The Suppressed Sister
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The Suppressed Sister
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Author : Amy K. Levin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Suppressed Sister written by Amy K. Levin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with English fiction categories.
The Suppressed Sister
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Author : Amy K. Levin
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 1992
The Suppressed Sister written by Amy K. Levin and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Contentious behavior among biological sisters frequently contradicts ideals of sisterhood in novels by women. Additionally, feminist criticism, focusing on almost every imaginable relationship involving women, has all but ignored sisters. Amy K. Levin's The Suppressed Sister studies these circumstances, their causes and consequences. How and why is the sister bond suppressed in favor of sisterhood?" "Answers to this question may be found in female psychology, social expectations, and patriarchal myths and stories. The tales of Cinderella and Psyche are paradigmatic, providing models of female competition and inscribing a conclusion that replaces sisterly closeness with heterosexual romance." "Jane Austen's sister plot is based on these models. Her characters divide into pairs and adopt complementary personalities, but polarization does not erase competition; instead, marriage erects social and economic barriers which enforce role divisions." "In Wives and Daughters, Cranford, and The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell shows the danger of too close an attachment to the paternal home. She, too, emphasizes differences, revealing how they ultimately lead siblings to seek a sisterhood outside the family." "In Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, George Eliot paints increasingly negative portraits of sisters, indicating that female siblings create differences where few or none exist. These denials of similarity heighten the heroines' isolation." "Twentieth-century novelists, including Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Jane Howard, and Margaret Drabble, revise their predecessors' texts, drafting a plot "after" the father's. They reject rules governing female behavior and question the expectation that women must get along with one another." "Finally, Emma Tennant's Bad Sister, together with several recent American novels, abandons the conventions of the realistic novel, challenging the very concept of character. Tennant undermines all distinctions, including those that treat sisters as separate individuals and those that classify certain behaviors as "good" or "bad."" "These novels show a progression that has been ignored or suppressed by feminist critics, many of whom long for an idyll of sisterhood inherited from nineteenth-century portraits of the "angel in the house." In denying anger or antagonism, women cut off a part of themselves, just as Cinderella's stepsisters amputate their toes to fit in her brittle glass slipper. Levin's book questions the rationale behind such self-destruction."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
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Author : Anne Brontë
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall written by Anne Brontë and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with Alcoholism categories.
Shopaholic Sister
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Author : Sophie Kinsella
language : en
Publisher: Dial Press
Release Date : 2004-09-28
Shopaholic Sister written by Sophie Kinsella and has been published by Dial Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-28 with Fiction categories.
“Kinsella’s heroine is blessed with the resilience of ten women, and her damage-limitation brain waves are always good for a giggle.”—Glamour (U.K.) What’s a round-the-world honeymoon if you can’t buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk dressing gowns Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) finds in Hong Kong, or the hand-carved dining table from Sri Lanka, or the, um, huge wooden giraffes from Malawi (that her husband expressly forbade her to buy). Only now Becky and Luke have returned home to London, where two truckloads of those souvenirs have cluttered up their loft. The bills are outrageous, Luke is furious, and Becky’s feeling rather blue—until her parents deliver some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister! Becky is convinced her sister will be a true soulmate. They’ll go shopping together, drink cappuccinos together, get manicures together. Then Becky meets Jessica and receives the shock of her life. Surely the shopaholic’s own sister can’t hate shopping? Praise for Sophie Kinsella “Kinsella has a genuine gift for comic writing.”—The Boston Globe “Kinsella’s Bloomwood is plucky and funny. . . . You won’t have to shop around to find a more winning protagonist.”—People “Faster than a swiping Visa, more powerful than a two-for-one coupon, able to buy complete wardrobes in a single sprint through the mall—it’s Shopaholic!”—The Washington Post
The Stargazer S Sister
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Author : Carrie Brown
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2016-01-19
The Stargazer S Sister written by Carrie Brown and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-19 with Fiction categories.
From the acclaimed author of The Last First Day, here is a beautiful new period novel: a nineteenth-century story of female empowerment before its time, based on the life of Caroline Herschel, sister of the great composer and astronomer William Herschel and an astronomer in her own right. This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world of music making and stargazing. Lina, as Caroline is known, serves as William’s assistant and the captain of his exhilaratingly busy household. William is generous, wise, and charismatic, an obsessive genius whom Lina adores and serves with the fervency of a beloved wife. When William suddenly announces that he will be married, Lina watches her world collapse. With her characteristically elegant prose, Carrie Brown creates from history a compelling story that interweaves familial collaboration and conflict with a haunting exploration of the sublime beauty of astronomy and our small but essential place within a vast and astonishing cosmos. Through Lina’s trials and successes we witness the dawning of an early feminist consciousness—a woman struggling to find her own place among the stars.
Bibliographic Index
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Bibliographic Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Bibliographical literature categories.
The Other Sister
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Author : Sarah Zettel
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-08-28
The Other Sister written by Sarah Zettel and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-28 with Fiction categories.
Two sisters who couldn't be more different come together to plan a shocking revenge in this "addicting" (Hello Giggles) domestic thriller. Two sisters. One murder plan. Everyone thought reckless, troubled Geraldine Monroe was the bad sister -- especially when she fled town after her mother's death twenty-five years ago. But people don't know the truth. Marie Monroe knows. She was there for their father's cruel punishments, the constant manipulation, the lies. Everyone thinks she's the perfect daughter -- patient and kind, and above all obedient. No one would suspect her of anything. Especially not murder. Now Geraldine's home again, and she and Marie have united in a plan for the ultimate revenge. But when old secrets and new fears clash, everyone is pushed to the breaking point . . . and the sisters will learn that they can't trust anyone-not even each other. "The story of Geraldine's return to her roots is vividly told... [for] readers looking for something to follow Jeanette Walls' nonfiction The Glass Castle." -- Booklist "An excellent psychological thriller that's filled with dark family secrets and plenty of intrigue." -- New York Journal of Books
The Works Of Lord Byron Including His Suppressed Poems
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Author : George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1827
The Works Of Lord Byron Including His Suppressed Poems written by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1827 with categories.
The Tribal Imagination
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Author : Robin Fox
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-08
The Tribal Imagination written by Robin Fox and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-08 with Social Science categories.
We began as savages, and savagery has served us well—it got us where we are. But how do our tribal impulses, still in place and in play, fit in the highly complex, civilized world we inhabit today? This question, raised by thinkers from Freud to Lévi-Strauss, is fully explored in this book by the acclaimed anthropologist Robin Fox. It takes up what he sees as the main—and urgent—task of evolutionary science: not so much to explain what we do, as to explain what we do at our peril. Ranging from incest and arranged marriage to poetry and myth to human rights and pop icons, Fox sets out to show how a variety of human behaviors reveal traces of their tribal roots, and how this evolutionary past limits our capacity for action. Among the questions he raises: How real is our notion of time? Is there a human “right” to vengeance? Are we democratic by nature? Are cultural studies and fascism cousins under the skin? Is evolutionary history coming to an end—or just getting more interesting? In his famously informative and entertaining fashion, drawing links from Volkswagens to Bartók to Woody Guthrie, from Swinburne to Seinfeld, Fox traces our ongoing struggle to maintain open societies in the face of profoundly tribal human needs—needs which, paradoxically, hold the key to our survival.
The Works Of Lord Byron Including The Suppressed Poems Also A Sketch Of His Life By J W Lake Etc
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Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
The Works Of Lord Byron Including The Suppressed Poems Also A Sketch Of His Life By J W Lake Etc written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with categories.