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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1
No full text“A Tempest in a Teapot over Tennis as I Play It,” by Stephen R. Pastore
“Major New Study of the 1920s Novels: Review of The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930, by James M. Hutchisson” rev. by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
“Joyce Lyng Tends the Sinclair Lewis Memory,” by Jeanne Olson
“Minneapolis Bookseller, Collector Spent Afternoon with Lewis,” by Anne Robinson
“March 8, 1925: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis,” by Henry Logan Stuarthttps://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/slsn/1030/thumbnail.jp
MBE for Services to the Arts
No full textRoselind Sinclair, Lecturer in Design Education , awarded an MBE for Services to the Arts in the Kings 2024, New Years Honours List.
Roselind was presented with her award at Windsor Castle by Anne, The Princess Royal on Wednesday March 6th , 202
Anne as Pagan, Anne as Queer
No full text‘Anne as Pagan, Anne as Queer’ is a critical and creative answer to the question: How do we construct Anne Shirley, and what does she mean to us? This creative research submission is a work of fanfiction, specifically a mash up based on Anne of the Island, L.M.M. Montgomery’s sequel to Anne of Green Gables. In this short work of fiction (under 4 thousand words) Anne is revealed as a changeling, one of the Faerie Folk, and also a being not strictly male or female; sometimes neither, sometimes both. The mash up is based on the last two chapters of Anne of the Island, the scenes in which Gilbert Blythe is seriously ill and Anne realises she loves him. This realisation causes Anne, in this version, to reveal to Gilbert that she is both non-human and not a girl, and to use Faerie magic to save Gilbert’s life. Anne’s revelation causes Gilbert a great relief, as he has been keeping a secret also - that he too is queer. The piece has an accompanying research statement and reflection, that reflects on the ways the contributor/author interprets Anne, as a being troubled by gender, and not strictly gender conforming. The much-loved scene from Anne of Green Gables in which Anne realises she is not wanted by the Cuthberts because she is not a boy is inserted into the mash up (as a memory) as this scene is the principal cause for the contributor’s identification with Anne as a gender non-conforming figure who resists gender expectations. Overall, this creative and critical work and reflection queers both Anne as a character and the Anne of the Island novel.Book chapter - work of fiction with a critical reflective essa
Two literary responses to American society in the early modern era : a comparison of selected novels by Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair in relation to their portrayal of the immigrant, the city, the business tycoon, women, and the problem of labour, 1900-1929
No full textThis thesis analyses the responses of Theodore Dreiser and Upton
Sinclair to American society in the early modern era through their
treatment of the immigrant, the city, the business tycoon, women, and the
labour problem. The role of Dreiser and Sinclair as critics of American
society has often been dealt with and highly praised. Although the
thesis also discusses this particular aspect, its main purpose lies with
the comparison of Dreiser's and Sinclair's ideological and literary
responses to these socio-economic issues.
The study starts with an account of the literary climate of the
time. It shows that American literature at the close of the nineteenth
century and in the early beginning of the twentieth century stems from
the socio-economic and political unrest of the Gilded Age. American
writers demonstrated an increasing concern with the evil consequences of
the new technological development and felt it was their duty to record
the prevailing conditions and express their reactions. They used the
realist technique to describe things as they were and adopted naturalism
to give a scientific study of their society. As a mirror of American
society at the outset of the twentieth century, American fiction
reflected the unrest and contradictions of this period and gave a clearer
insight into the inner responses of American writers to the new order.
It revealed that in spite of a general feeling of anxiety and disillusionment
among American writers, individual reactions against the
current events were diverse. They varied from an attitude of resignation
and pessimistic speculations about America's future to an active desire
to break rising capitalism and to reform American society. This analysis
of Dreiser's and Sinclair's responses to some of the problems of America
has been placed to a large extent in this divided socio-economic and
literary climate. Thus while the comparison shows the two writers'
strong indictment of American society, it also shows two distinct
ideological and literary responses to its upheavals.
Then the main body of the study divides into six chapters. Chapter
one compares the socio-political and literary views of Dreiser and
Sinclair and gives, thus, an idea about the spirit with which they
treated their subject matter and the course of their literary works.
This chapter also deals with the relationship between Dreiser and
Sinclair in an attempt to find traces of a debate between the two writers
on the socio-economic and literary situations in America. The following
chapters focus on Dreiser's and Sinclair's treatment of the immigrant,
the city, the business tycoon, women, and the labour problem. Each of
these chapters starts with a brief historical account of the subject of
study as a background to the fiction. Then it shows Dreiser's and
Sinclair's respective concern with, and experience of, the problem, and
moves onto the analysis of their literary treatment of it.
The aim of this thesis has been to show that no matter what their
artistic, ideological, and philosophical beliefs, American writers in the
years of unrest which followed the large-scale industrialisation in their
country, were called to assume their social responsibilities and
contribute to the cause of social improvement
Interview with Anne Russell
No full textInterview with Anne Russell, playwright and author of several books on local history, including Wilmington: A Pictoral History
'The ceasing from the sorrow of divided life: may Sinclair’s women, texts and contexts (1910-1923)
No full textThis thesis explores May Sinclair's female protagonists in her Modernist texts, 1910-1923. 1 look at how Sinclair's work bears witness to her scene of writing and offer an analysis that places Sinclair, most centrally, in a dialogue with contemporary literary, psychoanalytical, and cultural influences.1 draw upon a wealth of unpublished material, medical archives and journals, newspapers, propaganda, novels of fellow female writers, and other artefacts of the day. By appraising these works together, the critical distinction between Modernism and the topical issues of early twentieth century Britain is seen to dissolve, and Sinclair’s writing emerges as an important oeuvre for reading the life of the modem woman. Women’s fiction of the period typically searches for autonomy and agency. However, as 1 show, the desire for radical social change is problematic and often in conflict with the prescribed code of an idealised, fixed female identity. Through an exploration and development of her own concept of sublimation, Sinclair confronts these complex ideological structures in her engagement with the position of women in her fiction. She places her women in a variety of situations—from the tightly knit, domestic home to the unfettered, open terrain of wild landscapes—and analyses the forces that hold women back or set them free. In my study of Sinclair's Modernist texts, 1 argue that Sinclair urges for psychic freedom for women from their cramped, repressive conditions; this is achieved through sublimation
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
Editor's inscription in Valentine Duval : an autobiography of the last century
No full textEditor Anne Manning's gift inscription to author William Stebbing (1832–1926), "To William Stebbing from his affectionate friend the editor Nov. 2, 1860".Manning, Anne, 1807-1879
Dr. Anne Koch
No full textDr. Anne Koch, author of the book It Never Goes Away: Gender Transition at a Mature Age, meets with students Kolby Nelson after a speech at PCOM.https://digitalcommons.pcom.edu/pa_2020_photos/1065/thumbnail.jp
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