The Selected Letters of Alice Meynell : Poet and Essayist
Damian Atkinson, Editor;Damian Atkinson, Editor
The Catholic convert and women of letters Alice Meynell (1847–1922) ranks as a sophist...
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The Selected Letters of Alice Meynell : Poet and Essayist
2013
The Catholic convert and women of letters Alice Meynell (1847 –1922 ) ranks as a sophisticated essayist and poet of the late Victorian period and the early twentieth century. She had the advantage of an educated father and a musical mother who spent much of their early time with the family visiting Europe, especially Italy. Alice's father was a friend of Dickens and her mother was admired by Dickens. Alice and her sister Elizabeth, later the famed artist Lady Butler, were educated privately and more so by their travels. This background gave Alice a great interest in art, music, poetry and literature. Her conversion to Catholicism in 1868 was the rock of her existence and coloured her entire life.Alice and her convert husband Wilfrid were very involved in the journalistic world as she was a contributor to the Scots / National Observer, Dublin Review, Tablet, Athenaeum, Speaker, Spectator, and the Magazine of Art. Alice was also an important unsigned contributor to the Pall Mall Gazette ‘Wares of Autolycus'column for many years. Together Wilfrid and Alice edited and wrote for their own illustrated monthly Merry England from 1883–95. Contributors included Alice's close friend Katharine Tynan, Coventry Patmore, Andrew Lang, and Francis Thompson, whose “The Hound of Heaven” was first published by them. They also managed the Weekly Register from 1881–98. The two journals kept Alice very busy as did her large family.Alice's letters show her literary work, both poetry and essays , and her relationship with John Lane, who published many of her books, an arrangement not always easy. She discusses her work with poets such as John Freeman and John Drinkwater, and her admiration for Coventry Patmore with the writer Frederick Page. She was obviously considered important for aspiring and established poets who sought her approbation.She visited America in late 1901 for a short lecture tour which was fairly successful but also gave her some lifelong friends. She supported women's suffrage and marched, although she was against its militancy. Alice was ambivalent about the First World War and her final years were spent writing and editing anthologies.
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The Story of Alice : Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst;Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tang...
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The Story of Alice : Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
2015
Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories, and analyzes how this relationship stirred Carroll's imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland. It also explains why Alice in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), took on an unstoppable cultural momentum in the Victorian era and why, a century and a half later, they continue to enthrall and delight readers of all ages.The Story of Alice reveals Carroll as both an innovator and a stodgy traditionalist, entrenched in habits and routines. He had a keen double interest in keeping things moving and keeping them just as they are. (In Looking-Glass Land, Alice must run faster and faster just to stay in one place.) Tracing the development of the Alice books from their inception in 1862 to Liddell's death in 1934, Douglas-Fairhurst also provides a keyhole through which to observe a larger, shifting cultural landscape: the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood, murky questions about sex and sexuality, and the relationship between Carroll's books and other works of Victorian literature.In the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era, Douglas-Fairhurst shows, Wonderland became a sheltered world apart, where the line between the actual and the possible was continually blurred.
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Authors, English--19th century--BiographyContent provider:
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Sister arts: the life of colour and the colour of life in the work of Alice Meynell and Elizabeth Butler.
Fraser, Hilary
The poet, essayist, and art critic Alice Meynell and her sister, the painter Elizabeth...
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Sister arts: the life of colour and the colour of life in the work of Alice Meynell and Elizabeth Butler.
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The poet, essayist, and art critic Alice Meynell and her sister, the painter Elizabeth Butler, shared a strong interest in colour. Where Butler applies her educated chromatic sensibility to her painting, Meynell brings her own knowledgeable appreciation of the aesthetic effects and cultural and figurative significations of colour to her essays and critical work on modern art. Her lyrical explorations of the poetics of colour in the natural, urban, and cultural landscapes, and the ambition of her attempt to map the life of colour and (the title of one of her most potent essays ) the colour of life, were informed by the education in the history and materiality, as well as the symbolism and aesthetics, of colour that she shared in her youth with her artist sister. Their unusually intense and colourful female sibling education, and the lifelong reciprocities of their interrelated professional lives, provide an important context for understanding Meynell's and Butler's individual engagement in chromatic experimentation. The ability to move between the materiality and the symbolism of colour is a significant shared feature of their creative practice that helps one to think more tangibly about the sibling interfiliation of word and image in the late nineteenth century. Attending to the meanings of colour for this unusual sorority offers a unique perspective on the uses and meanings of colour in the sister arts of literature and painting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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MEYNELL, Alice, 1847-1922 - BUTLER, Elizabeth - COLOR - PAINTING - SYMBOLISM of colors - AESTHETICS of artContent provider:
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Publishing, Editing, and Reception : Essays in Honor of Donald H. Reiman
Michael Edson;Michael Edson
Publishing, Editing, and Reception is a collection of twelve essays honoring Professor...
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Publishing, Editing, and Reception : Essays in Honor of Donald H. Reiman
2015
Publishing, Editing, and Reception is a collection of twelve essays honoring Professor Donald H. Reiman, who moved to the University of Delaware in 1992. The essays , written by friends, students, and collaborators, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Reiman's long career. Mirroring the focus of Reiman's work during his years at Carl H. Pforzheimer Library in New York and as lead editor of Shelley and his Circle, 1773–1822 (Harvard University Press), the essays in this collection explore authors such as Mary Shelley, William Hazlitt, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley; moreover, they confirm the continuing influence of Reiman's writings in the fields of editing and British Romanticism. Ranging from topics such as Byron's relationship with his publisher John Murray and the reading practices in the Shelley circle to Rudyard Kipling's response to Shelley's politics, these essays draw on a dazzling variety of published and manuscript sources while engaging directly with many of Reiman's most influential theories and arguments.
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Editing - English literature--19th century--History and criticism - Romanticism--England - Authors and publishers--England--History--19th century - Literature publishing--England--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan: Poet and Novelist
Damian Atkinson, Editor;Damian Atkinson, Editor
A farmer's daughter, a convent girl, a lover of the Irish countryside, a poet, novelis...
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The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan: Poet and Novelist
2016
A farmer's daughter, a convent girl, a lover of the Irish countryside, a poet, novelist and short story writer, a journalist, a friend of the English during war and peace, a fighter for justice, a Catholic, but able to see and decry the interference of religion in politics: this is in part Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1859–1931), usually known as Katharine Tynan, who lived in Ireland and England, and wrote through the turbulent times of Irish politics, suffrage, the Great War, and civil war in Ireland. Her background was rural Ireland, her father being a prosperous land-owning farmer. Educated locally and at a convent, she left aged fourteen and spent much time reading and enjoying the countryside, which became a foundation for her poetry and storytelling.She was aware of the politics of Ireland through her politically active father, and she joined the short-lived Ladies'Land League in 1881 and was a fervent admirer of Charles Stewart Parnell. Her first major literary friendship was with her mentor, the Jesuit Father Matthew Russell, editor of the Irish Monthly, who published much of her work. He introduced Katharine to the Catholic literary couple Wilfrid and Alice Meynell in London in 1884, a visit which formed a deep love and admiration for Alice . The Meynells published much of her poetry in the Weekly Register and Merry England.Katharine made many visits to England and settled in England in 1893 after her marriage to Harry Hinkson, making it her home until returning to Ireland in 1912. After the Great War, she moved between England and Ireland, finally settling in London where she died.Katharine's life spanned Anglo-Irish politics, the suffrage movement, the Easter Rising of 1916, the Great War (her two sons served in the British Army) and its aftermath. Her letters cover these events and the friendships and correspondence with many literary persons, including George William Russell (A.E.), G. K. Chesterton, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Clement King Shorter, the writer Frank James Mathew and the novelist May Sinclair. An early friend of W. B. Yeats, she was seen as part of the Irish literary revival, although in a minor role. Throughout her life she suffered from very poor eyesight. She published five autobiographies, which, together with the letters, provide us with valuable insight into her life and times.
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Modern Dutch Studies : Essays in Honour of Professor Peter King on the Occasion of His Retirement
M. J. Wintle;M. J. Wintle
These essays by leading scholars explore the integration of language and literature st...
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Modern Dutch Studies : Essays in Honour of Professor Peter King on the Occasion of His Retirement
2015
These essays by leading scholars explore the integration of language and literature study in the fields of art history and social sciences, exploring as a result the scope and nature of the discipline of Dutch Studies today.
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays , appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Labour, British Radicalism and the First World War
Lucy Bland;Richard Carr;Lucy Bland;Richard Carr
This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the ...
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Labour, British Radicalism and the First World War
2018
This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War. There are three broad areas this work intends to make a contribution to; the first is to help us further understand the role the Labour Party played in the conflict, and its evolving attitudes towards the war; the second strand concerns the notion of work, and particularly women's work; the third strand deals with the impact of theory and practice of forces located largely outside the United Kingdom. Through these essays this book aims to provide a series of thirteen bite-size analyses of key issues affecting the British left throughout the war, and to further our understanding of it in this critical period of commemoration.
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World War, 1914-1918--Political aspects - World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain - Radicalism--Great Britain--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press
Finkelstein, David;Finkelstein, David
This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish n...
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The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press
2020; Vol. 00002
This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history during a key period of change and development.
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Irish periodicals--History--19th century - Press--Ireland--History--19th century - Press--Great Britain--History--19th century - British newspapers--History--19th century - British periodicals--History--19th century - Irish newspapers--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2020
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays , appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945
Christoph Ehland;Cornelia Wächter;Christoph Ehland;Cornelia Wächter
Scholars of the middlebrow have demonstrated that the preferences and choices of both ...
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Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945
2016; Vol. 00062
Scholars of the middlebrow have demonstrated that the preferences and choices of both women writers and women readers have suffered considerably from the dismissive attitude of earlier critics. George Eliot's famous attack on ‘Silly Novels by Lady Novelists'set the tone for the long tradition of gendered disputes over the literary merit of works of fiction – a controversy which eventually coalesced with a class-based hegemony of taste in the so-called Battle of the Brows.The new research presented in this volume demonstrates that this gendered inflection of the critical debate is not only one-sided but tends to obfuscate the significance the middlebrow literary spectrum had for the wider dissemination of new concepts of gender. By exploring the scope of middlebrow media culture between 1890 and 1945, from household magazines to popular novels, the essays in this volume give evidence of the relative proximity that existed between middlebrow writers and the avant-garde in their concern for gender issues.Contributors: Nicola Bishop, Elke D'hoker, Petra Dierkes-Thrun, Stephanie Eggermont, Christoph Ehland, Wendy Gan, Emma Grundy Haigh, Kate Macdonald, Louise McDonald, Tara MacDonald, Isobel Maddison, Ann Rea, Cornelia Wächter, Alice Wood
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English fiction--19th century--History and criticism - Women's periodicals, English--History--19th century - English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism - English fiction--20th century--History and criticism - Sex role in literature - Women heroes in literature - Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism - Women in literatureContent provider:
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Scented Visions : Smell in Art, 1850-1914
Christina Bradstreet;Christina Bradstreet
Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the...
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Scented Visions : Smell in Art, 1850-1914
2022
Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, and the rise in artificial perfumery. Meanwhile, the science of olfaction remained largely mysterious, prompting an impulse to “see smell” and inspiring some artists to picture scent in order to better know and control it. This book recovers the substantive role of the olfactory in Pre-Raphaelite art and Aestheticism.Christina Bradstreet examines the iconography and symbolism of scent in nineteenth-century art and visual culture. Fragrant imagery in the work of John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Simeon Solomon, George Frederic Watts, Edward Burne-Jones, and others set the trend for the preoccupation with scent that informed swaths of British, European, and American art and design. Bradstreet's rich analyses of paintings, perfume posters, and other works of visual culture demonstrate how artworks mirrored the “period nose” and intersected with the most clamorous debates of the day, including evolution, civilization, race, urban morality, mental health, faith, and the “woman question.”Beautifully illustrated and grounded in current practices in sensory history, Scented Visions presents both fresh readings of major works of art and a deeper understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century scent.
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Pre-Raphaelitism - Art for art's sake (Movement) - Art, Modern--20th century - Odors in art--History--19th century - Odors in art--History--20th century - Art, Modern--19th centuryContent provider:
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Hydrohumanities : Water Discourse and Environmental Futures
Kim De Wolff;Rina C. Faletti;Ignacio López-Calvo;Kim De Wolff;Rina C. Falet...
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Hydrohumanities : Water Discourse and Environmental Futures
2022
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Discourse about water and power in the modern era have largely focused on human power over water: who gets to own and control a limited resource that has incredible economic potential. As a result, discussion of water, even in the humanities, has traditionally focused on fresh water for human use. Today, climate extremes from drought to flooding are forcing humanities scholars to reimagine water discourse. This volume exemplifies how interdisciplinary cultural approaches can transform water conversations. The manuscript is organized into three emergent themes in water studies: agency of water, fluid identities, and cultural currencies. The first section deals with the properties of water and the ways in which water challenges human plans for control. The second section explores how water (or lack of it) shapes human collective and individual identities. The third engages notions of value and circulation to think about how water has been managed and employed for local, national, and international gains. Contributions come from preeminent as well as emerging voices across humanities fields including history, art history, philosophy, and science and technology studies. Part of a bigger goal for shaping the environmental humanities, the book broadens the concept of water to include not just water in oceans and rivers but also in pipes, ice floes, marshes, bottles, dams, and more. Each piece shows how humanities scholarship has world-changing potential to achieve more just water futures.
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Water-supply--Environmental aspects - Hydrology--Environmental aspects - Water-supply--ManagementContent provider:
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Alice Thompson Meynell . Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson was born in 1847 in Barnes...
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Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2012, v. 32, p255-257.
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Messbarger, P. R.
Husband and wife, authors. Alice: Poet, literary journalist; b. Barnes, Surrey, Englan...
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New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2003.
Husband and wife, authors. Alice : Poet, literary journalist; b. Barnes, Surrey, England, Oct. 11, 1847 ; d. Nov. 17, 1922 . Her father, Thomas Thompson, was a Cambridge graduate; her mother, Christiana […]
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The Edinburgh Companion to Fin De Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts
Josephine M. Guy;Josephine M. Guy
The essays in this volume provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siècle a...
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The Edinburgh Companion to Fin De Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts
2018
The essays in this volume provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siècle and enrich our understanding of this complex period, while paying particular attention to the importance of regionalism.
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English literature--19th century--History and criticism - English literature--20th century--History and criticismContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2018
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays , appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939 : The Interwar Period
Catherine Clay;Maria DiCenzo;Catherine Clay;Maria DiCenzo
This collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of women's pri...
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Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939 : The Interwar Period
2018
This collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of women's print media and dispels the myth of the interwar decades as a retreat to home and duty'for women.
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Women's periodicals, English--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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The Folk : Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination
Ross Cole;Ross Cole
Who are'the folk'in folk music? This book traces the musical culture of these elusive ...
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The Folk : Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination
2021
Who are'the folk'in folk music? This book traces the musical culture of these elusive figures in Britain and the US during a crucial period of industrialization from 1870 to 1930, and beyond to the contemporary alt-right. Drawing on a broad, interdisciplinary range of scholarship, The Folk examines the political dimensions of a recurrent longing for folk culture and how it was called upon for radical and reactionary ends at the apex of empire. It follows an insistent set of disputes surrounding the practice of collecting, ideas of racial belonging, nationality, the poetics of nostalgia, and the pre-history of European fascism. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Ross Cole provides us with a biography of a people who exist only as a symptom of the modern imagination, and the archaeology of a landscape directing flows of global populism to this day.
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Folk songs--Political aspects--History--20th century - Folk music--Political aspects--History--19th century - Folk music--Political aspects--History--20th century - Folk songs--Political aspects--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Alfonso Reyes, Pedro Henríquez Ureña. Correspondencia, II: 1914-1924
Castañón, Adolfo;Castañón, Adolfo
La edición de esta segunda parte de la correspondencia sostenida por Alfonso Reyes (AR...
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Alfonso Reyes, Pedro Henríquez Ureña. Correspondencia, II: 1914-1924
2021; Vol. II
La edición de esta segunda parte de la correspondencia sostenida por Alfonso Reyes (AR) y Pedro Henríquez Ureña (PHU) ha contemplado varias etapas. El texto base se obtuvo de la trascripción fidedigna de las más de 300 cartas que conforman el Epistolario íntimo editado en tres tomos por Juan Jacobo de Lara en 1981 y 1983 bajo el sello de la Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña de Santo Domingo. El primer tomo es el que tuvo como referencia José Luis Martínez para su edición de Correspondencia I 1907-1914. Luego de la transcripción, realizada por Lourdes Borbolla, se procedió al cotejo y compulsa contra las fotocopias de los manuscritos originales. Estas fotocopias provienen del archivo documental de la Capilla Alfonsina en la Ciudad de México que estuvo a cargo de la doctora Alicia Reyes de 1973a 2017, así como del archivo legado por don Pedreo Henríquez Ureñaa su discípulo dominicano, el historiador Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi, cuya hija, Clara Rodríguez, permitió que el doctor Jorge Tena Reyes, especialista en la obra de Henriquez Ureña en Santo Domingo, le hiciera llegar al editor este material. Huelga decir que fue preciso ordenar debidamente dichos facsímiles antes de proceder. El texto resultante también se ha confrontado con material facilitado por el archivo personal de Pedro Henriquez Ureña, donado por su hija, Sonia Henríquez, a El Colegio de México. El cotejo entre la transcripción del epistolario y el corpus paralelo conformado por las fotocopias de las cartas originales fue realizado por Isaura Contreras y Alma Delia Hernández con la asistencia y supervisión del editor responsable, Adolfo Castañón.
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Authors, Dominican--20th century--Correspondence - Authors, Mexican--20th century--CorrespondenceContent provider:
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The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley;Neil Fraistat;Nora Crook;Percy Bysshe Shelley;Neil Fra...
This new volume of JHU Press's landmark Shelley edition contains posthumous poems edit...
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The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
2021; Vol. Volume seven
This new volume of JHU Press's landmark Shelley edition contains posthumous poems edited from original manuscripts.'The world will surely one day feel what it has lost,'wrote Mary Shelley after Percy Bysshe Shelley's premature death in July 1822. Determined to hasten that day, she recovered his unpublished and uncollected poems and sifted through his surviving notebooks and papers. In Genoa during the winter of 1822–23, she painstakingly transcribed poetry'interlined and broken into fragments, so that the sense could only be deciphered and joined by guesses.'Blasphemy and sedition laws prevented her from including her husband's most outspoken radical works, but the resulting volume, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824), was a magnificent display of Shelley's versatility and craftsmanship between 1816 and 1822. Few such volumes have made more difference to an author's reputation. The seventh volume of the acclaimed Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley extracts from Posthumous Poems those original poems and fragments Mary Shelley edited. The collection opens with Shelley's enigmatic dream vision The Triumph of Life, the last major poem he began—and, in the opinion of T. S. Eliot, the finest thing he ever wrote. There follow some of the most famous and beautiful of Shelley's short lyrics, narrative fragments, two unfinished plays, and other previously unreleased pieces. Upholding the standards of accuracy and comprehensiveness set by previous volumes, every item in Volume 7 has been newly edited from the original manuscripts, in some cases superseding texts that have stood since 1870. Extensive appendixes contain Mary Shelley's preface to Posthumous Poems, Shelley's source for'Ginevra,'and preparatory material for his play Charles the First. Wide-ranging discussions of the poems'composition, influences, publication, circulation, reception, and critical history accompany detailed records of textual variants for each work. The editorial overview and commentaries offer insights into Mary Shelley's editorial strategies while proposing surprising new contexts and redatings. Volumes 4 to 6 are in preparation.
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Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience
Christian Parreno;Christian Parreno
Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is both cause ...
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Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience
2021
Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is both cause and effect of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surroundings. As such, this book argues, boredom shares an intimate relationship with architecture-one that has been seldom explored in architectural history and theory. Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience investigates that relationship, showing how an understanding of boredom affords us a new way of looking at and understanding the modern experience. It reconstructs a series of episodes in architectural history, from the 19th century to the present, to survey how boredom became a normalized component of the everyday, how it infiltrated into the production and reception of architecture, and how it serves to diagnose moments of crisis in the continuous transformations of the built environment. Erudite and innovative, the work moves deftly from architectural theory and philosophy to literature and psychology to make its case. Combining archival material, scholarly sources, and illuminating excerpts from conversations with practitioners and thinkers-including Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas, Sylvia Lavin, and Jorge Silvetti-it reveals the complexity and importance of boredom in architecture.
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Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century : Looking Like a Woman
Hilary Fraser;Hilary Fraser
This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a m...
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Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century : Looking Like a Woman
2014; Vol. 00095
This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a masculine field. It investigates the importance of female writers from Anna Jameson, Elizabeth Eastlake and George Eliot to Alice Meynell , Vernon Lee and Michael Field in developing a discourse of art notable for its complexity and cultural power, its increasing professionalism and reach, and its integration with other discourses of modernity. Proposing a more flexible and inclusive model of what constitutes art historical writing, including fiction, poetry and travel literature, this book offers a radically revisionist account of the genealogy of a discipline and a profession. It shows how women experienced forms of professional exclusion that, whilst detrimental to their careers, could be aesthetically formative; how working from the margins of established institutional structures gave women the freedom to be audaciously experimental in their writing about art in ways that resonate with modern readers.
