Author: Marcia A. Zug
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814771815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
There have always been mail-order brides in America. In this book Zug starts with the so-called "Tobacco Wives" of the Jamestown colony and moves forward to today's modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore the advantages and disadvantages of mail-order marriage. It's a history of deception, physical abuse, and failed unions. It's also the story of how mail-order marriage can offer women surprising and empowering opportunities.
Buying a Bride
Author: Marcia A. Zug
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814771815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
There have always been mail-order brides in America. In this book Zug starts with the so-called "Tobacco Wives" of the Jamestown colony and moves forward to today's modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore the advantages and disadvantages of mail-order marriage. It's a history of deception, physical abuse, and failed unions. It's also the story of how mail-order marriage can offer women surprising and empowering opportunities.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814771815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
There have always been mail-order brides in America. In this book Zug starts with the so-called "Tobacco Wives" of the Jamestown colony and moves forward to today's modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore the advantages and disadvantages of mail-order marriage. It's a history of deception, physical abuse, and failed unions. It's also the story of how mail-order marriage can offer women surprising and empowering opportunities.
The Things Things Say
Author: Jonathan Lamb
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects. This is an ambitious new account of the context in which these "it narratives" became so popular. What does it mean when property declares independence of its owners and begins to move and speak? Jonathan Lamb addresses this and many other questions as he advances a new interpretation of these odd tales, from Defoe, Pope, Swift, Gay, and Sterne, to advertisements, still life paintings, and South Seas journals. Lamb emphasizes the subversive and even nonsensical quality of what things say; their interests are so radically different from ours that we either destroy or worship them. Existing outside systems of exchange and the priorities of civil society, things in fact advertise the dissident obscurity common to slave narratives all the way from Aesop and Phaedrus to Frederick Douglass and Primo Levi, a way of meaning only what is said, never saying what is meant. This is what Defoe's Roxana calls "the Sense of Things," and it is found in sounds, substances, and images rather than conventional signs. This major work illuminates not only "it narratives," but also eighteenth-century literature, the rise of the novel, and the genealogy of the slave narrative.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects. This is an ambitious new account of the context in which these "it narratives" became so popular. What does it mean when property declares independence of its owners and begins to move and speak? Jonathan Lamb addresses this and many other questions as he advances a new interpretation of these odd tales, from Defoe, Pope, Swift, Gay, and Sterne, to advertisements, still life paintings, and South Seas journals. Lamb emphasizes the subversive and even nonsensical quality of what things say; their interests are so radically different from ours that we either destroy or worship them. Existing outside systems of exchange and the priorities of civil society, things in fact advertise the dissident obscurity common to slave narratives all the way from Aesop and Phaedrus to Frederick Douglass and Primo Levi, a way of meaning only what is said, never saying what is meant. This is what Defoe's Roxana calls "the Sense of Things," and it is found in sounds, substances, and images rather than conventional signs. This major work illuminates not only "it narratives," but also eighteenth-century literature, the rise of the novel, and the genealogy of the slave narrative.
A History of English Drama 1660-1900
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521109307
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521109307
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama, 1750-1800
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Dramatic Representations of British Soldiers and Sailors on the London Stage, 1660-1880
Author: Terence M. Freeman
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Examines the relationship between British military and the popular culture of London as shown in London stage from 1660 to 1800.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Examines the relationship between British military and the popular culture of London as shown in London stage from 1660 to 1800.
ELH.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
"A journal of English literary history", 1934-1955.
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
"A journal of English literary history", 1934-1955.
British Theatre: Bold stroke for a wife
Author: John Bell
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A New Theatrical Dictionary
Author: DICTIONARY.
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Drama by Women to 1900
Author: Gwenn Davis
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A bibliography consisting of some 2500 entries of published plays, monologues, entertainments for amateur groups, and short sketches intended for performance, this includes works performed both publicly and privately as well as those never produced but written in dramatic form, such as dramatic poems.
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A bibliography consisting of some 2500 entries of published plays, monologues, entertainments for amateur groups, and short sketches intended for performance, this includes works performed both publicly and privately as well as those never produced but written in dramatic form, such as dramatic poems.
A History of English Drama, 1660-1900: Late eighteenth century drama, 1750-1800. 2d ed
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description