Flora's Fieldworkers : Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Ann Shteir;Ann Shteir
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When Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she...
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Flora's Fieldworkers : Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada
2022
When Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she brought along with her ties to British botanical culture. Nonetheless, when she arrived she encountered a new natural landscape and, like other women chronicled in this book, set out to advance the botanical knowledge of the time from the Canadian field.Flora's Fieldworkers employs biography, botanical data, herbaria specimens, archival sources, letters, institutional records, book history, and abundant artwork to reconstruct the ways in which women studied and understood plants in the nineteenth century. It features figures ranging from elite women involved in imperial botanical projects in British North America to settler-colonial women in Ontario and Australia – most of whom were scarcely visible in the historical record – who were active in “plant work” as collectors, writers, artists, craft workers, teachers, and organizers. Understood as an appropriate pastime for genteel ladies, botany offered women pathways to scientific education, financial autonomy, and self-expression. The call for more diverse voices in the present must look to the past as well. Bringing botany to historians and historians to botany, Flora's Fieldworkers gathers compelling material about women in colonial and imperial Canada and Australia to take a new look at how we came to know what we know about plants.
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Women botanists--Canada--History--19th century - Women botanists--Canada--Biography - Botany--Canada--History--19th century - Women in botany--Canada--History--19th century - Botanists--Canada--History--19th century - Botanists--Canada--BiographyContent provider:
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Diana Donald;Diana Donald
This is the first book to explore women's leading role in animal protection in ninetee...
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2020
This is the first book to explore women's leading role in animal protection in nineteenth-century Britain, drawing on rich archival sources. Women founded bodies such as the Battersea Dogs'Home, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and various groups that opposed vivisection. They energetically promoted better treatment of animals, both through practical action and through their writings, such as Anna Sewell's Black Beauty. Yet their efforts were frequently belittled by opponents, or decried as typifying female ‘sentimentality'and hysteria. Only the development of feminism in the later Victorian period enabled women to show that spontaneous fellow-feeling with animals was a civilising force. Women's own experience of oppressive patriarchy bonded them with animals, who equally suffered from the dominance of masculine values in society, and from an assumption that all-powerful humans were entitled to exploit animals at will.
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Animal rights activists--Great Britain--History--19th century - Women--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century - Animal welfare--Great Britain--History--19th century - Women and animals--Great Britain--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Lindsay Rose Russell;Lindsay Rose Russell
Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of...
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2018
Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and how they are used. Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical , rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism - English language--Lexicography--History - Sex role--Great Britain--History - Women in lexicography--Great BritainContent provider:
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Romanticism and Women Poets : Opening the Doors of Reception
Harriet Kramer Linkin;Stephen C. Behrendt;Harriet Kramer Linkin;Stephen C. ...
One of the most exciting developments in Romantic studies in the past decade has been ...
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Romanticism and Women Poets : Opening the Doors of Reception
2015
One of the most exciting developments in Romantic studies in the past decade has been the rediscovery and repositioning of women poets as vital and influential members of the Romantic literary community. This is the first volume to focus on women poets of this era and to consider how their historical reception challenges current conceptions of Romanticism. With a broad, revisionist view, the essays examine the poetry these women produced, what the poets thought about themselves and their place in the contemporary literary scene, and what the recovery of their works says about current and past theoretical frameworks.The contributors focus their attention on such poets as Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld, Mary Lamb, and Fanny Kemble and argue for a significant rethinking of Romanticism as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon. Grounding their consideration of the poets in cultural, social, intellectual, and aesthetic concerns, the authors contest the received wisdom about Romantic poetry, its authors, its themes, and its audiences. Some of the essays examine the ways in which many of the poets sought to establish stable positions and identities for themselves, while others address the changing nature over time of the reputations of these women poets.
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Canon (Literature) - Romanticism--Great Britain - Feminist poetry, English--History and criticism - English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism - English poetry--19th century--History and criticism - Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century - Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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History of Woman Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton;Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This file includes all six volumes, told by the heroines who fought for the women's vo...
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History of Woman Suffrage
2018
This file includes all six volumes, told by the heroines who fought for the women's vote.. According to the Preface, this book is'Woven with the threads of this (Woman's suffrage) history, we have given some personal reminiscences and brief biographical sketches.'According to Wikipedia,'Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States. Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the United States, and Europe, and averaged 75 to 100 speeches per year. Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (Cicero, New York, March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898 in Chicago) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was'born with a hatred of oppression. Ida Husted Harper (February 18, 1851 – March 14, 1931) was a prominent figure in the United States women's suffrage movement. She was an American author and journalist who wrote primarily to document the movement and show support of its ideals.'
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Women's rights--United States--History--Sources - Feminism--United States--History--Sources - Women--Suffrage--United States--History - Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Alexis Easley;Clare Gill;Alexis Easley;Clare Gill
The period covered in this volume witnessed the proliferation of print culture and the...
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2019
The period covered in this volume witnessed the proliferation of print culture and the greater availability of periodicals for an increasingly diverse audience of women readers. This was also a significant period in women's history, in which the ‘Woman Question'dominated public debate, and writers and commentators from a range of perspectives engaged with ideas and ideals about womanhood ranging from the ‘Angel in the House'to the New Woman . Essays in this collection gather together expertise from leading scholars as well as emerging new voices in order to produce sustained analysis of underexplored periodicals and authors and to reveal in new ways the dynamic and integral relationship between women's history and print culture in Victorian society.
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Women's periodicals, English--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940
Rosie Dias;Kate Smith;Rosie Dias;Kate Smith
Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, colle...
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British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940
2018
Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors allowed British women scope to express their responses to imperial sites and experiences in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Taking these productions as its archive, British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1775-1930 includes a collection of essays from different disciplines that consider the role of British women's cultural practices and productions in conceptualising empire. While such productions have started to receive greater scholarly attention, this volume uses a more self-conscious lens of gender to question whether female cultural work demonstrates that colonial women engaged with the spaces and places of empire in distinctive ways. By working across disciplines, centuries and different colonial geographies, the volume makes an exciting and important contribution to the field by demonstrating the diverse ways in which European women shaped constructions of empire in the modern period.
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Women and the arts--Great Britain - Women--Great Britain--Social conditionsContent provider:
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The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
Elizabeth Ewan;Rose Pipes;Elizabeth Ewan;Rose Pipes
With fascinating lives on every page, the Dictionary offers concise entries that illus...
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The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
2018
With fascinating lives on every page, the Dictionary offers concise entries that illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to the early twenty-first century, as well as the worldwide Scottish diaspora.
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Women--Scotland--BiographyContent provider:
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Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750–1850: Seducing the Reader
Readioff, Corrina;Readioff, Corrina
The first book-length investigation of the history of pre-chapter epigraphs in the Eng...
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Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750–1850: Seducing the Reader
2023
The first book-length investigation of the history of pre-chapter epigraphs in the English novelOffers detailed insight into the development and function of the epigraph from 1750 to 1850Demonstrates the enduring versatility of the epigraph and of paratextual approaches to literary criticismPresents a survey of pre-chapter paratext in English fiction first-published between 1750 and 1850, drawing upon a dataset of nearly 6000 novelsProvides case studies of epigraphs in the works of canonical authors (e.g. Radcliffe, Lewis, Scott, and Gaskell), and places these within a wider context of epigraphic and literary development in fiction by influential, though less well-known, writers (Chaigneau, Helme, Stannard Barrett, Gore)Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750-1850 uncovers the early history of the epigraph, narrating the surprising story of how this long-overlooked feature morphed from moral didactic heading to Gothic tag-line to witty realist commentary within a single century. Adorning fictional narratives of rakes and sex workers, oppressed heroines and Jacobite heroes, the epigraph has been used by authors to preach, teach, amuse, or even completely misdirect their readers. Supported by a survey of pre-chapter paratext in nearly 6000 novels from 1750 to 1850, this monograph explores the changing influences upon and functions of epigraphs over time via detailed close readings and literary criticism. Focusing upon key generic developments, this book adopts a case-study style format to examine epigraphic usage in the works of canonical authors including Sarah Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott, and Elizabeth Gaskell alongside those of less well-known novelists such as William Chaigneau, Elizabeth Helme, and Catherine Gore.
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English fiction--19th century--History and criticism - English fiction--18th century--History and criticism - Epigraphs (Literature)Content provider:
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Conspiracy and Consent in International Perspective - Historical and Cultural Representations
Bellesiles,Michael;Portis, Larry;Zitomersky Joseph;Bellesiles,Michael;Porti...
This book examines the dynamic interrelationship of conspiracy and consent, and the im...
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Conspiracy and Consent in International Perspective - Historical and Cultural Representations
2018
This book examines the dynamic interrelationship of conspiracy and consent, and the implications this dance of political engagement has for democracy. The timeliness and relevance of this subject has captured the attention of scholars around the world as conspiracy theories become ever more common and influential, and even form the basis for the conduct of many contemporary nations. But there is more to this book than just an examination of the nature of conspiracy theories. Real conspiracies, such as those committed by the CIA, break the social contract and foster a belief in ever wilder conspiracy theories. Yet to write on conspiracies often leads to charges of embracing paranoia. As a multidisciplinary international effort that combines a theoretical interest with specific case studies of different contexts from the seventeenth century to our own times, concerning largely, but not only, the United States, this exploratory book hopes to set the stage for a better informed and more nuanced examination of a topic of enormous importance to the functioning of democratic societies. There are many obvious lessons to be learned from the workings and popularity of conspiracy theories; but nothing will be learned unless we enter into an open and honest discussion of the issues involved. It is time to end the conspiracy of silence.
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Conspiracy theories--History--Congresses - Conspiracy--History--Congresses - Consensus (Social sciences)--History--Congresses - Democracy--History--CongressesContent provider:
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Andrew O. Winckles;Angela Rehbein;Andrew O. Winckles;Angela Rehbein
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press web...
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2017
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. The eighteenth century witnessed the rapid expansion of social, political, religious and literary networks in Great Britain. Increased availability of and access to print combined with the ease with which individuals could correspond across distance ensured that it was easier than ever before for writers to enter into the marketplace of ideas. However, we still lack a complex understanding of how literary networks functioned, what the term ‘network'means in context, and how women writers in particular adopted and adapted to the creative possibilities of networks. This collection of essays address these issues from a variety of perspectives, arguing that networks not only provided women with access to the literary marketplace, but fundamentally altered how they related to each other, to their literary production, and to the broader social sphere. By examining the texts and networks of authors as diverse as Sally Wesley, Elizabeth Hamilton, Susanna Watts, Elizabeth Heyrick, Joanna Baillie, Mary Berry, Mary Russell Mitford, Mary Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, this volume demonstrates that attention to the scope and influence of women's literary networks upends long standing assumptions about gender, literary influence and authorial formation during the Romantic period. Furthermore, it suggests that we must rethink what counts as literature in the Romantic period, how we read it, and how we draw the boundaries of Romanticism.
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English literature--18th century--History and criticism - Romanticism--Great Britain - Women authors, English--Social networks--Great Britain--History--18th century - Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century - English literature--Women authors--History and criticismContent provider:
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Death and Dying in Ireland, Britain and Europe - Historical Perspectives
Kelly, James;Lyons, Mary Ann;Kelly, James;Lyons, Mary Ann
Death and Dying in Ireland, Britain, and Europe provides a unique new perspective on I...
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Death and Dying in Ireland, Britain and Europe - Historical Perspectives
2013
Death and Dying in Ireland, Britain, and Europe provides a unique new perspective on Irish history and is a truly multi-disciplinary and dynamic approach to an emerging style called the'new social history.'It is a pioneering book that presents a history of death and dying in Ireland and Europe, from pre-history to the 20th century, focusing on virtually every era and from a diverse and broad range of perspectives. Martyrdom is examined through the phenomenon of the hunger strike and its impact on Irish life, and in particular, the Cork and Brixton hunger strikes of 1920. The history of suicide is discussed through the self-inflicted death of Theobald Wolfe Tone, probably the most famous case of suicide in Irish history. The book also presents new research into varieties of death during the famines of 1740-41 and 1845-49. Additionally, it looks at the problematic nature of accounting death during the War of Independence. Other topics covered range from obituary notices in provincial newspapers and burials in medieval Ireland, to the attitude to death of the French revolutionaries.
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Thanatology - Death--Psychological aspects - Death--Social aspects--HistoryContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Women in American History
Joyce Appleby;Eileen Chang;Joanne Goodwin;Joyce Appleby;Eileen Chang;Joanne...
This illustrated encyclopedia examines the unique influence and contributions of women...
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Encyclopedia of Women in American History
2015
This illustrated encyclopedia examines the unique influence and contributions of women in every era of American history, from the colonial period to the present. It not only covers the issues that have had an impact on women , but also traces the influence of women's achievements on society as a whole. Divided into three chronologically arranged volumes, the set includes historical surveys and thematic essays on central issues and political changes affecting women's lives during each period. These are followed by A-Z entries on significant events and social movements, laws, court cases and more, as well as profiles of notable American women from all walks of life and all fields of endeavor. Primary sources and original documents are included throughout.
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Women--United States--History--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Canada to Ireland : Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism, 1788–1900
Michele Holmgren;Michele Holmgren
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Irish writers played a key role in transat...
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Canada to Ireland : Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism, 1788–1900
2021; Vol. 00258
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Irish writers played a key role in transatlantic cultural conversations – among Canada, Britain, France, America, and Indigenous nations – that shaped Canadian nationalism. Nationalism in Ireland was likewise influenced by the literary works of Irish migrants and visitors to Canada.Canada to Ireland explores the poetry and prose of twelve Irish writers and nationalists in Canada between 1788 and 1900, including Thomas Moore, Adam Kidd, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, James McCarroll, Nicholas Flood Davin, and Isabella Valancy Crawford. Many of these writers were involved in Irish political causes, including those of the Patriots, the United Irish, Emancipation, Repeal, and Young Ireland, and their work explores the similar ways in which nationalists in Ireland and Indigenous and settler communities in Canada retained their cultural identities and sought autonomy from Britain. Initially writing for an audience in Ireland, they highlighted features of the landscape and culture that they regarded as distinctively Canadian and that were later invoked as powerful unifying symbols by Canadian nationalists. Michele Holmgren shows how these Irish writers and movements are essential to understanding the tenor of early Canadian literary nationalism and political debates concerning Confederation, imperial unity, and western expansion.Canada to Ireland convincingly demonstrates that Canadian cultural nationalism left its mark on both countries. Contemporary decolonization movements in Canada and current cultural exchanges between Ireland and Indigenous peoples make this a timely and relevant study.
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Nationalism in literature - Politics in literature - National characteristics, Canadian, in literature - Canadian literature--Irish authors--History and criticism - Canadian literature--19th century--History and criticism - Canadian literature--Irish influencesContent provider:
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Questioning Nature : British Women's Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750–1830
Melissa Bailes;Melissa Bailes
In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously cla...
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Questioning Nature : British Women's Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750–1830
2017
In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis. These writers complained that modern poets plagiarized classical authors as well as one another, asserted that no new subjects for verse remained, and feared poetry's complete exhaustion. Questioning Nature explores how major women writers of the era—including Mary Shelley, Anna Barbauld, and Charlotte Smith—turned in response to developing disciplines of natural history such as botany, zoology, and geology. Recognizing the sociological implications of inquiries in the natural sciences, these authors renovated notions of originality through natural history while engaging with questions of the day. Classifications, hierarchies, and definitions inherent in natural history were appropriated into discussions of gender, race, and nation. Further, their concerns with authorship, authority, and novelty led them to experiment with textual hybridities and collaborative modes of originality that competed with conventional ideas of solitary genius.Exploring these authors and their work, Questioning Nature explains how these women writers'imaginative scientific writing unveiled a new genealogy for Romantic originality, both shaping the literary canon and ultimately leading to their exclusion from it.
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English literature--18th century--History and criticism - English literature--Women authors--History and criticism - Natural history in literature - Women authors, EnglishContent provider:
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Rosemary Sweet;Penelope Lane;Rosemary Sweet;Penelope Lane
Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and eco...
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2016
Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century British towns, remarkably little has focused upon, or even reflected upon the distinctive experience of women in the urban context. Much of what research there is has explored the experience of laboring or impoverished women , or women of the social elite; by contrast, the essays in this collection take up the study of the participation of middling women in urban life. This volume brings into sharper focus the relationship between changes consequent upon urban development and shifts in the pattern of gender relations in the 18th century. The contributors address such themes as the extent to which to what extent urban change accelerated a redefinition of gender relations; the connections between urban growth, changing definitions of citizenship, and the emergence of the male gendered political subject; the role of women in a literate, consumer and industrializing society; the place of women's networks in the economic, political and social life of the town and the distinctive role played by women in areas such as philanthropy and business; and how the development of urban society in turn inflected contemporary conceputalizations of gender.
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Women--England--History--18th century--Congresses - City and town life--England--History--18th century--CongressesContent provider:
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Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology
Jonathan McCollum;David G. Hebert;Jonathan McCollum;David G. Hebert
Historical ethnomusicology is increasingly acknowledged as a significant emerging subf...
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Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology
Historical ethnomusicology is increasingly acknowledged as a significant emerging subfield of ethnomusicology due to the fact that historical research requires a different set of theories and methods than studies of contemporary practices and many historiographic techniques are rapidly transforming as a result of new technologies. In 2005, Bruno Nettl observed that “the term ‘historical ethnomusicology'has begun to appear in programs of conferences and in publications” (Nettl 2005, 274), and as recently as 2012 scholars similarly noted “an increasing concern with the writing of musical histories in ethnomusicology” (Ruskin and Rice 2012, 318). Relevant positions recently advanced by other authors include that historical musicologists are “all ethnomusicologists now” and that “all ethnomusicology is historical ” (Stobart, 2008), yet we sense that such arguments—while useful, and theoretically correct—may ultimately distract from careful consideration of the kinds of contemporary theories and rigorous methods uniquely suited to historical inquiry in the field of music. In Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology, editors Jonathan McCollum and David Hebert, along with contributors Judah Cohen, Chris Goertzen, Keith Howard, Ann Lucas, Daniel Neuman, and Diane Thram systematically demonstrate various ways that new approaches to historiography––and the related application of new technologies––impact the work of ethnomusicologists who seek to meaningfully represent music traditions across barriers of both time and space. Contributors specializing in historical musics of Armenia, Iran, India, Japan, southern Africa, American Jews, and southern fiddling traditions of the United States describe the opening of new theoretical approaches and methodologies for research on global music history. In the Foreword, Keith Howard offers his perspective on historical ethnomusicology and the importance of reconsidering theories and methods applicable to this field for the enhancement of musical understandings in the present and future.
2014
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Historical ethnomusicology - Music--HistoriographyContent provider:
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The Elocutionists : Women , Music, and the Spoken Word
Marian Wilson Kimber;Marian Wilson Kimber
Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a ne...
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The Elocutionists : Women , Music, and the Spoken Word
2017
Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women --achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists transgressed the previous boundaries between private and public domains. Their performances advocated for female agency while also contributing to a new social construction of gender. Elocutionists, proud purveyors of wholesome entertainment, pointedly contrasted their'acceptable'feminine attributes against those of morally suspect actresses. As Wilson Kimber shows, their influence far outlived their heyday. Women , the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, did nothing less than create a tradition that helped shape the history of American music.
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Women and literature--United States--History--20th century - Women performance artists--United States - Women and literature--United States--History--19th century - Oral interpretation - Elocutionists--United States - Oral reading - Choral speaking - Music theater--United States - Readers' theaterContent provider:
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Religious Individualisation : Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives
Martin Fuchs;Antje Linkenbach;Martin Mulsow;Bernd-Christian Otto;Rahul Bjør...
This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project ‘Religious ...
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Religious Individualisation : Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives
2019
This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective'(Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods, in particular in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past. Contrary to standard theories of modernisation, which tend to regard religious individualisation as a specifically modern or early modern as well as an essentially Western or Christian phenomenon, the chapters reveal processes of religious individualisation in a large variety of non-Western and pre-modern scenarios. Furthermore, the volume challenges prevalent views that regard religions primarily as collective phenomena and provides nuanced perspectives on the appropriation of religious agency, the pluralisation of religious options, dynamics of de-traditionalisation and privatisation, the development of elaborated notions of the self, the facilitation of religious deviance, and on the notion of dividuality.
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Self--Religious aspects--History - Individualism--Religious aspects--HistoryContent provider:
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The Woman Reader
Jack, Belinda Elizabeth;Jack, Belinda Elizabeth
This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading ...
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The Woman Reader
2012
This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages.Jack traces a history marked by persistent efforts to prevent women from gaining literacy or reading what they wished. She also recounts the counter-efforts of those who have battled for girls'access to books and education. The book introduces frustrated female readers of many eras—Babylonian princesses who called for women's voices to be heard, rebellious nuns who wanted to share their writings with others, confidantes who challenged Reformation theologians'writings, nineteenth-century New England mill girls who risked their jobs to smuggle novels into the workplace, and women volunteers who taught literacy to women and children on convict ships bound for Australia.Today, new distinctions between male and female readers have emerged, and Jack explores such contemporary topics as burgeoning women's reading groups, differences in men and women's reading tastes, censorship of women's on-line reading in countries like Iran, the continuing struggle for girls'literacy in many poorer places, and the impact of women readers in their new status as significant movers in the world of reading.
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Girls--Books and reading--Social aspects--History - Women--Books and reading--History - Women--Books and reading--Social aspects--History - Girls--Books and reading--HistoryContent provider:
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Author in Chief : The Presidents As Writers From Washington to Trump
Michael B. Costanzo;Michael B. Costanzo
With the publication of his Personal Memoirs in 1885, Ulysses S. Grant established wha...
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Author in Chief : The Presidents As Writers From Washington to Trump
2019
With the publication of his Personal Memoirs in 1885, Ulysses S. Grant established what is today known as the presidential memoir. Every U.S. president since Benjamin Harrison has written one and many have turned to other forms of writing, as well. This book covers the history of works--including autobiographies, diaries, political manifestos, speeches, fiction and poetry--authored by U.S. presidents and published prior to, during or after their terms. The writing was easy for some, harder for others, with varying success, from literary comebacks and bestsellers to false starts and failures.
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Presidents' writings, American--History and criticism - Statesmen as authors--United States - Publishers and publishing--United StatesContent provider:
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Transatlantic Upper Canada : Portraits in Literature Land and British-Indigenous Relations
Kevin Hutchings;Kevin Hutchings
Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural an...
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Transatlantic Upper Canada : Portraits in Literature Land and British-Indigenous Relations
2020; Vol. 00002
Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature, ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and land rights. In the first detailed study of literary interactions between Indigenous people and colonial authorities in Upper Canada and Britain, Kevin Hutchings analyzes the period's key figures and the central role that romanticism, ecology, and environment played in their writings. Investigating the ties that bound Upper Canada and Great Britain together during the early nineteenth century, Transatlantic Upper Canada demonstrates the existence of a cosmopolitan culture whose implications for the land and its people are still felt today. The book examines the writings of Haudenosaunee leaders John Norton and John Brant and Anishinabeg authors Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Peter Jones, and George Copway, as well as European figures John Beverley Robinson, John Strachan, Anna Brownell Jameson , and Sir Francis Bond Head. Hutchings argues that, despite their cultural differences, many factors connected these writers, including shared literary interests, cross-Atlantic journeys, metropolitan experiences, mutual acquaintance, and engagement in ongoing dialogue over Indigenous territory and governance. A close examination of relationships between peoples and their understandings of land, Transatlantic Upper Canada creates a rich portrait of the nineteenth-century British Atlantic world and the cultural and environmental consequences of colonialism and resistance.
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Ecology in literature - Environmentalism in literature - Canadian literature--Ontario--19th century--History and criticism - Canadian literature--Indian authors--History and criticism - RomanticismContent provider:
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Thinking Against the Current : Literature and Political Resistance
Sybil Oldfield;Sybil Oldfield
This collection of literary/historical essays, written 1970-2010, covers political sub...
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Thinking Against the Current : Literature and Political Resistance
2015
This collection of literary/historical essays, written 1970-2010, covers political subjects as diverse as 17th Century Quaker persecution history, the social impact of Malthus, the self-emancipation of English women , Eleanor Rathbone on the human rights of girls and German women's resistance to Hitler. The more literary subjects include the social thinking of the English Romantics, Dickens'Great Expectations, Simone Weil's great essays attacking militarism and Virginia Woolf's opposition to the State -- as well as contemporary American women poets on the problem of war. But despite all its diversity, this collection has one unifying theme -- the necessity for resistance, for thinking against the current', as Virginia Woolf wrote in Thoughts on Peace in an Air-raid'. The torch of resistance to oppression and militarism is shown to have been continuously handed on through the generations from the seventeenth century to our own day by men and women who had the courage, at whatever personal cost, to'fight with the mind'. This book of passionate, lively essays is not merely a treasure trove for biographical researchers; it is also strengthening medicine, introducing us to unfamiliar forebears who can help us in our current struggle for a better world. As Simone Weil said:'We can find something better than ourselves in the past'.
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Politics in literature - Women--Political activity--History - Feminism--History - Political participation in literatureContent provider:
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The Ladies of Llangollen : Desire, Indeterminacy, and the Legacies of Criticism
Fiona Brideoake;Fiona Brideoake
The Ladies of Llangollen is the first book length critical study of Lady Eleanor Butle...
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The Ladies of Llangollen : Desire, Indeterminacy, and the Legacies of Criticism
2017
The Ladies of Llangollen is the first book length critical study of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, whose 1778 elopement and five decades of “retirement” turned them into eighteenth century celebrities and pivotal figures in the historiography of female same-sex desire. Debates within the history of sexuality have long foundered over questions of what constitutes “proof” of past sexual desires and practices, and the nature of Butler and Ponsonby's intimacy has been deemed inimical to productive critical consideration. In this ground-breaking study Fiona Brideoake attends to the archive of their shared life—written, performed, and enacted in the vernacular of the everyday—to argue that they embodied an early iteration of female celebrity in which their queerness registered less as the mark of some specified non-normativity than as the effect of their very public, very visible resistance to sexual legibility. Throughout their lives and afterlives, Butler and Ponsonby have been figured as chaste romantic friends, prototypical lesbians, Bluestockings, Romantic domestic archetypes, and proleptically feminist modernists. The Ladies of Langollen demonstrates that this heterogeneous legacy discloses the queerness of their performatively instantiated identities.
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Upper class women--Ireland--Kilkenny (County)--Biography - Female friendship--Wales--Llangollen--History - Couples--Wales--Llangollen--Biography - Lesbianism in literature - Female friendship in literatureContent provider:
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American Honor : The Creation of the Nation's Ideals During the Revolutionary Era
Craig Bruce Smith;Craig Bruce Smith
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also...
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American Honor : The Creation of the Nation's Ideals During the Revolutionary Era
2018
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as'honor'and'virtue.'As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans'ideological break from Europe and shared by all ranks of society. Focusing his study primarily on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution—notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington—Smith shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains.By also interweaving individuals and groups that have historically been excluded from the discussion of honor—such as female thinkers, women patriots, slaves, and free African Americans—Smith makes a broad and significant argument about how the Revolutionary era witnessed a fundamental shift in ethical ideas. This thoughtful work sheds new light on a forgotten cause of the Revolution and on the ideological foundation of the United States.
