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Picturing Toronto

Photography and the Making of a Modern City

By: Sarah Bassnett

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Picturing Toronto

Photography and the Making of a Modern City

By: Sarah Bassnett

In 1911, when Arthur Goss was hired as Toronto’s first official photographer, the city was at a critical juncture. Industry expansion and population growth produced pressing concerns about housing shortages, sanitation, and the health and welfare of citizens. Dispelling popular misconceptions, Picturing Toronto demonstrates that Goss and other photographers did not simply document the changing conditions of urban life – their photography contributed to the development of modern Toronto and shaped its inhabitants. Drawing on archival sources from the early twentieth century, Sarah Bassnett investigates how a range of groups, including the municipal government, social reformers, and the press, used photography to reconfigure the urban environment and constitute liberal subjects. Through a series of case studies, including the construction of the Bloor Viaduct, civic beautification plans, urban reform in “the Ward,” immigration and citizenship, and Goss’s portrait photography, Bassnett exposes how photographs were at the heart of debates over what the city should look like, how it should operate, and under what conditions it was appropriate for people to live. This lavishly illustrated book is the first study to treat images as vital elements that shaped Toronto’s social and political history. Interdisciplinary in its approach, Picturing Toronto displays the complex entanglements between photography and urban modernity.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0228013801

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Colonial Memory

Contemporary Women's Travel Writing in Britain and the Netherlands

By: Sarah De Mul

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Colonial Memory

Contemporary Women's Travel Writing in Britain and the Netherlands

By: Sarah De Mul

Sarah De Mul is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Leuven. Her publications and research interests are in the field of comparative postcolonial studies, with a particular focus on gender, memory, and empire in Neerlandophone and Anglophone literature.

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Amsterdam University Press

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9089642935

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Object Lessons

How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World

By: Sarah Anne Carter

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Object Lessons

How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World

By: Sarah Anne Carter

Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States. For modern scholars, an "object lesson" is simply a timeworn metaphor used to describe any sort of reasoning from concrete to abstract. But in the 1860s, object lessons were classroom exercises popular across the country. Object lessons helped children to learn about the world through their senses--touching and seeing rather than memorizing and repeating--leading to new modes of classifying and comprehending material evidence drawn from the close study of objects, pictures, and even people. In this book, Sarah Carter argues that object lessons taught Americans how to find and comprehend the information in things--from a type-metal fragment to a whalebone sample. Featuring over fifty images and a full-color insert, this book offers the object lesson as a new tool for contemporary scholars to interpret the meanings of nineteenth-century material, cultural, and intellectual life.

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Oxford University Press

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0190225041

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Anderson’s Travel Companion

A Guide to the Best Non-Fiction and Fiction for Travelling

By: Compiled by Sarah Anderson

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Anderson’s Travel Companion

A Guide to the Best Non-Fiction and Fiction for Travelling

By: Compiled by Sarah Anderson

A selection of the best in travel writing, with both fiction and non-fiction presented together, this companion is for all those who like travelling, like to think about travelling, and who take an interest in their destination. It covers guidebooks as well as books about food, history, art and architecture, religion, outdoor activities, illustrated books, autobiographies, biographies and fiction and lists books both in and out of print. Anderson's Travel Companion is arranged first by continent, then alphabetically by country and then by subject, cross-referenced where necessary. There is a separate section for guidebooks and comprehensive indexes. Sarah Anderson founded the Travel Bookshop in 1979 and is also a journalist and writer on travel subjects. She is known by well-known travel writers such as Michael Palin and Colin Thubron. Michael Palin chose her bookshop as his favourite shop and Colin Thubron and Geoffrey Moorhouse, among others, made suggestions for titles to include in the Travel Companion.

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Routledge

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1351958399

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Remote Freedoms

Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia

By: Sarah E. Holcombe

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Remote Freedoms

Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia

By: Sarah E. Holcombe

What does it mean to be a "rights-holder" and how does it come about? Remote Freedoms explores the contradictions and tensions of localized human rights work in very remote Indigenous communities. Based on field research with Anangu of Central Australia, this book investigates how universal human rights are understood, practiced, negotiated, and challenged in concert and in conflict with Indigenous rights. Moving between communities, government, regional NGOs, and international UN forums, Sarah E. Holcombe addresses how the notion of rights plays out within the distinctive and ambivalent sociopolitical context of Australia, and focusing specifically on Indigenous women and their experiences of violence. Can the secular modern rights-bearer accommodate the ideals of the relational, spiritual Anangu person? Engaging in a translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the local Pintupi-Luritja vernacular and observing various Indigenous interactions with law enforcement and domestic violence outreach programs, Holcombe offers new insights into our understanding of how the global rights discourse is circulated and understood within Indigenous cultures. She reveals how, in the postcolonial Australian context, human rights are double-edged: they enforce assimilation to a neoliberal social order at the same time that they empower and enfranchise the Indigenous citizen as a political actor. Remote Freedoms writes Australia's Indigenous peoples into the international debate on localizing rights in multicultural terms.

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Stanford University Press

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1503606481

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Canada & Its Americas

Transnational Navigations

By: Winfried Siemerling,Sarah Phillips Casteel

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Canada & Its Americas

Transnational Navigations

By: Winfried Siemerling,Sarah Phillips Casteel

The chapters in this volume, a groundbreaking work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric American studies, expand the horizons of Canadian and Québécois literatures, suggest alternative approaches to models centred on the United States, and analyze the risks and benefits of hemispheric approaches to Canada and Quebec. Revealing the connections among a broad range of Canadian, Québécois, American, Caribbean, Latin American, and diasporic literatures, the contributors critique the neglect of Canadian works in Hemispheric studies and show how such writing can be successfully integrated into an emerging area of literary inquiry. An important development in understanding the diversity of literatures throughout the western hemisphere, Canada and Its Americas reveals exciting new ways for thinking about transnationalism, regionalism, border cultures, and the literatures they produce.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773584641

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My Double Life

The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

By: Sarah Bernhardt

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My Double Life

The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

By: Sarah Bernhardt

A translation of Ma Double Vie, the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars.

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SUNY Press

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0791440532

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Uncle Tom Mania

Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s

By: Sarah Meer

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Uncle Tom Mania

Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s

By: Sarah Meer

Tom-Mania looks at the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and the songs, plays, sketches, translations and imitations it inspired. In particular it shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy, the slavery question, and America's emerging cultural identity affected how the novel was read, discussed, dramatized, merchandized and politicised.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820327379

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9780820327372

Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales

Bards and Britons

By: Sarah Prescott

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Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales

Bards and Britons

By: Sarah Prescott

Examines Welsh writing in English in the context of critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the ‘invention’ of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century. This study investigates the ways in which Anglophone literature from and about Wales imagines the nation and its culture in a range of genres.

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University of Wales Press

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1786837234

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Space and Time in Epic Theater

The Brechtian Legacy

By: Sarah Bryant-Bertail

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Space and Time in Epic Theater

The Brechtian Legacy

By: Sarah Bryant-Bertail

The development of epic theater before, during, and after Brecht's time, and analysis of epic productions, showing the form's continued relevance.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1571131868

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Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean

By: Sarah Lawson Welsh

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Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean

By: Sarah Lawson Welsh

How do diasporic writers negotiate their identities through and with food? What tensions emerge between the local and the global, between the foodways of the past and of the present? How are concepts of culinary ‘tradition’ and ‘authenticity’ articulated in Caribbean cookery writing? Drawing on a rich and varied tradition of Caribbean writings, Food, Text & Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean shows how the creation of food and the creation of narrative are intimately linked cultural practices which can tell us much about each other. Historically, Caribbean writers have explored, defined and re-affirmed their different cultural, ethnic, caste, class and gender identities by writing about what, when and how they eat. Images of feeding, feasting, fasting and other food rituals and practices, as articulated in a range of Caribbean writings, constitute a powerful force of social cohesion and cultural continuity. Moreover, food is often central to the question of what it means to be Caribbean, especially in diasporic and globalized contexts. Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars, the book offers the first study of food and writing in an Anglophone Caribbean context.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1783486627

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Identity, Motivation and Memory

The Role of History in the British and German Forces

By: Sarah Katharina Kayss

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Identity, Motivation and Memory

The Role of History in the British and German Forces

By: Sarah Katharina Kayss

This book explores the connection between British and German officer cadets’ perceptions of the past and their motivations for enlisting in the military forces in the United Kingdom and Germany. Drawing upon qualitative interviews and survey data conducted at officers’ academies in the UK and Germany, the author offers a comparative analysis using differing approaches towards history and memory in Britain and Germany, while considering the roles of individual goals and societal orientations in the decision to enlist. Employing the notion of pragmatic professionalism, which reflects the fact that occupational and institutional reasons for enlisting are not opposite points on a single scale, Professionalism, Memory and Identity examines history-orientated reasons for enlistment by shedding light on officer cadets’ values, beliefs and wider cultural understandings of the past. With attention to differences in motivation as a result of differing national backgrounds and former military training, as well as the extent to which these divergences contribute to the emergence of different types of soldiers in the two countries, this comparative, international study will appeal to scholars of sociology, politics and war studies with interests in the military profession and the role of history in contemporary Britain and Germany.

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Routledge

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0429959141

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The split identity of Esther Greenwood in Silvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"

By: Sarah Schommer

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The split identity of Esther Greenwood in Silvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"

By: Sarah Schommer

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Department of English and Linguistics), course: Madness in Literature, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction Madness is an important aspect in literature - especially madness of female writers respectively madness of female chief characters is interesting to deal with concerning the social role of women in the cause of time. It [madness] is that state of mind where a person’s feelings or beliefs about himself [...] are completely disrupted, making him unable to function in whatever social role – husband, parent, friend, employee – he might expect to enjoy. It is the state where the sufferer passes beyond the bounds of reality, intelligibility, and rationality as defined by the bulk of society. The psychotic is a stranger among his own people. (Nettle 12) A character consistent to this definition of madness is Esther Greenwood in Silvia Plath’s autobiographical novel The Bell Jar which was published 1963. Being a young intelligent woman, Esther becomes mad as a result of the mental stress to conform to the traditional role of women or to break tradition. Esther Greenwood is passive and unable to be agent of her life. Never having learned how to develop herself as an independent individual, she is dependent on others and follows their ideals of a fulfilling life. She is torn between starting a family and starting a career. According to this, The Bell Jar reveals the difficulty of becoming an adult, by breaking tradition to be able to realize one’s personal scheme of life. As Susan Bassnett points out, “The Bell Jar is a novel about a suicide attempt that fails; but it is also a novel about a woman who learns how to live with herself and how to come to terms with the world, that world of destruction and horror [...]” (Bassnett 122). As the story of Esther Greenwood’s madness is full of interesting symbols and motifs, it is unfortunately impossible to deal with the whole of them. Consequently this paper will focus on few aspects revealing the split identity of Esther Greenwood and show the process of her recovery as well. These basic motifs are: the fig-tree, the fake identity she builds up and the motif of the bell jar. They will be discussed in the context of Esther’s mental illness...

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GRIN Verlag

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3640106571

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Picturing Toronto

Photography and the Making of a Modern City

By: Sarah Bassnett

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Photography and the Making of a Modern City

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Picturing Toronto

Picturing Toronto

Colonial Memory

Colonial Memory

Object Lessons

Object Lessons

Anderson’s Travel Companion

Anderson’s Travel Companion

Remote Freedoms

Remote Freedoms

Canada & Its Americas

Canada & Its Americas

My Double Life

My Double Life

Uncle Tom Mania

Uncle Tom Mania

Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales

Eighteenth Century Writing from Wales

Space and Time in Epic Theater

Space and Time in Epic Theater

Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean

Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean

Identity, Motivation and Memory

Identity, Motivation and Memory

The split identity of Esther Greenwood in Silvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"

The split identity of Esther Greenwood in Silvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"

Picturing Toronto

Picturing Toronto

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