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Book Minervas Gothics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Neiman
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2019-02-15
  • ISBN : 1786833689
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Minervas Gothics written by Elizabeth Neiman and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1790 and 1820, William Lane’s Minerva Press published an unprecedented number of circulating-library novels by obscure female authors. Because these novels catered to the day’s fashion for sentimental themes and Gothic romance, they were and continue to be generally dismissed as ephemera. Recently, however, scholars interested in historicizing Romantic conceptions of genius and authorship have begun to write Minerva back into literary history. By making Minerva novels themselves the centre of the analysis, Minerva’s Gothics illustrates how Romantic ‘anxiety’ is better conceptualized as a mutual though not entirely equitable ‘exchange’, a dynamic interrelationship between Minerva novels and Romantic-era politics and poetics that started in 1780, when Lane began publishing novels with some regularity. Reading Minerva novels for their shared popular conventions demonstrates that circulating-library novelists collectively recirculate, engage and modify commonplaces about women’s nature, the social order and, most importantly, the very Romantic redefinitions of authorship and literature that render their novels not worth reading. By recognizing Minerva’s collaborative rather than merely derivative authorial model, a forgotten pathway is restored between first-generation Romantic reactions to popular print culture and Percy Shelley’s influential conceptualization of the poet in A Defence of Poetry.

Book Building the Intentional University

Download or read book Building the Intentional University written by Stephen M. Kosslyn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.

Book Mobilizing Minerva

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kimberly Jensen
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0252074963
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Mobilizing Minerva written by Kimberly Jensen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American women did more than pursue roles as soldiers, doctors, and nurses during World War I. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War reveals women's motivations for fighting for full citizenship rights both on and off the battlefield. The war provided chances for women to participate in the military, but also in other male-dominated career paths. Intense discussions of rape, methods of protecting women, and proper gender roles abound as Kimberly Jensen draws from rich case studies to show how female thinkers and activists wove wartime choices into long-standing debates about woman suffrage and economic parity. The war created new urgency in these debates, and Jensen forcefully presents the case of women participants and activists: women's involvement in the obligation of citizens to defend the state validated their right of full female citizenship.

Book The Minerva Press  1790 1820

Download or read book The Minerva Press 1790 1820 written by Dorothy Blakey and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Children of the Abbey  a Tale

Download or read book The Children of the Abbey a Tale written by Regina Maria Roche and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Minerva s Owl

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  • Author : Jeffrey B Abramson
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2010-09-30
  • ISBN : 0674057023
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Minerva s Owl written by Jeffrey B Abramson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Hegel famously noted, referring to the Roman goddess Minerva, her owl brought back wisdom only at dusk, when it was too late to shine light on actual politics. Jeffrey Abramson provides a lively and accessible guide for readers discovering the tradition of political thought that dates back to Socrates and Plato, with contemporary examples that illustrate the enduring nature of political dilemmas.

Book The Real Minerva

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  • Author : Mary Sharratt
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2006-01-13
  • ISBN : 0547346883
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book The Real Minerva written by Mary Sharratt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “memorable [and] entertaining” novel of three strong women in 1920s small-town Minnesota by the author of Revelations (The Washington Post Book World). Winner of the Willa Literary Award Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award In a Midwestern farming community in 1923, as book-loving Penny enters adolescence, her mother, Barbara, pulls her out of school to send her to work. Destined to become a cleaning woman like her mother, Penny sees no escape from her bleak existence—until a scandalous figure arrives in the town of Minerva, Minnesota: Cora, very pregnant, very headstrong, and very alone, has come to make a home on her grandfather’s farm. Intrigued by this curious new resident, Penny sets out to work for Cora, setting into motion events that will change multiple lives. Drawing on her mother’s and grandmother’s stories of Minnesota farm life in the early twentieth century, acclaimed author Mary Sharratt has created a suspenseful and moving novel about the strength of women and the unexpected friendships that form between them. “A paean to the bond between mothers and daughters . . . engrossing.” —Booklist “Wonderful.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times-bestselling author of With or Without You

Book These Americans

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  • Author : Jyotsna Sreenivasan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-05-03
  • ISBN : 9781950811069
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book These Americans written by Jyotsna Sreenivasan and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THESE AMERICANS, a debut collection of short fiction, explores what it means to live between Indian culture and American expectations. An Indian-born immigrant mother gives birth to her daughter in a small Ohio town. A college student avoids the academic expectations of her immigrant parents. A naïve immigrant mother is in denial about her lawyer daughter's lesbianism. This gripping collection of eight short stories and a novella will stay with you long after you turn the last page.

Book The Gentle Axe

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  • Author : R. N. Morris
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008-03-25
  • ISBN : 1101221291
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Gentle Axe written by R. N. Morris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh off the case of a deranged student who murdered his landlady, noted police investigator Porfiry Petrovich barely takes a breath before a bizarre and very grisly double murder lands him back on the streets of the tsarist St. Petersburg he knows all too well. The sardonic sleuth follows a trail from the drinking dens of the Haymarket district to an altogether more genteel stratum of society-a hunt that leads him to a conclusion even he will find shocking. In the tradition of such first-rate historical novels such as The Alienist and The Dante Club, The Gentle Axe is atmospheric and tense storytelling from its dramatic opening to its stunning climax.

Book An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

Download or read book An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unkempt Thoughts

Download or read book Unkempt Thoughts written by Stanisław Jerzy Lec and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era

Download or read book Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era written by Hannah Doherty Hudson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Romantic conviction that there were 'too many' novels and shows how this belief transformed the publication of fiction.

Book Mission to Minerva

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  • Author : James P. Hogan
  • Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • Release : 2005-05-01
  • ISBN : 1618244817
  • Pages : 562 pages

Download or read book Mission to Minerva written by James P. Hogan and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRANSPORTED ACROSS THE MUILTIVERSE. Over light-years of space and 50,000 years back in time, to create a new history.... Only to find there was no way back. Earth is adapting to a future of amicable coexistence with the advanced aliens from Thurien, descended from ancestors who once inhabited Minerva, a vanished planet of the Solar System. The plans of the distantly related humans on the rogue world Jevlen to eliminate their ancient Terran rivals and take over the Thurien system of worlds have been thwarted, but the mystery remains of how it was possible for the fleeing Jevlenese leaders to have been flung back across space and time to reappear at Minerva before the time of its destruction. Victor Hunt and a group of his colleagues travel to Thurien to conduct a joint investigation with the alien scientists into the strange physics of interconnectedness between the countless alternate universes that constitute ultimate reality. When their discoveries lead first to bizarre communication with bewildered counterparts in other universes, and thence to the possibility of physical travel, the notion is conceived of sending a mission back to the former world of Minerva with the startling objective of creating a new family of realities in which its destruction is avoided. But Imares Broghuilio, the deposed Jevlenese leader, along with several thousand dedicated followers with five heavily armed starships, are already there. And they have a score to settle. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management)..

Book Black Wings

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  • Author : Sehba Sarwar
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781949776003
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Black Wings written by Sehba Sarwar and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Spanning two continents, BLACK WINGS is the story of Laila and Yasmeen, a mother and daughter, struggling to meet across the generations, cultures, and secrets that separate them. Their shared grief, as well as the common bond of unhappiness in their marriages, allows them to reconnect after seventeen years of frustration, anger and misunderstandings.

Book The Owl of Minerva

Download or read book The Owl of Minerva written by James Laughlin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Minerva and the Muse

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  • Author : Joan Von Mehren
  • Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • Release : 2012-08-07
  • ISBN : 9781558490154
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Minerva and the Muse written by Joan Von Mehren and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of feminist journalist, Margaret Fuller.

Book Evaluation of the Minerva Research Initiative

Download or read book Evaluation of the Minerva Research Initiative written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Minerva Research Initiative is a Department of Defense (DoD) social science grant program that funds unclassified basic research relevant to national security. The goal of the program is to make use of the intellectual capital of university-based social scientists to inform understanding of issues important to DoD and the broader national security community. Evaluation of the Minerva Research Initiative discusses the program's successes and challenges over its first decade of operation, and highlights ways to strengthen the program's foundations and take advantage of opportunities for broadening its reach and usefulness.