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In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservation of well-being operate in fiction, both thematically and structurally, Wright offers a new approach to reading character...
| Автор | Erika Wright |
The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles’s singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee. That vision is shaped by her strong sense of social justice, her naturalist’s sensibility, and her insider’s perspective. Women are at the center of these stories, and Miles...
| Автор | Emma Bell Miles |
The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates' courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat “private” family violence? Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction traces novelists' engagement with the wife-assault debates in the public press between 1828 and the turn of the century. Lisa Surridge examines the early...
| Автор | Lisa Surridge |
Einst verlor ein Falschmünzer das «Bergle» an einen anderen Mann. Doch bevor er sich daran erfreuen kann, wird er ermordet. Auch der Falschmünzer und dessen Tochter sterben dabei. Zwanzig Jahre später wird der Mörder mit seiner Tat konfrontiert. "Das Geldmännle" ist eine Kurzgeschichte. Sie wurde bereits in «Der Waldschwarze» (Band 44 der Gesammelten Werke) veröffentlicht.
| Автор | Karl May |
Ein naturphilosophisches Romanfragment aus dem Spätwerk von Novalis: Der Text, der aus den Teilen «Der Lehrling» und «Die Natur» besteht, ist weniger durch Handlung als durch Gespräche und Reflexionen über die Natur charakterisiert und beleuchtet die Zusammenhänge zwischen Selbsterkenntnis und Natur. Schauplatz ist der Tempel von Sais im heutigen Ägypten. -
| Автор | Novalis |
Eduard Fährmann sitzt wegen Diebstahl und Unterschlagung im Gefängnis. Sein Sohn Paul, der von seiner Mutter vernachlässigt wird, möchte ihn daraus befreien. Doch vor Ort angekommen, wird Paul von einem Wächter angeschossen. Als Eduard Fährmann von dem angeblichen Tod des Jungen erfährt, kann er außer sich vor Kummer fliehen. Doch wohin? "Des Kindes Ruf" ist eine Kurzgeschichte. Sie wurde bereits in «Aus dunklem Tann» (Band 43 der Gesammelten Werke) veröffentlicht.
| Автор | Karl May |
Good-bye, Son and Other Stories, Janet Lewis’s only collection of short fiction, was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the ’30s and ’40s, these midcentury gems focus on the quiet cycles connecting youth and age, despair and hope, life and death. A mother’s encounters with her deceased son, an aging woman sitting with the new knowledge of her troubled older sister’s death, and a...
| Автор | Janet Lewis |
Anaïs Nin made her reputation through publication of her edited diaries and the carefully constructed persona they presented. It was not until decades later, when the diaries were published in their unexpurgated form, that the world began to learn the full details of Nin’s fascinating life and the emotional and literary high-wire acts she committed both in documenting it and in defying the mores of 1950s America. Trapeze begins where the previous volume, Mirages, left off: when Nin met...
| Автор | Anais Nin |
Though often unnoticed by scholars of literature and history, Polish American women have for decades been fighting back against the patriarchy they encountered in America and the patriarchy that followed them from Poland. Through close readings of several Polish American and Polish Canadian novels and short stories published over the last seven decades, Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction traces the evolution of this struggle and women’s efforts to construct gendered...
| Автор | Grażyna J. Kozaczka |
Staging the Amistad collects in print for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone’s most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the twentieth century: Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu “Pat” Maddy, and Raymond E. D. de’Souza George. Until the late 1980s, when the first of these plays was performed, the 1839 shipboard slave rebellion and the return of its victors to their homes in what is modern-day Sierra Leone had been an unrecognized chapter in the...
| Автор | Charlie Haffner |
Mit professionellen Bewegungen streifte sie in einem Gang Schuhe, Strümpfe, Slip, Büstenhalter ab und präsentierte dem Spiegel ihren jungenhaft kleinen Busen.. Zärt¬lich berührte er sie und sie atmete heftig und in kurzen Zügen.-
| Автор | Anonym |
Heiße Weihnachtsnacht im kalten Moskau!So hatte sich Jasmin Weihnachten nicht vorgestellt. Eben war sie noch mit ihrem Chef Henrik auf Geschäftsreise. Doch statt jetzt mit den Liebsten zu Hause gemütlich unter dem Tannenbaum zu sitzen, ist sie in Moskau gestrandet, nachdem der Rückflug nach Kopenhagen gestrichen wurde. Zum Glück ist sie nicht allein: Denn in der fremden Stadt erweist sich Henrik als beste Gesellschaft…-
| Автор | Camille Bech |
From 1850 to 1867, Charles Dickens produced special issues (called “numbers”) of his journals Household Words and All the Year Round, which were released shortly before Christmas each year. In Collaborative Dickens, Melisa Klimaszewski undertakes the first comprehensive study of these Christmas numbers. She argues for a revised understanding of Dickens as an editor who, rather than ceaselessly bullying his contributors, sometimes accommodated contrary views and depended upon multivocal...
| Автор | Melisa Klimaszewski |
Marvelous, disquieting, extraordinarily beautiful book that meditates on fundamental questions of time and change in and through a clear-eyed yet loving evocation of everyday existence. Once or twice in a generation a poet comes along who captures the essential spirit of the American Midwest and gives name to the peculiar nature that persists there. Like James Wright, Robert Bly, Ted Kooser, and Jared Carter before him, Dan Lechay reshapes our imagination to include his distinct and profound...
| Автор | Dan Lechay |
In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making. These illustrated serial novels offered Victorians a reading experience that was both verbal and visual, based on complex effects of flash-forward and flashback as the...
| Автор | Lisa Surridge |
'Morning-Glories, And Other Stories' is another collection of short stories, all of them written by the author of 'Little Women', Louisa May Alcott. The stories are mainly intended for young readers, but are also very charming for adults. Among the included tales are works like 'A Song for a Christmas Tree', 'Morning-Glories', 'The Rose Family', 'Poppy's Pranks' and many more.
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
Verführung und weibliche Lust in der Stadt der Liebe!Sie geht durch die Straßen von Paris. Sie sucht nach etwas, will das Herz der Stadt finden. Und plötzlich, vor einem Lebensmittelladen, trifft sie Joanne. Joanne ist rätselhaft und hübsch, mit pechschwarzen Haaren. Bald verschwindet die Stadt immer mehr und alles, was sie sieht, woran sie denkt und was sie will, ist sie – Joanne…-
| Автор | Alexandra Södergran |
The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal narrative urge writers to face the intimacies of the self and ask what is true. In The Memoir and the Memoirist , critic and memoirist Thomas Larson explores the craft and purpose of writing...
| Автор | Thomas Larson |
In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation building. The novel of maturity, she contends, is no less important to our understanding of narrative, Victorian culture, and the possibilities of fiction. Reading works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, John Henry Newman, and Virginia Woolf, Rainof exposes the little-discussed theological...
| Автор | Rebecca Rainof |
In Solving for X , his award-winning collection of new poems, Robert B. Shaw probes the familiar and encounters the unexpected; in the apparently random he discerns a hidden order. Throughout, Shaw ponders the human frailties and strengths that continue to characterize us, with glances at the stresses of these millennial times that now test our mettle and jar our complacency. Often touched with humor, his perceptions are grounded in devoted observation of the changing world. As in his previous...
| Автор | Robert B. Shaw |
Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and symbol of shifting social mores in postwar America. Before Madonna and her many imitators, there was Nin; yet, until now, there has been no major study of Nin as a celebrity figure. In Writing an Icon, Anita Jarczok reveals how Nin carefully crafted her literary and public personae, which she...
| Автор | Anita Jarczok |