Author: Violet WinspearPublisher:
ISBN: 9780373013449
Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Dangerous Delight
Author: Violet WinspearPublisher:
ISBN: 9780373013449
Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
City of Dreadful Delight
Author: Judith R. WalkowitzPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022608101X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction. Victorian London was a world where long-standing traditions of class and gender were challenged by a range of public spectacles, mass media scandals, new commercial spaces, and a proliferation of new sexual categories and identities. In the midst of this changing culture, women of many classes challenged the traditional privileges of elite males and asserted their presence in the public domain. An important catalyst in this conflict, argues Walkowitz, was W. T. Stead's widely read 1885 article about child prostitution. Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. The ultimate manifestation of class anxiety and gender antagonism came in 1888 with the tabloid tales of Jack the Ripper. In between, there were quotidien stories of sexual possibility and urban adventure, and Walkowitz examines them all, showing how women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolotin life that reverberated in courtrooms, learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners, and in the letters columns of the daily press. A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.
The Dangerous Duty of Delight
Author: John PiperPublisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 1576738833
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Strengthen your relationship with God by enjoying Him and His creation! Discover just how to delight in the Lord in this compact version of Piper's classic Desiring God.
Daily meditations
Author: Nicholas Patrick S. Wiseman (card, abp. of Westminster.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devotional calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Lord of Danger
Author: Anne StuartPublisher: Impeccably Demure Press
ISBN: 1951309065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Alys de Lancie is determined to save her sister Claire when she’s pledged to marry the notorious and powerful Simon of Navarre, even if it means marrying the scarred and betwitching man herself. Simon of Navarre has schemes of his own, and he has no interest in the bride his evil lord has chosen for him. She’s supposed to be terrified of him, but instead they draw closer and closer, when he has no time to waste on a helpless female. But Alys is far from helpless, and he can’t resist, even though his nefarious schemes might all be for naught. But then, who could fall in love with a monster?
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Author: Climb to the Sky
Author: Suzanne DraciusPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813933218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Climb to the Sky collects a novella and eight stories by one of the most celebrated and versatile French Caribbean writers, Suzanne Dracius. Set in the author’s native Martinique and spanning the twentieth century, these narratives display a powerful grasp of the individual set against an often violent history. The multi-generational novella "Her Destiny on Climb to the Sky Street" opens with the gripping account of a runaway slave’s survival of disease and abuse aboard a slave ship and concludes with his descendant, a young woman living in a post-abolition world whose life of abuse and torture by her employers nonetheless resembles that of a slave. In "Sweat, Sugar, and Blood," a woman held captive by her husband in their home must choose between safe ignorance and dangerous knowledge. Other stories, such as "Chlorophyllian Creation" and "Written in Lime Juice," convey the intimacy and directness of autobiographical essays. Each of Dracius’s heroines achieves a transcendental experience through her own imagination and will, whether she is escaping natural catastrophe (such as the eruption of Mount Pelée), enduring jail time under interrogation by the national police, or coping with the ennui of life in a bourgeois home. Although the results of these historical, natural, or existential circumstances are unpredictable, what unites these women is deliverance. CARAF: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from the French
The city of Nocross and its famous physician, by A.L.O.E.
Author: Charlotte Maria TuckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The City of Nocross and Its Famous Physician
Author: A. L. O. E.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allegories
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Author: