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British women writers and the public sphere between the Wars: Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison, and Rebecca West.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines how Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison and
Rebecca West appropriated the political ideas of the interwar period into their fiction
and sought to transform abstract ideals into values with which to judge and improve
social life. For all four writers, this pursuit takes the form of showing the complex
relations between theory and practice as experienced by particular individuals. My
premise here is the idea that political ideals are based upon the moral principles used by
persons to guide their conduct in the pursuit of individual and collective happiness.
Chapter One discusses the socialist concepts of loyalty, equality and fraternity as
the values upon which the good society should be constructed and the self-appointed
role of writers as public intellectuals whose task was to counteract political apathy and
encourage the practice of active citizenship. Chapter Two examines Holtby's Eutychus
or the Future of the Pulpit, Jameson's No Time Like the Present and Rebecca West's
"The Strange Necessity" to demonstrate how literature was intended as a tool in the
defence against the atomisation effected by the impact of modern life on culture, and a
bulwark against the concomitant subjectivism which resulted from the extensive retreat
into private life. Chapters Three and Four examine the practice of politics itself, with
particular emphasis on the social bonds proposed to replace the instrumentality of
interpersonal relationships in capitalist societies. The texts examined are Mitchison's
We Have Been Warned, Holtby's South Riding, Jameson's In the Second Year and
Mirror in Darkness, as well as West's Harriet Hume. Chapter Five focuses on Jameson's
That Was Yesterday and West's The Thinking Reed and discusses the difficulties faced
by women unable to negotiate the boundaries between the domestic and the public
sphere of sociability as a result of the irreconciliability of self-determination and social
demands
A Reading by Rebecca Solnit
No full textSan Francisco writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of seventeen books about geography, community, art, politics, hope, and feminism and the recipient of many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award (forRiver of Shadows; two other books of hers also were nominated for the prize in other years). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com, she is a contributing editor to Harper\u27s, where she is the first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair column (founded in 1851).
For more information about Rebecca Solnit and her work, please visit http://rebeccasolnit.net
Rebecca Solnit, 29th Annual Literary Festival
No full textRebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Western Writers of America Spur Award, and is the author of ten books, including most recently A Field Guide to Getting Lost and Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Rebecca Harding Davis’s Human Stories of the Civil War
Full text linkThe decades leading up to the Civil War were fabulously rich ones for American literature—an “American Renaissance” in the words of literary scholar F. O. Matthiessen. During this era, some of the nation’s writers—notably Harriet Beecher Stowe, but also Henry David Thoreau and John Greenleaf Whittier— weighed in on the wedge that was driving North and South apart.
One American writer, Rebecca Harding, known today by her married name, Rebecca Harding Davis, had an intimate acquaintance with the war, and she did not have to leave home to acquire it. When the war began in 1861, she was living in the city of Wheeling, then still a part of Virginia. Wheeling lay in a border region, and people in this part of the country had an uncommon perspective on the conflict. Harding wrote, “We occupied the place of Hawthorne’s unfortunate man who saw both sides.”
As an author who lived with the Civil War at close hand, Rebecca Harding Davis not only “saw both sides” but also saw the sordidness of the war and of the men—and women—involved in it. This intimacy with the war naturally led to a great deal of knowledge about its incidents and participants, as well as some serious reflection about motivations and consequences. Davis covered the Civil War from the position of a reporter on the ground, one who saw the devastation as it occurred; but rather than cover the battles themselves, as newspapers were doing, she chose to explore the human stories behind and around the war
spill it. stories of menstruating on campus
Full text linkspill it. features qualitative responses from an exploratory research study, involving a survey and campus audit. The study aimed to document access to menstrual products and student experiences with menstruation on campus. As a first zine author and artist Rebecca Johnson hopes that spill it. will illuminate what it's like to menstruate on campus, and inspire others to share their story. The research was reviewed and approved by the Douglas College Research Ethics Board and data was collected between October 2019 - July 2020
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung - Deadly Sins and Their Remedies
No full textVices are bad habits we can rely upon to make our lives not work. So why do we do them? How do we get to the bottom of our sin-symptoms and allow The Master Physician to heal the root causes? Rebecca DeYoung, author of Glittering Vices and Vainglory, talks with Nathan Foster about ordering our loves. The Renovaré Bookclub is reading Glittering Vices together—learn more at renovare.org/bookclub
Chris Dewdney and Rebecca Graham at the Campus Author Recognition Program annual reception, November 1, 2012.
No full textChris Dewdney, Writer in Residence and Rebecca Graham, Chief Librarian, at the Campus Author Annual Reception. November 1, 2012
A New Book on Mao: A Quick Q & A with Author Rebecca Karl
Full text linkRebecca Karl, who teaches at New York University and is known in Chinese studies circles as the author of important studies of nationalism during the final years of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) and the development of Marxist thought between the 1920s and the present, has a new book coming out soon. Titled Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History, it’s being published (simultaneously in paperback and hardback editions) by Duke University Press. The publisher promises that it will provide readers with a “lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought,” and it comes with advance praise from Stanford literary specialist Ban Wang and historian Delia Davin, whose many publications also include a short book about the Chinese Communist Party leader. Struck by the challenges Professor Karl has taken on, both of moving from writing for specialists to writing for general readers (that’s clearly the main target audience to her new book) and trying to cover such a big topic in a small number of pages (the book has just over 200 of them), I asked her to share her thoughts on these challenges and other subjects with followers of this blog
The Menace of Home/Man in Hitchcock's Rebecca and Under Capricorn
No full textTwo of Alfred Hitchcock's films, Rebecca (1940) and Under Capricorn (1949), are rarely viewed as thematic twins. A comparative study of the two films, however, yields fruitful findings and one of them is particularly noteworthy: the man does too little while the woman suffers too much in the strangeness of the domestic sphere. Under Capricorn and Rebecca, when juxtaposed, illuminate that the menace of home camouflages the menace of man while male dominance masquerades as male passivity. This article examines how Hitchcock engineers the menace of home in both films, why the heroine/mistress alone suffers, what emboldens the housekeeper's aggression, and where the master stands in the women's conflict
Rationing justice in the 21st century: technocracy and technology in the access to justice movement
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