![]() ![]() “A New England Nun,” which features the very Dickinsonian character Louisa Ellis, who prefers to remain single rather than relinquish her freedom, is a case in point: in the ways it unravels the carefully knit cliché of the “old maid” together with how it explores an unorthodox choice of life, this short story reads as an indictment of the ready-made and then widely-held assumption that the American region is a space which is both backwards and monolithic. 1 “In the heterotopic mirror of the past, a new, Gothic nature is discovered, a nature of sublimity (.)ġRegionalist writer Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) is best known today for her keen portrayal of New England local life and for the way in which her short stories challenge ready-made representations of the region in post-bellum America. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “I always equate it to the end of The Truman Show, when he realizes he’s in an enclosed plexiglass dome,” she says. When Wolitzer watched The Wife for the first time, she felt a fresh intimacy with the character. ![]() But The Wife, like The Female Persuasion, benefits from the reality that, as the novelist puts it, “the conversation has heightened.” ![]() “These are not new ideas–writing about sexism, male power, misogyny,” she says. Wolitzer points to her most recent adult novel, The Female Persuasion, published just months into the #MeToo movement last year and buzzy for its timely themes, including sexual assault. One could argue there’s something perfectly 2019 about an old, good book by a woman finally getting its due at a time when–to put it bluntly–old, bad men are finally being called out for their sins. “He has to seem like a jerk but also get second billing.” (Jonathan Pryce took the role, and played it well.) “It was very hard to get a man to play a jerk in a film called The Wife,” Wolitzer says. One problem had to do with the tension central to the book–the power imbalance between a talented woman and her childish but esteemed husband. The Wife, about the inner life of a woman married to a revered novelist, was optioned soon after it was published, but the movie wasn’t made for more than a decade. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. ![]() He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman. Chris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.Ĭlaremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For one exhilarating night, they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. As they face the menace of a treacherous government plot, Ethan is willing to take any risk for the love of the most extraordinary woman he's ever known. Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, is as gallant as he is secretive, a rumored assassin whose true loyalties are a mystery. When the mission goes wrong, it will take all of Garrett's skill and courage to save him. Despite their vow to resist each other after that sublime night, she is soon drawn into his most dangerous assignment yet. For one exhilarating night, they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again.Īs a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little interest in polite society, yet he is captivated by the bold and beautiful Garrett. Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, is as gallant as he is secretive, a rumored assassin whose true loyalties are a mystery. After graduating from Wellesley College with a political science degree, she published her first novel at age twenty-one. In 1985, she was named Miss Massachusetts and competed in the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. ![]() Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, is as daring and independent as any man - why not take her pleasures like one? Yet she has never been tempted to embark on an affair, until now. Lisa Kleypas is the author of a number of historical romance novels that have been published in fourteen languages. New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas delivers a scintillating tale of an unconventional beauty who finds passion with the spy who can't resist herĭr. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Uneasy in the night, populous with ghosts, they shout lustily to one another as they hasten with their work.” Mead opens her work with a twist: she describes the men of Ta’u hastening to their work, but what she’s really describing is a Morning After scenario, a Walk of No Shame, because these men are returning from al fresco sexual adventures of the night before: “As the dawn begins to fall among the soft brown roofs and the slender palm trees stand out against a colorless, gleaming sea, lovers slip home from trysts beneath the palm trees or in the shadow of beached canoes.” Her titillating glance into the evening habits of her Indigenous subjects provides the material for her first ethnography, written for a general reader, that detailed the sexual habits of adolescent girls in Samoa. ![]() ![]() The work begins, “The life of the day begins at dawn, or if the moon has shown until daylight, the shouts of the young men may be heard before dawn from the hillside. WITH THE PUBLICATION of Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead brought to her audience in 1928 a readable vision of adolescent sexuality derived from nine months of fieldwork on the island of Ta’u. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, many will often flip from one movement to another, Hoffer asserts, and the often shared motivations for participation entail practical effects. ![]() This makes sense, in the author's view, given the frequent similarities between them in terms of the psychological influences on its adherents. ![]() Whether intended to be cultural, ideological, religious, or whatever else, Hoffer argues that mass movements are broadly interchangeable even when their stated goals or values differ dramatically. He goes on to articulate a cyclical view of history such that why and how said movements start, progress and end is explored. Hoffer initially attempts to explain the motives of the various types of personalities that give rise to mass movements in the first place and why certain efforts succeed while many others fail. ![]() Hoffer discusses the sense of individual identity and the holding to particular ideals that can lead to extremism and fanaticism among both leaders and followers. Published in 1951, it depicts a variety of arguments in terms of applied world history and social psychology to explain why mass movements arise to challenge the status quo. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements is a non-fiction book authored by the American social philosopher Eric Hoffer. ![]() ![]() The book was first published in 1886 and was a huge success it has seen dozens of film and stage adaptations over the years and remains one of Stevenson's most popular pieces of work. Jekyll's laboratory, the truth about what he's been up to starts to be uncovered. ![]() And when a shocking discovery is made in Dr. Hastie Lanyon, an old friend of Jekyll and Utterson, it starts to seem as if Hyde has returned. So when the murderer disappears, and the doctor starts to return to his old self, he is relieved that the nightmare may be over. But when Hyde is seen murdering a highly regarded MP, Utterson begins to fear the worst for his friend. ![]() And when the subject of the newcomer is brought up with the doctor, he refuses to discuss it and begs the lawyer to leave Hyde alone. ![]() Upon meeting the man, the lawyer is repulsed by his appearance, although he can't quite put his finger on exactly what it is about the man that disturbs him. ![]() Fearing that the doctor is being blackmailed by the stranger, the lawyer sets out to confront him. The lawyer is worried about his friend after he changes his will to include Hyde in case of his death or disappearance. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson tells the story of the lawyer Gabriel John Utterson as he investigates some disturbing incidents involving his old friend, the talented doctor Henry Jekyll, and his mysterious and sinister new companion, Edward Hyde. ![]() ![]() ![]() They face a number of challenges as they battle not only the dangers of a life at sea, including storm, drowning, and being cast adrift in a crippled ship, but also repeated attacks by Blake and Hornigold. But their biggest threat proves to be each other. She risks all to escape with her life. Leo and Gabriella meet aboard one of the most horrific ships in the Caribbean - a slaver - and join forces against their common enemy. When he is twelve years old he witnesses the violent rape and murder of his mother by three of the Caribbean's most feared pirates: Tarr, Blake and Hornigold, and swears revenge at all costs. Gabriella is trapped in an abusive marriage to a ruthless Dutch slave trader, who is in business with the same English cut-throats. ![]() ![]() Smith, Amazon reviewer.***An historical sailing adventure of piracy, love and revenge in the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. Leo is born in Spanish Panama in 1659. Suspend reality, hold on & enjoy the adventure" - R. Seafaring historical adventure, perfect for fans of Julian Stockwin, Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell."A real adventure story, the like of which I have not read in many a year. ![]() ![]() ![]() captives and spoils, the victorious general himself, the qualifying rules and regulations for those who sought the honour and the bewildering variety of similar celebrations that appeared in Rome and elsewhere. ![]() ![]() Chapters 4 through 8 constitute the book’s heart and are concerned with the most revealing and mesmerizing aspects of the ritual, viz. The second and third chapters address the overall role of the triumph in Roman culture and the reliability of the remaining evidence. 2 The choice of Pompey the Great’s grandiose third triumph of 61 as the opening to this book is justified in that it concerns the best documented triumph in Roman history and so sheds the brightest possible light on some of the evidence for the triumphal ritual as well as the remarkable extent of its individual impact. As in the movies, it first zeroes in on a specific triumphal celebration, whereas the history of the triumph is not dealt with before the last chapter - quite in contrast to the traditional approach. 1 For a start, there is the book’s rather daring and unusual structure. With this major contribution to the subject of the Roman triumph, Mary Beard fully lives up to her self-professed reputation as a “wickedly subversive” ancient historian. ![]() |