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Lady Bird Self-Determination for a New Century

Lady Bird Self-Determination for a New Century

Examining the ideas philosophies and strategies that inform and enable a young woman’s self-determination for a new century this is a detailed insightful study of Greta Gerwig’s much-loved influential and critically acclaimed film. Drawing on Transcendentalism French feminist thought Californian art and the work of iconic American essayist Joan Didion Rob Stone approaches Lady Bird as a film about young women’s self-determination in relation to other women and waves of feminist history. Structured to emulate the evolving conscience and emerging consciousness of the film’s eponymous protagonist this new volume in the Cinema and Youth Cultures series provides an incisive portrait of a particular American youth subculture struggling to assert its identity between the shock of 9/11 in 2001 and the global financial crisis of 2008. It also sensitively examines tensions between Gerwig and Lady Bird and between Lady Bird being set in 2002 and made in 2017. Written by an expert on American independent cinema and the dynamics of World Cinema this volume explores strategies of self-determination that ignite in the friction between mothers and daughters and culminate in considerations of how the film’s form and aesthetics lead to reflections on its philosophy and politics. Situating Lady Bird in the genre of youth movies and feminist film practice and culture this book is ideal for students and researchers looking at wider dialogues and discourses about feminism philosophy gender genre and American independent filmmaking. | Lady Bird Self-Determination for a New Century

GBP 45.00
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Letters from India The Correspondence of Lady Susan Ramsay 1854–1856

Letters from India The Correspondence of Lady Susan Ramsay 1854–1856

This fascinating volume reproduces the letters and journal of Lady Susan Ramsay (1837-1898) the elder daughter of the Marquess of Dalhousie Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. The correspondence was written over a two-year period: commencing with Susan’s positive response to her father’s request that she join him in Calcutta following the death of her mother; and concluding with Susan’s arrival with her father at Southampton. Lady Susan was still only 17 when she arrived in India and was therefore the youngest person to take up the role of vicereine of India. Her letters and journal represent the unique viewpoint of a highly intelligent witty articulate and unprejudiced young woman expressed from locations that range from Osborne on the Isle of Wight to Seringapatam in Mysore. The detail maturity and inventive quality of her writing invites comparison with that of Emily Eden Emily Metcalfe Charlotte Canning and other prominent early Victorian women. Accompanied by extensive introductions and annotations by Ross Nelson this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of Imperial History. | Letters from India The Correspondence of Lady Susan Ramsay 1854–1856

GBP 110.00
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The History of Lady Louisa Stroud and the Honourable Miss Caroline Stretton by Phebe Gibbes

The History of Lady Louisa Stroud and the Honourable Miss Caroline Stretton by Phebe Gibbes

This new edition of the British epistolary novel The History of Lady Louisa Stroud and the Honourable Miss Caroline Stretton examines the theme of female agency and is an excellent example of women's writing in the eighteenth-century. The relationships of the author Phebe Gibbes with the East India Company The London Magazine ‘The Benevolent Society’ and the Royal Literary Society provide rich avenues for research. Accompanied by a new introduction and editorial commentary this text will be of great interest to students of literary history and women's writing. | The History of Lady Louisa Stroud and the Honourable Miss Caroline Stretton by Phebe Gibbes

GBP 120.00
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Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

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 the author 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. The author'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. | Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

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Married to Melanesia

Married to Melanesia

‘We were married after three years at opposite ends of the world…. We then too rapidly for comfort made off in a snowstorm for the South Seas…. All this we imprudently did in our late forties. ’ Thus Muriel Jones introduces her account originally published in 1974 of how she came to start her married life in the Solomon Islands ‘whose impact was traumatic perhaps just because we were not in our first youth or innocent of other tropical experience’. ‘St Peter’s College was the only thing at Siota’; there was no store and the only post office on the island ‘was so difficult of access that I never visited it … we ourselves did most of the postal business – quite informally – at our end of the island’. It is not surprising that even high-ranking visitors tended to arrive looking like ship-wrecked sailors. ‘If one was ill enough to see a doctor one was on the whole too ill to be subjected to several hours of sun or rain in an open boat and a probable night en route. ’ There is too the account of the old lady whose family on her death wanted to bury her in a coffin instead of the customary mat. ‘Poor old lady; at the end of all these exertions the coffin with her in it stood in the church for the funeral uneasily supported on two rickety small tables from our sitting room mutely exhorting us to STOW AWAY FROM BOILERS. ’ Muriel Jones tells the unusual story of her five Melanesian years of the impact of Christianity on a pagan people of her husband’s college and its move to another island of the students the islands and their animals and exotic vegetation of the islanders (nine-tenths of whom live in communities ranging from twenty to two hundred people) and of their changing way of life. Her story takes one about as far as it is possible to go from an urban civilisation and in telling it she reveals the resources of her own character. | Married to Melanesia

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The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen

The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen

First published anonymously as ‘a lady’ Jane Austen is now among the world’s most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works reception and legacy with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation adaptation and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema new media and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels unpublished writing and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film digital humanities and new media. In addition the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.

GBP 205.00
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Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant Millamant and Mirabell and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby His Girl Friday and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars. | Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

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Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s

Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s

Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s 2nd edition is a guide to creating beautiful historically accurate hairstyles for theatrical productions and events. This volume covers hairstyles from Ancient Egypt through Romantic/Biedermeier styles of the 1820s and 30s. Chapters begin with an overview of historic figures who influenced the look of each period and their styles followed by step-by-step instructions and photographs showing the finished look from every angle. The book also explores the necessary supplies and styling products needed to create the perfect coif tips for proper wig handling a brief history of the makeup for each historical period and basic styling techniques useful when working with wigs or real hair. New hairstyles featured in this edition include: - Ancient Egyptian male dreadlocks - Ancient Grecian male curls - Ancient Roman braided goddess - Braided Medieval lady - Regency hairstyle with a Classical influence With over 1 000 full-color images and detailed instructions on how to create iconic hairstyles and makeup Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s 2nd edition is an excellent resource for professional costume designers and wig makers as well as for students of Costume Design and Wig Making and styling courses.

GBP 35.99
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Fictional Translators Rethinking Translation through Literature

Fictional Translators Rethinking Translation through Literature

Through close readings of select stories and novels by well-known writers from different literary traditions Fictional Translators invites readers to rethink the main clichés associated with translations. Rosemary Arrojo shines a light on the transformative character of the translator’s role and the relationships that can be established between originals and their reproductions building her arguments on the basis of texts such as the following: Cortázar’s Letter to a Young Lady in Paris Walsh’s Footnote Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Poe’s The Oval Portrait Borges’s Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote Funes His Memory and Death and the Compass Kafka’s The Burrow and Kosztolányi’s Kornél Esti Saramago’s The History of the Siege of Lisbon and Babel’s Guy de Maupassant Scliar’s Footnotes and Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Cervantes’s Don Quixote Fictional Translators provides stimulating material for reflection not only on the processes associated with translation as an activity that inevitably transforms meaning but also on the common prejudices that have underestimated its productive role in the shaping of identities. This book is key reading for students and researchers of literary translation comparative literature and translation theory. | Fictional Translators Rethinking Translation through Literature

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Fifty Key Irish Plays

Fifty Key Irish Plays

Fifty Key Irish Plays charts the progression of modern Irish drama from Dion Boucicault’s entry on to the global stage of the Irish diaspora to the contemporary dramas created by the experiences of the New Irish. Each chapter provides a brief plot outline along with informed analysis and alert to the cultural and critical context of each play an account of the key roles that they played in the developing story of Irish drama. While the core of the collection is based on the critical canon including work by J. M. Synge Lady Gregory Teresa Deevy and Brian Friel plays such as Tom Mac Intyre’s The Great Hunger and ANU Productions’ Laundry which illuminate routes away from the mainstream are also included. With a focus on the development of form as well as theme the collection guides the reader to an informed overview of Irish theatre via succinct and insightful essays by an international team of academics. This invaluable collection will be of particular interest to undergraduate students of theatre and performance studies and to lay readers looking to expand their appreciation of Irish drama.

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The British Women's Suffrage Campaign National and International Perspectives

The British Women's Suffrage Campaign National and International Perspectives

This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Britain. Although the focus is on Britain this volume signals how the women’s suffrage campaign in Britain embraced both national and global aspects. The historical developments and structures that affected women’s lives and suffrage struggles were not limited to national contexts. Early chapters focus on particular individuals both well and lesser known including Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst as well as Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy Princess Sophia Duleep Singh Lady Isabel Margesson and Isabella Ford. Later chapters highlight the interrelationship between the British movement and suffrage campaigns across the globe with reference to Austria Japan New Zealand Australia and the USA. The chapters deal with issues around strategies social class employment religion nationalism empire and race and explore complex issues about women’s roles in campaigning for their democratic right to the parliamentary vote. Offering the reader a broad view of the British women’s suffrage movement this is the ideal volume for students of women’s and political history in both its national and international contexts. | The British Women's Suffrage Campaign National and International Perspectives

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All the Queen’s Jewels 1445–1548 Power Majesty and Display

All the Queen’s Jewels 1445–1548 Power Majesty and Display

From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr All the Queen’s Jewels examines the jewellery collections of the ten queen consorts of England between 1445–1548 and investigates the collections of jewels a queen had access to as well as the varying contexts in which queens used and wore jewels. The jewellery worn by queens reflected both their gender and their status as the first lady of the realm. Jewels were more than decorative adornments; they were an explicit display of wealth majesty and authority. They were often given to queens by those who wished to seek her favour or influence and were also associated with key moments in their lifecycle. These included courtship and marriage successfully negotiating childbirth (and thus providing dynastic continuity) and their elevation to queenly status or coronation. This book explores the way that queens acquired jewels whether via their predecessor their own commission or through gift giving. It underscores that jewels were a vital tool that enabled queens to shape their identities as consort and to fashion images of power that could be seen by their households court and contemporaries. This book is perfect for anyone interested in medieval and Tudor history queenship jewellery and the history of material culture. | All the Queen’s Jewels 1445–1548 Power Majesty and Display

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Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidency Rhetoric and Media Frames

Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidency Rhetoric and Media Frames

This book presents research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Barack Obama’s presidency with a focus on ethnicity gender and culture as they interact with communication. It examines Obama’s rhetorical strengths that also inform his visual rhetorical control and looks beyond Obama’s messaging to examine how the news framed his presidency. The book opens by exploring the racio-rhetorical humour applied by President Obama during his presidency. Chapters investigate topics such as Obama’s use of visual rhetoric how the media framed Obama using racialized lens and offer iconographical analysis of satires featured in The New Yorker that symbolized the politics of racial fear erupting prior to the start of Obama’s presidency. They also examine how the White House used YouTube messaging to rebuild the first lady Michelle Obama’s image in ways that became acceptable to a wider American public Obama’s rhetorical struggles to work within tensions created by the intersection of race and violence and analyze President Obama’s speeches at Tribal Nations Conferences. Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidency will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of communication studies political communication media and cultural studies race and ethnic studies and political science while also appealing to anyone interested in the communicative aspects of Obama’s presidency and American politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Howard Journal of Communications. | Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidency Rhetoric and Media Frames

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The GoFaSt Guide To Screenwriting The Goals Failures and Stakes Model of Narrative Storytelling

The GoFaSt Guide To Screenwriting The Goals Failures and Stakes Model of Narrative Storytelling

Creator of the GoFaSt Model author Greg Takoudes introduces a comprehensive study of the structural models of screenwriting and provides readers with an adaptive framework for writing successful scripts. With a new approach which reframes discussions and offers alternatives to students and writers who find conventional models creatively constricting Takoudes draws from both teaching and professional experience to provide a new model of screenwriting that is designed to be adaptive to various types of scripts. The book is structured in three parts. First it introduces the GoFast Model – allowing for less orthodox writers to keep their unique voices by breaking scripts down into smaller parts and encouraging more flexibility to write in an organized way without feeling stifled. Second the book explores several writing scenarios – featuring the practical uses of the model and a step-by-step script structure spanning chapters on a horror superhero and heist movie. Third it concludes with detailed case studies exploring how the GoFaSt Model can be applied to break down scripts including Get Out The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It is an ideal text for screenwriting students and aspiring screenwriters interested in learning how working writers put structural models into practice as well professional screenwriters producers and development executives looking for new ways to think about writing feedback and development. | The GoFaSt Guide To Screenwriting The Goals Failures and Stakes Model of Narrative Storytelling

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Queerness in Pop Music Aesthetics Gender Norms and Temporality

Queerness in Pop Music Aesthetics Gender Norms and Temporality

This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video interpreting the music of numerous pop artists styles and idioms. The focus falls on artists such as Lady Gaga Madonna Boy George Diana Ross Rufus Wainwright David Bowie Azealia Banks Zebra Katz Freddie Mercury the Pet Shop Boys George Michael and many others. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality which involves a creative interdisciplinary approach to musical interpretation. He advocates a model of analysis that involves both temporal-specific listening and biographic-oriented viewing. Music analysis is woven into this illuminating aspects of parody nostalgia camp naivety masquerade irony and mimesis in pop music. One of the principal aims is to uncover the subversive strategies of pop artists through a wide range of audiovisual texts that situate the debates on gender and sexuality within an aesthetic context that is highly stylized and ritualized. Queerness in Pop Music also addresses the playfulness of much pop music offering insights into how discourses of resistance are mediated through pleasure. Given that pop artists songwriters producers directors choreographers and engineers all contribute to the final composite of the pop recording it is argued that the staging of any pop act is a collective project. The implications of this are addressed through structures of gender ethnicity nationality class and sexuality. Ultimately Hawkins contends that queerness is a performative force that connotes futurity and utopian promise. | Queerness in Pop Music Aesthetics Gender Norms and Temporality

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D. H. Lawrence Ecofeminism and Nature

D. H. Lawrence Ecofeminism and Nature

Shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI Prize for Best Academic Monograph This is the first ecocritical book on the works of D. H. Lawrence and also the first to consider the links between nature and gender in the poetry and the novels. In his search for a balanced relationship between male and female characters what role does nature play in the challenges Lawrence offers his readers? How far are the anxieties of his characters in negotiating relationships that might threaten their sense of self derived from the same source as their anxieties about engaging with the Other in nature? Indeed might Lawrence’s metaphors drawn from nature actually be the causes of human actions in The Rainbow for example? The originality of Lawrence’s poetic and narrative strategies for challenging social attitudes towards both nature and gender can be revealed by new approaches offered by ecocritical theory and ecofeminist readings of his books. This book explores ecocritical notions to frame its ecofeminist readings from the difference between the ‘Other’ and ‘otherness’ in The White Peacock and Lady Chatterley’s Lover ‘anotherness’ in the poetry of Birds Beasts and Flowers psychogeography in Sea and Sardinia emergent ecofeminism in Sons and Lovers land and gender in The Boy in the Bush gender dialogics in Kangaroo human animality in Women in Love trees as tests in Aaron’s Rod to ‘radical animism’ in The Plumed Serpent. Finally three late tales provide a reassessment of ecofeminist insights into Lawrence’s work for readers in the present context of the Anthropocene. | D. H. Lawrence Ecofeminism and Nature

GBP 130.00
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Script Analysis Deconstructing Screenplay Fundamentals

Script Analysis Deconstructing Screenplay Fundamentals

A comprehensive step-by-step guide to deconstructing screenplay fundamentals this book will allow readers to understand the elements functions and anatomy of a screenplay. Not only will this book enable readers to accomplish a thorough analysis of a screenplay and understand the dramatic elements and their functions but screenwriters will be able to apply these steps to their own writing. The book explores theme and premise provides an in-depth study of character development and breaks down the dramatic elements needed to construct a solid screenplay. It provides examples of the three-act structure the hero’s journey and the sequence method. Furthermore it explores how the main plot and subplots are used in a storyline and discusses the importance of setting. Finally it reveals screenwriting techniques and tools used by professional screenwriters such as dramatic irony reversal and setup/payoff. To connect with a broad range of readers the case studies used in this book are mainly from contemporary films including Get Out (2017) Lady Bird (2017) The Dark Knight (2008) Toy Story (1995) Parasite (2019) and Whiplash (2014). Readers will understand how professional screenwriters use fundamental elements to construct shape develop and tell a visual story. After reading this book readers will comprehend the components critical to developing a screenplay. This book is ideal for students of screenwriting and filmmaking who want to better understand how to comprehensively analyze a screenplay as well as screenwriters who want to utilize this method to develop their own scripts. | Script Analysis Deconstructing Screenplay Fundamentals

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Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television

Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television

Breaking down the traditional structures of screenplays in an innovative and progressive way while also investigating the ways in which screenplays have been traditionally told this book interrogates how screenplays can be written to reflect the diverse life experiences of real people. Author Jess King explores how existing paradigms of screenplays often exclude the very people watching films and TV today. Taking aspects such as characterization screenplay structure and world-building King offers ways to ensure your screenplays are inclusive and allow for every person’s story to be heard. In addition to examples ranging from Sorry to Bother You to Portrait of a Lady on Fire four case studies on Killing Eve Sense8 I May Destroy You and Vida ground the theoretical work in practical application. The book highlights the ways in which screenplays can authentically represent and uplift the lived experiences of those so often left out of the narrative such as the LGBTQIA+ community women and people of color. The book addresses a current demand for more inclusive and progressive representation in film and TV and equips screenwriters with the tools to ensure their screenplays tell authentic stories offering innovative ways to reimagine current screenwriting practice towards radical equity and inclusion. This is a timely and necessary book that brings the critical lenses of gender studies queer theory and critical race studies to bear on the practice of screenwriting ideal for students of screenwriting aspiring screenwriters and industry professionals alike. | Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television

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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935) – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction and her radical polemics. She was also an active letter writer whose correspondents include many well-known figures in fin de siècle intellectual circles across Europe. However until now no attempt has been made to make these letters widely available in their complete form. This multi-volume scholarly edition presents a comprehensive selection of her English French Italian and German correspondence — compiled from more than 30 archives worldwide — that reflect her wide variety of interests and occupations as a Woman of Letters and contributor to scholarship and political activism. Letters written in a language other than English have been expertly translated by scholars Sophie Geoffroy (from the French) Crystal Hall (from the Italian) and Christa Zorn (from the German). The edition focuses on those letters concerning the writing ideas and aesthetics that influenced Lee’s articles books and stories. Full transcriptions of some 500 letters covering the years 1856-1935 are arranged in chronological order along with newly written introductions that explain their context and identifies the recipients friends and colleagues mentioned. Since scholarship on Lee’s critical and creative output is still in the beginning stages these letters will serve a purpose to students and researchers in a number of academic fields. In this second volume covering the years 1885–1889 the 421 assembled letters follow Violet Paget-Vernon Lee in her early thirties. Recovering from the stinging reception of her first novel and from Annie Meyer’s death she turns to essay writing on aesthetics and ethics and ghost stories. After Mary Robinson’s engagement to marry French orientalist Prof. Darmesteter she travels to Spain Gibraltar and Tangiers and briefly falls under the spell of the Orient. She also takes a liking to Scotland and many of her close friends are Scottish -Alice Callander Lady Archie (Janey Sevilla Archibald Campbell)—and so is her future partner Clementina Anstruther-Thomson. The letters reflect the expansion of her subject matter from cultural studies art history and aesthetic philosophy. Her charity work in hospitals in Florence and her readings in Political Economy lead her thinking towards social reform and political issues. Her brother’s mental illness and her own breakdown bring about an awareness of body and mind balance and a taste for outdoor pursuits (mountaineering; bicycling; horse riding; swimming) and for experimental psychology (rotating mirrors; hypnosis) and therapies (hydrotherapy). The Pagets move away from the city center of Florence into the Villa Il Palmerino then in the countryside where both Eugene and Vernon recover. Correspondents include Lee’s parents Matilda and Henry Ferguson Paget; her step-brother poet Eugene Lee-Hamilton; English poetess Mary Robinson; English poet Robert Browning; British novelist and journalist Ellen Mary Abdy-Williams; British social reform activist and editor Percy William Bunting; Irish journalist and activist Frances Power Cobbe; Irish scholar and novelist Bella Duffy; British eugenicist Karl Pearson; British publisher William Blackwood; Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson; American novelist Henry James; American connoisseur and arts patron Isabella Stuart Gardner; French translator and critic Marie-Thérèse Blanc (Th. Bentzon); Lady Louisa Wolseley; Irish historian and activist Alice Stopford-Green; Italian Countess Angelica (Pasolini) Rasponi; Italian poet writer and critic Enrico Nencioni; Italian novelist essayist and critic Mario Pratesi; Italian editor and man of letters Francesco Protonotari; Italian painter Telemaco Signorini. | Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

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The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a character in literature arguing that our notions of literary genius – and what it means to be an author – are implicitly shaped by and explicitly challenged in novels about novelists a genre that has been critically underexamined. Employing both close and distant reading techniques to analyse a large corpus of author-stories The Novelist in the Novel explores the forms and functions of author-stories and the characters within them offering a new theory that frames these works as textual sites at which questions of literary value and the cultural conceptions around authorship are constantly being negotiated and revised in a form of covert criticism aimed directly at readers. While nineteenth-century novels about novelists reveal a pervasive frustration with the market – a starving artist vs. commercial sell-out dichotomy – modernist examples of the genre focus on the development of the individual author-as-artist entirely aloof from the marketplace and from the literary sphere at large. Yet each of these dynamics is gendered with women denigrated to commercial producers and men elevated to artists and while the canon has largely supported the male view of authorship a closer look at the work of women writers from this period reveals concerted attempts to counteract it. Silly Lady Novelists are pitted against serious male modernists in a battle to define what it means to be a literary genius. | The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

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Media Culture Cultural Studies Identity and Politics in the Contemporary Moment

Media Culture Cultural Studies Identity and Politics in the Contemporary Moment

In this thorough update of one of the classic texts of media and cultural studies Douglas Kellner argues that media culture is now the dominant form of culture that socializes us and provides and plays major roles in the economy polity and social and cultural life. The book includes a series of lively studies that both illuminate contemporary culture and society while providing methods of analysis interpretation and critique to engage contemporary U. S. culture. Many people today talk about cultural studies but Kellner actually does it carrying through a unique mixture of theoretical analysis and concrete discussions of some of the most popular and influential forms of contemporary media culture. Studies cover a wide range of topics including: Reagan and Rambo; horror and youth films; women’s films the TV series Orange is the New Black and Hulu’s TV series based on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale; the films of Spike Lee and African American culture; Latino films and cinematic narratives on migration; female pop icons Madonna Beyoncé and Lady Gaga; fashion and celebrity; television news documentary films and the recent work of Michael Moore; fantasy and science fiction with focus on the cinematic version of Lord of the Rings Philip K. Dick and the Blade Runner films and the work of David Cronenberg. Situating the works of media culture in their social context within political struggles and the system of cultural production and reception Kellner develops a multidimensional approach to cultural studies that broadens the field and opens it to a variety of disciplines. He also provides new approaches to the vexed question of the effects of culture and offers new perspectives for cultural studies. Anyone interested in the nature and effects of contemporary society and culture should read this book. | Media Culture Cultural Studies Identity and Politics in the Contemporary Moment

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Joinery Joists and Gender A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century

Joinery Joists and Gender A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century

Joinery Joists and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century is the first publication of its kind to survey the long and rich histories of women and gender non-conforming persons who work in wood. Written for craft practitioners design students and readers interested in the intersections of gender and labor history—with 200 full-color images both historical and contemporary—this book provides an accessible and insightful entry into the histories practices and lived experiences of women and nonbinary makers in woodworking. In the first half the author presents a woodworking history primarily in Europe and the United States that highlights the practical and philosophical issues that have marked women’s participation in the field. Research focuses on a diverse range of practitioners from Lady Yun to Adina White. This is followed by sixteen in-depth profiles of contemporary woodworkers all of whom identify fine woodworking as their principal vocation. Through studio visits interviews and photographs of space and process the book uncovers the varied practices and contributions these diverse artisans make to the understanding of wood as a medium to engage spatial material aesthetic and even existential challenges. Beautifully illustrated profiles include Wendy Maruyama one of the first women to earn an MFA in woodworking in the US; Sarah Marriage founder of Baltimore’s A Workshop of Our Own a woodshop and educational space specifically for women and gender non-conforming makers; Yuri Kobayashi whose sublime work blurs boundaries between the worlds of art and craft sculpture and furniture; and Folayemi Wilson whose work draws equally on African American history and Afrofuturism to explore and illuminate the ways that furniture and wood traditions shape social relations. | Joinery Joists and Gender A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century

GBP 31.99
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Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

In Living with Extreme Intelligence: Developing Essential Communication Skills Dr Sonja Falck provides a unique and practical manual of how to improve interpersonal interactions that involve adults who stand out from the neurotypical majority by having top 2% IQ. Her main message is that understanding the individual differences involved in extreme intelligence and mastering relevant communication skills can break through barriers of frustration underachievement and loneliness to bring about brain-changingly positive conversations and interpersonal effectiveness connection and joy. Dr Falck begins by explaining the neurophysiological and social foundations of why we communicate the way we do and then explains in detail seven essential communication skills. Following this she shows how to put these skills into practice applying insights from depth psychology and demonstrating how to have better conversations in a variety of contexts from general social gatherings to the workplace and intimate relationships. Particular attention is paid to areas that Dr Falck’s research and professional practice have repeatedly shown her are challenging for adults with extreme intelligence such as small talk office politics dating and handling conflict. She draws on case examples from her consulting work (psychotherapy and coaching) with clients who have extreme intelligence and examples from novels cinema the media the literature on giftedness and biographical material on high-profile high-IQ figures like Steve Jobs Elon Musk and Lady Gaga. Throughout she emphasizes the theme from her original model of interpersonal relating which is that experiencing freedom of self-expression with others who offer you a high level of acceptance is what puts you in a state of thriving. The book provides step-by-step guidance for engaging in numerous interpersonal situations such as how to handle difficult conversations how to write effective emails how to breathe listen play take a risk bond repair a broken connection and keep yourself well through changes like failure success and falling in love. It is essential reading for anyone affected by or interested in issues associated with extremely high intelligence. | Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

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