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Book The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Westminster Review

Download or read book The Westminster Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Foreign Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Foreign Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dickens  Sexuality and Gender

Download or read book Dickens Sexuality and Gender written by Lillian Nayder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays examines Dickens's complex representations of sexuality and gender as well as his use of gender ideologies and sexual and gender differences over the course of his literary career, from his first sketches and early novels to his late works of fiction. The essays approach gender issues in Dickens's writing by focusing on a number of topics: his treatment of gender ideals and transgressions; the intersections and displacements among gender, class and race; the ties between gender and the body, and among gender, voice and language; his depiction of the homosocial and the homoerotic; and the relation between gender and the law. The essays provide an introduction to the most recent approaches to Dickens's fiction in addition to those now considered classic, draw on queer theory and also feature a variety of methodologies, ranging across feminist, historicist and psychoanalytic methods of interpretation. The collection represents the best of previously published research by Dickens's scholars and illuminates for students and scholars alike the meaning of gender in such novels as The Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son, and Our Mutual Friend.

Book Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship  1300 1900

Download or read book Sibling Relations and the Transformations of European Kinship 1300 1900 written by Christopher H. Johnson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the long-term development of European history. From the late middle ages to the dawn of the twentieth century, kinship - rather than declining, as is often assumed - was twice reconfigured in dramatic ways and became increasingly significant as a force in historical change, with remarkable similarities across European society. Applying interdisciplinary approaches from social and cultural history and literature and focusing on sibling relationships, this volume takes up the challenge of examining the systemic and structural development of kinship over the long term by looking at the close inner-familial dynamics of ruling families (the Hohenzollerns), cultural leaders (the Mendelssohns), business and professional classes, and political figures (the Gladstones)in France, Italy, Germany, and England. It offers insight into the current issues in kinship studies and draws from a wide range of personal documents: letters, autobiographies, testaments, memoirs, as well as genealogies and works of art.

Book A Delicate Choreography

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Sabean
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2023-10-23
  • ISBN : 3111014541
  • Pages : 1092 pages

Download or read book A Delicate Choreography written by David Sabean and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of the incest taboo have puzzled many of the most influential minds of the West, from Plutarch to St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, David Hume, Lewis Henry Morgan, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Edward Westermarck, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. This book puts the discussion of incest on a new foundation. It is the first attempt to thoroughly examine the rich literature, from philosophical, theological, and legal treatises to psychological and biological-genetic studies, to a wide variety of popular cultural media over a long period of time. The book offers a detailed examination of discursive and figurative representations of incest during five selected periods, from 1600 to the present. The incest discussion for each period is complemented with a presentation of dominant kinship structures and changes, without arguing for causal relations. Part I deals with the legacy of ecclesiastical marriage prohibitions of the Middle Ages: Historians dealing with the Reformation have wondered about the political and social implications of theological debates about the incest rules, the Enlightenment opted for sociological considerations of the household and a new anthropology based on the passions, Baroque discourse focused upon sexual relations among kin by marriage, while Enlightenment and Romantic discussions worried the intimacy of siblings. The first section of Part II deals with the six decades around 1900, during which European and American cultures obsessed about the sexuality of women. Almost everyone concurred in the idea that mother made the family what it was; that she configured the household, kept the lines of kinship vibrant, and stood at the threshold as stern gatekeeper, and many thought that she managed these tasks through her sexuality and an eroticized relationship with sons. Another story line, taken up in the section "Intermezzo," this one about the physical and mental consequences of inbreeding, appeared after 1850. To what extent do close-kin marriages pose risks for progeny? At its center, lay the incest problematic, now restated: Is avoidance of kin genetically programmed? Do all cultures know about risks of consanguinity? As for the twenty-first century, evolutionary and genetic assumptions are challenged by a living world population containing roughly one billion offspring of cousin marriages. Part III deals with one of the perhaps most remarkable reconfigurations of Western kinship in the aftermath of World War I: The shift from an endogamous to an exogamous alliance system centered on the "nuclear family." An historical anomaly, this family form began to dissolve almost as soon as it came together and, in the process, shifted the focus of incest concerns to a new pairing: father and daughter. By the 1970s, when the father/daughter problematic swept all other considerations of incest aside, that relationship had come to be modeled, for the most part, around power and its abusive potential. As for "incest," its representations in the last three decades of the twentieth century no longer focused on biologically damaged progeny but rather on power abuses in the nuclear family: sexual "abuse." By the mid-1990s, Western culture at least partly redirected its gaze away from father and daughter towards siblings, especially towards brothers and sisters and the sexual boundaries and erotics of their relationships. Correspondingly, siblings became a "model organism" for psychotherapy, evolutionary biology, and the science of genetics.

Book The Eclectic Review

Download or read book The Eclectic Review written by Samuel Greatheed and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yarnall Library of Theology of St  Clement s Church  Philadelphia

Download or read book Yarnall Library of Theology of St Clement s Church Philadelphia written by Philadelphia. St. Clement's church. Yarnall library of theology and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marriage with a deceased wife s sister  evidence given before the Commission appointed to inquire into the law of marriage  To which is appended A speech in the case of the queen v  the parish of St  Giles in the fields  by E  Badeley

Download or read book Marriage with a deceased wife s sister evidence given before the Commission appointed to inquire into the law of marriage To which is appended A speech in the case of the queen v the parish of St Giles in the fields by E Badeley written by Edward Bouverie Pusey and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literary Churchman

Download or read book The Literary Churchman written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey Doctor of Divinity  Canon of Christ Church  Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford

Download or read book Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey Doctor of Divinity Canon of Christ Church Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford written by Henry Parry Liddon and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey  1846 1860

Download or read book Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey 1846 1860 written by Henry Parry Liddon and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey

Download or read book Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey written by Henry Parry Liddon and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1846 1860

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Parry Liddon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1898
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 522 pages

Download or read book 1846 1860 written by Henry Parry Liddon and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Christian Remembrancer

Download or read book The Christian Remembrancer written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spectacle of Intimacy

Download or read book The Spectacle of Intimacy written by Karen Chase and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to government reports, to the point where actual families felt anxious and the public developed a fierce appetite for scandal. Here Karen Chase and Michael Levenson explore how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865. They tell a story of a society continually perfecting the forms of private pleasure and yet forever finding its secrets exposed to view. The friction between the two conditions sparks insightful discussions of authority and sentiment, empire and middle-class politics. The book recovers neglected episodes of this mid-century drama: the adultery trial of Caroline Norton and the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne; the Bedchamber Crisis of the young Queen Victoria; the Bloomer craze of the 1850s; and Robert Kerr's influential treatise, celebrating the ideal of the English Gentleman's House. The literary representation of household life--in Dickens, Tennyson, Ellis, and Oliphant, among others--is placed in relation to such public spectacles as the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill of 1848, the controversy over divorce in the years 1854-1857, and the triumphant return of Florence Nightingale from the Crimea. These colorful incidents create a telling new portrait of Victorian family life, one that demands a fundamental rethinking of the relation between public and private spheres.