Download or read book The Closet written by Danielle Bobker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet—and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged settings in English architecture. This private room provided seclusion for reading, writing, praying, dressing, and collecting—and for talking in select company. In their closets, kings and duchesses shared secrets with favorites, midwives and apothecaries dispensed remedies, and newly wealthy men and women expanded their social networks. In The Closet, Danielle Bobker presents a literary and cultural history of these sites of extrafamilial intimacy, revealing how, as they proliferated both in buildings and in books, closets also became powerful symbols of the unstable virtual intimacy of the first mass-medium of print. Focused on the connections between status-conscious—and often awkward—interpersonal dynamics and an increasingly inclusive social and media landscape, The Closet examines dozens of historical and fictional encounters taking place in the various iterations of this room: courtly closets, bathing closets, prayer closets, privies, and the "moving closet" of the coach, among many others. In the process, the book conjures the intimate lives of well-known figures such as Samuel Pepys and Laurence Sterne, as well as less familiar ones such as Miss Hobart, a maid of honor at the Restoration court, and Lady Anne Acheson, Swift's patroness. Turning finally to queer theory, The Closet discovers uncanny echoes of the eighteenth-century language of the closet in twenty-first-century coming-out narratives. Featuring more than thirty illustrations, The Closet offers a richly detailed and compelling account of an eighteenth-century setting and symbol of intimacy that continues to resonate today.
Download or read book Toys in the Closet written by Trent D. Pendley and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toys in the Closet, is a historical fiction set in the sensuous singing sands of the Indiana dunes on the southern shores of Lake Michigan. This is the journey of Nathan Franklin whose family participated in the most vicious confrontation between environmentalists and industrialist over the Hoosier coast. Nathan, a Jewish writer is out-of-season visiting his beach home, on Christmas Day ‘97 and exploring the story book rooms of Brighton House, a repository of so many works of art by artists who have painted the dunes and a treasury of family heirlooms each with vignettes of a landed past. Nathan though lonesome on Christmas in the aftermath of a winter blizzard realizes he isn’t alone at all surrounded by his treasures and a very protecting lost lover. A story full of Hoosier pride, social justice, as viewed through the eyes of an accomplished Jewish contemporary at the end of his family’s American Dream.
Download or read book The Skeleton in the Closet written by M. C. Beaton and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the death of his father, poor Fellworth Dolphin has slaved away as a waiter to support his miserly, cold-hearted mother. When his mother suddenly dies, Fellworth is shocked to discover that she has left him a sizable inheritance. Confused, Fell teams up with Maggie, a plain girl with a similar background, to investigate the source of the riches. But what they find is a closet full of skeletons... Is it really possible Fell's father was involved in a long-ago train robbery? Who's the mysterious woman in the portrait hidden in his mother's wardrobe? As Maggie and Fell poke around the village for answers, they find themselves on a surprise-filled path to danger and adventure, and--just possibly--love. But Fell's sudden good fortune could come to an abrupt end if he doesn't stay one step ahead of a cunning killer... from beloved novelist M.C. Beaton comes this thrilling stand-alone mystery, The Skeleton in the Closet.
Download or read book The Cross in the Closet written by Timothy Kurek and published by Green Bridge Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bigotry to empathy, this is the true story of a conservative Christian attempting to find the answers. And it all begins with two words. "I'm Gay."
Download or read book In the Closet of the Vatican written by Frederic Martel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller - Revised and Expanded "[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption" - National Catholic Reporter The arrival of Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican, published worldwide in eight languages, sent shockwaves through the religious and secular world. The book's revelations of clericalism, hypocrisy, cover-ups and widespread homosexuality in the highest echelons of the Vatican provoked questions that the most senior Vatican officials--and the Pope himself--were forced to act upon; it would go on to become a New York Times bestseller. Now, almost a year after the book's first publication, Frédéric Martel reflects in a new foreword on the effect the book has had and the events that have come to light since it was first released. In the Closet of the Vatican describes the double lives of priests--including the cardinals living with their young "assistants" in luxurious apartments whilst professing humility and chastity--the cover-up of numerous cases of sexual abuse; sinister scheming in the Vatican; political conspiracy overseas in Argentina and Chile, and the resignation of Benedict XVI. From his unique position as a respected journalist with uninhibited access to some of the Vatican's most influential people and private spaces, Martel presents a shattering account of a system rotten to its very core.
Download or read book Out of the Closet Into the Archives written by Amy L. Stone and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research. Out of the Closet, Into the Archives takes readers inside the experience of how it feels to do queer archival research and queer research in the archive. The archive, much like the closet, exposes various levels of public and privatenessrecognition, awareness, refusal, impulse, disclosure, framing, silence, cultural intelligibilityeach mediated and determined through subjective insider/outsider ways of knowing. The contributors draw on their experiences conducting research in disciplines such as sociology, African American studies, English, communications, performance studies, anthropology, and womens and gender studies. These essays challenge scholars to engage with their affective experience of being in the archive, illuminating how the space of the archive requires a different kind of deeply personal, embodied research.
Download or read book A Noise in the Closet written by Richard Hefter and published by Larousse Kingfisher Chambers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little boy discovers a circus in his closet in which he is invited to participate.
Download or read book Rocking the Closet written by Vincent L Stephens and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all-embracing, "whaddya got?" nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assume—but not see—their queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous sexual personas often reflected an understandable fear, but also a struggle to fulfill personal and professional expectations.Vincent L. Stephens confronts notions of the closet—both coming out and staying in—by analyzing the careers of Liberace, Johnny Mathis, Johnnie Ray, and Little Richard. Appealing to audiences hungry for novelty and exoticism, the four pop icons used performance and queering techniques that ran the gamut. Liberace's flamboyance shared a spectrum with Mathis's intimate sensitivity while Ray's overwrought displays as "Mr. Emotion" seemed worlds apart from Little Richard's raise-the-roof joyousness. As Stephens shows, the quartet not only thrived in an era of gray flannel manhood, they pioneered the ways generations of later musicians would consciously adopt sexual mystery as an appealing and proven route to success.
Download or read book The Skeleton in the Closet written by Chad Shea and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Skeleton in the Closet (tm) is a special Halloween visitor that awakens each year to monitor your Halloween spirit with their own "tricks" and 'treats." Each night, the Skeleton in the Closet (tm) sneaks out of the closet to trick or to treat your family and friends so you know that they're watching! Each morning, to see the surprise that you've got you must find them in a new hiding spot. The Skeleton in the Closet (tm) rewards good Halloween spirit with all kinds of treats and when they play tricks, it's all just for fun; They're just games and they can all be undone.The Skeleton in the Closet (tm) will rise from their graves on the 1st of October. At the end of the evening on Halloween night, the Skeleton in the Closet (tm) will return to the graveyard--until next year!Enjoy this Halloween season by "giving treats and playing tricks" all season long. Incorporate this fun tradition in your family this year and bring Halloween spirit to a new level as you interact with your family and friends, all October.From our family to yours, Happy Halloween and happy Trick-or-Treating!
Download or read book The Robot in the Closet written by Ron Goulart and published by New York : Daw Books ; [Scarborough, Ont.] : New American Library of Canada. This book was released on 1981 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet written by Lucy Score and published by Riley Thorn. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skeletons in the Closet written by Gary Lee and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when you want to forget the past but the past won't forget you? Davis Liam Jackson Jr., the son of the infamous serial killer Davis "The Butcher" Jackson is willing to do everything he can to escape his family's dark history. Finally, in the attempt to cut final ties with the house of horrors his father created, Davis decides to fix up the house, sell it, and never step foot in his hometown again. But two things keep Davis from throwing his past away and never looking back. One is a lost love, Jessica "Grace" Simmons, with whom he reunites when he moves back to town. The other is an unforeseen dark presence that seems to want to keep the secrets of his house, family, and hometown from being known. Will the secrets be uncovered, or will Davis go mad desperately trying to find the truth while also trying to protect the only person he holds dear? 2
Download or read book Ashes in the Closet written by Sandra Still with Elizabeth M. Roberts and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoring this book of meditations has proven to be a great challenge for Elizabeth and myself because many of the stories and poems bring up painful events. The irony is that when we look at our present lives, we recognize God's provisions through good and bad times. Hopefully, you have had the same experience as you reflect/ look back on difficulties and challenges in your life. We know God does bring beauty, joy, and praise out of seemingly bad circumstances. Jesus knew sorrow. His earthly family knew aching sadness. He understands. In this collection of meditative stories and poems, we explore life's "ashes" with a focus on how the Lord weaves them into a tapestry of beauty. Let us remember that this world is not our home, and we will not understand it all now. However, in our true home, all will be well. May you enjoy Ashes in the Closet, written from our hearts.
Download or read book Christian Duties in the Closet written by Robert Meek and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Revolt of the Skeletons in the Closet written by J. R. Forbus and published by Ali Ribelli Edizioni. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seemingly peaceful and pleasant town of Wolverhampton, England, an entrepreneur had the brilliant and terrifying idea of creating a Park of Horrors. The idea was the brainchild of Sir Desrius – better known as the “Warlock” – a cruel and unscrupulous man who did not hesitate to imprison monsters and fairy creatures from every corner of the globe to populate the park. For years now, the monsters have been forced to suffer abuse, yet for some time rumors have spread of a rebellion… Dedicated to those who are victims of prejudice, “The Revolt of the Skeletons in the Closet” is a fairy tale that speaks straight to the heart of young and old alike.
Download or read book Morning Exercises for the Closet for Every Day in the Year written by William Jay and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Wonder How The Monster In The Closet s Been written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
