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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2015Margaret Cavendish
by Emma Rees
Margaret Cavendish was one of the most prolific, complex and misunderstood writers of the seventeenth century. A contemporary of Descartes and Hobbes, she was fascinated by philosophical, scientific and imaginative advances, and struggled to overcome the political and cultural obstacles which threatened to stop her engagement with such discourses. Emma Rees examines how Cavendish engaged with the work of thinkers such as Lucretius, Plato, Homer and Harvey in an attempt to write her way out of the exile which threatened not only her intellectual pursuits but her very existence. What emerges is the image of an intelligent, audacious and intrepid early modern woman whose tale will appeal to specialists and general readers alike. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2003The poetry of Carol Ann Duffy
Choosing tough words
by Angelica Michelis, Anthony Rowland
The first full-length collection of essays on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy's poetry is both respected by academics, and widely read and enjoyed by both children and adults. Approaches Duffy's work from a variety of literary theoretical perspectives, including feminism, masculinity, national identity and post-structuralism. Situates Duffy's work in relation to current debates about the state, value and social relevance of contemporary British poetry. Will become the benchmark anthology on Duffy. ;
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Genealogy, heraldry, names & honoursMay 2015Anne Clifford's Great Books of Record
by Jessica L. Malay
In her Great Books of Record Anne Clifford places herself within the dynamic history of the ancient Clifford family, providing an unbroken view into medieval and early modern life for nearly six centuries. In this annotated edition, we glimpse the lives of simple widows, traders, farmers, and labourers juxtaposed with the adventures of soldiers, lords and ladies, princes and princesses. Throughout, Anne Clifford asserts the centrality of women to the success of noble families, including the monarchy. Her Great Books draws upon medieval traditions and early modern scholarship and builds upon these through biographies of the Clifford lords and ladies, along with an extended biography of her mother Margaret Russell and her own autobiographical 'Life of Mee'. Those interested in the lives of medieval and early modern women, changes in culture, the effect of the political upon individuals, and the inspiring life of Anne Clifford will find this a rich and rewarding book.
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October 2017Not Our Day to Die
by Michael Sullivan
It was work for Mike Sullivan–a flying job like the ones he'd done most of his life in many parts of the world–ferrying people, medicine, crops, supplies and almost anything else you can think of among the isolated jungle villages of Guatemala. Life in the farming co-ops there was simple, peaceful, and good, based on bedrocks of family, community, and faith.Then the repression began. A failed attempt at a coup had led to continued fighting between rebels and government, though in areas far from the almost-utopian Ixcan region. U.S. military and CIA intervention helped defeat the insurgency, but the social inequalities that had led to the movement remained, and the revolution went underground. The Guatemalan army, searching everywhere for those who opposed it, increased its control over the isolated jungle area. Co-op directors, teachers, catechists, and then anyone suspected of being one of or assisting the guerrillas was selectively "disappeared." The army turned to a scorched-earth policy, killing animals, burning crops, uprooting fruit trees, destroying towns, massacring their people. Throughout the Ixcan, those who survived fled. Some returned to their original mountain villages, others crossed the border into Mexico, and a third group survived for sixteen years hiding in the jungle–men, women, and children. Primeval growth took over the land as the war with the guerrilla movement raged on to encompass the entire nation.When finally peace accords were signed, the people of the Ixcan returned. Homes were rebuilt, land reclaimed, the area thrived again. But sixteen years were lost, along with countless lives. For Mike Sullivan, who had returned there when his help was needed, the story of those years–of how the people of the Ixcan survived, and of the many who didn't–was one that had to be told. In three visits, he conducted the interviews that form this book, talking with the villagers he'd known long before. At first, they spoke hesitantly, then with the flood force of vivid memory, telling of their first arrival at the Ixcan, the lives they'd made, and the years of the repression and worse. Their stories are gripping, fascinating, painful–but most of all, deeply human as we witness their struggle to survive and feel the force of the simple values that ultimately carried them through to a new and better life.
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March 2016Verbannt!
Versepos
by Ann Cotten, Ann Cotten
Tosende Palmen, ein Rascheln im Sellerie, ein Tiger verschwindet, in der Ferne detoniert eine Atombombe, und das Bewusstsein beginnt, rückwärts zu laufen. Es gehört einer Fernsehmoderatorin, die aufgrund wiederholten Fehlverhaltens auf eine einsame Insel verbannt wurde, ausgestattet nach eigener Wahl mit Messer, Schleifstein und Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Doch sie ist nicht allein. Hier sind schon fünfundzwanzig Matrosen, die in den Jahren seit ihrem Schiffbruch eine beachtliche kleine Parallelgesellschaft aufgebaut haben, sie heißt Hegelland. Ursprünglich Quäker, hängen sie jetzt der selbsterfundenen Schraubenreligion an und unterhalten in arbeitsamer Kulturleistung drei Pressen von kontinuierlich steigender Druckqualität. Was wird nun angesichts der ersten Frau passieren, und was, wenn mehr kommen? In 399 Neo-Spenser-Strophen schildert Ann Cotten die Turbulenzen, die nach einer weiblichen Flüchtlingswelle aus dem Internet in Hegelland entstehen. Die verschuldeten Prothesenträgerinnen werden unwillentlich zum Katalysator einer schon lange schwelenden Konterrevolution. Mithilfe von Reimen, Anspielungen, synästhetischen Zwängen und großer Anschaulichkeit wird dieser luzide Alptraum auch in Ihr Bewusstsein gehämmert.
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April 2007Fremdwörterbuchsonette
Gedichte
by Ann Cotten
Mit wenig Assoziationen beschwert; künstlich, neu oder nur vorübergehend im Sprachgebrauch – Fremdwörter scheinen sich für ihre Existenz zu entschuldigen: »Ich erfülle hier nur Begriffsfunktion, habe einen Arbeitsplatz inne, für den es im Moment keinen qualifizierten Deutschen gibt.« Können sie das ernst meinen? Ann Cotten baut sie in die ratternden Denkmaschinen ihrer Gedichte ein: jugendliches Ungestüm im sonettischen Gewand, das klipp und klar Gedachte, die Liebe mit ihren Rückkopplungen. Pete Doherty, Patti Smith und Sappho geistern mit unbekannten DJs und freundlichen Allegorien durch die nächtlichen Verse und wachen am anderen Tag in einem Sprachsubstrat auf, das ihnen ganz fremd vorkommen muß.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2024Ireland and the Renaissance court
by David Edwards, Brendan Kane
Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c. 1450-1650. Chapters are contributed by both established and emergent scholars working in the fields of history, literary studies, and philology. They focus on Gaelic cúirteanna, the indigenous centres of aristocratic life throughout the medieval period; on the regnal court of the emergent British empire based in London at Whitehall; and on Irish participation in the wider world of European elite life and letters. Collectively, they expand the chronological limits of 'early modern' Ireland to include the fifteenth century and recreate its multi-lingual character through exploration of its English, Irish and Latin archives. This volume is an innovative effort at moving beyond binary approaches to English-Irish history by demonstrating points of contact as well as contention.
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December 2012Anne Elliot
oder Die Kunst der Überredung. Roman
by Jane Austen, Margarete Rauchenberger
Die lebensfrohe und kluge Anne Elliot beging den Fehler ihres Lebens: Vor Jahren ließ sie sich von ihrer selbstsüchtigen Familie dazu überreden, den Heiratsantrag des bürgerlichen und mittellosen Frederick Wentworth auszuschlagen. Überwunden hat sie den Verlust ihrer großen Liebe allerdings nie. Als sie eines Tages dem inzwischen erfolgreichen und geachteten Captain Wentworth wieder gegenübersteht, sind ihre Gefühle stärker als je zuvor – doch gibt es für ihre Liebe eine zweite Chance?
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2014Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530
by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony.
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October 2013Der schaudernde Fächer
Erzählungen
by Ann Cotten
»Ein paar Geliebte hatte ich, die wie Teeschalen waren, in die ich mich jeden Abend vertiefen wollte.« Die das sagt, ist nicht die Sorte Mensch, sich von Rührung beeindrucken zu lassen. Aber der traurige Student im Pierrotkostüm fällt ihr auf. Und als er eines Abends auf der Treppe vor ihr sitzt, nimmt sie ihn mit. Der Hof einer japanischen Universität, ein abgelegenes Dorf in der Ukraine, Berliner Clubs, ein Bus, der sich seinen Weg durch die nächtliche algerische Wüste sucht – das sind nur ein paar der Orte, an denen die Helden dieser Erzählungen unterwegs sind, immer in den einen oder anderen Anblick versunken, immer bereit, vor der Liebe die Flucht zu ergreifen, um der Schönheit selbst ins Gesicht zu sehen. Schwungvoll spannt Ann Cotten einen schillernden Fächer auf – aquarellierte Seegurken auf der einen Seite, auf der anderen Menschen in Liebeswirren. Die Wendigkeit ihrer Lyrik findet sich auch in diesen Erzählungen: Sie sind verspielt und zynisch, offenherzig und doch unwiderstehlich.
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Business, Economics & LawMay 2020Medicine, patients and the law
Sixth edition
by Margaret Brazier, Emma Cave
Embryo research, cloning, assisted conception, neonatal care, saviour siblings, organ transplants, drug trials - modern developments have transformed the field of medicine almost beyond recognition in recent decades and the law struggles to keep up. In this highly acclaimed and very accessible book, now in its sixth edition, Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave provide an incisive survey of the legal situation in areas as diverse as fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy. The book has been fully revised and updated to cover the latest cases, from assisted dying to informed consent; legislative reform of the NHS, professional regulation and redress; European regulations on data protection and clinical trials; and legislation and policy reforms on organ donation, assisted conception and mental capacity. Essential reading for healthcare professionals, lecturers, medical and law students, this book is of relevance to all whose perusal of the daily news causes wonder, hope and consternation at the advances and limitations of medicine, patients and the law.
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February 1988Anne Elliot
by Jane Austen, Hugh Thomson, Margarete Rauchenberger
Ein Jahr nach ihrem Tod im Jahre 1817 erschien Jane Austens letzter Roman Persuasion. Anne Elliot, die Hauptfigur, wird in einem sozialen Umfeld dargestellt, das auch Jane Austen bekannt war und das in der Beschreibung für ihre übrigen Romane typisch ist.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2016EcoGothic
by Elisabeth Bronfen, William Hughes, Andrew Smith, Steven Bruhm, Ken Gelder, Jerrold Hogle, Avril Horner, William Hughes
This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse - images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2001Women, scholarship and criticism c.1790–1900
Gender and knowledge
by Joan Bellamy, Anne Laurence, Gill Perry, Susan Williams
Brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories of the period. Questions the concepts of 'scholarship', 'criticism' and 'artist' across the different disciplines. Women discussed include authors (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan and Anna Jameson) actresses ( Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary Robinson) critics ( Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden Clarke) historians (Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper and Lucy Toulmin Smith) as well as the writers and readers of Women's magazines, educationalists and translators. Makes a significant and original contribution to the development of gender studies by extending the frontiers of existing knowledge and research. ;
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Medical & healthcare lawAugust 2016Medicine, patients and the law
Sixth edition
by Margaret Brazier. Series edited by Simona Giordano
Embryo research, cloning, assisted conception, neonatal care, saviour siblings, organ transplants, drug trials - modern developments have transformed the field of medicine almost beyond recognition in recent decades and the law struggles to keep up. In this highly acclaimed and very accessible book, now in its sixth edition, Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave provide an incisive survey of the legal situation in areas as diverse as fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy. The book has been fully revised and updated to cover the latest cases, from assisted dying to informed consent; legislative reform of the NHS, professional regulation and redress; European regulations on data protection and clinical trials; and legislation and policy reforms on organ donation, assisted conception and mental capacity. Essential reading for healthcare professionals, lecturers, medical and law students, this book is of relevance to all whose perusal of the daily news causes wonder, hope and consternation at the advances and limitations of medicine, patients and the law.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2024A neoliberal revolution?
Thatcherism and the reform of British pensions
by Hugh Pemberton, James Freeman, Aled Davies
This book examines the Thatcher government's attempt to revolutionise Britain's pensions system in the 1980s and create a nation of risk-taking savers with an individual stake in capitalism. Drawing upon recently-released archival records, it shows how the ideas motivating these reforms journeyed from the writings of neoliberal intellectuals into government and became the centrepiece of a plan to abolish significant parts of the UK's welfare state and replace these with privatised personal pensions. Revealing a government that veered between political caution and radicalism, the book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolutionary changes that ministers salvaged from the wreckage of their reforms. The book contributes to understanding of policy change, Thatcherism, and international neoliberalism by showing how major reforms to social security could reflect neoliberal thought and yet profoundly disappoint their architects.
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Business, Economics & LawOctober 2016Medicine, patients and the law
Sixth edition
by Margaret Brazier, Emma Cave, Rebecca Bennett, Simona Giordano
Embryo research, cloning, assisted conception, neonatal care, saviour siblings, organ transplants, drug trials - modern developments have transformed the field of medicine almost beyond recognition in recent decades and the law struggles to keep up. In this highly acclaimed and very accessible book, now in its sixth edition, Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave provide an incisive survey of the legal situation in areas as diverse as fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy. The book has been fully revised and updated to cover the latest cases, from assisted dying to informed consent; legislative reform of the NHS, professional regulation and redress; European regulations on data protection and clinical trials; and legislation and policy reforms on organ donation, assisted conception and mental capacity. Essential reading for healthcare professionals, lecturers, medical and law students, this book is of relevance to all whose perusal of the daily news causes wonder, hope and consternation at the advances and limitations of medicine, patients and the law.
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April 2021Pippins Tochters Taschentuch
Roman
by Rosmarie Waldrop, Ben Lerner
Hätten Josef und Frederika Seifert mal besser nicht geheiratet!? Der Ort ist Kitzingen am Main, es sind die späten Zwanziger. Josef ist Kriegsveteran und Lehrer, sehr ins Metaphysische entrückt, Frederika rasend frustrierte Sängerin, rasend frustrierte femme fatale, die, unfähig zu den spirituellen Sublimationen ihres Mannes, bereits wenige Wochen nach der Trauung eine Affäre mit seinem besten Freund beginnt. Ist dieser Seitensprung an allem schuld, was folgen wird? Das fragt – ein halbes Jahrhundert später – Lucy, die älteste Tochter, in Briefen an ihre Schwester (oder ist es ihre Halbschwester?). Hätte ihre Mutter nur ein Machtwort sprechen müssen, was die Musik Richard Wagners angeht, damit sich alles ganz anders entwickelt? Und hat der Umstand, dass Frederikas Liebhaber Jude war, Josefs Faszination für den Nationalsozialismus weiter entfacht? Rosmarie Waldrop hat einen agilen, feinsinnigen und derben Roman geschrieben. Über eine marode Familie im anschwellenden Nationalsozialismus. Über Sehnsüchte, Enttäuschungen und Verrat. Über kleine Ursachen und große Wirkungen. Und über die beharrliche Ambivalenz einer nicht wirklich zu bewältigenden Vergangenheit.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2013Women reading Shakespeare 1660–1900
An anthology of criticism
by Ann Thompson, Sasha Roberts
Women reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900 comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare. Since Margaret Cavendish published the first critical essay on Shakespeare in 1664, women have written as scholars, critics, editors, performers and popularisers of Shakespeare. Many found in Shakespeare criticism the opportunity to raise a wide variety of issues, ranging from the use of women in society, family life, social relations and ethnic difference. In their different ways, women appropriated Shakespeare to their own ends - not always in step with their male contemporaries. Virtually none of this work is available today; it is unread and unknown. This fascinating anthology draws upon extensive new research to collect for the first time in one volume the Shakespeare criticism of some fifty British and American women writing before 1900. It includes the work of both familiar and unknown names and represents the diversity of literary genres used by women: the scholarly article, the periodical essay, book-length studies, personal memoirs, books for children, school editions. The volume also includes previously unknown Shakespeare illustrations by women, and a general introduction to the development of women's criticism of Shakespeare before 1900. ;
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