The Orphaned Imagination
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The Orphaned Imagination
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Author : Guinn Batten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Orphaned Imagination written by Guinn Batten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Business & Economics categories.
Studies of the English Romantic poets generally portray them either as transcending the workings of capitalism or as working in complicity with an entrepreneurial economy. In The Orphaned Imagination, Guinn Batten challenges standard accounts of Romantic poetry and argues that Wordsworth, Byron, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Coleridge--each of whom suffered the loss of a father or father-figure at an early age--possessed an orphan's special insight into the dynamics and aesthetics of commodity culture and its symptomatic melancholia. Building on the theoretical insights of Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Batten interweaves the discourses of psychoanalysis, economics, biography, sexuality, melancholy, value, and exchange to question accepted ideas of how Romantic poetry works. She asserts that poetic labor is in fact paradigmatic of the kinds of production--and the kinds of desire--that capitalist culture renders invisible. If symbolic exchange, in cash or in words, requires the surrender of a beloved object, if healthy mourning requires an orphan to "work through" emotional loss through the consolation of art or a love for the living, then the rebellious Romantic poet, Batten contends, possessed unique insight into the alternative authority of a poetic language that renounced a culture of denial. Batten urges that scholars move beyond critical approaches condemning allegedly regressive forms of pleasure, recognizing that they, too, are haunted by melancholic attachments to dead poets as they conduct their work. The Orphaned Imagination will interest anyone concerned with the claims of the English Romantic poets to a distinctive, valuable form of knowledge and those who may wonder about the power of contemporary theory to illuminate a traditional field.
The Orphan S Isle
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Author : Charles Wall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
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The Orphan In Eighteenth Century Fiction
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Author : E. König
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-29
The Orphan In Eighteenth Century Fiction written by E. König and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-29 with Fiction categories.
The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals their key role in the construction of gendered subjectivity.
The Orphan In Eighteenth Century Law And Literature
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Author : Cheryl L. Nixon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-17
The Orphan In Eighteenth Century Law And Literature written by Cheryl L. Nixon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case records, Nixon reconstructs the narratives of real orphans in the British parliamentary, equity, and common law courts and compares them to the narratives of fictional orphans. The orphan's uncertain economic, familial, and bodily status creates opportunities to "plot" his or her future according to new ideologies of the social individual. Nixon demonstrates that the orphan encourages both fact and fiction to re-imagine structures of estate (property and inheritance), blood (familial origins and marriage), and body (gender and class mobility). Whereas studies of the orphan typically emphasize the poor urban foundling, Nixon focuses on the orphaned heir or heiress and his or her need to be situated in a domestic space. Arguing that the eighteenth century constructs the "valued" orphan, Nixon shows how the wealthy orphan became associated with new understandings of the individual. New archival research encompassing print and manuscript records from Parliament, Chancery, Exchequer, and King's Bench demonstrate the law's interest in the propertied orphan. The novel uses this figure to question the formulaic structures of narrative sub-genres such as the picaresque and romance and ultimately encourage the hybridization of such plots. As Nixon traces the orphan's contribution to the developing novel and developing ideology of the individual, she shows how the orphan creates factual and fictional understandings of class, family, and gender.
The Orphan S Inheritance
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1845
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The Cambridge Companion To Wilkie Collins
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Author : Jenny Bourne Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-23
The Cambridge Companion To Wilkie Collins written by Jenny Bourne Taylor and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing. In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the development of his career, his position as a writer and his complex relation to contemporary cultural movements and debates. Collins's exploration of the tensions which lay beneath Victorian society is analysed through a variety of critical approaches. A chronology and guide to further reading are provided, making this book an indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and his work.
Theorizing Colonial Cinema
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Author : Nayoung Aimee Kwon
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-01
Theorizing Colonial Cinema written by Nayoung Aimee Kwon and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. To that end, contributors begin by excavating little-known archives and perspectives from the colonies as a departure from a prevailing focus on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the colonies. The collection pinpoints various forms of devaluation and misrecognition both in and beyond the region that continue to relegate local voices to the margins. This pathbreaking study on global film history advances prior scholarship by bringing together an array of established and new interdisciplinary voices from film studies, Asian studies, and postcolonial studies to consider how the present is continually haunted by the colonial past. Winner of the SCMS Best Edited Collection Award!
The Orphan Mother
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Author : Robert Hicks
language : en
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Release Date : 2024-09-24
The Orphan Mother written by Robert Hicks and has been published by Hachette+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-24 with Fiction categories.
A former slave searches for justice after her son is murdered in the wake of the Civil War in this novel from a New York Times –bestselling author. "Hicks's bittersweet novel reveals a woman discovering a new sense of self in slavery's aftermath. . . . A beautifully rendered portrait for all lovers of Civil War fiction." — Library Journal In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock—the "Widow of the South" —has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah—no stranger to loss—finds her world once more breaking apart. How could this happen? Who wanted him dead? In the face of overwhelming adversity, Mariah will not give up her search for answers, even if it means confronting her own difficult truths. Brimming with the vivid prose and historical research that has won Robert Hicks recognition as a "master storyteller " ( San Francisco Chronicle), The Orphan Mother is an unforgettable story of a woman's heroic struggle. "Compelling. . . . In Mariah, Hicks has created a strong and noble soul." — For Worth Star Telegram "Eloquent and subtle insights into the struggles of motherhood, relationships, and loss." — Atlanta Journal Constitution
The Orphan S Souvenir
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1843
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The Orphan Of Cemetery Hill
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Author : Hester Fox
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2020-09-15
The Orphan Of Cemetery Hill written by Hester Fox and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Fiction categories.
The dead won’t bother you if you don’t give them permission. Boston, 1844. Tabby has a peculiar gift: she can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous. As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby’s gift so she could profit from the recent craze for seances. Now a young woman and tragically separated from Alice, Tabby works with her adopted father, Eli, the kind caretaker of a large Boston cemetery. When a series of macabre grave robberies begins to plague the city, Tabby is ensnared in a deadly plot by the perpetrators, known only as the “Resurrection Men.” In the end, Tabby’s gift will either save both her and the cemetery—or bring about her own destruction. Delve into the magical power of flowers in Hester Fox's captivating new novel, THE BOOK OF THORNS, where long-lost sisters reunite on opposite sides of the Napoleonic Wars and must uncover the secrets of their mother's disappearance and their mystical powers… Look for these other gothic mysteries from Hester Fox: The Last Heir to Blackwood Library The Witch of Willow Hall The Widow of Pale Harbor A Lullaby for Witches