514 research outputs found
"Interior Landscape": An Examination of the Poetry of Sylvia Plath and a Brief Collection of Unpremeditated Art
No full text(Statement of Responsibility) by Mary Hamilton Trimble(Thesis) Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 1972RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE(Bibliography) Includes bibliographical references.This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.Faculty Sponsor: Miller, Arthu
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
Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies
No full textThe storytelling tradition has long been an important piece of Kentucky history and culture. Folktales, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories hold a special place in the imaginations of inventive storytellers and captive listeners. In Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies Kentucky storyteller Mary Hamilton narrates a range of stories with the voice and creativity only a master storyteller can evoke.
Hamilton has perfected the art of entrancing an audience no matter the subject of her tales. Kentucky Folktales includes stories about Daniel Boone’s ability to single-handedly kill a bear, a daughter who saves her father’s land by outsmarting the king, and a girl who uses gingerbread to exact revenge on her evil stepmother, among many others. Hamilton ends each story with personal notes on important details of her storytelling craft, such as where she first heard the story, how it evolved through frequent re-tellings and reactions from audiences, and where the stories take place. Featuring tales and legends from all over the Bluegrass State, Kentucky Folktales captures the expression of Kentucky’s storytelling tradition.
Mary Hamilton, a professional storyteller since 1983, frequently performs at local, regional, and national storytelling festivals as well as conducts storytelling workshops around the country. In 2009 she received the Circle of Excellence Oracle Award from the National Storytelling Network.
This book functions on two levels...great stories which will be fun for the casual reader…along with in depth notes showing how a contemporary storyteller…Mary Hamilton…shapes a tale for telling. Lovers of story will find a lot to delight them in this book. And Kentucky story lovers will just want to grab it and take it home with them to keep! —Dr. Margaret Read MacDonald, author of Ten Traditional Tellers
“Mary Hamilton has given us a fascinating tour of the heart and mind of a contemporary storyteller, weaving together her tales, their sources, and the fabric of her life in which each tale has its lovingly embroidered place.”—Joseph D. Sobol, Ph.D., author, The Storytellers’ Journey: An American Revival
This book is a goldmine. If you are looking for Kentucky stories, you will find some amazing ones here. If you want to know about how stories were collected in Kentucky, you can learn a lot here. If you want to learn more about the development and process of a brilliant storyteller, you need look no further. Mary Hamilton does Kentucky proud! —Elizabeth Ellis, Kentucky born storyteller
Hamilton\u27s book is lively, convincing, unforgettable. This is a book tellers will read again and again, so rich and vivid is its approach. —Jo Radner, Past President, National Storytelling Network
Lovers of story will find a lot to delight them in this book. And Kentucky story lovers will just want to grab it and take it home with them to keep! --Margaret Read MacDonald, author of Ten Traditional Tellers
Mary Hamilton has given us a fascinating tour of the heart and mind of a contemporary storyteller, weaving together her tales, their sources, and the fabric of her life in which each tale has its lovingly embroidered place. --Joseph D. Sobul, author of The Storytellers\u27 Journey: An American Revival
This book is a goldmine...Mary Hamilton does Kentucky proud! --Elizabeth Ellis, recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award for the National Storytelling Association
“An entertaining collection of folktales and folklore that will remind all who read it of the value of storytelling to the human imagination. It will encourage readers to explore the lore of their own communities, no matter how near to or far from Kentucky.”--Library Journal
Even before opening Mary Hamilton\u27s ode to storytelling, the rustcolored cover, adorned with a rocking chair and the kind of rustic text that might be carved in a tree, invites the reader into a world of oral traditions shared among Kentuckians for years before being captured on the page. . . . Her diligent notes increase the collection\u27s quality, ensuring many hours enjoyed in the chair of your choice. --Appalachian Voices
A well-documented, lively, informative book and is a major contribution to regional folklore. --Louisville Courier-Journal
Mary Hamilton has given us not only a glorious collection of dazzling tales...but also an inspiring model of how a truly professional storyteller works. --Storytelling Magazine
With imagination and a joy of communicating, [Hamilton\u27s] book is informative without becoming didactic. It is a well-documented, lively, informative book and is a major contribution to regional folklore. --Louisville Courier-Journal
An absolute joy. . . . This is the perfect book for bedtime reading. --Tucson Citizen
Hamilton\u27s first book--a collection of tales and her commentary on each one--is a must-have for anyone considering telling a good tale. And for those of us who mostly sit and listen, Kentucky Folktales provides some really good stories along with a little peek behind the scenes at the mind who tells them. -- Around Cincinnati, WVXU
Winner of a 2013 Storytelling World Resource Award for best storytelling collection.
Winner of the Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award
Hamilton entrances the audience...[and] narrates a range of stories with the voice and creativity only a master storyteller can evoke. -- News-Express Weekend
[. . .] With each story in her text [. . .] the author provides such excellent context and commentary that the reader comes to understand the story in its told form and also in its backstory. [. . .] Hamilton’s voice throughout is that of a storyteller [. . .] [A]fter reading a few pages, most readers will find both her voice and her stories about storytelling captivating. -- Indiana Magazine of Historyhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_folklore/1012/thumbnail.jp
'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
Harmony and discord within the English ‘counter-culture’, 1965-1975, with particular reference to the ‘rock operas’ Hair, Godspell, Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar
No full textPhDThis thesis considers the discrete, historically-specific theatrical and musical sub-genre of ‘Rock Opera’ as a lens through which to examine the cultural, political and social changes that are widely assumed to have characterised ‘The Sixties’ in Britain. The musical and dramatic texts, creation and production of Hair (1967), Tommy (1969), Godspell (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and other neglected ‘Rock Operas’ of the period are analysed. Their great popularity with ‘mainstream’ audiences is considered and contrasted with the overwhelmingly negative and often internally contradictory reaction towards them from the English ‘counter-culture’. This examination offers new insights into both the ‘counter-culture’ and the ‘mainstream’ against which it claimed to define and differentiate itself.
The four ‘Rock Operas’, two of which are based upon Christian scriptures, are considered as narratives of spiritual quest. The relationship between the often controversial quests for re-defined forms of faith and the apparently precipitous ‘secularization’ and ‘de-Christianization’ of British society during the 1960s and 1970s is considered.
The thesis therefore analyses the ‘Rock Operas’ as significant, enlightening prisms through which to view many of the profound societal debates – over ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ in the widest senses, sexuality, the Vietnam war, generational conflict, drugs and ‘spiritual enlightenment’, and race – which were, to some considerable extent, elevated onto the national, political agenda by the activities of the broadly-defined ‘counter-culture’. It considers subsequent representations of the ‘counter-culture’ as the root of a contested but enduring popular legacy of ‘The Sixties' as a period of profound cultural change
The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850)
No full textThe Mary Hamilton Papers is a digital edition of ego-documents concerning Mary Hamilton (1756-1816), sub-governess to the Royal Court of George III and a member of the Bluestocking circle. The time-span covered by the collection (c.1740-c.1850) and the wide range of topics addressed (court and royal life, literary interests, women’s education, courtship and romance, social and cultural activities in the Bluestocking network, etc.) make this edition a unique data source to explore the intellectual and social world of Hamilton’s day and to investigate important questions about literary practices, letter-writing and everyday language in Georgian England, among others. Mary Hamilton (1756-1816) was a well-connected figure in royal, aristocratic and literary circles of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850) contains her private correspondence, diaries and travel journals, and other personal writing, together with manuscript materials pertaining to her husband, John Dickenson. Among the major figures represented in the collection are members of the royal family and other courtiers, members of Hamilton’s own family (including her uncle, the diplomat Sir William Hamilton) and prominent members of the Bluestocking circle, such as Elizabeth Montagu, Frances Burney, Frances Boscawen, Elizabeth Vesey and Mary Delany. The contents come primarily from the eponymous archive held at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library in Manchester (over 2,600 items fully catalogued), with additional items from 11 other repositories in the UK and the US (nearly 600 items).[1] The materials from the JRRIL and Lancashire Archives have been digitised in-house at the JRRIL; others were digitised at the hosting libraries and then shared with us.The digital edition contains all of the above-listed 3,200-odd items in the form of high-resolution images (17,865 in total) with basic metadata: 3,042 pieces of private correspondence, 38 diaries and travel journals, and 122 other items, including manuscript books of various kinds, such as anthologies of verse and prose, memoranda and account books. Their date range is 1742-1853. The digital edition is publicly available in open access via Manchester Digital Collections (MDC), a repository which is image-centred and which offers a rich variety of visualisation tools. About half the items have been manually transcribed (c.894,000 words), namely 1,625 items of private correspondence, 17 diaries/journals by Hamilton and 51 other items. The date range of transcribed items is 1754-1837. The transcriptions are in XML format following TEI guidelines (P5), including a header containing metadata (e.g. author, date, summary) and a body containing the transcription of the text. The editorial schema is an XHTML document derived from an ODD file (One Document Does it All) created by David Denison. It covers, for instance, elements in the TEI header; structural elements of the text in the body; manuscript features like underlining, word spacing, additions and deletions; elements to do with editorial intervention, like footnotes and non-modern spelling or sic-forms; content-based mark-up such as person and place names, direct speech, foreign words; and customised tags for research analysis in reading practices and salutations in correspondence. The transcriptions can be read in MDC alongside the corresponding images in either diplomatic or normalised format. They have furthermore been tagged for part of speech (CLAWS7) and semantic categories (USAS), and this tagged version can be accessed and explored for general research purposes in CQPweb. CQPweb is a user-friendly interface best known for indexing and querying linguistic corpora, where users can search easily for words or strings of text in the normalised version or for XML elements coded in the transcriptions (e.g. place names, references to a particular individual or foreign words). The transcriptions are also freely available as plain-text files for non-profit use to anyone who registers for access via the project website. We have also constructed a ‘personography’ database containing all writers and addressees, as well as nearly everyone mentioned in the material that has been transcribed (nearly 2,600 individuals). The database is designed as an XML/TEI file with multiple fields, and will serve as the basis of an electronic person index containing links to external authority files such as VIAF. The Mary Hamilton Papers is indexed in correspSearch, an open-access web interface for searching across multiple scholarly editions of letters. A brief version history is given below (the DOI label ‘version 2’ is effectively fixed).version | items | transcribed | words2022-09-07 | 1664 | 1509 | c.822k2023-08-25 | 3201 | 1598 | c.875k2024-07-29 | 3201 | 1598 | c.875k2025-12-05 | 3202 | 1693 | c.894k How to cite the project:Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers. Project team: Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, University of Manchester. Project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (2019-2023, Ref. AH/S007121/1), https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/. How to cite the edition:The Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1740-c.1850). Compiled by David Denison, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis, Hannah Barker and Sophie Coulombeau, University of Manchester, 2019-2023. https://doi.org/10.48420/21687809 . [1] UK: Archives and Manuscripts, The British Library (London); Derbyshire Record Office, Derbyshire County Council (Matlock); Lancashire Archives, Lancashire City Council (Preston); Windsor Castle, The Royal Archives (Windsor). USA: Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY); Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (New Haven, CT); Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford University (Stanford, CA); Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library (New York, NY); Houghton Library Repository, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA); Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University (New Haven, CT); The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY). We are aware of additional material in private collections, e.g. those owned by the Anson family
"In this moment of alarm and peril": Female Education, Religion and Politics In the Late Eighteenth Century, With special reference to Catharine Macaulay and Hannah More
No full textPhDCatharine Macaulay and Hannah More are conventionally represented as
ideological opposites. Through an analysis which centres on their writings, this
thesis critically examines that representation, and more broadly explores
contemporary perceptions of the roles of women of the middling sort in the late
eighteenth century. It argues that revolution, particularly the French Revolution,
created a climate wherein the duties of women became the subject of increasing
debate. The discussion challenges and builds upon recent work on women's
writing and history, by examining how and why the role of women changed at this
time. This work is concerned with contemporary representations of women, and
concentrates on analysis of primary texts and archival material over a wide range
of genres, including educational treatises, plays, popular tracts, political pamphlets,
historical writing and newspapers - the latter proving a major resource.
Following a critical introduction, the thesis falls into four chapters. Chapter one
discusses the reputation, critical reception and public fame of Macaulay and More,
thereby providing insights into contemporary sexual and social politics. Women
were considered arbiters of morals and manners - believed to play a vital role in
ensuring social stability - and the second chapter examines how the threat of
revolution led to increasing anxiety and debate about the nature of female
education. The third and fourth chapters discuss religion and politics respectively,
and argue that beliefs about the interdependency of Church and State, together with
the feminization of religion, legitimized women's involvement in politics and
enlarged their sphere of influence.
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The conclusion argues that the political and religious climate provided
opportunities for women to reassess and redefine their roles; while often remaining
within parameters defined by commonly held perceptions of femininity, they
politicized the domestic, extended female agency, and elevated the status of
women
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
Grade 8 from Central School in Selkirk School
No full textThe students from Central School had to come to Grade 8 in Selkirk School that year. Annie Bregolisse, Nan Johnson, Mary Guzzo, Mary Gastaldini, Elena Gallicano, Ella Rutherford, Thelma Wharton, Jean Johnson, Gladys Comyn, Ruby Rutherford, Dulcie Ward, Elise Clark, Henriette McMahon, Gina Pradolini, Lena Peresini, Florence Adair, Ruth Hamilton, Sarah Defoe, Holly Dewar, Mary Davis, Tony, Clarence Cashato, Arthur Kimberley, Fred Trimble, Sonny Hamilton, Pinky Fleming, George McGiver, Benny Skene, Ivind Nilsen, Roddy Hoote, Peter Grauer, Dave Beech, Reg Morley, David Tevine, Frank Robinson, Gordon Kenward, Mundy McRae, George Singer, Jonnie Crawford, Ugo Pradolini
The manuscript miscellany in early Stuart England : a study of British Library Manuscript Additional 22601 and related texts
No full textPhDThis thesis is an intensive study of a manuscript miscellany dating from the early years
of the reign of James VI and 1: British Library Manuscript Additional 22601. Compiled
by someone who had close links to the court, but who was also likely to have been
associated with the Inns of Court and possibly with the south-west of England, the
miscellany contains verse (including that of King James) and prose in a wide range of
genres, with a particular interest in the political culture of the period. My thesis
provides a description of the manuscript's contents as a whole and then goes on to focus
on texts from three specific genres: the letter, political prose, and poetry. Studying
these individually and in their immediate context, it goes on to trace their appearance in
a number of other contemporary miscellanies held in British and North American
archives.
The two primary contentions of the thesis are (1) that manuscript miscellanies need to
be treated as coherent wholes, whose arrangement to some extent determines the
meaning of the texts they contain and (2) that in the process of transmission from one
manuscript to another texts and their meanings are significantly modified. The act of
transcription is thus also an act of interpretation. Building on work by Peter Beal, Mary
Hobbs, Harold Love, Henry Woudhuysen and others, the thesis aims to expand our
understanding both of the culture of scribal publication and of the ways in which that
culture engaged with the political, religious and literary life of the nation
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