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Sophie and the Sibyl

Author : Patricia Duncker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632860651
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Sophie and the Sibyl written by Patricia Duncker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Berlin, Max Duncker and his brother, Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business, which owes its success to one woman: the Sibyl, or Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot,who is writing the final installment of her bestselling serial Middlemarch. Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as Wolfgang is of making a profit and berating his spendthrift brother, but Max is given a chance to prove his worth by visiting the Sibyl and her not-quite-husband Lewes, to finalize the publishing rights to her new novel. The Sibyl proves to be as enthralling and intelligent as her books, bewitching Max and all of those around her. But Wolfgang has an ulterior motive for Max's visit; he wants his brother to consider the beautiful eighteen-year-old Countess Sophie von Hahn as a potential wife. An acquaintance from Max's childhood, she comes from a German family of great wealth. However, Sophie proves to be nothing like the angelic vision of domesticity Max envisaged; wild and willful, she gambles recklessly yet always wins, rides horses fiercely, and is happy to disobey authority, especially when it comes to her idol, George Eliot. Enchanted by this whirlwind of a woman, Max nevertheless fears he will never be able to tame her. With its vivid portrayal of George Eliot and how she lived her life, and the turbulent love story of the countess and Max, Sophie and the Sibyl is both a compulsive read and a high literary achievement.

Landscapes of Realism

Author : Dirk Göttsche
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260362
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Realism written by Dirk Göttsche and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary exploration of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this first volume tackles in its five core essays and twenty-five case studies such questions as why realism emerged when it did, why and how it developed such a transformative dynamic across languages, to what extent realist poetics remain central to art and popular culture after 1900, and how generally to reassess realism from a twenty-first-century comparative perspective.

Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction

Author : Julia Novak
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031090195
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction written by Julia Novak and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their ‘raw material’, the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Herd Register

Author : American Jersey Cattle Club
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Herd Register written by American Jersey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing Talk

Author : Derek Neale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429842570
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Writing Talk written by Derek Neale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Talk includes interviews with nineteen well-known contemporary writers, exploring the ways in which they research and find their original ideas. Working across genres such as fiction, scriptwriting, radio, life writing, biography and more, the writers offer insight into how they interpret, hone and develop these ideas. The conversations examine the roles of technique, craft, language, reading, memory, serendipity, habit and persistence. They offer technical detail about the creative process and give unique insights into the borderlands between genres as well as offering rich, personal insights and universal resonances. A wide-ranging introduction surveys the reasons why we are intrigued by the mysteries of individual writing practice and how these illuminate critical attitudes to literature and performance. Offering a rare glimpse into the creative process of some of this generation’s most eminent voices, Writing Talk is a must read for anyone interested in how stories are found and made. Interviewees: Alan Ayckbourn, Iain Banks, Helen Blakeman, Louis de Bernières, Sarah Butler, Andrew Cowan, Jenny Diski, Patricia Duncker, David Edgar, Tanika Gupta, Richard Holmes, Hanif Kureishi, Bryony Lavery, Toby Litt, Kareem Mortimer, Michèle Roberts, Jane Rogers, Willy Russell and Sally Wainwright.

Postcolonial George Eliot

Author : Oliver Lovesey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137332123
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial George Eliot written by Oliver Lovesey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot’s impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon’s Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.

Neo-Victorian Biofiction

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004434356
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Biofiction written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting neo-Victorian biofiction’s crucial role in reimagining and augmenting the historical archive, this volume explores the complex ethical consequences of a creative movement of historiographic revisionism, combining biography and fiction in a dialectic tension of empathy and voyeuristic spectacle.

Register of Merit of Jersey Cattle

Author : American Jersey Cattle Club
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Register of Merit of Jersey Cattle written by American Jersey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Queen Bees

Author : Siân Evans
Publisher : Two Roads
ISBN 13 : 1473618045
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Queen Bees written by Siân Evans and published by Two Roads. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships with Edward VII, as well as Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Lady Colefax. Written with wit, verve and heart, Queen Bees is the story of a form of societal revolution, and the extraordinary women who helped it happen. In the aftermath of the First World War, the previously strict hierarchies of the British class system were weakened. For a number of ambitious, spirited women, this was the chance they needed to slip through the cracks and take their place at the top of society as the great hostesses of the time. In an age when the place of women was uncertain, becoming a hostess was not a chore, but a career choice, and though some of the hostesses' backgrounds were surprisingly humble, their aspirations were anything but. During the inter-war years these extraordinary women ruled over London society from their dining tables and salons - entertaining everyone from the Mosleys to the Mitfords, from millionaires to maharajahs, from film stars to royalty - and their influence can still be felt today.

The Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Harper's New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Antipodean Antiquities

Author : Marguerite Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350021245
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Antipodean Antiquities written by Marguerite Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.

Holstein-Friesian Herd-book

Author : Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Holstein-Friesian Herd-book written by Holstein-Friesian Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fairy book. By Sophie May

Author : Sophie MAY (pseud. [i.e. Rebecca Sophia Clarke.])
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Fairy book. By Sophie May written by Sophie MAY (pseud. [i.e. Rebecca Sophia Clarke.]) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hallucinating Foucault

Author : Patricia Duncker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408872331
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Hallucinating Foucault written by Patricia Duncker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ravishing tale of sexual and textual obsession, the young unnamed narrator sets forth from Cambridge on a quest. He is to rescue the subject of his doctoral research, Paul Michel, the brilliant but mad writer, from incarceration in a mental institution in France. What ensues is a drama of terrible intimacy and tenderness played out one hot and humid summer in Paris and in the south of France. Hallucinating Foucault is a literary thriller that explores with consummate mastery the passionate relationship between reader and writer, between the factual and the fictional, between sanity and madness. In blurring these boundaries, Patricia Duncker has written a novel of astonishing power and beauty.

Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue

Author : Rosel George Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue written by Rosel George Brown and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856–1935

Author : Sophie Geoffroy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003830021
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856–1935 written by Sophie Geoffroy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics. She was an active correspondent who included many well-known figures among her circle. This scholarly edition of her letters makes a selection from more than 30 archives worldwide.