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A sojourn in Paris 1824-25: sex and sociability in the manuscript writings of Anne Lister (1791-1840)
No full textThis thesis examines the day to day practices that constituted Anne Lister's (1791-1840) sexuality and sociability within the range of her writings, as well as her society. Anne's writings were a detailed account, spanning her lifetime, of her own love and relationships with the 'fairer sex' (Whitbread 1988, 145). Anne's sociality, seen in her correspondence and plain handwritten journal entries, has been explored by Muriel Green in Miss Lister of Shibden Hall and Jill Liddington in Female Fortune and Nature's Domain (Green 1992; Liddington 1998; 2003). As a gentlewoman of adequate means, Anne has garnered some attention from women's historians interested in her agency within an early nineteenth century social and historical context. Anne's sexual identity has been extensively analysed over the past nearly twenty years by lesbian feminists, queer theorists, women's historians and historians of sexuality concerned with the history and development of modern Western female homosexuality and gender. The source for theorising Anne's sexuality has been the edited selections of the crypted journal entries, published by Helena Whitbread in I Know My Own Heart and No Priest but Love (Whitbread 1988; 1992). However, many analyses deal either with the theorisation of Anne's sexuality or her sociality; the theoretical difficulty with reconciling these categories has troubled the analysis of her complex subjectivity. Drawing upon the archival materials, I have used an interdisciplinary feminist approach to analyse the sexual and social processes of Anne's everyday interactions in her writings. Taking the seven month period of the sojourn to Paris in 1824-25, I have focused upon Anne's textual practices within her journal volume and letters during her residence in Paris, her social practices with the other guests at the guesthouse 24 Place Vendome and her sexual practices with her lover, the widow Mrs. Maria Barlow. The journal volumes and correspondence are a valuable historical record of one gentlewoman's engagement with early nineteenth century British culture
Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
No full textPhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
The Count Cornelius carnival
No full textFour connected short stories centered around the creation of a fictitious carnival that tours the US in the 1950s and the strange man whose obsession with uniqueness started it all.M.F.A.by Elizabeth PalamaraShort storie
Histories, Graham-Hayes
No full textThe Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Phillips Camp biographies (circa 1940-1974) is a collection of biographical sketches of Utah pioneers submitted to the Phillips Camp, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, in Kaysville, Utah. The individual sketches give insight into the socioeconomic status of European, as well New World, converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the nineteenth century. They contain biographical and genealogical information, as well as descriptions of experiences crossing the Atlantic to America and traveling across the plains to Utah. Minute details of pioneering life in Davis County, Utah, and other frontier outposts of settlement are illuminated. Described also are individual occupations and survival techniques along with information on offices held in, and services to, the church and the community. Biographies include: Alexander Stewart Graham (1831-1881), 4 pages; Elizabeth Jane Nutman Graham (1832-1895), 4 pages; Ann Clark Green (1830-1902), 3 pages; James Green (1844-n.d.), 2 pages; Jane Green (1834-n.d.), 2 pages; John Hyrum Green (1801-1886), 1 page; John Green (1846-1930), 7 pages; Mark Green (1850-1919), 3 pages; Mary Ann Gibson Green (1805-1850), 2 pages; Thomas Green (1802-1874), 3 pages; Hathron Chancey Hadlock (1824-1902), 4 pages; Hector Caleb Haight (1810-1882), 1 page; William V. Haight (1841-n.d.) and Louise Turner Haight (1845-1924), 5 pages; Henrietta Keys Whitney Hales (1821-1901), 2 pages; Ane Cathrine Nielsen Hansen (1842-1930), 2 pages; Anne Cathrine (Hedevig) Rasmussen Jensen Hansen (1823-1899), 1 page; Else Rasmussen Hansen (1831-1879), 1 page; Hans Christian Hansen (1820-1903), 3 pages; Mary Sophia Jensen Hansen (1830-n.d.), 1 page; Alma Hardy (1852-1940), 5 pages; Daniel Harvey, Jr. (1860-n.d.), 2 pages; Daniel Harvey, Sr. (1830-n.d.), 2 pages; Hannah Smuin Harvey (1836-1915), 4 pages; James Smuin Harvey (1858-1910), 4 pages; Nephi Hayes (1842?-1926), 3 page
Do scavengers influence dermo disease (Perkinsus marinus) transmission?: experiments in oyster parasite trophic interactions
No full textPerkinsus marinus is the protozoan endoparasite of the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) responsible for Dermo disease. While not harmful to humans, Dermo disease causes extensive oyster mortality, increasing annual natural mortality from 10 to 35% or more in Delaware Bay annually. The disease spreads through the water as parasites are shed from infected and moribund hosts. One prior study has indicated that scavengers may spread the parasite to new hosts, but little information exists as to how such trophic interactions affect host-parasite dynamics. From July 2010 to September 2011, uninfected, or specific-pathogen free (SPF) oyster hosts were exposed in the laboratory to four different species of scavengers feeding on infected or uninfected oyster tissue. In each experiment, the accumulation of P. marinus in oyster hosts was compared after 1-2 months as a measure of parasite transmission. Results indicated that scavengers, regardless of species, increase the rate of parasite transmission to new hosts when compared to passive shedding of parasites from infected tissue alone. These laboratory studies demonstrate that non-host organisms for the parasite have their own sets of interactions that can influence disease dynamics, and such interactions should be taken into consideration in future studies where transmission dynamics come into play.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Elizabeth Anne Diamon
'The cracked mirror': Anne Sexton's poetics of self-representation
No full textThis thesis re-evaluates the work of the poet Anne Sexton (1928-1974), concentrating, in particular, on the indeterminacies, contradictions and aporia which it finds to be characteristic of her ostensibly frank and self-revelatory writing. The study is based on a close textual
analysis of Sexton's writing, is informed by oststructuralist theories, and is sustained by an
examination and discussion of archive collections of her previously unpublished papers. In seeking an understanding of Sexton's poetics, the thesis identifies and interrogates the strategies of denial and obfuscation apparent in her own explication of her work - principally, by scrutiny of the unpublished, and previously unresearched, drafts of a series of lectures
which she delivered in 1972. Chapters One and Two consider the origins of `confessional' or - Sexton's preferred term - 'personal' poetry and reassess her place within contemporary poetry. They suggest that
Sexton's writing is engaged in a process of negotiation and contestation, both with the boundaries and expectations of confessionalism, and with the strictures of T. S. Eliot's theory of `impersonality'. In support of these arguments, Chapter Two offer a reading of Sexton's
little-known poem, `Hurry Up Please It's Time', alongside its intertext, Eliot's The Waste Land. Chapter Three reassesses received views of the supposedly beneficial interrelationship between confessional speaker and reader. It examines Sexton's appropriation of dramatic
masks and personae and her use of metaphors of striptease and prostitution, and suggests that these are employed simultaneously to appease and to repel an intrusive audience. Similarly, Chapters Four and Five trace Sexton's problematisation of two previously-accepted tenets of confessional poetry: its status as autobiography and its truthfulness, drawing attention to the techniques employed in order to give the impression of both. Chapter Six considers Sexton's
problematic engagement with a language which is not malleable, transparent, and referential but, rather, is experienced as uncooperative and occlusive. Finally, the thesis recuperates Sexton from the common charge of narcissism, arguing that it is the writing, rather than the poet, which is self-reflexive and self-conscious. In this respect, it concludes that her work - perhaps unexpectedly - anticipates many of the tendencies of postmodernist writing
Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
No full textThis thesis contributes to the growing interest in early modern masculinity and its literary representations by introducing texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be fully understood when studied in relation with each other.
The first chapter explores how, notwithstanding the wisdom of conduct books and marriage guides, the demands of the state may not always be commensurate with those of the domestic realm and shows that this conflict necessitates a rethinking of existing definitions of masculinity by focusing on selected writings of the Tudor sisters Mary and Elizabeth and Jane Fitzalan’s *Tragedie of Iphigeneia*. The second chapter identifies how Elizabeth’s unique discursive strategies were designed to elicit support from her male subjects and subdue the belligerence that simmered under polemic like John Stubbs’ *Gaping Gulf*. In her letters to Anjou, the chapter examines how Elizabeth manoeuvred around her position as a beloved and as a monarch to fashion a husband who would not only be sympathetic but also subordinate to her political authority. This chapter also shows how the fabulous world of John Lyly’s *Galatea* consummates the Queen’s desire for the ideal male subject. The final chapter investigates the construction of martial manhood. It juxtaposes Mary Sidney’s *The Tragedy of Antonie* with William Shakespeare’s *Antony and Cleopatra* to determine how the figure of Cleopatra, common to both plays, challenges and revises the martial code of masculinity as embodied by Antony. By examining the authorial position appropriated by Cleopatra in the plays and its impact on the narrative, this chapter also extends this thesis’ interest in the extent to which female characters within texts compete for diegetic control with male protagonists
Article about Elizabeth Mavor
No full textCuttings regarding 1973 Booker shortlisted author Elizabeth Mavor, including profile
Fostering flexibility: emotions, power dynamics, and framing processes in a socio-religious movement
No full textThis dissertation examines the role intense emotions and framing processes play in strengthening commitment at recruiting events produced by Reclaiming, a socio-religious movement. Both the religious and activist sides of Reclaiming focus on personal and communal growth and change. The movement’s overall goal is to develop a “magical activist” frame for the self using rituals that expose participants to a full spectrum of affect and intense emotion. The research focuses on one recruiting and training tool: the week-long retreats known as “Intensives” because the events use intense, emotionally provocative myths. The research design incorporated multiple methods: full participant observation, in-depth interviews, and surveys. The design has three components: 1) a three year longitudinal study (2004-2006) of two annual Intensive events held in different locations in the Eastern United States, 2) a cross-sectional comparison of data gathered during 2007 at four recruiting and training events in different regions of the United States and Canada, and 3) supplementary data collected at quarterly organizer meetings of one group as well as observations from the Inter-Reclaiming gatherings in 2008 and 2010. I develop two new concepts, the “emotion shape” and the “emotion chain,” which relate to emotional patterns over time including combinations of emotions evoked by rituals. The qualitative analysis is process-oriented and includes a multifaceted analysis focused on power structures and empowering self-transformations, the interplay of movement-specific and general framing processes, and the interaction between emotional, somatic, and cognitive states. This in turn provides substantive insight into the question of who gets involved with the Intensives and whether this involvement is sustained over time. The findings from the small-N quantitative analyses indicate that men, people with families that engaged in activism and/or politics, and people whose families saw religion as not very important are slightly more likely to return to an Intensive. I conclude by arguing that the Intensive events help socialize participants into thinking, emoting, and perceiving the world in flexible, paradoxical ways and use the metaphor of recycling to develop a model of Reclaiming’s circular, cyclical self-transformation process, which proceeds in a different manner for prototypical activists and magical religious people.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Elizabeth Anne Williamso
Experiences and support needs of parents/caregivers of children with cancer through the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a longitudinal study
No full textObjective: to explore the experiences, information and support needs of parents/caregivers of children with cancer and how these changed as the COVID-19 pandemic evolved.Design: online surveys containing closed and free-text questions on experiences, information and support needs were completed at four time points (between April 2020 and October 2021) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Descriptive statistics of closed items and content analysis of qualitative data were conducted.Setting: online.Participants: parents/caregivers of children with cancer.Results: 335 parents/caregivers completed the survey over four time points. Findings revealed that parents’/caregivers’ worry about the virus and vigilance about their child’s virus symptoms decreased over time. Parents reporting the need for support on how to reduce their worries and/or family members during the virus outbreak were low, however parents reported a slight increase in need for support at T3 when schools reopened. Qualitative findings reported the following themes: (1) Psychological well-being of parents/caregivers, (2) Changing perceptions of risks/priorities, (3) Adjusting to COVID-19: Living with continued caution, (4) Healthcare and treatment provision, (5) Information seeking and needs during COVID-19.Conclusions: the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted people’s lives and routines in relation to access to support, finances, education and social lives, leading to psychological distress. Parents highlighted the need for timely, up-to-date and personalised information in relation to COVID-19 and their child with cancer. Further consideration of the development of technology-based health solutions may provide an efficient and safe way to connect with and support parent/caregivers
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