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Book The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction  1660 1790

Download or read book The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction 1660 1790 written by Joe Lines and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With characteristic lawlessness and connection to the common man, the figure of the rogue commanded the world of Irish fiction from 1660 to 1790. During this period of development for the Irish novel, this archetypal figure appears over and over again. Early Irish fiction combined the picaresque genre, focusing on a cunning, witty trickster or pícaro, with the escapades of real and notorious criminals. On the one hand, such rogue tales exemplified the English stereotypes of an unruly Ireland, but on the other, they also personified Irish patriotism. Existing between the dual publishing spheres of London and Dublin, the rogue narrative explored the complexities of Anglo-Irish relations. In this volume, Lines investigates why writers during the long eighteenth-century so often turned to the rogue narrative to discuss Ireland. Alongside recognized works of Irish fiction, such as those by William Chaigneau, Richard Head, and Charles Johnston, Lines presents lesser-known and even anonymous popular texts. With consideration for themes of conflict, migration, religion, and gender, Lines offers up a compelling connection between the rogues themselves, marked by persistence and adaptability, and the ever-popular rogue narrative in this early period of Irish writing.

Book Wild Irish Rogue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Genie Gabriel
  • Publisher : Rogue Phoenix Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1624203787
  • Pages : 165 pages

Download or read book Wild Irish Rogue written by Genie Gabriel and published by Rogue Phoenix Press. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a series of tragedies, Bernie O'Shea turns his Irish stubbornness to becoming a loving dad, a heroic cop, and a small-town legend. He doesn't plan on finding a woman who becomes his courageous life partner or enemies among those he thought were his friends.

Book A Legend To Love Series Sampler Collection

Download or read book A Legend To Love Series Sampler Collection written by Cora Lee and published by More Than Words Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for a legend to love? We have them! A Legend To Love is a series of full-length Regency romance novels written by eleven different authors, where at least one of the main characters in each book is inspired by a legend. You’ll meet our very own versions of Robin Hood, Mulan, Cuchulainn and Emer, Vlad Dracula, Odysseus and Penelope, Romulus and Remus, the Lady of the Lake, Beowulf, Tristan and Iseault, Pygmalion and Galatea, and Dick Whittington and his cat. This sampler contains an excerpt from each book in the series. Can you match the legend to the novel?

Book The Wild Irish

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robin Maxwell
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-10-13
  • ISBN : 0061853232
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book The Wild Irish written by Robin Maxwell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two female titans -- perfectly matched in guts, guile, and political genius. Elizabeth, queen of England, has taken on the mighty Spanish Armada and, in a stunning sea battle, vanquished it. But her troubles are far from over. Just across the western channel, her colony Ireland is embroiled in seething rebellion, with the island's fierce, untamed clan chieftains and their "wild Irish" followers refusing to bow to their English oppressors. Grace O'Malley -- notorious pirate, gunrunner, and "Mother of the Irish Rebellion" -- is at the heart of the conflict. For years, she has fought against the English stranglehold on her beloved country. At the height of the uprising Grace takes an outrageous risk, sailing up the Thames to London for a face-to-face showdown with her nemesis, the queen of England. In this "enthralling historical fiction" (Publishers Weekly), Robin Maxwell masterfully brings to life these strong and pugnacious women in order to tell the little-known but crucial saga of Elizabeth's Irish war.

Book America s Best Brews

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Johnson
  • Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Release : 1997-03-01
  • ISBN : 1461661641
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book America s Best Brews written by Steve Johnson and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and rates more than 375 of the best craft beers, identifies who actually makes them, explains how beer is made, guides you in homebrewing, lists beer festivals, and reveals America's top 25 breweries.

Book Rogue Alpha

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  • Author : Kimber White
  • Publisher : Nokay Press, LLC
  • Release : 2016-12-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Rogue Alpha written by Kimber White and published by Nokay Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One touch made her crave him. Her shocking choice will change everything. Biology student Laura Prince lands a plum internship deep in the Michigan wilderness. When she discovers a lone black wolf with piercing gold eyes in the forest, she feels a connection to him she can’t explain. Stranger still, no one believes what she saw was real. Then, she encounters Malcolm Devane -- a very real, tall, dark, brooding stranger with hauntingly familiar golden eyes. Laura is drawn to Mal in ways she knows are dangerous. But, when everything Laura has worked for gets torn away, he’s the only one she can turn to. Exiled from his native pack lands, Mal is on a mission of redemption. If he can bring down a rival Alpha wolf and reclaim his pack, he just might get the chance to return home. But when he meets Laura, she stirs a dark passion in him he thought he could never have again. He knows instantly that she’s his fated mate but it may be the very thing that gets her killed. For a powerful enemy with nothing left to lose won’t hesitate to hurt Laura to get to Mal. Even though Mal knows the safest thing to do is walk away, the dark wolf inside him may be too strong to deny. Reader’s Note: Each book in the Wild Lake Wolves series is a full length, standalone, cliffhanger free, super sexy, werewolf shifter romance. You can read them in any order but the smoking hot events within each are interconnected and happen chronologically. These wolves like it rough! If you’re not into that, you might want to sit this one out. However if you like hot, dominant, alpha male werewolf shifters and the kickass heroines who will do anything to please them, then one-click away and enjoy the ride! Book Themes: FREE, FREE ebook, free series starter, Freebie, free, Wolf shifter romance, werewolf, werewolves, shapeshifters, new adult and college romance, fated mates, claimed mates, strong alpha male, strong female character

Book Humankinds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andreas Höfele
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2011-05-04
  • ISBN : 3110258315
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Humankinds written by Andreas Höfele and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology is a notoriously polysemous term. Within a continental European academic context, it is usually employed in the sense of philosophical anthropology, and mainly concerned with exploring concepts of a universal human nature. By contrast, Anglo-American scholarship almost exclusively associates anthropology with the investigation of cultural and ethnic differences (cultural anthropology). How these two main traditions (and their ‘derivations’ such as literary anthropology, historical anthropology, ethnology, ethnography, intercultural studies) relate to each other is a matter of debate. Both, however, have their roots in the path-breaking changes that occurred within sixteenth and early seventeenth-century culture and scientific discourse. It was in fact during this period that the term anthropology first acquired the meanings on which its current usage is based. The Renaissance did not ‘invent’ the human. But the period that gave rise to ‘humanism’ witnessed an unprecedented diversification of the concept that was at its very core. The question of what defines the human became increasingly contested as new developments like the emergence of the natural sciences, religious pluralisation, as well as colonial expansion, were undermining old certainties. The proliferation of doctrines of the human in the early modern age bears out the assumption that anthropology is a discipline of crisis, seeking to establish sets of common values and discursive norms in situations when authority finds itself under pressure.

Book Dangerous Joy  The Company of Rogues Series  Book 5

Download or read book Dangerous Joy The Company of Rogues Series Book 5 written by Jo Beverley and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . . a lively trip to Ireland and an action packed adventure with lots of mischief, mystery and passionate characters." ~Jennifer Blake Miles Cavanagh just wants to hunt in the Shires, but instead he finds himself the guardian to a twenty-year-old heiress hell-bent on marrying a fortune-hunting wretch. Refusing to let Felicity throw her life away, Miles kidnaps his ward and carries her off to England. But Felicity's determination is proving equal to his. As fierce wills clash, and fiery hearts ignite into passion, Felicity faces a choice: pursue her mission, or trust the tyrant she's come to love. From The Publisher: Author Jo Beverley is known for her consumate attention to historical detail that wisks the reader back in time to a near first-hand experience. Fans of Regency romance and historical British fiction set in the 19th century, as well as readers of Jess Michaels, Mary Balogh, Christi Caldwell, Stephanie Laurens, Madeline Hunter and Mary Jo Putney will want to read every book by Jo Beverley. "Brimming with sensual adventure and daring wit." ~RT "...a fast paced, fun romance that will keep you glued. First rate keeper!" ~Aromancereview.com

Book If Looks Could Kill

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate White
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2003-05-01
  • ISBN : 0759527970
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book If Looks Could Kill written by Kate White and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel that marks the debut of a sexy and wickedly entertaining new mystery series, If Looks Could Kill introduces a heroine whose blend of wry humor and gutsiness will win over readers everywhere. Bailey's in bed with her commitment-challenged lover K.C. when she gets a frantic call from her high-maintenance boss at Gloss magazine. Grabbing coffee and a cab outside her Greenwich Village apartment-the consolation prize in her divorce settlement-Bailey reluctantly heads uptown. At Cat Jones's Upper East Side town house, she finds something that seriously clashes with the chic decor: the dead body of the family's live-in nanny. As Bailey-unofficially-delves into the murdered girl's past, she finds no shortage of A-list suspects. But when a startling discovery suggests that Cat may have been the intended victim, Bailey is suddenly up to her bed head in a high-profile investigation that's perfect fodder for a tabloid headline: Is someone trying to kill the editors of women's magazines? With the spotlight on New York's glitzy media world, Bailey interviews back-stabbing editors, straying husbands, and one sexy, six-feet-two psychologist who could make her decide to kick K.C. to the curb. Sporting her pair of red slingbacks and armed with the investigative skills she's honed as a true crime reporter, she sets out on a search that takes her from Manhattan's exclusive Carnegie Hill area-the nanny heartland of America-to the ritzy weekend estates of Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Bailey will need all her street smarts and some lightning-fast detective work to catch a killer who could end up deleting her name from the masthead for good.

Book An Encyclopedia of Swearing

Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Swearing written by Geoffrey Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only encyclopedia and social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English, the different major global varieties, such as Australian, Canadian, South African, and Caribbean English are also covered. A-Z entries cover the full range of swearing and foul language in English, including fascinating details on the history and origins of each term and the social context in which it found expression. Categories include blasphemy, obscenity, profanity, the categorization of women and races, and modal varieties, such as the ritual insults of Renaissance "flyting" and modern "sounding" or "playing the dozens." Entries cover the historical dimension of the language, from Anglo-Saxon heroic oaths and the surprising power of medieval profanity, to the strict censorship of the Renaissance and the vibrant, modern language of the streets. Social factors, such as stereotyping, xenophobia, and the dynamics of ethnic slurs, as well as age and gender differences in swearing are also addressed, along with the major taboo words and the complex and changing nature of religious, sexual, and racial taboos.

Book Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds  Fourth Edition

Download or read book Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds Fourth Edition written by Dawn Sova and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata was banned from distribution through the mail (except for first class) in 1890, New York street vendors began selling it from pushcarts carrying large signs reading "Suppressed!" In 1961, the United States Supreme Court pondered whether D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was lewd or literary. In 1969, the novel was required reading in many college literature courses. Changing sexual mores have moved many formerly forbidden books out of locked cabinets and into libraries and classrooms. Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds, Fourth Edition examines the issues underlying the suppression of more than 120 works deemed sexually obscene. Entries include: America: The Book (Jon Stewart) An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser) The Arabian Nights (Sir Richard Burton, trans.) The Art of Love (Ovid) The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison) Forever (Judy Blume) Gossip Girl series (Cecily von Ziegesar) How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Julia Alvarez) Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence) Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) Looking for Alaska (John Green) Rabbit, Run (John Updike) Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson) Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison) This Boy's Life (Tobias Wolff) Ulysses (James Joyce) and more.

Book Two years ago     Eighth edition

Download or read book Two years ago Eighth edition written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The works

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kingsley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1886
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book The works written by Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Years Ago

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  • Author : Charles Kingsley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book Two Years Ago written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Years Ago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Kingsley
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-10-04
  • ISBN : 3385202280
  • Pages : 510 pages

Download or read book Two Years Ago written by Charles Kingsley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Book Daughter of Ireland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sonja Massie
  • Publisher : Berkley
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780515128352
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Daughter of Ireland written by Sonja Massie and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moya Mahoney loves Ireland, heart and soul. So when an American businessman threatens to disrupt her beautiful town, she plans to give him a piece of her mind, little realizing he'll end up taking her heart. Third of a series.

Book Sea Mistress

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  • Author : Candace McCarthy
  • Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 1601831080
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Sea Mistress written by Candace McCarthy and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted Edition She Would Have Her Revenge Bess Metcalfe had been young when she first met ruggedly handsome seaman Seth Garret, but she had loved him with all the passion of a woman. And he had repaid her love by abandoning her! Little did he know that she now held his fate in her hands. For with her uncle's death, she was sole owner of the family merchant business, which counted Seth's ship among its assets. Bess planned to show Seth how it felt to be betrayed--if only her own searing attraction for the virile captain did not betray her first. . . He Would Have Her Heart It was five years since the call of duty had swept Seth from Bess's sensuous embrace. . .five years since the fickle vixen had written him off with a cruel letter. And here she was--aboard his ship--even more beautiful and bewitching than before. One taste of her sweet, sea-kissed lips was all it took to rekindle the flames of raging desire. And as she filled the long shipboard nights with a blazing passion that consumed his very soul, Seth knew he was lost. . .lost in the rapturous wonder of a love that bound him--now and forever--to his stormy, seductive. . . Sea Mistress 100,000 Words