Complex Carbohydrates, Part F, Volume 179: Volume 179: Complex Carbohydrates Part F (Methods in Enzymology)

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The critically acclaimed laboratory standard, Methods in Enzymology, is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. The series contains much material still relevant today - truly an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences.

Complex Carbohydrates, Part F, Volume 179: Volume 179: Complex Carbohydrates Part F (Methods in Enzymology)

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Complex Carbohydrates, Part F, Volume 179: Volume 179: Complex Carbohydrates Part F (Methods in Enzymology)
John N. Abelson Melvin I. Simon
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Pamela Gilbert argues that popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. She discusses work by three popular women novelists of the time: M. E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and "Ouida". Early and later novels of each writer are interpreted in the context of their reception, showing that attitudes toward fiction drew on Victorian beliefs about health, nationality, class and the body, beliefs that the fictions themselves both resisted and exploited.

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Jane Austen and the Navy
Brian Southam
Manufacturer: Hambledon & London
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ASIN: 1852852917

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Two of Jane Austen's brother served in Nelson's navy and later became admirals. Francis Austen, on board the Canopus, narrowly missed the battle of Trafalgar; Charles Austen in Endymion captured numerous small prizes. It is not surprising that that the Austen family, including Jane, took a deep personal interest in naval affairs. Apart from the church, the navy was the profession which she knew and admired most. Her novels reflected this: Mansfield Park includes a portrait of life in Portsmouth, the estimable midshipman William Price and the less attractive Admiral Crawford; Persuasion presents her most extended account of naval officers and attitudes, from the redoubtable Admiral Croft to Captain Wentworth himself. Jane Austen and the Navy demonstrates clearly the importance of the navy both in Jane Austen's life and her novels."She was convinced of sailors having more worth and warmth than any other set of men in England; that they only knew how to live, and they only deserved to be respected and loved!"--Jane Austen, Persuasion

From Agatha Christie To Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction (Crime Files)

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From Agatha Christie To Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction (Crime Files)
Susan Rowland
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: 0333674502

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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Nag Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of 42 key novels, this volume introduces these authors for students and the general reader in the context of their lives, and of critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.

The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

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The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Thad Logan
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture (Oxford Paperbacks)

ASIN: 0521028159

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The parlor was the center of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender relations were frequently played out. In The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study, Logan uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines the perspectives of art history, social history, and literary theory to describe and analyze the parlor as a highly significant cultural space. The book concludes with a discussion of how representations of the parlor in literature and art reveal the pleasures and anxieties associated with Victorian domestic life.

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Interesting Material with Some Odd Turns.......2005-01-29

This book examines some wonderful archival material in its examination of the material culture of the Victorian parlor. It gets very strong when it is bringing objects and crafts out of the archive and explaining what they were -- once you read this book, references to wax flowers or reverse glass painting in Victorian novels will no longer mystify you. On the other hand, the book is larded with not terribly relevant theory and doesn't seem to know its own strengths.

The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830 (Ideologies of Desire)

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The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830 (Ideologies of Desire)
Bradford K. Mudge
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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When Flesh Becomes Word: An Anthology of Early Eighteenth-Century Libertine Literature

ASIN: 0195135059

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This fresh and persuasively argued book examines the origins of pornography in Britain and presents a comprehensive overview of women's role in the evolution of obscene fiction. Carefully monitoring the complex interconnections between three related debates--that over the masquerade, that over the novel, and that over prostitution--Mudge contextualizes the growing literary need to separate good fiction from bad and argues that that process was of crucial importance to the emergence of a new, middle-class state. Looking closely at sermons, medical manuals, periodical essays, and political tracts as well as poetry, novels, and literary criticism, The Whore's Story tracks the shifting politics of pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain and charts the rise of modern, pornographic sensibilities.

A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers

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A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers

Manufacturer: Broadview Press
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This anthology of literary criticism by Victorian women of letters brings together a wealth of difficult-to-find writings. Originally published from the 1830s through the 1890s, the essays concern a range of topics including poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose, the roles of literature and of criticism, topical reviews of major works, and retrospectives of major authors. Together, they demonstrate the impressive depth and breadth of Victorian women's literary criticism.

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A British journalist and pioneering reformer, Harriet Martineau reigned at the forefront of debates over social and political issues during the Victorian era. The Hour and the Woman chronicles the "somewhat remarkable" life of one of history's most influential, yet overlooked, women writers.
At a time when women were valued primarily for appearance, social class, and marital status, Martineau—plain, poor, and single—fought against the odds to win recognition as a writer. Her first professional triumph came in the 1830s when she published a multivolume work on political economy. International fame and literary reputation followed, launching a career that would span the next thirty-five years and plunge Martineau into heated reform efforts on both sides of the Atlantic.
Martineau strove to use her personal and political influence for good by staunchly supporting the causes in which she believed. Her fight for the eradication of slavery strengthened the abolitionist movement in the years before the American Civil War, and her advocacy of temperance and women's rights lent crucial assistance to those causes. Many of Martineau's contemporary female writers, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Harriet Beecher Stowe, supported her in these endeavors and encouraged her through long-lasting correspondence.
The most comprehensive Martineau history to date, The Hour and the Woman offers a unique view of one of the nineteenth century's most complex and fascinating women.

Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810

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Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810
Harriet Guest
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: 0226310523

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During the second half of the eighteenth century, the social role of educated
women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. The emergence of an identifiably feminist voice in that debate is the subject of Harriet Guest's new study, which explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism and the relations between public and private categories permitted educated British women to imagine themselves as political subjects.

Small Change considers the celebration of learned women as tokens of national progress in the context of a commercial culture that complicates notions of gender difference. Guest offers a fascinating account of the women of the bluestocking circle, focusing in particular on Elizabeth Carter, hailed as the paradigmatic learned and domestic woman. She discusses the importance of the American war to the changing relation between patriotism and gender in the 1770s and 1780s, and she casts new light on Mary Wollstonecraft's writing of the 1790s, considering it in relation to the anti-feminine discourse of Hannah More, and the utopian feminism of Mary Hays.

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Selected Letters of Rebecca West
Rebecca West
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ASIN: 0300079044

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"I have many anecdotes to tell you--my life is a series of anecdotes," Rebecca West exclaimed in 1925, "all of which seem to me in the worst possible taste!" This teasing valediction is only one of the thousandfold pleasures within Selected Letters of Rebecca West. Bonnie Kime Scott has chosen over 200 sparkling, combative, and committed pieces of correspondence, and the result makes one wonder how she could bear to leave the other 9,800 or so out. West (1892-1983) gave us some of the 20th century's greatest fiction and nonfiction, and her letters are equally artful. Scholars will be drawn in by her historical acuity, while others will seize on West's sharp reportage and (of lesser import but equal joy) gossip. This "novelist-newshen" never seems to have been off duty, and bon mots abound. She dubbed George Bernard Shaw "a eunuch perpetually inflamed by flirtation," and found Queen Elizabeth's tragedy the fact that "the poor child spends her life asking questions which people answer!" In a 1960 letter, alas quoted only in a footnote, West offered Oscar Wilde's son the definitive word on his progenitor's fate: "What your father did to little boys is not so criminal as what little boys did to your father's prose."

West's letters also provide a melancholy picture of her personal life. As early as 1913, she told her lover H.G. Wells, "I always knew that you would hurt me to death some day, but I hoped to choose the time and place." Their son, Anthony West, proved an equally long-term torment, as he alternated between private complaints and public attacks. Though the constraints of career, motherhood, and Wells would have crippled a lesser being, West displayed remarkable fortitude and surprising modesty. She was ever ready to defend herself, debating such heavy hitters as Arthur Schlesinger and Lionel Trilling. Yet she refused to engage in self-promotion, and seldom even referred to her own work until it was a fait accompli. (A comical exception to the rule would be the author's fantasia about her novel The Judge: "Thomas Hardy makes his wife read it to him over and over again, it being the only book ever written as gloomy as his own. His wife told me this in accents of incredible bitterness.")

As she grew older, Rebecca West came to feel that society and even intellectuals perpetuated a climate of lies, treachery, and triviality, which she felt obliged to combat. How effective a battle this was is anybody's guess. Still, her letters afford us the whole woman--vital, passionate, and even, from time to time, mortifying. "Yours wildly," she signed one. Who would have her otherwise? --Kerry Fried

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Dame West was a prolific correspondent, in the course of which she set down her frequently scathing assessments of the literary movements, political events and prominent figures of her day. The range of topics addressed in the letters is astounding: literary figures (including Shaw, Wells, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Woolf, D.H. Lawrence - as well as lesser known women writers, including Emma Goldman and Dorothy Thompson), historical events (both world wars, America in the Roaring Twenties, cold war espionage and lynching trials) and political movements (Fabian socialism, woman suffrage, communism, fascism and apartheid). West emerges from all of this as an extremely witty and brilliant commentator - but also infuriatingly arrogant, distrustful and, on occasions, racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic. As Professor Scott rightly states in her introduction to the volume, "to read [West's] letters in an informed way is to receive an education in the culture of the twentieth century."

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editing updates.......2000-04-12

since my last review, I have written to Bonnie Scott and she has contacted the publishers to correct errors. So it's getting better.

questionable attention to detail in the preface.......2000-04-10

Rebecca lived through a lot of interesting things and knew interesting people, so if you're looking to read her letters, this is probably a pretty good collection of nicely typed out copies of them. I would disregard the preface since the editor, Bonnie Scott, has obviously not spent the time on attention to details and solid background information. If you want to read about Rebecca, I would recommend "Rebecca West: a saga of the century" by Carl Rollyson, who spent many hours at our home talking with my father and getting all his facts right over a long period of research.

Life-Writings By British Women, 1660-1815: An Anthology

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Life-Writings By British Women, 1660-1815: An Anthology

Manufacturer: Northeastern
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ASIN: 1555534325

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A wide array of documents, many of which have been unavailable since their original publication, is included: memoirs of individual and family life, travel narratives, letters, appeals for funds, testimonies of spiritual conversion, and scandalous memoirs. The writers represented here range from ladies to servants, from spinsters to courtesans, from actresses to poets, from wronged wives to wives of men engaged in British colonization.

A comprehensive introduction by the editors explores the material conditions of women's lives in Restoration and eighteenth-century Britain and critically examines the genre of autobiography. Each selection is preceded by an explanatory headnote that places the document in its historical, cultural, and social contexts.

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