be more fully discerned in written and painted representations. Across five case studies, the book explores a rhetoric and set of conventions that developed within the representation of ceramics, emerging in the late-18th century, and continuing in the Victorian period. Each case study begins with a textual passage exemplifying the outlined theme and closes with an object analysis to demonstrate how the fusing of text, image, and object are critical to attaining the period eye in order to better understand the metaphorical meanings of ceramics. Essential reading not only for ceramics scholars, but also those of material culture, the book mines the rich and diverse archive of Victorian painting and literature, from the avant-garde to the sentimental, from the well-known to the more obscure, to shed light on the at once complex and simple implications of ceramics' agencies at this time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350354864

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Snapshots of My Father, John Silber

By: Rachel Devlin

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Snapshots of My Father, John Silber

By: Rachel Devlin

For anyone who knew him, Silber was a genuinely unforgettable character. And as his daughter’s memoir attests, the man who was so fascinating as a public figure was no less compelling and memorable behind the scenes . . . a captivating memoir. - The Boston Globe/Jeff Jacoby This is an extensively illustrated memoir of John Silber, who entirely transformed Boston University as its president and was a controversial, yet intellectually formidable, candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Here, Rachel Devlin looks at her family and her father's trajectory from Texas to Boston and what life became like there; she examines his personality and temperament; and she describes his later years, the hardships he weathered and his continued accomplishments out of the public eye. As the title implies, each chapter is like a snapshot taken from a daughter's perspective, peering into the past she saw. Silber championed freedom of speech, believing all sides should be heard, especially on college campuses. He was also the father of seven children. The author often meets people who want to hear what he was like as a father and to tell her their own stories about him. Here is her clear-eyed vision of this authentic man of principle who had a drive to achieve great things.

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Peter E. Randall Publisher

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1937721949

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9781937721947

Ambivalent Embrace

Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America

By: Rachel Kranson

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Ambivalent Embrace

Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America

By: Rachel Kranson

This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth in economic status and social acceptance during the booming postwar era. In fact, a significant number of Jewish religious, artistic, and intellectual leaders worried about the ascent of large numbers of Jews into the American middle class. Kranson reveals that many Jews were deeply concerned that their lives—affected by rapidly changing political pressures, gender roles, and religious practices—were becoming dangerously disconnected from authentic Jewish values. She uncovers how Jewish leaders delivered jeremiads that warned affluent Jews of hypocrisy and associated "good" Jews with poverty, even at times romanticizing life in America's immigrant slums and Europe's impoverished shtetls. Jewish leaders, while not trying to hinder economic development, thus cemented an ongoing identification with the Jewish heritage of poverty and marginality as a crucial element in an American Jewish ethos.

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UNC Press Books

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1469635445

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9781469635446

Postwar Stories

How Books Made Judaism American

By: RACHEL. GORDAN

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Postwar Stories

How Books Made Judaism American

By: RACHEL. GORDAN

The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered the war, it would not be to save the Jews. By the end of the decade, antisemitism was in decline and Jews were moving toward general acceptance in American society. Drawing on several archives, magazine articles, and nearly-forgotten bestsellers, Postwar Stories examines how Jewish middlebrow literature helped to shape post-Holocaust American Jewish identity. For both Jews and non-Jews accustomed to antisemitic tropes and images, positive depictions of Jews had a normalizing effect. Maybe Jews were just like other Americans, after all. At the same time, anti-antisemitism novels and "Introduction to Judaism" literature helped to popularize the idea of Judaism as an American religion. In the process, these two genres contributed to a new form of Judaism--one that fit within the emerging myth of America as a Judeo-Christian nation, and yet displayed new confidence in revealing Judaism's divergences from Christianity.

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Oxford University Press

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0197694322

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9780197694329

Ceramics in the Victorian Era

Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature

By: Rachel Gotlieb

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Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature

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True Nordic

How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada

By: George Baird,Rachel Gotlieb,Michael Propokow,Mark Kingwell

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How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada

By: George Baird,Rachel Gotlieb,Michael Propokow,Mark Kingwell

True Nordic" presents a comprehensive look at more than nine decades of Nordic and Scandinavian aesthetic influence in Canadian craft, design and industrial production. The book offers a broad historical survey of Canadian-made ceramics, furniture, textiles and metalware inspired by the aesthetics of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia. The design culture and movements of the Nordic countries have been the most significant in the development of Canadian design sensibility since 1920. Scandinavian design resonated with Canadians and was viewed as appropriate for the realities of domesticity and modernizing life. Praised for its material sensitivity and regarded as both modern and humble, progressive but quiet, Scandinavian and Nordic design resonated with Canada's ongoing efforts to find a fitting stylistic and culturally appropriate language. "True Nordic" includes essays from George Baird, Rachel Gotlieb, Mark Kingwell and Michael Prokopow.

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127

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Black Dog Press

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1910433632

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9781910433638

Book's by Rachel Gotlieb

Ceramics in the Victorian Era

Ceramics in the Victorian Era

Snapshots of My Father, John Silber

Snapshots of My Father, John Silber

Ambivalent Embrace

Ambivalent Embrace

Postwar Stories

Postwar Stories

Ceramics in the Victorian Era

Ceramics in the Victorian Era

True Nordic

True Nordic

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