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Affiche du document Memory and Nation — Memory and Nation
3h20min15
Histoire
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267 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h20min.
Written in honour of Professor Huw Pryce, this volume brings together exciting new research on writing and performing the history of Wales, from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Each chapter offers a different perspective on the theme of historical writing and remembrance. The first section (Texts and their Histories) focuses on the creation and function of medieval historical texts; a wide range of texts are investigated here, including chronicles and narrative histories, charters, and the Welsh triads. The second section (History and Identity) concerns the relationship between writing history and identity construction; chapters consider different aspects of this theme, including the role of bishops in writing history and the use of names to construct ethnic identities. The third and final section (Memory and Nation) widens the lens to investigate strategies of remembrance and the performance of history; this includes essays on the Eisteddfod, tattoos of historical individuals and the role of historical pageants in twentieth-century nation building. Taken together, the contributions to the volume offer new insights into Welsh historical writing and perceptions of the past throughout the ages.Acknowledgements / Diolchiadau List of Figures and Tables / Rhestr o Ffigyrau a Thablau Abbreviations / Byrfoddau Notes on Contributors / Bywgraffiadau Cyfranwyr Introduction / Rhagymadrodd PART I: TEXTS AND THEIR HISTORIES RHAN I: TESTUNAU A’U HANES How did medieval Welsh chroniclers find their information? David Stephenson The Reception of Gerald of Wales in Welsh Historical Texts Georgia Henley Trioedd Ynys Prydein fel Testunau Hanes Nia Wyn Jones From Llandaf to Liber A: Welsh Charters and Diplomatics in Long Perspective Charles Insley The Development of Old Welsh Boundary Clauses Ben Guy PART II: HISTORY AND IDENTITY RHAN II: HANES A HUNANIAETH Naming and National Identity: The Monastic Orders in Late Medieval Ireland and Wales Compared David Thornton Gwystlon yn De gestis Britonum a Brut y Brenhinedd Rebecca Thomas The Context of Laudabiliter in the Works of Gerald of Wales Thomas Charles-Edwards The Medieval Bishops of Bangor and the Writing of Welsh History Shaun D. McGuinness “Pinnacles of Preaching” and Men of “Bold Learning”: Religious Reforms, Historical Interests, and the Elizabethan Bishops of Bangor Katharine K. Olson PART III: MEMORY AND NATION RHAN III: COF CENEDL Antiquarianism, Ancestry and ‘Ancient Britons’: Welsh historical consciousness, cultural patronage and the identity of the gentry, c. 1800–1920 Shaun Evans ‘Th’ enlighten’ d crowd with grateful raptures glow’: History, setting norms and Victorian modernity in eisteddfod competitions 1815–1855 Marion Löffler ‘Ireland Raids Wales’: Pageants and the Performance of History in the 1920s Paul O’Leary Tattooing Owain Glyndŵr? The body, memory and interpretations of Welsh history Mari Elin Wiliam with the assistance of Owain Hurcum ‘Time Present and Time Past’: Narrating Nation and Society in Welsh Historical Writing, 1970–2010 Neil Evans Llyfryddiaeth o weithiau cyhoeddedig Huw Pryce / A bibliography of the published works of Huw Pryce (hyd 2023/to 2023) Rhidian Griffiths Manuscripts Cited / Rhestr o Lawysgrifau Selected Bibliography / Llyfryddiaeth Ddethol

Memory and Nation
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Histoire
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267 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h20min.
Written in honour of Professor Huw Pryce, this volume brings together exciting new research on writing and performing the history of Wales, from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Each chapter offers a different perspective on the theme of historical writing and remembrance. The first section (Texts and their Histories) focuses on the creation and function of medieval historical texts; a wide range of texts are investigated here, including chronicles and narrative histories, charters, and the Welsh triads. The second section (History and Identity) concerns the relationship between writing history and identity construction; chapters consider different aspects of this theme, including the role of bishops in writing history and the use of names to construct ethnic identities. The third and final section (Memory and Nation) widens the lens to investigate strategies of remembrance and the performance of history; this includes essays on the Eisteddfod, tattoos of historical individuals and the role of historical pageants in twentieth-century nation building. Taken together, the contributions to the volume offer new insights into Welsh historical writing and perceptions of the past throughout the ages.Acknowledgements / Diolchiadau List of Figures and Tables / Rhestr o Ffigyrau a Thablau Abbreviations / Byrfoddau Notes on Contributors / Bywgraffiadau Cyfranwyr Introduction / Rhagymadrodd PART I: TEXTS AND THEIR HISTORIES RHAN I: TESTUNAU A’U HANES How did medieval Welsh chroniclers find their information? David Stephenson The Reception of Gerald of Wales in Welsh Historical Texts Georgia Henley Trioedd Ynys Prydein fel Testunau Hanes Nia Wyn Jones From Llandaf to Liber A: Welsh Charters and Diplomatics in Long Perspective Charles Insley The Development of Old Welsh Boundary Clauses Ben Guy PART II: HISTORY AND IDENTITY RHAN II: HANES A HUNANIAETH Naming and National Identity: The Monastic Orders in Late Medieval Ireland and Wales Compared David Thornton Gwystlon yn De gestis Britonum a Brut y Brenhinedd Rebecca Thomas The Context of Laudabiliter in the Works of Gerald of Wales Thomas Charles-Edwards The Medieval Bishops of Bangor and the Writing of Welsh History Shaun D. McGuinness “Pinnacles of Preaching” and Men of “Bold Learning”: Religious Reforms, Historical Interests, and the Elizabethan Bishops of Bangor Katharine K. Olson PART III: MEMORY AND NATION RHAN III: COF CENEDL Antiquarianism, Ancestry and ‘Ancient Britons’: Welsh historical consciousness, cultural patronage and the identity of the gentry, c. 1800–1920 Shaun Evans ‘Th’ enlighten’ d crowd with grateful raptures glow’: History, setting norms and Victorian modernity in eisteddfod competitions 1815–1855 Marion Löffler ‘Ireland Raids Wales’: Pageants and the Performance of History in the 1920s Paul O’Leary Tattooing Owain Glyndŵr? The body, memory and interpretations of Welsh history Mari Elin Wiliam with the assistance of Owain Hurcum ‘Time Present and Time Past’: Narrating Nation and Society in Welsh Historical Writing, 1970–2010 Neil Evans Llyfryddiaeth o weithiau cyhoeddedig Huw Pryce / A bibliography of the published works of Huw Pryce (hyd 2023/to 2023) Rhidian Griffiths Manuscripts Cited / Rhestr o Lawysgrifau Selected Bibliography / Llyfryddiaeth Ddethol

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Affiche du document A Welcoming Nation? — A Welcoming Nation?
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Sciences humaines et sociales
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125 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h34min.
To read the PDF of A Welcoming Nation?: Intersectional approaches to migration and diversity in Wales for free, follow the link below A Welcoming Nation?: Intersectional approaches to migration and diversity in Wales This book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative. This volume addresses current debates around migration in, from and through Wales. It includes a range of migratory perspectives to better understand the diverse lived experiences of migrants, and the policies, measures and approaches at work across various scales and sectors in Wales that shape their everyday lives. A Welcoming Nation? adopts an intersectional approach to explore these experiences, which is central to understanding the multiple and complex ways in which exclusion and marginalisation take place. The volume is not only a book about migration, therefore, but also about the ways in which migratory experiences and status can intersect with other factors – such as age, gender, race and sexuality – providing original analyses of migration in Wales.Series foreword Acknowledgments List of illustrations, figures and tables List of abbreviations List of contributors Chapter One – Rethinking Migration and Diversity in Wales: Towards an Intersectional Approach Catrin Wyn Edwards, Laura Shobiye and Rhys Dafydd Jones Chapter Two – International Migration and the Welsh Language: Exploring an Interdisciplinary Framework for Linguistic Integration Gwennan Higham Chapter Three – Speak to Me: A Creative and Participatory Approach to Language Education for Inclusion Barrie Llewelyn and Mike Chick Chapter Four – From City to Nation of Sanctuary? Moving Scalar Imaginaries of Citizenship and National Identity in Wales Franz Bernhardt, Catrin Wyn Edwards and Rhys Dafydd Jones Chapter Five – Creating a Welcoming Nation in a Hostile Environment: LGBTQ+ Precarious Experiences Ourania Vamvaka-Tatsi Chapter Six – Mothers’ Narratives of Transitions and Resilience Through Social Learning Laura Shobiye Chapter Seven – EU Migrants in Wales: Still Welcome? Stephen Drinkwater, Taulant Guma, Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins and Rhys Dafydd Jones Chapter Eight – Ageing and Migration into Rural Wales: A Counter-Narrative to the Rhetoric of Burden and Dependency Jesse Heley and Rachel Rahman

A Welcoming Nation?
1h33min45
Sciences humaines et sociales
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125 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h34min.
To read the PDF of A Welcoming Nation?: Intersectional approaches to migration and diversity in Wales for free, follow the link below A Welcoming Nation?: Intersectional approaches to migration and diversity in Wales This book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative. This volume addresses current debates around migration in, from and through Wales. It includes a range of migratory perspectives to better understand the diverse lived experiences of migrants, and the policies, measures and approaches at work across various scales and sectors in Wales that shape their everyday lives. A Welcoming Nation? adopts an intersectional approach to explore these experiences, which is central to understanding the multiple and complex ways in which exclusion and marginalisation take place. The volume is not only a book about migration, therefore, but also about the ways in which migratory experiences and status can intersect with other factors – such as age, gender, race and sexuality – providing original analyses of migration in Wales.Series foreword Acknowledgments List of illustrations, figures and tables List of abbreviations List of contributors Chapter One – Rethinking Migration and Diversity in Wales: Towards an Intersectional Approach Catrin Wyn Edwards, Laura Shobiye and Rhys Dafydd Jones Chapter Two – International Migration and the Welsh Language: Exploring an Interdisciplinary Framework for Linguistic Integration Gwennan Higham Chapter Three – Speak to Me: A Creative and Participatory Approach to Language Education for Inclusion Barrie Llewelyn and Mike Chick Chapter Four – From City to Nation of Sanctuary? Moving Scalar Imaginaries of Citizenship and National Identity in Wales Franz Bernhardt, Catrin Wyn Edwards and Rhys Dafydd Jones Chapter Five – Creating a Welcoming Nation in a Hostile Environment: LGBTQ+ Precarious Experiences Ourania Vamvaka-Tatsi Chapter Six – Mothers’ Narratives of Transitions and Resilience Through Social Learning Laura Shobiye Chapter Seven – EU Migrants in Wales: Still Welcome? Stephen Drinkwater, Taulant Guma, Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins and Rhys Dafydd Jones Chapter Eight – Ageing and Migration into Rural Wales: A Counter-Narrative to the Rhetoric of Burden and Dependency Jesse Heley and Rachel Rahman

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Affiche du document Percy Thomas — Percy Thomas
Robert Proctor
2h54min00
Architecture et design
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232 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h54min.
Sir Percy Thomas was the most important twentieth-century architect in Wales, renowned for interwar civic buildings such as Swansea Guildhall and the Temple of Peace in Cardiff. His architectural practice, Sir Percy Thomas & Son, designed much of the post-1945 welfare state and industry in Wales and beyond. In the late twentieth century, the Percy Thomas Partnership specialised in complex healthcare, industrial and public buildings, becoming an international practice. This comprehensive, meticulously-researched history examines the architecture of Percy Thomas in depth for the first time, and explores its wider social and political significance. Arguing that the practice sustained an ethical approach to architecture as a ‘national service’ for the benefit of society, this book gives new insights into the role of the architect and the changing relationships between the built environment and the state throughout the century. Its unique perspective from Wales promises to reshape our understanding of modern architecture.Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations used in References 1. Introduction 2. Modern Classicism and Municipal Democracy 3. Commerce, Consumption and Community: The City and the Suburb 4. The Industry and Infrastructure of the Welfare State 5. Place, Landscape and Heritage 6. Architecture and the Neoliberal State 7. Conclusion Bibliography

Percy Thomas
Robert Proctor
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Architecture et design
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Sir Percy Thomas was the most important twentieth-century architect in Wales, renowned for interwar civic buildings such as Swansea Guildhall and the Temple of Peace in Cardiff. His architectural practice, Sir Percy Thomas & Son, designed much of the post-1945 welfare state and industry in Wales and beyond. In the late twentieth century, the Percy Thomas Partnership specialised in complex healthcare, industrial and public buildings, becoming an international practice. This comprehensive, meticulously-researched history examines the architecture of Percy Thomas in depth for the first time, and explores its wider social and political significance. Arguing that the practice sustained an ethical approach to architecture as a ‘national service’ for the benefit of society, this book gives new insights into the role of the architect and the changing relationships between the built environment and the state throughout the century. Its unique perspective from Wales promises to reshape our understanding of modern architecture.Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations used in References 1. Introduction 2. Modern Classicism and Municipal Democracy 3. Commerce, Consumption and Community: The City and the Suburb 4. The Industry and Infrastructure of the Welfare State 5. Place, Landscape and Heritage 6. Architecture and the Neoliberal State 7. Conclusion Bibliography

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Affiche du document Games of Terror — Games of Terror
Vera Dika
1h46min30
Divers
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This is a historical and structural study of the Stalker Film. As a subcategory of the more general Slasher Film, the Stalker Film is often characterised by an off-screen presence that dominates the visual field, and by a recuring combination of character and plot functions. The Stalker Film responds to an ongoing cultural conflict narrativised as the fight to protect self and community, and does so within a specific 1978–81 historical period. As a postmodern work, the surface material of the Stalker Film alludes to past and ongoing cultural forms, to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, for example, to the theories of Sigmund Freud, or even to Laura Mulvey on the male gaze. These forms are not used to enlighten but are exploited to maximum visceral effect. Positioned at the rise of the Reagan era, the Stalker Film questions the Horror Film genre and engages a mass audience response.Acknowledgements Foreword The Pressure of a Name: Slashers, Stalkers, Semantics Preface The Stalker Film and Repeatability Games of Terror: Halloween, Friday the 13th and the Films of the Stalker Cycle Introduction: Methods for Classification and Analysis Halloween: The Beginning of the Stalker Cycle Paradigms: The Basic Elements of the Stalker Formula The Most Successful Recombinations: Friday the 13th and Friday the 13th Part 2 The Films of the Stalker Cycle Conclusion: A Psychological and Sociological Evaluation Selected Writings on the Stalker Film An Introduction to the Selected Writings on the Stalker Film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre To Destroy the Sign Endnotes Bibliography

Games of Terror
Vera Dika
1h46min30
Divers
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142 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h46min.
This is a historical and structural study of the Stalker Film. As a subcategory of the more general Slasher Film, the Stalker Film is often characterised by an off-screen presence that dominates the visual field, and by a recuring combination of character and plot functions. The Stalker Film responds to an ongoing cultural conflict narrativised as the fight to protect self and community, and does so within a specific 1978–81 historical period. As a postmodern work, the surface material of the Stalker Film alludes to past and ongoing cultural forms, to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, for example, to the theories of Sigmund Freud, or even to Laura Mulvey on the male gaze. These forms are not used to enlighten but are exploited to maximum visceral effect. Positioned at the rise of the Reagan era, the Stalker Film questions the Horror Film genre and engages a mass audience response.Acknowledgements Foreword The Pressure of a Name: Slashers, Stalkers, Semantics Preface The Stalker Film and Repeatability Games of Terror: Halloween, Friday the 13th and the Films of the Stalker Cycle Introduction: Methods for Classification and Analysis Halloween: The Beginning of the Stalker Cycle Paradigms: The Basic Elements of the Stalker Formula The Most Successful Recombinations: Friday the 13th and Friday the 13th Part 2 The Films of the Stalker Cycle Conclusion: A Psychological and Sociological Evaluation Selected Writings on the Stalker Film An Introduction to the Selected Writings on the Stalker Film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre To Destroy the Sign Endnotes Bibliography

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Affiche du document The Brontës as Gothic Writers — The Brontës as Gothic Writers
James Thomas Quinnell
1h42min00
Etudes littéraires
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This book is the first extended study of the importance of Gothic for an appreciation of the Brontës’ writing. It resituates Gothic from the mode that gives the pleasing sensation of terror to being the source of the Brontës’ deepest preoccupations – it is the mode they use to register anxieties and fears. This monograph, through a consideration of Gothic states and places, explores the Brontës’ creative work with the genre. The author argues that to read the Brontës as Gothic poets and novelists is also to read them as post-Romantics, as they respond to the Gothic imaginations of such Romantic poets as Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. Gothic in the Brontës, then, is not merely a collection of tropes or even an aesthetic, but a way in which they read the world. Introduction: “The Afflicted Imagination” Sadness Childhood Ghosts Irishness The North Conclusion: “A Surprising Softness”

The Brontës as Gothic Writers
James Thomas Quinnell
1h42min00
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This book is the first extended study of the importance of Gothic for an appreciation of the Brontës’ writing. It resituates Gothic from the mode that gives the pleasing sensation of terror to being the source of the Brontës’ deepest preoccupations – it is the mode they use to register anxieties and fears. This monograph, through a consideration of Gothic states and places, explores the Brontës’ creative work with the genre. The author argues that to read the Brontës as Gothic poets and novelists is also to read them as post-Romantics, as they respond to the Gothic imaginations of such Romantic poets as Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. Gothic in the Brontës, then, is not merely a collection of tropes or even an aesthetic, but a way in which they read the world. Introduction: “The Afflicted Imagination” Sadness Childhood Ghosts Irishness The North Conclusion: “A Surprising Softness”

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Affiche du document Mary Elizabeth Braddon — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
4h37min30
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370 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h37min.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Factory Girl (1863) was a cheap serial intended for working-class readers. The sprawling plot centres on Laura Leslie and her daughter, Dora, who are the targets of a diverse cast of villains. After Laura’s tragic death, Dora and her adoptive mother start a new life working in a cotton mill, but Dora’s beauty attracts unwelcome attention, putting them in danger. Dora is the classic factory girl, a nineteenth-century revision of the Gothic heroine. Republished in the US in both newspapers and as a book, and translated into French, the novel has been out of print since the 1860s. This edition reproduces the original Halfpenny Journal text and illustrations, and adds a scholarly introduction placing the novel in numerous cultural contexts, including the rise of sensation fiction; nineteenth-century popular theatre; the transformation of the genre of the Gothic; and the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter I. MAGDALEN LESLIE’S VOWS. Chapter II. CAST OFF. Chapter III. CAST ON THE MERCY OF THE WORLD. Chapter IV. DORA’S INFANCY. Chapter V. THE NEW FOREWOMAN. Chapter VI. THE ANONYMOUS LETTER. Chapter VII. THE ABDUCTION. Chapter VIII. DEATH RELEASES THE VICTIM. Chapter IX. JANE MARCHANT’S PURSUIT. Chapter X. RETRIBUTION. Chapter XI. THE PUNISHMENT OF GUILT. Chapter XII. MARTON LISBEL’S SUGGESTION. Chapter XIII. JANE MARCHANT FLIES FROM THE MENACED DANGER. Chapter XIV. THE MANUFACTURER’S SON DECLINES THE HONOUR OF AN ARISTOCRATIC ALLIANCE. Chapter XV. TRUE LOVE. Chapter XVI. JOHN FAVERSHAM TAKES HIS OWN COURSE. Chapter XVII. THE MANUFACTURER GIVES HIS CONSENT. Chapter XVIII. LUXBOROUGH CHASE. Chapter XIX. STEPHEN FAVERSHAM’S WOOING. Chapter XX. THE RETURN OF THE DESTROYER. Chapter XXI. BEFORE THE BRIDAL. Chapter XXII. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. Chapter XXIII. SIR LASCELLES TEMPLE THREATENS HIS VICTIM. Chapter XXIV. AN INTERVIEW IN PETER BORGRAVE’S OFFICE. Chapter XXV. THE SHADOW OF DOUBT. Chapter XXVI. THE MEETING IN THE MOONLIGHT. Chapter XXVII. CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. Chapter XXVIII. A TERRIBLE RECOGNITION. Chapter XXIX. THE MEETING IN THE TWILIGHT. Chapter XXX. GASTON LAMORVILLE. Chapter XXXI. THE BRIDAL DINNER. Chapter XXXII. THE MEETING BY THE WATER. Chapter XXXIII. CAST AWAY. Chapter XXXIV. GASTON LAMORVILLE SUGGESTS A PLAN. Chapter XXXV. THE DUEL IN THE FOREST. Chapter XXXVI. THE PLEADING OF THE TEMPTER. Chapter XXXVII. A STRANGE RECOGNITION. Chapter XXXVIII. THE BEARER OF DISMAL TIDINGS. Chapter XXXIX. THE TEMPTER’S PLANS. Chapter XL. PLOTTING AGAINST THE PLOTTER. Chapter XLI. ROBERT FAVERSHAM’S SORROW. Chapter XLII. A SLOW RECOVERY. Chapter XLIII. DISGRACE AND DEATH. Chapter XLIV. RESCUED FROM THE RIVER. Chapter XLV. THE BARONET’S TREACHERY IS REVEALED. Chapter XLVI. IN THE SICK CHAMBER. Chapter XLVII. THE PLOT THICKENS. Chapter XLVIII. THE RETURN OF THE WANDERER. Chapter XLIX. CHICANERY VERSUS HONESTY. Chapter L. LADY OLYMPIA’S RESOLVE. Chapter LI. STEPHEN FAVERSHAM OVERHEARS A CONVERSATION. Chapter LII. THE ENCOUNTER IN THE WOOD. Chapter LIII. THE FACTORY GIRL FINDS HERSELF A PRISONER. Chapter LIV. THE FEVER DRAUGHT. Chapter LV. GASTON LAMORVILLE OBTAINS A NEW POWER OVER SIR LASCELLES TEMPLE. Chapter LVI. THE CLERK’S TEMPTATION. Chapter LVII. THE PEDLAR SEEKS SHELTER. Chapter LVIII. DORA’S RESOLVE. Chapter LIX. LAWRENCE GLYNDON SEEKS FOR THE MISSING GIRL. Chapter LX. THE PRICE OF CRIME. Chapter LXI. REGINALD LESLIE’S DREAM. Chapter LXII. MARGARET CAMPBELL’S SUSPICIONS REVEALED. Chapter LXIII. THE MURDERESS TREMBLES. Chapter LXIV. OLYMPIA’S DESPAIR. Chapter LXV. THE SURGEON BARTERS HIS HONOUR FOR A BRIBE. Chapter LXVI. THE FRENCHWOMAN SHOWS HERSELF IN HER TRUE COLOURS. Chapter LXVII. SEEKING FOR THE WANDERER. Chapter LXVIII. SETTING THE TRAP. Chapter LXIX. THE FOX FALLS INTO THE TRAP. Chapter LXX. THE FIRE IN OWLSNEST LANE. Chapter LXXI. BETRAYED ONCE MORE. Chapter LXXII. MR. SCADDER’S ADVICE. Chapter LXXIII. THE MURDERESS ESCAPES. Chapter LXXIV. THE SILENT MURDER. Chapter LXXV. THE DEATH SIGNAL. Chapter LXXVI. MAGDALEN LESLIE’S DOOM.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
4h37min30
Etudes littéraires
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Factory Girl (1863) was a cheap serial intended for working-class readers. The sprawling plot centres on Laura Leslie and her daughter, Dora, who are the targets of a diverse cast of villains. After Laura’s tragic death, Dora and her adoptive mother start a new life working in a cotton mill, but Dora’s beauty attracts unwelcome attention, putting them in danger. Dora is the classic factory girl, a nineteenth-century revision of the Gothic heroine. Republished in the US in both newspapers and as a book, and translated into French, the novel has been out of print since the 1860s. This edition reproduces the original Halfpenny Journal text and illustrations, and adds a scholarly introduction placing the novel in numerous cultural contexts, including the rise of sensation fiction; nineteenth-century popular theatre; the transformation of the genre of the Gothic; and the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter I. MAGDALEN LESLIE’S VOWS. Chapter II. CAST OFF. Chapter III. CAST ON THE MERCY OF THE WORLD. Chapter IV. DORA’S INFANCY. Chapter V. THE NEW FOREWOMAN. Chapter VI. THE ANONYMOUS LETTER. Chapter VII. THE ABDUCTION. Chapter VIII. DEATH RELEASES THE VICTIM. Chapter IX. JANE MARCHANT’S PURSUIT. Chapter X. RETRIBUTION. Chapter XI. THE PUNISHMENT OF GUILT. Chapter XII. MARTON LISBEL’S SUGGESTION. Chapter XIII. JANE MARCHANT FLIES FROM THE MENACED DANGER. Chapter XIV. THE MANUFACTURER’S SON DECLINES THE HONOUR OF AN ARISTOCRATIC ALLIANCE. Chapter XV. TRUE LOVE. Chapter XVI. JOHN FAVERSHAM TAKES HIS OWN COURSE. Chapter XVII. THE MANUFACTURER GIVES HIS CONSENT. Chapter XVIII. LUXBOROUGH CHASE. Chapter XIX. STEPHEN FAVERSHAM’S WOOING. Chapter XX. THE RETURN OF THE DESTROYER. Chapter XXI. BEFORE THE BRIDAL. Chapter XXII. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. Chapter XXIII. SIR LASCELLES TEMPLE THREATENS HIS VICTIM. Chapter XXIV. AN INTERVIEW IN PETER BORGRAVE’S OFFICE. Chapter XXV. THE SHADOW OF DOUBT. Chapter XXVI. THE MEETING IN THE MOONLIGHT. Chapter XXVII. CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. Chapter XXVIII. A TERRIBLE RECOGNITION. Chapter XXIX. THE MEETING IN THE TWILIGHT. Chapter XXX. GASTON LAMORVILLE. Chapter XXXI. THE BRIDAL DINNER. Chapter XXXII. THE MEETING BY THE WATER. Chapter XXXIII. CAST AWAY. Chapter XXXIV. GASTON LAMORVILLE SUGGESTS A PLAN. Chapter XXXV. THE DUEL IN THE FOREST. Chapter XXXVI. THE PLEADING OF THE TEMPTER. Chapter XXXVII. A STRANGE RECOGNITION. Chapter XXXVIII. THE BEARER OF DISMAL TIDINGS. Chapter XXXIX. THE TEMPTER’S PLANS. Chapter XL. PLOTTING AGAINST THE PLOTTER. Chapter XLI. ROBERT FAVERSHAM’S SORROW. Chapter XLII. A SLOW RECOVERY. Chapter XLIII. DISGRACE AND DEATH. Chapter XLIV. RESCUED FROM THE RIVER. Chapter XLV. THE BARONET’S TREACHERY IS REVEALED. Chapter XLVI. IN THE SICK CHAMBER. Chapter XLVII. THE PLOT THICKENS. Chapter XLVIII. THE RETURN OF THE WANDERER. Chapter XLIX. CHICANERY VERSUS HONESTY. Chapter L. LADY OLYMPIA’S RESOLVE. Chapter LI. STEPHEN FAVERSHAM OVERHEARS A CONVERSATION. Chapter LII. THE ENCOUNTER IN THE WOOD. Chapter LIII. THE FACTORY GIRL FINDS HERSELF A PRISONER. Chapter LIV. THE FEVER DRAUGHT. Chapter LV. GASTON LAMORVILLE OBTAINS A NEW POWER OVER SIR LASCELLES TEMPLE. Chapter LVI. THE CLERK’S TEMPTATION. Chapter LVII. THE PEDLAR SEEKS SHELTER. Chapter LVIII. DORA’S RESOLVE. Chapter LIX. LAWRENCE GLYNDON SEEKS FOR THE MISSING GIRL. Chapter LX. THE PRICE OF CRIME. Chapter LXI. REGINALD LESLIE’S DREAM. Chapter LXII. MARGARET CAMPBELL’S SUSPICIONS REVEALED. Chapter LXIII. THE MURDERESS TREMBLES. Chapter LXIV. OLYMPIA’S DESPAIR. Chapter LXV. THE SURGEON BARTERS HIS HONOUR FOR A BRIBE. Chapter LXVI. THE FRENCHWOMAN SHOWS HERSELF IN HER TRUE COLOURS. Chapter LXVII. SEEKING FOR THE WANDERER. Chapter LXVIII. SETTING THE TRAP. Chapter LXIX. THE FOX FALLS INTO THE TRAP. Chapter LXX. THE FIRE IN OWLSNEST LANE. Chapter LXXI. BETRAYED ONCE MORE. Chapter LXXII. MR. SCADDER’S ADVICE. Chapter LXXIII. THE MURDERESS ESCAPES. Chapter LXXIV. THE SILENT MURDER. Chapter LXXV. THE DEATH SIGNAL. Chapter LXXVI. MAGDALEN LESLIE’S DOOM.

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Affiche du document Gothic Mētis — Gothic Mētis
Natasha Rebry Coulthard
2h06min45
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Exhuming and reanimating an obscure ancient cunning associated with the monstrous, the hybrid, the feminine and the nonhuman, this study proposes a novel transdisciplinary framework for analysing Gothic media and discourse through the lens of mētis. Mētis denotes a wily, adaptive intelligence shared by tricksters, humans, nonhumans and objects, characterised by shapeshifting, twists and duplicity – it is also an artful praxis for blurring categories, embracing multiplicity, navigating difference and subverting authority. Using mētis as both theme and method, Gothic Mētis weaves together myth, literature, rhetorical theory and critical posthumanism, to analyse Gothic character and narration from the nineteenth century to the present while developing a post-anthropocentric praxis for representing, navigating and ultimately subverting the Anthropocene. Reading Gothic alongside and through mētis—and mētis alongside and through Gothic—this book highlights the Gothic mode as a timely, artful response to the rise of the Anthropocene, rendering a post-anthropocentric world beyond Man. Acknowledgements Glossary of Greek Terms Preface: Opening Lines on Liminal Times Introduction: Gothic Mētis: Cunning Monstrosity The First Braid: Gothic’s Twisted Domain Untangling the Gothic Mode Gothic’s Twisted Forms Gothic in the Long Long-Nineteenth Century The Second Braid: Post-Anthropocentric Thought Entanglements of Self and Other Posthumans, Monsters and Others Betwixt and ‘Between Betweens’: Liminality in Thinking and Being The Third Braid: Mētis in Myth and Rhetoric Metis/Mētis The Shifting, Shimmering World Return of the Repressed Gothic Mētis Chapter One: Fin de Siècle Shapeshifters and Gothic Tricksters Fin-de-siècle Flux Shapeshifting Gothic and Gothic Shapeshifters Arthur Machen’s Tricksters Snake Ladies and Shedding Skins Assembling Mētis Gothic Tricksters Chapter Two: Gothic Tentacularity Fin-de-siècle, Fin de Man ‘Precarious Man’: Evolution and Ecology in H. G. Wells The Tentacular and Tentacularity Dreadful Figures and Tentacular Tales: Cunning Models for the Chthulucene Mētis, the Twisted and the Dreadful Gothic Speculation Chapter Three: Jekyll’s Polytropos Ethos The Invention of Multiple Personality The tenuous ‘I’ of Dissociative Narrative Flexible Multiplicity ‘Gothic Psychology’ and the Multiplex Self The Postmodern, Posthuman Polymētis ‘Fantastic, ignoble, hardly human, or frankly non-human’ Gothic Rhetoric Chapter Four: From Hyde the Holobiont: The Monstrous Microbial Self Tricky Microbes ‘Homo Microbis’: The Holobiont Unsettling Man in Popular Microbiome Discourse Seething Zoos of Microbes: Popular Microbiome Discourse Dorion Sagan’s ‘Beautiful Monsters’ More Microbe than Man: Posthuman Gothic Framings of the Microbial Self Contaminated Ethics Chapter Five: Gothic Fungus: Mycorrhizae, Mētis and Monstrosity Crypts and Creeps A ‘study of corruption’: Arthur Machen’s ‘The Hill of Dreams’ Mētic Monsters in Gaia and In the Earth Mētic Mycorrhizae: In the Earth Subverting Anthropos: Gaia The Polyplokos Monster and Mētistic Rapport Gothic Mētis and the Ineffable More-than-Human World Chapter Six: Gothic Mētis and More-than-Human Rhetoric Spectres and Hauntings in Lee Genius Loci: The Spirit of Place Mētis and More-than-Human Rhetoric in Lee Haunting More-than-Human Rhetoric Gothic Environmentalism Gothic is Always Already Eco Postscript: Gothic Poros Gothic Métissage Talking with Ravens and Crows Closing Lines on Liminal Times References

Gothic Mētis
Natasha Rebry Coulthard
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Exhuming and reanimating an obscure ancient cunning associated with the monstrous, the hybrid, the feminine and the nonhuman, this study proposes a novel transdisciplinary framework for analysing Gothic media and discourse through the lens of mētis. Mētis denotes a wily, adaptive intelligence shared by tricksters, humans, nonhumans and objects, characterised by shapeshifting, twists and duplicity – it is also an artful praxis for blurring categories, embracing multiplicity, navigating difference and subverting authority. Using mētis as both theme and method, Gothic Mētis weaves together myth, literature, rhetorical theory and critical posthumanism, to analyse Gothic character and narration from the nineteenth century to the present while developing a post-anthropocentric praxis for representing, navigating and ultimately subverting the Anthropocene. Reading Gothic alongside and through mētis—and mētis alongside and through Gothic—this book highlights the Gothic mode as a timely, artful response to the rise of the Anthropocene, rendering a post-anthropocentric world beyond Man. Acknowledgements Glossary of Greek Terms Preface: Opening Lines on Liminal Times Introduction: Gothic Mētis: Cunning Monstrosity The First Braid: Gothic’s Twisted Domain Untangling the Gothic Mode Gothic’s Twisted Forms Gothic in the Long Long-Nineteenth Century The Second Braid: Post-Anthropocentric Thought Entanglements of Self and Other Posthumans, Monsters and Others Betwixt and ‘Between Betweens’: Liminality in Thinking and Being The Third Braid: Mētis in Myth and Rhetoric Metis/Mētis The Shifting, Shimmering World Return of the Repressed Gothic Mētis Chapter One: Fin de Siècle Shapeshifters and Gothic Tricksters Fin-de-siècle Flux Shapeshifting Gothic and Gothic Shapeshifters Arthur Machen’s Tricksters Snake Ladies and Shedding Skins Assembling Mētis Gothic Tricksters Chapter Two: Gothic Tentacularity Fin-de-siècle, Fin de Man ‘Precarious Man’: Evolution and Ecology in H. G. Wells The Tentacular and Tentacularity Dreadful Figures and Tentacular Tales: Cunning Models for the Chthulucene Mētis, the Twisted and the Dreadful Gothic Speculation Chapter Three: Jekyll’s Polytropos Ethos The Invention of Multiple Personality The tenuous ‘I’ of Dissociative Narrative Flexible Multiplicity ‘Gothic Psychology’ and the Multiplex Self The Postmodern, Posthuman Polymētis ‘Fantastic, ignoble, hardly human, or frankly non-human’ Gothic Rhetoric Chapter Four: From Hyde the Holobiont: The Monstrous Microbial Self Tricky Microbes ‘Homo Microbis’: The Holobiont Unsettling Man in Popular Microbiome Discourse Seething Zoos of Microbes: Popular Microbiome Discourse Dorion Sagan’s ‘Beautiful Monsters’ More Microbe than Man: Posthuman Gothic Framings of the Microbial Self Contaminated Ethics Chapter Five: Gothic Fungus: Mycorrhizae, Mētis and Monstrosity Crypts and Creeps A ‘study of corruption’: Arthur Machen’s ‘The Hill of Dreams’ Mētic Monsters in Gaia and In the Earth Mētic Mycorrhizae: In the Earth Subverting Anthropos: Gaia The Polyplokos Monster and Mētistic Rapport Gothic Mētis and the Ineffable More-than-Human World Chapter Six: Gothic Mētis and More-than-Human Rhetoric Spectres and Hauntings in Lee Genius Loci: The Spirit of Place Mētis and More-than-Human Rhetoric in Lee Haunting More-than-Human Rhetoric Gothic Environmentalism Gothic is Always Already Eco Postscript: Gothic Poros Gothic Métissage Talking with Ravens and Crows Closing Lines on Liminal Times References

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Affiche du document Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia — Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia
Lucy Taylor
1h39min00
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To read the PDF of Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia: Settler colonialism from the margins for free, follow the link below Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia: Settler colonialism from the margins This book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative. Inspired by decolonial thinking, this book challenges romantic images of Y Wladfa, the Welsh Patagonian settlement founded in 1865. Drawing on archival sources written in Spanish, Welsh and English, it exposes the complex human relationships of this settler colony, and in particular disrupts the myth of Welsh–Indigenous friendship by foregrounding Indigenous experience and revealing less familiar accounts in the record. A newly-developed framework applies three logics – possession, racialization/barbarisation, and assimilation – to make sense of settler colonialism in Patagonia and to debate Wales’s complex position as both colonised and coloniser. A new analysis of contemporary cultural products (television, film, textbooks) further demonstrates how the romantic view continues to shape racial stereotypes today, concluding that such settler origin countries as Wales are vital sites of decolonial debate. Dr Lucy Taylor - Herio stori draddodiadol Y Wladfa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69OHDvETtu8 Dr Lucy Taylor - Challenging the traditional telling of Welsh Patagonia’s story https://youtu.be/6PJe300cVjY?si=BJdkYxglWAjVYJAS Watch Lucy Taylor in conversation with Paul O’Leary at the National Library of Wales here. Chapter One: Introduction: Where the Welsh Are Chapter Two: Theorizing Y Wladfa Chapter Three: Y Wladfa in Historical and Global Perspective Chapter Four: Possession in Y Wladfa Chapter Five: Barbarization and the Myth of Friendship Chapter Six: Y Wladfa and Assimilation Chapter Seven: Y Wladfa, Assimilation and Coloniality Today Chapter Eight: Conclusion – and Ways Forwards Bibliography

Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia
Lucy Taylor
1h39min00
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132 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h39min.
To read the PDF of Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia: Settler colonialism from the margins for free, follow the link below Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia: Settler colonialism from the margins This book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative. Inspired by decolonial thinking, this book challenges romantic images of Y Wladfa, the Welsh Patagonian settlement founded in 1865. Drawing on archival sources written in Spanish, Welsh and English, it exposes the complex human relationships of this settler colony, and in particular disrupts the myth of Welsh–Indigenous friendship by foregrounding Indigenous experience and revealing less familiar accounts in the record. A newly-developed framework applies three logics – possession, racialization/barbarisation, and assimilation – to make sense of settler colonialism in Patagonia and to debate Wales’s complex position as both colonised and coloniser. A new analysis of contemporary cultural products (television, film, textbooks) further demonstrates how the romantic view continues to shape racial stereotypes today, concluding that such settler origin countries as Wales are vital sites of decolonial debate. Dr Lucy Taylor - Herio stori draddodiadol Y Wladfa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69OHDvETtu8 Dr Lucy Taylor - Challenging the traditional telling of Welsh Patagonia’s story https://youtu.be/6PJe300cVjY?si=BJdkYxglWAjVYJAS Watch Lucy Taylor in conversation with Paul O’Leary at the National Library of Wales here. Chapter One: Introduction: Where the Welsh Are Chapter Two: Theorizing Y Wladfa Chapter Three: Y Wladfa in Historical and Global Perspective Chapter Four: Possession in Y Wladfa Chapter Five: Barbarization and the Myth of Friendship Chapter Six: Y Wladfa and Assimilation Chapter Seven: Y Wladfa, Assimilation and Coloniality Today Chapter Eight: Conclusion – and Ways Forwards Bibliography

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Affiche du document Horror and Comics — Horror and Comics
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This collection investigates the evolution of comics and horror by analysing a range of approaches and traditions. International contributors explore how multiple aspects of comics (forms, cultures, histories) have contributed to the depiction and development of horror across many subgenres (folk horror, ecohorror, gothic romance and more); their chapters also show how horror has informed the development of comics across multiple periods, places and genres, from seventeenth-century broadsheets to newspaper strips, weeklies and contemporary graphic novels, spanning Brazil, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA. By considering well-known horror comics alongside understudied ones, this book re-examines and re-energises established concepts, such as the abject, the Other and closure, applying them to diverse texts, contexts, authors and audiences, and demonstrating the potential of comics and horror to encourage innovations of form and content in each other.List of Illustrations and Captions Notes on Contributors Introduction – Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round PART ONE: Crossing Genres, Blurring Boundaries Multimodal Mirroring in ‘The Black Cat’ – Elizabeth Allyn Woock Satanic Feminism and Decadent Aesthetics in Guido Crepax’s ‘Valentina’ Comics – Miranda Corcoran The Living, the Dead and the Living Dead: Brazilian Horror Imagery and Genre Hybridisation in Shiko‘s Três Buracos – Tiago José Lemos I Monteiro and Heitor Da Luz Silva Befriending the Past: The Genre-Bending Vanessa Comics Series (1982–1990) and its Historical Context – Barbara M. Eggert PART TWO: Identity, Agency, Humanity ‘I’m not who he thinks I am’: Identity and Victimhood in Country Horror Comics – Matthew Costello ‘What’s one more monster?’: Articulations of Latinx Monstrosity and Whiteness in Border Town – Anna Marta Marini ‘Still pretty, ain’t she?’: The Female Gaze and the Queer Monstrous Feminine in Itō Junji’s Tomie – Keiko Miyajima Sinister Houses and Forbidden Loves: Queer Identity in DC’s Gothic Romances – Lillian Hochwender PART THREE: Society, Anxiety, Politics Abjection, Ambivalence and the Abyss in EC’s New Trend Line – Alex Link The Power of a Demon and the Heart of a Human: The Darkness of Humanity in Devilman – Meriel Dhanowa Where the Wild Things Really Are: Comics and the Horrors of Reality – Dirk Vanderbeke and Doreen Triebel ‘REALITY scarier than any boogeyman’: Shock, Exploitation, and Environmentalism in Slow Death Funnies – Christy Tidwell Afterwords – Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round

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This collection investigates the evolution of comics and horror by analysing a range of approaches and traditions. International contributors explore how multiple aspects of comics (forms, cultures, histories) have contributed to the depiction and development of horror across many subgenres (folk horror, ecohorror, gothic romance and more); their chapters also show how horror has informed the development of comics across multiple periods, places and genres, from seventeenth-century broadsheets to newspaper strips, weeklies and contemporary graphic novels, spanning Brazil, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA. By considering well-known horror comics alongside understudied ones, this book re-examines and re-energises established concepts, such as the abject, the Other and closure, applying them to diverse texts, contexts, authors and audiences, and demonstrating the potential of comics and horror to encourage innovations of form and content in each other.List of Illustrations and Captions Notes on Contributors Introduction – Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round PART ONE: Crossing Genres, Blurring Boundaries Multimodal Mirroring in ‘The Black Cat’ – Elizabeth Allyn Woock Satanic Feminism and Decadent Aesthetics in Guido Crepax’s ‘Valentina’ Comics – Miranda Corcoran The Living, the Dead and the Living Dead: Brazilian Horror Imagery and Genre Hybridisation in Shiko‘s Três Buracos – Tiago José Lemos I Monteiro and Heitor Da Luz Silva Befriending the Past: The Genre-Bending Vanessa Comics Series (1982–1990) and its Historical Context – Barbara M. Eggert PART TWO: Identity, Agency, Humanity ‘I’m not who he thinks I am’: Identity and Victimhood in Country Horror Comics – Matthew Costello ‘What’s one more monster?’: Articulations of Latinx Monstrosity and Whiteness in Border Town – Anna Marta Marini ‘Still pretty, ain’t she?’: The Female Gaze and the Queer Monstrous Feminine in Itō Junji’s Tomie – Keiko Miyajima Sinister Houses and Forbidden Loves: Queer Identity in DC’s Gothic Romances – Lillian Hochwender PART THREE: Society, Anxiety, Politics Abjection, Ambivalence and the Abyss in EC’s New Trend Line – Alex Link The Power of a Demon and the Heart of a Human: The Darkness of Humanity in Devilman – Meriel Dhanowa Where the Wild Things Really Are: Comics and the Horrors of Reality – Dirk Vanderbeke and Doreen Triebel ‘REALITY scarier than any boogeyman’: Shock, Exploitation, and Environmentalism in Slow Death Funnies – Christy Tidwell Afterwords – Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round

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Affiche du document The Sound of Welsh Patagonia — The Sound of Welsh Patagonia
Lucy Trotter
1h54min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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This book draws on data gathered during eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Chubut Province of Patagonia, Argentina. It focuses on the formation of Welsh subjectivity through sight and sound, seeking to unpack the multiple and multisensory ways in which identity is constructed in this context. The chapters analyse a series of encounters, in choir rehearsals, the Eisteddfod and in film nights, to consider the usefulness and limitations of theoretical concepts that have been developed and used to theorise the self. This is a book about power, music, tourism and the self. It argues that the creation of Welshness in Y Wladfa was not only explicitly foregrounded in performances for tourists under an imagined Welsh gaze, but also for a Welsh ear, with subjectivities created and re-created through musical encounters. It is the first anthropological monograph of its kind that provides an insight into the significance of music in the Welsh Patagonian context. Figures, Acknowledgements, A note on translation, Chapter 1: Introduction – Musical Encounters, Chapter 2: A little Wales away from Wales, Chapter 3: ‘Eisteddfodamos’: Eisteddfod as ritual performance, Chapter 4: Performing Patagonia under the gaze of the Welsh other, Chapter 5: Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most Welsh of them all?, Chapter 6: “The community is a family, and the choir is the glue”: Performing Patagonia for the ear of the Welsh other, Chapter 7: Conclusions - Sound and the subject, Works cited, p. 301

The Sound of Welsh Patagonia
Lucy Trotter
1h54min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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152 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h54min.
This book draws on data gathered during eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Chubut Province of Patagonia, Argentina. It focuses on the formation of Welsh subjectivity through sight and sound, seeking to unpack the multiple and multisensory ways in which identity is constructed in this context. The chapters analyse a series of encounters, in choir rehearsals, the Eisteddfod and in film nights, to consider the usefulness and limitations of theoretical concepts that have been developed and used to theorise the self. This is a book about power, music, tourism and the self. It argues that the creation of Welshness in Y Wladfa was not only explicitly foregrounded in performances for tourists under an imagined Welsh gaze, but also for a Welsh ear, with subjectivities created and re-created through musical encounters. It is the first anthropological monograph of its kind that provides an insight into the significance of music in the Welsh Patagonian context. Figures, Acknowledgements, A note on translation, Chapter 1: Introduction – Musical Encounters, Chapter 2: A little Wales away from Wales, Chapter 3: ‘Eisteddfodamos’: Eisteddfod as ritual performance, Chapter 4: Performing Patagonia under the gaze of the Welsh other, Chapter 5: Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most Welsh of them all?, Chapter 6: “The community is a family, and the choir is the glue”: Performing Patagonia for the ear of the Welsh other, Chapter 7: Conclusions - Sound and the subject, Works cited, p. 301

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Affiche du document “The Condition Of Menevia” — “The Condition Of Menevia”
1h41min15
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St David’s Cathedral is Wales’s most important medieval church and the principal shrine of its patron saint. The nine chapters in this collection, by prominent scholars of architectural and church history, focus on two periods of activity that most contribute to the building we see today: the period of its first construction, beginning in 1182, and the sustained period of modern restoration which commenced in 1791. The cathedral is shown to be a notable product of Romanesque architecture in Britain that has survived challenges of geography and politics to remain Wales’s most visited cathedral in the twenty-first century. The book’s chapters explore the early and modern history of St Davids, as well as the design, fabric and fittings of the cathedral, as well as their restoration in the modern era.

“The Condition Of Menevia”
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Histoire
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St David’s Cathedral is Wales’s most important medieval church and the principal shrine of its patron saint. The nine chapters in this collection, by prominent scholars of architectural and church history, focus on two periods of activity that most contribute to the building we see today: the period of its first construction, beginning in 1182, and the sustained period of modern restoration which commenced in 1791. The cathedral is shown to be a notable product of Romanesque architecture in Britain that has survived challenges of geography and politics to remain Wales’s most visited cathedral in the twenty-first century. The book’s chapters explore the early and modern history of St Davids, as well as the design, fabric and fittings of the cathedral, as well as their restoration in the modern era.

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Affiche du document Motherhood and Childhood in Silvina Ocampo’s Works — Motherhood and Childhood in Silvina Ocampo’s Works
Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz
1h46min30
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The works of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo (1903–93) are enjoying unprecedented attention from international scholars, writers, journalists, translators and film directors. This book explores the reason for the growing interest, and how it connects with her transgressive representations of motherhood and childhood. By overlapping themes from past scholarship (such as childhood, gender representations, the fantastic and sexuality), new and diverse issues intersect, contradict or revise previous interpretations of Ocampo’s works and her place in Argentine letters. Specifically, the much-overlooked mother/child dyad will offer a unique vantage point for this volume, bringing to the surface disparities concerning age, gender, sexuality, knowledge, agency and voice, often ignored or minimised in theoretical frameworks and popular narratives. This focus on the spaces of motherhood and childhood maps out Ocampo’s consistent refusal to prioritise one space over another, or to legitimise one voice over another, which highlights a radical theorisation of subjectivities in flux.Acknowledgments Illustrations Introduction: Silvina Ocampo Today Section I: Mater Chapter 1: Introductory Remarks on Motherhood Chapter 2: The Dead Mother in ‘Rhadamanthos’ Chapter 3: The (Pro)Creative Mother in ‘El cuaderno’ Chapter 4: The Absent Egotistical Mother in ‘Las invitadas’ Chapter 5: The Mercenary Mother in ‘La furia’ Chapter 6: The GenderBending Mother of ‘Santa Teodora’ Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks on Motherhood Section II: Filius Chapter 8: Introductory Remarks on Childhood Chapter 9: Childhood as a Race in ‘La raza inextinguible’ Chapter 10: Childhood in Reverse: ‘Cartas confidenciales’ Chapter 11: Childhood Rebellion in ‘La hija del toro’ Chapter 12: The Spatial Organization of Rape in ‘El pecado mortal’ Chapter 13: Concluding Remarks on Childhood Conclusion: Mapping the Final Portrait of Mater et Filius Bibliography Index

Motherhood and Childhood in Silvina Ocampo’s Works
Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz
1h46min30
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The works of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo (1903–93) are enjoying unprecedented attention from international scholars, writers, journalists, translators and film directors. This book explores the reason for the growing interest, and how it connects with her transgressive representations of motherhood and childhood. By overlapping themes from past scholarship (such as childhood, gender representations, the fantastic and sexuality), new and diverse issues intersect, contradict or revise previous interpretations of Ocampo’s works and her place in Argentine letters. Specifically, the much-overlooked mother/child dyad will offer a unique vantage point for this volume, bringing to the surface disparities concerning age, gender, sexuality, knowledge, agency and voice, often ignored or minimised in theoretical frameworks and popular narratives. This focus on the spaces of motherhood and childhood maps out Ocampo’s consistent refusal to prioritise one space over another, or to legitimise one voice over another, which highlights a radical theorisation of subjectivities in flux.Acknowledgments Illustrations Introduction: Silvina Ocampo Today Section I: Mater Chapter 1: Introductory Remarks on Motherhood Chapter 2: The Dead Mother in ‘Rhadamanthos’ Chapter 3: The (Pro)Creative Mother in ‘El cuaderno’ Chapter 4: The Absent Egotistical Mother in ‘Las invitadas’ Chapter 5: The Mercenary Mother in ‘La furia’ Chapter 6: The GenderBending Mother of ‘Santa Teodora’ Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks on Motherhood Section II: Filius Chapter 8: Introductory Remarks on Childhood Chapter 9: Childhood as a Race in ‘La raza inextinguible’ Chapter 10: Childhood in Reverse: ‘Cartas confidenciales’ Chapter 11: Childhood Rebellion in ‘La hija del toro’ Chapter 12: The Spatial Organization of Rape in ‘El pecado mortal’ Chapter 13: Concluding Remarks on Childhood Conclusion: Mapping the Final Portrait of Mater et Filius Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Spectral Spain — Spectral Spain
Heidi Backes
1h57min00
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Spectral Spain examines the Gothic haunting motif in post-Franco Spanish literature. With a theoretical framework in memory and trauma studies, and a particular emphasis on the inclusion of women’s voices, this book is the first to provide an in-depth study of spectrality and haunting in the Gothic literature of contemporary Spain. Through close readings of eleven main texts, the author examines haunting as the perfect motif for Spanish authors to portray the tension between modernity and the imposition of a monocultural, nationalised tradition throughout the twentieth century – noting not just the trauma of the civil war and resulting dictatorship of Franco, but also the continuing and widespread disenchantment during and after the Transition. Through its references to the contemporary debate surrounding historical memory, Spectral Spain demonstrates the relevance of the Gothic in Spanish literature, and the continued ghostly returns of the past in the socio-political anxieties of the present.Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Spectral Spain Part One: Haunted Houses. Introduction. 1 A Ghost in the Looking Glass: Reflections on Women’s Autonomy and Catalan Independence in Mercè Rodoreda’s A Broken Mirror 2 Shifting Borders: Race, Class and the Phantasmagoric Other in Bene by Adelaida García Morales 3 A (Haunted) Room of One’s Own: The Evolution of Gender Roles and Female Sexuality in Adelaida García Morales’s Aunt Águeda and Elisa’s Secret 4 War at Home: The Haunted House as Battlefield in Ana María Matute’s Family Demons Part Two: Silent Spaces. Introduction. 5 The Ghost Howls at Night: Silence, Death and the Politics of Fear in Julio Llamazares’s Wolf Moon 6 Life in a Ghost Town: Gothic Landscapes, Rural Memory and the Silence of Loss in Julio Llamazares’s The Yellow Rain 7 Unspeakable Truths: Silence, Spectrality and the Artifacts of Memory in Cristina Fernández Cubas’s The Swing Part Three: Traumatic Memories. Introduction. 8 Violent Childhood: Dark Imagination and the Trauma of Progress in Espido Freire’s Irlanda 9 The End of Innocence: Childhood Fantasy and Monstrous Reality in Ana María Matute’s Uninhabited Paradise 10 As the Ghost Speaks: Bearing Witness to Fascist Horror in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Prisoner of Heaven Conclusion Notes Bibliography

Spectral Spain
Heidi Backes
1h57min00
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Spectral Spain examines the Gothic haunting motif in post-Franco Spanish literature. With a theoretical framework in memory and trauma studies, and a particular emphasis on the inclusion of women’s voices, this book is the first to provide an in-depth study of spectrality and haunting in the Gothic literature of contemporary Spain. Through close readings of eleven main texts, the author examines haunting as the perfect motif for Spanish authors to portray the tension between modernity and the imposition of a monocultural, nationalised tradition throughout the twentieth century – noting not just the trauma of the civil war and resulting dictatorship of Franco, but also the continuing and widespread disenchantment during and after the Transition. Through its references to the contemporary debate surrounding historical memory, Spectral Spain demonstrates the relevance of the Gothic in Spanish literature, and the continued ghostly returns of the past in the socio-political anxieties of the present.Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Spectral Spain Part One: Haunted Houses. Introduction. 1 A Ghost in the Looking Glass: Reflections on Women’s Autonomy and Catalan Independence in Mercè Rodoreda’s A Broken Mirror 2 Shifting Borders: Race, Class and the Phantasmagoric Other in Bene by Adelaida García Morales 3 A (Haunted) Room of One’s Own: The Evolution of Gender Roles and Female Sexuality in Adelaida García Morales’s Aunt Águeda and Elisa’s Secret 4 War at Home: The Haunted House as Battlefield in Ana María Matute’s Family Demons Part Two: Silent Spaces. Introduction. 5 The Ghost Howls at Night: Silence, Death and the Politics of Fear in Julio Llamazares’s Wolf Moon 6 Life in a Ghost Town: Gothic Landscapes, Rural Memory and the Silence of Loss in Julio Llamazares’s The Yellow Rain 7 Unspeakable Truths: Silence, Spectrality and the Artifacts of Memory in Cristina Fernández Cubas’s The Swing Part Three: Traumatic Memories. Introduction. 8 Violent Childhood: Dark Imagination and the Trauma of Progress in Espido Freire’s Irlanda 9 The End of Innocence: Childhood Fantasy and Monstrous Reality in Ana María Matute’s Uninhabited Paradise 10 As the Ghost Speaks: Bearing Witness to Fascist Horror in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Prisoner of Heaven Conclusion Notes Bibliography

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Affiche du document Seeking Childhood — Seeking Childhood
Sophie Handler
1h47min15
Littérature & Beaux Arts
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This book explores the visual and literary culture of transforming perceptions of children and childhood in France during the long nineteenth century. Charting the developmental period between two moments central to cultural and social understandings of children and childhood, the book’s case studies examine the conceptual and cultural development of children and childhood between the acknowledgement of the child in an Enlightenment context and the avant-garde championing of childhood in the early twentieth century. Recognising this as a crossroads of tradition and modernity, the text demonstrates how artists and writers reflected upon childhood and children as symbolic of both ‘Self’ and ‘Other’, as well as considering the implications for art, society and individual life.Introduction Elucidating Approaches to the Study Chapter One From the Twentieth Century to the Nineteenth Century: A Retrospective of Childhood Chapter Two Romantic Enlightenment: The Carte Blanche of Childhood, c. 1750 – 1850 Chapter Three Negotiating the Dark Underbelly: Children of the Poor, c. 1830 – 1880 Chapter Four Searching for Solace: Children of the Bourgeoisie, c. 1850 – 1920 Chapter Five Toy Town Theatre: Material Acculturation and the Child, c. 1870 – 1900 Chapter Six Breaking the Mould: Burgeoning Cultural Emancipation of the Child, c. 1880 – 1920 Conclusion Finding the Child Within Us All Endnotes Bibliography Index of Images

Seeking Childhood
Sophie Handler
1h47min15
Littérature & Beaux Arts
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This book explores the visual and literary culture of transforming perceptions of children and childhood in France during the long nineteenth century. Charting the developmental period between two moments central to cultural and social understandings of children and childhood, the book’s case studies examine the conceptual and cultural development of children and childhood between the acknowledgement of the child in an Enlightenment context and the avant-garde championing of childhood in the early twentieth century. Recognising this as a crossroads of tradition and modernity, the text demonstrates how artists and writers reflected upon childhood and children as symbolic of both ‘Self’ and ‘Other’, as well as considering the implications for art, society and individual life.Introduction Elucidating Approaches to the Study Chapter One From the Twentieth Century to the Nineteenth Century: A Retrospective of Childhood Chapter Two Romantic Enlightenment: The Carte Blanche of Childhood, c. 1750 – 1850 Chapter Three Negotiating the Dark Underbelly: Children of the Poor, c. 1830 – 1880 Chapter Four Searching for Solace: Children of the Bourgeoisie, c. 1850 – 1920 Chapter Five Toy Town Theatre: Material Acculturation and the Child, c. 1870 – 1900 Chapter Six Breaking the Mould: Burgeoning Cultural Emancipation of the Child, c. 1880 – 1920 Conclusion Finding the Child Within Us All Endnotes Bibliography Index of Images

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Affiche du document Globalising Welsh Studies — Globalising Welsh Studies
2h18min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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OPEN ACCESS To read the PDF of Globalising Welsh Studies: Decolonising history, heritage, society and culture for free, follow the link below Globalising Welsh Studies: Decolonising history, heritage, society and culture This book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative. Interest in race and ethnicity research in Wales has grown apace in the last decade, opening up wider debates about the nature, focus and content of what collectively is called Welsh Studies. Across a range of disciplines, we are witnessing not only a ‘global turn’ placing Wales more substantively within a plethora of global interconnections, but also a ‘decolonial turn’ that involves the questioning of disciplinary traditions and knowledge production, and highlighting the colonial legacy that shapes academic pursuits. In the present text, we explore the development of Welsh Studies through the lens of race/ethnicity. Contributors from history, heritage studies, literature, film, policy, social and cultural studies offer case analyses adopting new perspectives, theoretical routes and methodological innovations, with the aim of illustrating aspects of the decolonising of knowledge production.Contributors Editorial: Globalising Welsh Studies Neil Evans and Charlotte Williams Introductory Essay: (White Man) In Asmara Cafe: Scenes From Microcosmopolitan Wales Dylan Moore Part One: Re-examining History And Heritage 1 A Deliberately Forgotten History? Wales and Imperialism in Modern History Writing Rhys Owens 2 The ‘descendant of Ham’: a critical analysis of the biography of John Ystumllyn by Alltud Eifion Gareth Evans-Jones 3 The East India Company and Country Houses in the Welsh Marches Eleanor Stephenson 4 Caribbean and West African Seamen in a Welsh Port, 1871–1939: The Seamen’s Boarding House and the growth and development of Settlement in Cardiff Joseph Radcliffe Part Two: Decolonising the Archive 5 Remember or remove? Race, ethnicity and public commemoration Peter Wakelin 6 Museums in Wales: Identities, Empire and Slavery Marian Gwyn 7 Phillips Must Fall: Histories and Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism at St David’s College, Lampeter Alexander Scott Part Three: Social And Cultural Change 8 Very Black and Very Welsh: Race, National Identity and Welsh Writers of Colour in Post Devolution Wales Lisa Sheppard 9 Black Welsh Cinema as Afro-futurist movement Yvonne Connike 10 ‘The First Condition of Freedom’: A Century of Anti-Racist Resistance in Cardiff Neil Evans, Emily Pemberton and Huw Williams 11 An Anti-Racist Plan for Wales: Prospects and Limitations Emmanuel Ogbonna Index

Globalising Welsh Studies
2h18min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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OPEN ACCESS To read the PDF of Globalising Welsh Studies: Decolonising history, heritage, society and culture for free, follow the link below Globalising Welsh Studies: Decolonising history, heritage, society and culture This book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative. Interest in race and ethnicity research in Wales has grown apace in the last decade, opening up wider debates about the nature, focus and content of what collectively is called Welsh Studies. Across a range of disciplines, we are witnessing not only a ‘global turn’ placing Wales more substantively within a plethora of global interconnections, but also a ‘decolonial turn’ that involves the questioning of disciplinary traditions and knowledge production, and highlighting the colonial legacy that shapes academic pursuits. In the present text, we explore the development of Welsh Studies through the lens of race/ethnicity. Contributors from history, heritage studies, literature, film, policy, social and cultural studies offer case analyses adopting new perspectives, theoretical routes and methodological innovations, with the aim of illustrating aspects of the decolonising of knowledge production.Contributors Editorial: Globalising Welsh Studies Neil Evans and Charlotte Williams Introductory Essay: (White Man) In Asmara Cafe: Scenes From Microcosmopolitan Wales Dylan Moore Part One: Re-examining History And Heritage 1 A Deliberately Forgotten History? Wales and Imperialism in Modern History Writing Rhys Owens 2 The ‘descendant of Ham’: a critical analysis of the biography of John Ystumllyn by Alltud Eifion Gareth Evans-Jones 3 The East India Company and Country Houses in the Welsh Marches Eleanor Stephenson 4 Caribbean and West African Seamen in a Welsh Port, 1871–1939: The Seamen’s Boarding House and the growth and development of Settlement in Cardiff Joseph Radcliffe Part Two: Decolonising the Archive 5 Remember or remove? Race, ethnicity and public commemoration Peter Wakelin 6 Museums in Wales: Identities, Empire and Slavery Marian Gwyn 7 Phillips Must Fall: Histories and Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism at St David’s College, Lampeter Alexander Scott Part Three: Social And Cultural Change 8 Very Black and Very Welsh: Race, National Identity and Welsh Writers of Colour in Post Devolution Wales Lisa Sheppard 9 Black Welsh Cinema as Afro-futurist movement Yvonne Connike 10 ‘The First Condition of Freedom’: A Century of Anti-Racist Resistance in Cardiff Neil Evans, Emily Pemberton and Huw Williams 11 An Anti-Racist Plan for Wales: Prospects and Limitations Emmanuel Ogbonna Index

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Affiche du document Earthy Matters — Earthy Matters
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Sciences de la vie et de la nature
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Earthy Matters is a lively collection of theoretically informed chapters that introduce the reader to the notion that matter is a creative agent, and that it plays a key role in the formation of our material and social worlds. The focus of the book is sediments, soils, clay and earth ‒ materials that surround us and have shaped people’s interactions with the environment since even before the first farmers settled in the Near East tilling the earth, building houses from mud and plaster, and making vessels and figurines from clay. This collection questions orthodox understandings that these substances are inert and an infinite resource for humanity, rather to foreground earthy substances in their relationships with humans, and to show how these materials have co-created our social and material worlds. It is a novel and timely reminder for the reader that our lives have always been embedded within the matter of the E(e)arth.List of figures Acknowledgements List of contributors Preface Chapter 1: Introduction: The quivering potential of earthy matter Louise Steel and Luci Attala Chapter 2: In the red: Earthy humans and the generative qualities of ochre Louise Steel Chapter 3: Hard core, soft touches: A story of affect between caves, rocks and humans Simone Sambento Chapter 4: Plastered: People-plaster relationships in the Neolithic Near East Joanne Clarke and Alex Wasse Chapter 5: A melding of models: A New Materialisms approach to the earthy constituents in the ‘Ceremonial’ Hoard from Kissonerga Mosphilia Natalie Boyd Chapter 6: ‘Corbusian piggeries’ and ‘toytown cottages’: The social lives of concrete and brick in twentieth-century Liverpool Alex Scott Chapter 7: Plastic earth: Somatic correspondences with legacy contaminants in archaeology and anthropology Eloise Govier Chapter 8: Biomorphic ceramics Bejamin Alberti Chapter 9: Bodies and soils, re-placing not rewilding: The art of making compost and becoming places. Luci Attala Index

Earthy Matters
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Sciences de la vie et de la nature
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Earthy Matters is a lively collection of theoretically informed chapters that introduce the reader to the notion that matter is a creative agent, and that it plays a key role in the formation of our material and social worlds. The focus of the book is sediments, soils, clay and earth ‒ materials that surround us and have shaped people’s interactions with the environment since even before the first farmers settled in the Near East tilling the earth, building houses from mud and plaster, and making vessels and figurines from clay. This collection questions orthodox understandings that these substances are inert and an infinite resource for humanity, rather to foreground earthy substances in their relationships with humans, and to show how these materials have co-created our social and material worlds. It is a novel and timely reminder for the reader that our lives have always been embedded within the matter of the E(e)arth.List of figures Acknowledgements List of contributors Preface Chapter 1: Introduction: The quivering potential of earthy matter Louise Steel and Luci Attala Chapter 2: In the red: Earthy humans and the generative qualities of ochre Louise Steel Chapter 3: Hard core, soft touches: A story of affect between caves, rocks and humans Simone Sambento Chapter 4: Plastered: People-plaster relationships in the Neolithic Near East Joanne Clarke and Alex Wasse Chapter 5: A melding of models: A New Materialisms approach to the earthy constituents in the ‘Ceremonial’ Hoard from Kissonerga Mosphilia Natalie Boyd Chapter 6: ‘Corbusian piggeries’ and ‘toytown cottages’: The social lives of concrete and brick in twentieth-century Liverpool Alex Scott Chapter 7: Plastic earth: Somatic correspondences with legacy contaminants in archaeology and anthropology Eloise Govier Chapter 8: Biomorphic ceramics Bejamin Alberti Chapter 9: Bodies and soils, re-placing not rewilding: The art of making compost and becoming places. Luci Attala Index

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Affiche du document The New Queer Gothic — The New Queer Gothic
Robyn Ollett
2h11min15
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Queer theory, queer literary criticism and queer cultural criticism often focus on western, white, cis men. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of contemporary queer and Gothic texts that focus on the subjectivity, characterisation and representation of queer girls and women. The New Queer Gothic applies interdisciplinary theory to offer a new mode and method of reading literary and film fiction. From monstrous femininity in tales of girlhood, to paranoid negativity and transformation in young womanhood, through to postcolonial doubles, hybrid assimilation, corporeal possession, and final girls at the end of everything – this book takes as its canon works from the past fifteen years concerning queer and questioning girls and women in Gothic settings and narratives, to elucidate upon questions of queer feminist ethics, biopower and global identity politics.Introduction Part One Chapter One: “She herself is a haunted house”: The Origins of The New Queer Gothic in work of Twentieth Century Women Writers: Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Maryse Condé, Anne Rice, Jewel Gomez, and Sarah Waters Chapter Two: Miles away from Screwing? The Queer Gothic Child in John Harding’s Florence and Giles (2010) Part Two Chapter Three: “What happened to my sweet girl?”: Conventions of The New Queer Gothic and Queer Subjectivity in Black Swan (2010) and Jack and Diane (2012) Chapter Four: “The Saviour who came to tear my life apart”: The Queer Postcolonial Gothic of Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden (2016) Part Three Chapter Five: Queering the Cannibal in Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016) Chapter Six: “She would never fall, because her friend was flying with her”: Gothic Hybridity, Queer Girls and Exceptional States in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl (2005) and M. R. Carey’s The Girl with all the Gifts (2014) Conclusion: Queering Gender and Queers of Colour in The New Queer Gothic

The New Queer Gothic
Robyn Ollett
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Queer theory, queer literary criticism and queer cultural criticism often focus on western, white, cis men. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of contemporary queer and Gothic texts that focus on the subjectivity, characterisation and representation of queer girls and women. The New Queer Gothic applies interdisciplinary theory to offer a new mode and method of reading literary and film fiction. From monstrous femininity in tales of girlhood, to paranoid negativity and transformation in young womanhood, through to postcolonial doubles, hybrid assimilation, corporeal possession, and final girls at the end of everything – this book takes as its canon works from the past fifteen years concerning queer and questioning girls and women in Gothic settings and narratives, to elucidate upon questions of queer feminist ethics, biopower and global identity politics.Introduction Part One Chapter One: “She herself is a haunted house”: The Origins of The New Queer Gothic in work of Twentieth Century Women Writers: Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Maryse Condé, Anne Rice, Jewel Gomez, and Sarah Waters Chapter Two: Miles away from Screwing? The Queer Gothic Child in John Harding’s Florence and Giles (2010) Part Two Chapter Three: “What happened to my sweet girl?”: Conventions of The New Queer Gothic and Queer Subjectivity in Black Swan (2010) and Jack and Diane (2012) Chapter Four: “The Saviour who came to tear my life apart”: The Queer Postcolonial Gothic of Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden (2016) Part Three Chapter Five: Queering the Cannibal in Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016) Chapter Six: “She would never fall, because her friend was flying with her”: Gothic Hybridity, Queer Girls and Exceptional States in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl (2005) and M. R. Carey’s The Girl with all the Gifts (2014) Conclusion: Queering Gender and Queers of Colour in The New Queer Gothic

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Affiche du document Griffith Evans 1835-1935 — Griffith Evans 1835-1935
Gavin Gatehouse
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In 1880, Griffith Evans, an army veterinary surgeon in India, made the seminal discovery that blood parasites – then universally considered benign – were pathogenic. Spurned by peers and colleagues, his conclusions from experiments with diseased horses were acknowledged by Koch and Pasteur, but it took many years before his achievement received general recognition. The son of a farmer near Tywyn, Meirionnydd, Evans was commissioned as a veterinary officer in the Royal Artillery. He was first posted to Canada where, in his spare time, he qualified in medicine. An irrepressible adventurer, he visited North America during the Civil War, meeting Abraham Lincoln and touring the Union front line. Evans’s talent for engagement with people and cultures characterised his life in Canada and in India. During a long and productive retirement in north Wales, he immersed himself in local and national affairs. At his centenary in 1935, Evans received the accolades of his profession, community and family, dying peacefully in his hundredth year. Since that time, his name has faded into obscurity.SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PREFACE PROLOGUE FAMILY, CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE AND BRIDGNORTH WOOLWICH – THE ROYAL ARTILLERY THE GREAT EASTERN MONTREAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AT THE FRONT HOME, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY INDIA KATIE SURRA ON THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER BANISHMENT TO THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY RETURN TO BRITAIN – UNHAPPY YEARS NORTH WALES AND RETIREMENT ‘I KNEW I SHOULD BE PROVED RIGHT’ ‘ENJOYING A LONG SUNSET’ CENTENARIAN EPILOGUE NOTES

Griffith Evans 1835-1935
Gavin Gatehouse
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In 1880, Griffith Evans, an army veterinary surgeon in India, made the seminal discovery that blood parasites – then universally considered benign – were pathogenic. Spurned by peers and colleagues, his conclusions from experiments with diseased horses were acknowledged by Koch and Pasteur, but it took many years before his achievement received general recognition. The son of a farmer near Tywyn, Meirionnydd, Evans was commissioned as a veterinary officer in the Royal Artillery. He was first posted to Canada where, in his spare time, he qualified in medicine. An irrepressible adventurer, he visited North America during the Civil War, meeting Abraham Lincoln and touring the Union front line. Evans’s talent for engagement with people and cultures characterised his life in Canada and in India. During a long and productive retirement in north Wales, he immersed himself in local and national affairs. At his centenary in 1935, Evans received the accolades of his profession, community and family, dying peacefully in his hundredth year. Since that time, his name has faded into obscurity.SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PREFACE PROLOGUE FAMILY, CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE AND BRIDGNORTH WOOLWICH – THE ROYAL ARTILLERY THE GREAT EASTERN MONTREAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AT THE FRONT HOME, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY INDIA KATIE SURRA ON THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER BANISHMENT TO THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY RETURN TO BRITAIN – UNHAPPY YEARS NORTH WALES AND RETIREMENT ‘I KNEW I SHOULD BE PROVED RIGHT’ ‘ENJOYING A LONG SUNSET’ CENTENARIAN EPILOGUE NOTES

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Affiche du document The Theology of Griffith Jones and Religious Thought in Eighteenth-Century Wales — The Theology of Griffith Jones and Religious Thought in Eighteenth-Century Wales
John Harding
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Religions et spiritualité
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This book discusses Griffith Jones’s High Church ministry and theology, which developed into mass evangelism in Wales. It considers Jones’s background, his life as a parson, preaching in Welsh and educational interests, as well as his determination to remain within the Church of England. Bishop George Bull’s concerns about evangelism, influence of the Prayer Book and Continental Pietism, ‘conversionism’, and the tendency to separatism are also discussed. Jones may not have been an original thinker, but he was an untiring communicator and organiser. There are sections on Jones’s catechising, ‘baptismal covenant’, and moderate Calvinism which influenced later Welsh Calvinistic Methodism. Jones’s advocacy of the Welsh language, especially with English donors to his schools, his links with the SPCK, and collaboration with gentry – especially Sir John Philipps and Bridget Bevan – show the effectiveness with which he participated in the growing evangelical movement in Wales.Introduction Chapter 1 Griffith Jones in his Setting Chapter 2 Sir John Philipps, the SPCK and a New View of Mission Chapter 3 Bishop George Bull as Griffith Jones’s Mentor Chapter 4 Prayer-Book Roots of Griffith Jones’s Preaching Chapter 5 The Theology of Griffith Jones’s Preaching Chapter 6 Griffith Jones’s Moralism and Theology Chapter 7 Catechizing, Baptism, and the Trend Towards Evangelicalism Chapter 8 Griffith Jones’s Ministry and the Language Chapter 9 Griffith Jones’s Legacy to the Church of England in Wales Conclusion Bibliography

The Theology of Griffith Jones and Religious Thought in Eighteenth-Century Wales
John Harding
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Religions et spiritualité
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This book discusses Griffith Jones’s High Church ministry and theology, which developed into mass evangelism in Wales. It considers Jones’s background, his life as a parson, preaching in Welsh and educational interests, as well as his determination to remain within the Church of England. Bishop George Bull’s concerns about evangelism, influence of the Prayer Book and Continental Pietism, ‘conversionism’, and the tendency to separatism are also discussed. Jones may not have been an original thinker, but he was an untiring communicator and organiser. There are sections on Jones’s catechising, ‘baptismal covenant’, and moderate Calvinism which influenced later Welsh Calvinistic Methodism. Jones’s advocacy of the Welsh language, especially with English donors to his schools, his links with the SPCK, and collaboration with gentry – especially Sir John Philipps and Bridget Bevan – show the effectiveness with which he participated in the growing evangelical movement in Wales.Introduction Chapter 1 Griffith Jones in his Setting Chapter 2 Sir John Philipps, the SPCK and a New View of Mission Chapter 3 Bishop George Bull as Griffith Jones’s Mentor Chapter 4 Prayer-Book Roots of Griffith Jones’s Preaching Chapter 5 The Theology of Griffith Jones’s Preaching Chapter 6 Griffith Jones’s Moralism and Theology Chapter 7 Catechizing, Baptism, and the Trend Towards Evangelicalism Chapter 8 Griffith Jones’s Ministry and the Language Chapter 9 Griffith Jones’s Legacy to the Church of England in Wales Conclusion Bibliography

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Affiche du document Grammar and Poetry in Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales — Grammar and Poetry in Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales
Michaela Jacques
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The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales. These documents, which contain both a highly Latinate description of the Welsh language and a treatment of the strict poetic metres, began their life as essentially vernacular artes poetriae. However, from the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, they were recopied and revised over and over by bards, bureaucrats, antiquarians, humanists, and the readers and reciters of poetry. At different times they served as practical handbooks, official regulatory documents and attempts to realign the Welsh texts with contemporary Latin and English scholarship. This book weaves a close textual analysis of the revisions made to the text into a broader consideration of the historical contexts that gave rise to each subsequent version. The resulting narrative offers insight into the development of Welsh bardic and scholarly practices over the course of two centuries.List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction I. Background Latin and Vernacular Grammar Latin and Bardic Education II. The Bardic Grammars Authorship Date Content Versions Manuscripts III. This Book Chapter 1: A Welsh ars poetriae I. Order of Composition II. Latin Context III. The Peniarth 20 Revision Chapter 2: Tools for Reading I. Literate Orientation and Archaism II. Grammatica and Scientia Interpretandi III. The Vernacular Canon IV. The Readers and Reciters of Poetry Chapter 3: ‘Bardic’ Grammars I. Cynghanedd Peniarth 126 Llanstephan 55 Peniarth 161 II. Syllables and Diphthongs Bangor 1 Peniarth 189 Llanstephan 55 III. Evidence from the Poetic Corpus Chapter 4: Official Documents I. The Eisteddfodau and the Statute of Gruffudd ap Cynan II. Artificial Abbreviations III. Cerdd Dafod and Cerdd Dant Chapter 5: Bardic Humanism I. Bards and Humanists II. Salesbury’s Books and Lily’s Grammar III. Renaissance Rhetoric IV. The Return Ad Fontes Conclusion Appendix: Translation of the Red Book of Hergest Notes on the translation

Grammar and Poetry in Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales
Michaela Jacques
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The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales. These documents, which contain both a highly Latinate description of the Welsh language and a treatment of the strict poetic metres, began their life as essentially vernacular artes poetriae. However, from the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, they were recopied and revised over and over by bards, bureaucrats, antiquarians, humanists, and the readers and reciters of poetry. At different times they served as practical handbooks, official regulatory documents and attempts to realign the Welsh texts with contemporary Latin and English scholarship. This book weaves a close textual analysis of the revisions made to the text into a broader consideration of the historical contexts that gave rise to each subsequent version. The resulting narrative offers insight into the development of Welsh bardic and scholarly practices over the course of two centuries.List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction I. Background Latin and Vernacular Grammar Latin and Bardic Education II. The Bardic Grammars Authorship Date Content Versions Manuscripts III. This Book Chapter 1: A Welsh ars poetriae I. Order of Composition II. Latin Context III. The Peniarth 20 Revision Chapter 2: Tools for Reading I. Literate Orientation and Archaism II. Grammatica and Scientia Interpretandi III. The Vernacular Canon IV. The Readers and Reciters of Poetry Chapter 3: ‘Bardic’ Grammars I. Cynghanedd Peniarth 126 Llanstephan 55 Peniarth 161 II. Syllables and Diphthongs Bangor 1 Peniarth 189 Llanstephan 55 III. Evidence from the Poetic Corpus Chapter 4: Official Documents I. The Eisteddfodau and the Statute of Gruffudd ap Cynan II. Artificial Abbreviations III. Cerdd Dafod and Cerdd Dant Chapter 5: Bardic Humanism I. Bards and Humanists II. Salesbury’s Books and Lily’s Grammar III. Renaissance Rhetoric IV. The Return Ad Fontes Conclusion Appendix: Translation of the Red Book of Hergest Notes on the translation

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Affiche du document The Space of Latin American Women Modernists — The Space of Latin American Women Modernists
Camilla Sutherland
1h45min00
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140 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h45min.
This book offers a fresh reading of Latin American modernism through the lenses of gender and space. By analysing the contributions of eight contemporaneous women – four writers and four plastic artists – it reveals how they constructed and conceived of their identities as cultural practitioners through distinctly spatial tactics. Organised around four spatial themes (domestic architecture, the natural world, travel and the public sphere), this multidisciplinary, comparative monograph sheds new light on the works of well-known figures such as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, while recuperating artists that remain virtually unknown, such as Bolivian sculptor Marina Núñez del Prado. Through discussion of their work within a transnational context, this study positions these Latin American women practitioners within a broader narrative of modernism from which they have often remained absent.Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Negotiating Space 1. Upon the Threshold: Reconsidering the Modernist Home 2. Mother Earth Remapped 3. Cosmopolitan Promises: Travel, Exile and Alterity 4. ‘On the margins of the fray’: Situating Modernist Women in Print Media Afterword Bibliography

The Space of Latin American Women Modernists
Camilla Sutherland
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This book offers a fresh reading of Latin American modernism through the lenses of gender and space. By analysing the contributions of eight contemporaneous women – four writers and four plastic artists – it reveals how they constructed and conceived of their identities as cultural practitioners through distinctly spatial tactics. Organised around four spatial themes (domestic architecture, the natural world, travel and the public sphere), this multidisciplinary, comparative monograph sheds new light on the works of well-known figures such as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, while recuperating artists that remain virtually unknown, such as Bolivian sculptor Marina Núñez del Prado. Through discussion of their work within a transnational context, this study positions these Latin American women practitioners within a broader narrative of modernism from which they have often remained absent.Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Negotiating Space 1. Upon the Threshold: Reconsidering the Modernist Home 2. Mother Earth Remapped 3. Cosmopolitan Promises: Travel, Exile and Alterity 4. ‘On the margins of the fray’: Situating Modernist Women in Print Media Afterword Bibliography

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Affiche du document Paradise in Hell — Paradise in Hell
Jorge Marco
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Paradise in Hell studies the role played by alcohol, morphine, cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines in the Spanish Civil War. The book analyses the moral discourses that were produced around these substances, the policies implemented by civil and military authorities, the consumption by combatants and civilians, and the role they played in the war effort. From these four perspectives, Paradises in Hell explores the everyday experiences of soldiers and civilians, the physical, psychological and emotional effects of war, the rituals of camaraderie, and the impact that the absence of these substances had on the morale of soldiers and civilians. The book also gives special attention to the role these substances played in the development of respectable, tough and cocky masculinities, in the construction of a sense of national community and everyday nationalism, and in the dehumanisation of the enemy in a way that legitimised violence.Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Bullets and Alcohol 1. Controversies, paradoxes and compromises 2. The bar front: respectable masculinity on the home front 3. ‘Drinks of death’: respectable masculinity at the front 4. ‘Raging drunk’: Republican dehumanisation of the enemy 5. ‘Who are the real drunkards?’: Insurgent dehumanisation of the enemy 6. ‘Drunk on blood and alcohol’: ethylic monsters and violence 7. ‘Drinking reveals the good warrior’: everyday nationalism, tough and cocky masculinity 8. Alcohol on the front line 9. The ‘malignant’ consequences of alcohol: discipline, psychosis and alcoholism Part Two: Artificial Paradise 10. Drugs and modern war: a global context 11. The unstoppable path towards ‘degeneration’ 12. The toxic enemy: anti-drug discourses during the Spanish Civil War 13. ‘Morfo’ and ‘coco’ in the Spanish Civil War 14. The pharmaceutical industry and the war effort 15. The black market and the war on drugs 16. From kif smoke to the amphetamine myth 17. The psychoactive legacies of war Conclusions References

Paradise in Hell
Jorge Marco
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Paradise in Hell studies the role played by alcohol, morphine, cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines in the Spanish Civil War. The book analyses the moral discourses that were produced around these substances, the policies implemented by civil and military authorities, the consumption by combatants and civilians, and the role they played in the war effort. From these four perspectives, Paradises in Hell explores the everyday experiences of soldiers and civilians, the physical, psychological and emotional effects of war, the rituals of camaraderie, and the impact that the absence of these substances had on the morale of soldiers and civilians. The book also gives special attention to the role these substances played in the development of respectable, tough and cocky masculinities, in the construction of a sense of national community and everyday nationalism, and in the dehumanisation of the enemy in a way that legitimised violence.Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Bullets and Alcohol 1. Controversies, paradoxes and compromises 2. The bar front: respectable masculinity on the home front 3. ‘Drinks of death’: respectable masculinity at the front 4. ‘Raging drunk’: Republican dehumanisation of the enemy 5. ‘Who are the real drunkards?’: Insurgent dehumanisation of the enemy 6. ‘Drunk on blood and alcohol’: ethylic monsters and violence 7. ‘Drinking reveals the good warrior’: everyday nationalism, tough and cocky masculinity 8. Alcohol on the front line 9. The ‘malignant’ consequences of alcohol: discipline, psychosis and alcoholism Part Two: Artificial Paradise 10. Drugs and modern war: a global context 11. The unstoppable path towards ‘degeneration’ 12. The toxic enemy: anti-drug discourses during the Spanish Civil War 13. ‘Morfo’ and ‘coco’ in the Spanish Civil War 14. The pharmaceutical industry and the war effort 15. The black market and the war on drugs 16. From kif smoke to the amphetamine myth 17. The psychoactive legacies of war Conclusions References

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Affiche du document Swansea’s Royal Institution and Wales’s First Museum — Swansea’s Royal Institution and Wales’s First Museum
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The Royal Institution of South Wales is a very special organisation, one of the few such institutions to survive into the twenty-first century. Founded in 1835, it opened Wales’s first museum in 1841, running it until 1990, and it remains today a thriving centre of culture. RISW’s original lecture theatre, library and laboratory demonstrate its early involvement in scientific research and education. This substantial and richly illustrated book sets the story in context – in local, national and international terms – and presents RISW as a significant contributor to the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge. The book covers the growth of RISW, the notable members it attracted, later challenges it faced and its survival into the world of today. The formation of the museum’s many varied collections is described by leading specialists, including the developing sciences – geology; natural history; botany; archaeology; Egyptology and photography; the decorative arts; historical records; coins; maps; and costume. Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface Lyndon Morris Introduction Jenny Sabine PART 1 Chapter 1 The Swansea Context Louise Miskell PART 2 Foundations and Early Period Chapter 2 Beginnings 2.1 Origins and Ambitions Karmen Thomas 2.2 The BAAS meeting 1848 John Tucker 2.3 The Role of Women in the RISW Jenny Sabine 2.4 The Lectures Programme Gerald Gabb and Helen Hallesy 2.5 Education 1835-1939 Gerald Gabb Chapter 3 Swansea Museum 3.1 Planning and funding the building Helen Hallesy 3.2 Uses of building and extensions Gerald Gabb PART 3 The Collections Chapter 4 Sciences Introduction Iwan Morus 4.1 Geology Ronald Austin 4.2 Botany Kevin Davies 4.3 Other Natural Sciences Emma Williams 4.4 Photography Katy Williams Chapter 5 Artefacts and Records 5.1 The Archives Andrew Dulley 5.2 The Library Gerald Gabb 5.3 Maps and Charts Phil Treseder 5.4 Local Historians Gerald Gabb 5.5 Art Helen Hallesy 5.6 Ceramics Helen Hallesy 5.7 Archaeology Gerald Gabb 5.8 Egyptology Caroline Graves-Brown 5.9 Numismatics Alan and Noel Cox 5.10 Costume Deborah Griffiths 5.11 Miscellaneous Phil Treseder PART 4 Later developments Chapter 6 Introduction Elizabeth Belcham 6.1 The Museum during WW2 Helen Hallesy 6.2 The transfer to Swansea University Syd Howells 6.3 Swansea University to Swansea City Council Iwan Davies 6.4 Education post 1939 Gerald Gabb Chapter 7 Associated Societies Introduction Gerald Gabb and Helen Hallesy 7.1 Swansea Farmers Club Helen Hallesy 7.2 Musical Groups Gerald Gabb 7.3 Literary and Scientific Society Gerald Gabb 7.4 Swansea Astronomical Society Helen Hallesy 7.5 Swansea Geological Society Helen Hallesy 7.6 Swansea Scientific Society Gerald Gabb 7.7 Field Naturalists Society Gerald Gabb 7.8 Swansea Photographic Association Helen Hallesy 7.9 Welsh Society Gerald Gabb 7.10 Philatelic Society Helen Hallesy 7.11 Shiplovers’ Society Helen Hallesy 7.12 Gower Society Ruth and Malcolm Ridge 7.13 Swansea Little Theatre Eryl Jenkins and Dave Taylor 7.14 Gower Ornithological Society Gerald Gabb List of RISW Presidents 1835-2022 Bibliography List of Subscribers Index

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The Royal Institution of South Wales is a very special organisation, one of the few such institutions to survive into the twenty-first century. Founded in 1835, it opened Wales’s first museum in 1841, running it until 1990, and it remains today a thriving centre of culture. RISW’s original lecture theatre, library and laboratory demonstrate its early involvement in scientific research and education. This substantial and richly illustrated book sets the story in context – in local, national and international terms – and presents RISW as a significant contributor to the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge. The book covers the growth of RISW, the notable members it attracted, later challenges it faced and its survival into the world of today. The formation of the museum’s many varied collections is described by leading specialists, including the developing sciences – geology; natural history; botany; archaeology; Egyptology and photography; the decorative arts; historical records; coins; maps; and costume. Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface Lyndon Morris Introduction Jenny Sabine PART 1 Chapter 1 The Swansea Context Louise Miskell PART 2 Foundations and Early Period Chapter 2 Beginnings 2.1 Origins and Ambitions Karmen Thomas 2.2 The BAAS meeting 1848 John Tucker 2.3 The Role of Women in the RISW Jenny Sabine 2.4 The Lectures Programme Gerald Gabb and Helen Hallesy 2.5 Education 1835-1939 Gerald Gabb Chapter 3 Swansea Museum 3.1 Planning and funding the building Helen Hallesy 3.2 Uses of building and extensions Gerald Gabb PART 3 The Collections Chapter 4 Sciences Introduction Iwan Morus 4.1 Geology Ronald Austin 4.2 Botany Kevin Davies 4.3 Other Natural Sciences Emma Williams 4.4 Photography Katy Williams Chapter 5 Artefacts and Records 5.1 The Archives Andrew Dulley 5.2 The Library Gerald Gabb 5.3 Maps and Charts Phil Treseder 5.4 Local Historians Gerald Gabb 5.5 Art Helen Hallesy 5.6 Ceramics Helen Hallesy 5.7 Archaeology Gerald Gabb 5.8 Egyptology Caroline Graves-Brown 5.9 Numismatics Alan and Noel Cox 5.10 Costume Deborah Griffiths 5.11 Miscellaneous Phil Treseder PART 4 Later developments Chapter 6 Introduction Elizabeth Belcham 6.1 The Museum during WW2 Helen Hallesy 6.2 The transfer to Swansea University Syd Howells 6.3 Swansea University to Swansea City Council Iwan Davies 6.4 Education post 1939 Gerald Gabb Chapter 7 Associated Societies Introduction Gerald Gabb and Helen Hallesy 7.1 Swansea Farmers Club Helen Hallesy 7.2 Musical Groups Gerald Gabb 7.3 Literary and Scientific Society Gerald Gabb 7.4 Swansea Astronomical Society Helen Hallesy 7.5 Swansea Geological Society Helen Hallesy 7.6 Swansea Scientific Society Gerald Gabb 7.7 Field Naturalists Society Gerald Gabb 7.8 Swansea Photographic Association Helen Hallesy 7.9 Welsh Society Gerald Gabb 7.10 Philatelic Society Helen Hallesy 7.11 Shiplovers’ Society Helen Hallesy 7.12 Gower Society Ruth and Malcolm Ridge 7.13 Swansea Little Theatre Eryl Jenkins and Dave Taylor 7.14 Gower Ornithological Society Gerald Gabb List of RISW Presidents 1835-2022 Bibliography List of Subscribers Index

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Affiche du document Financial Gothic — Financial Gothic
Amy Bride
3h43min30
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Financial Gothic explores the persistent concern of American Gothic literature with finance – and finance as having always been a gothic phenomenon – from 1880 to the present day. The study reads Frankensteinian monsters, haunted houses, vampires and zombies in American literature and film as cultural responses to such twentieth and twenty-first century financial phenomena as the 1929 Wall Street Crash, post-war housing debt, financial deregulation, and the 2008 Credit Crunch. Consideration is also given to the pre-existing consensus on racial readings of American gothic, and how these interpretations of the slave trade can be expanded upon in conversation with their financial contexts. Drawing on contemporary insights into financialised understandings of economics within the humanities, new analysis of finance as an inherently gothic phenomenon, and archival work completed on the Library of Congress’s Black History Collection, Financial Gothic highlights an as-yet-unrecognised dimension of haunting and monstrosity within American gothic fiction.Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Gothic Finance and Financial Gothic Chapter One: ‘It’s Alive!’: The 1929 Wall Street Crash and Pulp/Popular/Political Monsters Chapter Two: ‘The Evil is the House Itself’: Credit, Citizenship, and the Postwar Haunting House Chapter Three: Deregulation Sucks: Mass Consumption of Liquidity and the Deregulated Vampire Chapter Four: ‘Myself is Fabricated, An Aberration’: Late-Capitalism and the Hyperreal Vampire Chapter Five: Mindless Consumers: The 2008 Crash and the Post-Millennial Zombie Conclusion: Monsterized Capitalism and Capitalist Monsters Works Cited Glossary of Financial Terms

Financial Gothic
Amy Bride
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Financial Gothic explores the persistent concern of American Gothic literature with finance – and finance as having always been a gothic phenomenon – from 1880 to the present day. The study reads Frankensteinian monsters, haunted houses, vampires and zombies in American literature and film as cultural responses to such twentieth and twenty-first century financial phenomena as the 1929 Wall Street Crash, post-war housing debt, financial deregulation, and the 2008 Credit Crunch. Consideration is also given to the pre-existing consensus on racial readings of American gothic, and how these interpretations of the slave trade can be expanded upon in conversation with their financial contexts. Drawing on contemporary insights into financialised understandings of economics within the humanities, new analysis of finance as an inherently gothic phenomenon, and archival work completed on the Library of Congress’s Black History Collection, Financial Gothic highlights an as-yet-unrecognised dimension of haunting and monstrosity within American gothic fiction.Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Gothic Finance and Financial Gothic Chapter One: ‘It’s Alive!’: The 1929 Wall Street Crash and Pulp/Popular/Political Monsters Chapter Two: ‘The Evil is the House Itself’: Credit, Citizenship, and the Postwar Haunting House Chapter Three: Deregulation Sucks: Mass Consumption of Liquidity and the Deregulated Vampire Chapter Four: ‘Myself is Fabricated, An Aberration’: Late-Capitalism and the Hyperreal Vampire Chapter Five: Mindless Consumers: The 2008 Crash and the Post-Millennial Zombie Conclusion: Monsterized Capitalism and Capitalist Monsters Works Cited Glossary of Financial Terms

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Affiche du document Elizabeth Gunning: The Foresters — Elizabeth Gunning: The Foresters
2h37min30
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In The Foresters, Elizabeth Gunning offers an entertaining romp through the many tropes of Gothic literature, including clandestine marriages; tyrannous fathers; encounters with banditti; mysterious crypts; strange ceremonies conducted at midnight; sublime scenery; a spectre (or two); and inexplicable disembodied voices – to name but a few. Gunning employs all of these devices to create a compelling story combining the wildest elements of fiction with her own personal history and experience within eighteenth-century society, producing both a social document and an entertaining read. Considering multiple complex themes, this novel is not only an entertaining Gothic novel, but also presents some of the most pressing concerns of the day for consideration by the reader. Presented in print for the first time since 1796, the novel is accompanied here by a comprehensive introduction to the text and detailed scholarly notes. Acknowledgements Introduction Chronology of works and key dates in the life of Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823) History of the Text and Editorial Choices The Foresters. A Novel. Volume I. The Foresters. A Novel. Volume II The Foresters. A Novel. Volume III The Foresters. A Novel. Volume IV Bibliography Further Reading Notes

Elizabeth Gunning: The Foresters
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In The Foresters, Elizabeth Gunning offers an entertaining romp through the many tropes of Gothic literature, including clandestine marriages; tyrannous fathers; encounters with banditti; mysterious crypts; strange ceremonies conducted at midnight; sublime scenery; a spectre (or two); and inexplicable disembodied voices – to name but a few. Gunning employs all of these devices to create a compelling story combining the wildest elements of fiction with her own personal history and experience within eighteenth-century society, producing both a social document and an entertaining read. Considering multiple complex themes, this novel is not only an entertaining Gothic novel, but also presents some of the most pressing concerns of the day for consideration by the reader. Presented in print for the first time since 1796, the novel is accompanied here by a comprehensive introduction to the text and detailed scholarly notes. Acknowledgements Introduction Chronology of works and key dates in the life of Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823) History of the Text and Editorial Choices The Foresters. A Novel. Volume I. The Foresters. A Novel. Volume II The Foresters. A Novel. Volume III The Foresters. A Novel. Volume IV Bibliography Further Reading Notes

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Affiche du document Virtually Islamic — Virtually Islamic
Gary Bunt
1h33min45
Religions et spiritualité
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This is a survey of the phenomena relating to Islam and the Internet. Technology is making a global impact on how Muslims approach and interpret Islam. Given its utilization as a primary source of information, the Internet influences how non-Muslims perceive Islam and matters relating to Muslims.

Virtually Islamic
Gary Bunt
1h33min45
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This is a survey of the phenomena relating to Islam and the Internet. Technology is making a global impact on how Muslims approach and interpret Islam. Given its utilization as a primary source of information, the Internet influences how non-Muslims perceive Islam and matters relating to Muslims.

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Affiche du document Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales — Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales
Jane Cartwright
4h19min30
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Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales
Jane Cartwright
4h19min30
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Affiche du document Plants Matter — Plants Matter
1h30min00
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120 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h30min.
Plants Matter explores how plants and people live together. This is not only a book about the importance of plants and how people use them, but it argues also that knowing the world is achieved-with plants. In addition to populating the landscape, plants alter human physiology in multiple material ways, through gatherings or through sensorial conversations using the chemistry of taste, perfume, colour, sound and textures. The chapters gathered in this volume offer a range of interdisciplinary perspectives that use ethnographic and ethnobotanical information to explore how the behaviours and capacities of certain plants around the world have enticed, excited and even seduced people to pay attention.List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Preface 1 Introduction: Talking of (and with) (the Materiality of) Plants Luci Attala and Louise Steel 2 The Materiality of Plants: Plant–People Entanglements Marijke Van der Veen 3 Plants as Medicine in the Anthropocene Sarah E. Edwards 4 The World Tree: Humans, Trees and Creation on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Falk Parra Witte 5 Composing with Plants: Discerning their Call Julie Laplante and Kañaa 6 The Matter of Knowing Plant Medicine as Ecology: From Vegetal Philosophy and Plant Science to Tea Tasting in the Anthropocene Guy Waddell 7 Escaping to the Garden and Tasting Life Sarah Page 8 ‘The crop that ruled our lives’: Memories of Tobacco among Former Growers in Australia Andrew Russell Index

Plants Matter
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Sciences de la vie et de la nature
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Plants Matter explores how plants and people live together. This is not only a book about the importance of plants and how people use them, but it argues also that knowing the world is achieved-with plants. In addition to populating the landscape, plants alter human physiology in multiple material ways, through gatherings or through sensorial conversations using the chemistry of taste, perfume, colour, sound and textures. The chapters gathered in this volume offer a range of interdisciplinary perspectives that use ethnographic and ethnobotanical information to explore how the behaviours and capacities of certain plants around the world have enticed, excited and even seduced people to pay attention.List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Preface 1 Introduction: Talking of (and with) (the Materiality of) Plants Luci Attala and Louise Steel 2 The Materiality of Plants: Plant–People Entanglements Marijke Van der Veen 3 Plants as Medicine in the Anthropocene Sarah E. Edwards 4 The World Tree: Humans, Trees and Creation on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Falk Parra Witte 5 Composing with Plants: Discerning their Call Julie Laplante and Kañaa 6 The Matter of Knowing Plant Medicine as Ecology: From Vegetal Philosophy and Plant Science to Tea Tasting in the Anthropocene Guy Waddell 7 Escaping to the Garden and Tasting Life Sarah Page 8 ‘The crop that ruled our lives’: Memories of Tobacco among Former Growers in Australia Andrew Russell Index

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Affiche du document House of Horrors — House of Horrors
Agnieszka Kotwasińska
1h35min15
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This is a study of tumultuous transformations of kinship and intimate relationships in American horror fiction over the last three decades. Twelve contemporary novels (by ten women writers and two whose work has been identified as women’s fiction) are grouped into four main thematic clusters – haunted houses; monsters; vampires; and hauntings – but it is social scripts and concerns linked directly to intimacy and family life that structure the entire volume. By drawing attention to how the most intimate of all social relationships – the family – supports and replicates social hierarchies, exclusions, and struggles for dominance, the book problematises the source of horror. The consideration of horror narratives through the lens of familial intimacies makes it possible to rethink genre boundaries, to question the efficacy of certain genre tropes, and to consider the contribution of such diverse authors as Kathe Koja, Tananarive Due, Gwendolyn Kiste, Elizabeth Engstrom, Sara Gran and Caitlín R. Kiernan.Acknowledgments Introduction Defining Horror Horror and the Gothic Women Writers in Horror Fiction and Horror Studies Defining Intimacy Overview of Chapters Chapter 1. Uncanny in the House of Fear Introduction Uncanny Houses Void Dreams in Dead in the Water Unhomely Funhole in The Cipher The Queer (Uncanny) Desire in Drawing Blood Conclusions Chapter 2. Grotesque Monsters and Hybrid Subjectivities Introduction Grotesque Bodies Hybrid Lesbian Bodies in The Drowning Girl Male Grotesque in Sineater Monstrous Girlhood in The Rust Maidens Conclusion Chapter 3. Blood(y) Ties in Vampire Fictions Introduction Towards Abjection Gilda’s Sensual Vampires Escaping the ‘Little Wife’ in Black Ambrosia Prodigal Children (Not) Coming Home Conclusion Chapter 4. Spectral Kinship and Ghostly Selves Introduction The Ghostly Other in Horror Fiction Dangerous Dis/possessions in Come Closer The ‘Wandering Subject’ in The Between Familial Disintegration in Within These Walls Conclusion Afterword BIBLIOGRAPHY

House of Horrors
Agnieszka Kotwasińska
1h35min15
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This is a study of tumultuous transformations of kinship and intimate relationships in American horror fiction over the last three decades. Twelve contemporary novels (by ten women writers and two whose work has been identified as women’s fiction) are grouped into four main thematic clusters – haunted houses; monsters; vampires; and hauntings – but it is social scripts and concerns linked directly to intimacy and family life that structure the entire volume. By drawing attention to how the most intimate of all social relationships – the family – supports and replicates social hierarchies, exclusions, and struggles for dominance, the book problematises the source of horror. The consideration of horror narratives through the lens of familial intimacies makes it possible to rethink genre boundaries, to question the efficacy of certain genre tropes, and to consider the contribution of such diverse authors as Kathe Koja, Tananarive Due, Gwendolyn Kiste, Elizabeth Engstrom, Sara Gran and Caitlín R. Kiernan.Acknowledgments Introduction Defining Horror Horror and the Gothic Women Writers in Horror Fiction and Horror Studies Defining Intimacy Overview of Chapters Chapter 1. Uncanny in the House of Fear Introduction Uncanny Houses Void Dreams in Dead in the Water Unhomely Funhole in The Cipher The Queer (Uncanny) Desire in Drawing Blood Conclusions Chapter 2. Grotesque Monsters and Hybrid Subjectivities Introduction Grotesque Bodies Hybrid Lesbian Bodies in The Drowning Girl Male Grotesque in Sineater Monstrous Girlhood in The Rust Maidens Conclusion Chapter 3. Blood(y) Ties in Vampire Fictions Introduction Towards Abjection Gilda’s Sensual Vampires Escaping the ‘Little Wife’ in Black Ambrosia Prodigal Children (Not) Coming Home Conclusion Chapter 4. Spectral Kinship and Ghostly Selves Introduction The Ghostly Other in Horror Fiction Dangerous Dis/possessions in Come Closer The ‘Wandering Subject’ in The Between Familial Disintegration in Within These Walls Conclusion Afterword BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Affiche du document This is Not a Grail Romance — This is Not a Grail Romance
Natalia I. Petrovskaia
1h36min45
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This is Not a Grail Romance provides answers to some of the most important questions surrounding the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Historia Peredur vab Efrawc, one of the few surviving medieval Welsh narrative compositions, and an important member of the ‘Grail’ family of medieval European narratives. The study demonstrates that Historia Peredur is an original Welsh composition, rather than (as previous theories have suggested) being an adaptation of the twelfth-century French grail romance. The new analysis of the structure of Historia Peredur presented here shows it to be as complex as it has always been thought – but also more formal, and the result of intentional and intricate design. The seeming inconsistencies or oddities in Historia Peredur can be understood by reading it in its medieval Welsh cultural context, allowing the modern reader a greater appreciation of both the narrative and the culture that produced it. The University of Wales Press gratefully acknowledges the funding support of the Maartje Draak Fund from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Utrecht University Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and of the Books Council of Wales, in publication of this book.List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Structure of the Narrative Chapter 2: The Geography and Landscapes of Peredur Chapter 3: Historical Context and the Empress Chapter 4: Literary Context. Peredur and Some Lost Tales Chapter 5: Peredur and Welsh Law Chapter 6: The Witches of Gloucester and other Problematic Characters Conclusion Abbreviations Bibliography Index

This is Not a Grail Romance
Natalia I. Petrovskaia
1h36min45
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This is Not a Grail Romance provides answers to some of the most important questions surrounding the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Historia Peredur vab Efrawc, one of the few surviving medieval Welsh narrative compositions, and an important member of the ‘Grail’ family of medieval European narratives. The study demonstrates that Historia Peredur is an original Welsh composition, rather than (as previous theories have suggested) being an adaptation of the twelfth-century French grail romance. The new analysis of the structure of Historia Peredur presented here shows it to be as complex as it has always been thought – but also more formal, and the result of intentional and intricate design. The seeming inconsistencies or oddities in Historia Peredur can be understood by reading it in its medieval Welsh cultural context, allowing the modern reader a greater appreciation of both the narrative and the culture that produced it. The University of Wales Press gratefully acknowledges the funding support of the Maartje Draak Fund from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Utrecht University Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and of the Books Council of Wales, in publication of this book.List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Structure of the Narrative Chapter 2: The Geography and Landscapes of Peredur Chapter 3: Historical Context and the Empress Chapter 4: Literary Context. Peredur and Some Lost Tales Chapter 5: Peredur and Welsh Law Chapter 6: The Witches of Gloucester and other Problematic Characters Conclusion Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Jesus of Nazareth in the Literature of Unamuno — Jesus of Nazareth in the Literature of Unamuno
C.A. Longhurst
1h44min15
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Unamuno’s Theory of the Novel (London: MHRA/Maney, 2014). Modernismo, noventayochismo y novela. España y Europa (Oxford, Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2014). Miguel de Unamuno: An Anthology of his Poetry. Translation, Introduction and Notes (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2015). Unamuno, Berdyaev, Marcel: A Comparative Study in Christian Existentialism (London: Palgrave Macmillan: 2021). Pío Baroja: El novelista psicólogo (Granada: Editorial Comares, 2022).The Christian religion figures prominently in the vast output, both discursive and imaginative, of Miguel de Unamuno. Unamuno studied nineteenth-century biblical scholarship closely, especially that of the Liberal Protestant school, but its influence did not dictate his direction. Without fully accepting the traditional Roman Catholic interpretation of the New Testament, what position vis-a-vis Jesus of Nazareth did Unamuno occupy himself? How did he see this figure from the Palestine of two thousand years ago, which has been so influential in western culture? What role does the Nazarene play in Unamuno’s work? What does the presence of Jesus tell us about the Basque writer’s idiosyncratic and combative religious views that drew the opprobrium of the Spanish Church hierarchy? This study focuses on the figure of Jesus of Nazareth as he appears in Unamuno’s writings – including The Tragic Sense of Life, The Christ of Velázquez, The Agony of Christianity, and San Manuel Bueno, mártir.Preface List of illustrations Chapter 1: A Quixotic Jesus: From En torno al casticismo to Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho Chapter 2: A Tragic Jesus: Del sentimiento trágico de la vida Chapter 3: A Human Jesus: El Cristo de Velázquez Chapter 4: An Embattled Jesus: La agonía del cristianismo Chapter 5: A People’s Jesus: San Manuel Bueno, mártir Chapter 6: A Poetic Jesus: From Poesías to Cancionero Chapter 7: Conclusion: Unamuno and Jesus Endnotes Works cited Index

Jesus of Nazareth in the Literature of Unamuno
C.A. Longhurst
1h44min15
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Unamuno’s Theory of the Novel (London: MHRA/Maney, 2014). Modernismo, noventayochismo y novela. España y Europa (Oxford, Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2014). Miguel de Unamuno: An Anthology of his Poetry. Translation, Introduction and Notes (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2015). Unamuno, Berdyaev, Marcel: A Comparative Study in Christian Existentialism (London: Palgrave Macmillan: 2021). Pío Baroja: El novelista psicólogo (Granada: Editorial Comares, 2022).The Christian religion figures prominently in the vast output, both discursive and imaginative, of Miguel de Unamuno. Unamuno studied nineteenth-century biblical scholarship closely, especially that of the Liberal Protestant school, but its influence did not dictate his direction. Without fully accepting the traditional Roman Catholic interpretation of the New Testament, what position vis-a-vis Jesus of Nazareth did Unamuno occupy himself? How did he see this figure from the Palestine of two thousand years ago, which has been so influential in western culture? What role does the Nazarene play in Unamuno’s work? What does the presence of Jesus tell us about the Basque writer’s idiosyncratic and combative religious views that drew the opprobrium of the Spanish Church hierarchy? This study focuses on the figure of Jesus of Nazareth as he appears in Unamuno’s writings – including The Tragic Sense of Life, The Christ of Velázquez, The Agony of Christianity, and San Manuel Bueno, mártir.Preface List of illustrations Chapter 1: A Quixotic Jesus: From En torno al casticismo to Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho Chapter 2: A Tragic Jesus: Del sentimiento trágico de la vida Chapter 3: A Human Jesus: El Cristo de Velázquez Chapter 4: An Embattled Jesus: La agonía del cristianismo Chapter 5: A People’s Jesus: San Manuel Bueno, mártir Chapter 6: A Poetic Jesus: From Poesías to Cancionero Chapter 7: Conclusion: Unamuno and Jesus Endnotes Works cited Index

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Affiche du document Made by Labour — Made by Labour
Martin Wright
2h49min30
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This is the first full-length study of the material and visual culture of the British labour movement in almost half a century. It draws together the fruits of recent research into a comprehensive material and visual analysis of the nineteenth-century labour movement’s development. It analyses the meaning of ‘labour things’, the role they played in the lives of working people and the ways they have influenced the writing of labour history. Over ninety beautifully illustrated, expertly contextualised objects are used to narrate the history of British labour in its most crucial phase of development. Chapters on curation and preservation, a directory of museums where labour things may be seen, and a full bibliography complete the treatment of this important and rapidly developing field, making the book not just essential academic reading but a handbook for anyone who wishes to explore this vital part of our shared culture.Acknowledgements Foreword by Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester Preface List of images 1 Understanding labour things 2 Images and objects 3 Preservation, collections, curation and conservation 4 Directory of places that have nineteenth- century labour and working- class objects Notes Select bibliography

Made by Labour
Martin Wright
2h49min30
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This is the first full-length study of the material and visual culture of the British labour movement in almost half a century. It draws together the fruits of recent research into a comprehensive material and visual analysis of the nineteenth-century labour movement’s development. It analyses the meaning of ‘labour things’, the role they played in the lives of working people and the ways they have influenced the writing of labour history. Over ninety beautifully illustrated, expertly contextualised objects are used to narrate the history of British labour in its most crucial phase of development. Chapters on curation and preservation, a directory of museums where labour things may be seen, and a full bibliography complete the treatment of this important and rapidly developing field, making the book not just essential academic reading but a handbook for anyone who wishes to explore this vital part of our shared culture.Acknowledgements Foreword by Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester Preface List of images 1 Understanding labour things 2 Images and objects 3 Preservation, collections, curation and conservation 4 Directory of places that have nineteenth- century labour and working- class objects Notes Select bibliography

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Affiche du document Man, Myth and Museum — Man, Myth and Museum
Eurwyn Wiliam
2h24min00
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Melin Bompren Corn Mill, National Museum of Wales, 1977, 27 pp. (also in Welsh) Traditional Farm Buildings in north-east Wales, 1550-1900, National Museum of Wales, 1982, 334 pp. The Historical Farm Buildings of Wales, John Donald, 1986, 202 pp. Rhyd-y-car. A Welsh Mining Community, National Museum of Wales, 1987, 28 pp. Home-made Homes. Dwellings of the Rural Poor in Wales, National Museum of Wales, 1988, 36 pp. St. Fagans Castle and its Inhabitants/Castell Sain Ffagan a’i Drigolion, National Museum of Wales, 1988, 48 pp. The Welsh Folk Museum Visitor Guide, National Museum of Wales, 1991, 64 pp. (also in Welsh and several other languages), many editions Hen Adeiladau Fferm, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1992, 48 pp. Welsh Long-houses. Four Centuries of Farming at Cilewent, University of Wales Press/National Museum of Wales, 1992, 44 pp. Welsh Cruck Barns. Stryd Lydan and Hendre-Wen, National Museum of Wales, 1994, 33 pp. Gwenni aeth i Ffair Bwllheli. Bywyd bob dydd yn Llŷn dros ganrif yn ôl, Cyngor Sir Gwynedd, 1994, 33 pp. The Welsh Cottage. Building Traditions of the Rural Poor, 1750-1900, RCAHMW, 2010, 288 pp.; also in Welsh as Y Bwthyn Cymreig. Arferion Adeiladu Tlodion y Gymru Wledig, 1750-1900, CBHC, 2010, 288 pp. (with Mary and Dafydd Wiliam) Celfi Brynmawr. Arbrawf Cymdeithasol y Crynwyr 1928-40, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2010, 99 pp., revised and expanded as The Brynmawr Furniture Makers, 1929-40, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2012, 125 pp. (with Catherine Owen and Lloyd Jones) Bron Haul. Y Tyddyn ar y Mynydd/The Croft on the Moors, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2011, 51-81 and 127-50.The Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans was the first large open-air folk museum in Britain. It was (according to himself) created by one man: Iorwerth C. Peate, poet, author, and scholar. This is the first book-length critical study of Peate as scholar and curator, written by one of his successors at St Fagans. Whereas previous commentaries have very largely relied on Peate’s own recollections and views, this book makes extensive use of Peate’s own papers and National Museum archives to inform a far more balanced view of his work, emphasising for the first time the National Museum policy context and its corporate wish to estsablish a national folk museum, and the critical role played by Peate’s boss and bête noir Sir Cyril Fox. This volume also introduces Peate’s relevant Welsh-language writings to anglophone readers.Foreword Introduction The land of lost content: the developing academic and the rural dream The National Museum of Wales Trouble and strife The vanishing country craftsman The search for the Welsh house ‘A fair field full of folk’: Iorwerth Peate and folk life To dream the impossible dream...a folk museum for Wales? Planning for the move Developing the folk park Frustration and fulfilment Retrospects Select Bibliography Index

Man, Myth and Museum
Eurwyn Wiliam
2h24min00
Histoire
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Melin Bompren Corn Mill, National Museum of Wales, 1977, 27 pp. (also in Welsh) Traditional Farm Buildings in north-east Wales, 1550-1900, National Museum of Wales, 1982, 334 pp. The Historical Farm Buildings of Wales, John Donald, 1986, 202 pp. Rhyd-y-car. A Welsh Mining Community, National Museum of Wales, 1987, 28 pp. Home-made Homes. Dwellings of the Rural Poor in Wales, National Museum of Wales, 1988, 36 pp. St. Fagans Castle and its Inhabitants/Castell Sain Ffagan a’i Drigolion, National Museum of Wales, 1988, 48 pp. The Welsh Folk Museum Visitor Guide, National Museum of Wales, 1991, 64 pp. (also in Welsh and several other languages), many editions Hen Adeiladau Fferm, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1992, 48 pp. Welsh Long-houses. Four Centuries of Farming at Cilewent, University of Wales Press/National Museum of Wales, 1992, 44 pp. Welsh Cruck Barns. Stryd Lydan and Hendre-Wen, National Museum of Wales, 1994, 33 pp. Gwenni aeth i Ffair Bwllheli. Bywyd bob dydd yn Llŷn dros ganrif yn ôl, Cyngor Sir Gwynedd, 1994, 33 pp. The Welsh Cottage. Building Traditions of the Rural Poor, 1750-1900, RCAHMW, 2010, 288 pp.; also in Welsh as Y Bwthyn Cymreig. Arferion Adeiladu Tlodion y Gymru Wledig, 1750-1900, CBHC, 2010, 288 pp. (with Mary and Dafydd Wiliam) Celfi Brynmawr. Arbrawf Cymdeithasol y Crynwyr 1928-40, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2010, 99 pp., revised and expanded as The Brynmawr Furniture Makers, 1929-40, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2012, 125 pp. (with Catherine Owen and Lloyd Jones) Bron Haul. Y Tyddyn ar y Mynydd/The Croft on the Moors, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2011, 51-81 and 127-50.The Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans was the first large open-air folk museum in Britain. It was (according to himself) created by one man: Iorwerth C. Peate, poet, author, and scholar. This is the first book-length critical study of Peate as scholar and curator, written by one of his successors at St Fagans. Whereas previous commentaries have very largely relied on Peate’s own recollections and views, this book makes extensive use of Peate’s own papers and National Museum archives to inform a far more balanced view of his work, emphasising for the first time the National Museum policy context and its corporate wish to estsablish a national folk museum, and the critical role played by Peate’s boss and bête noir Sir Cyril Fox. This volume also introduces Peate’s relevant Welsh-language writings to anglophone readers.Foreword Introduction The land of lost content: the developing academic and the rural dream The National Museum of Wales Trouble and strife The vanishing country craftsman The search for the Welsh house ‘A fair field full of folk’: Iorwerth Peate and folk life To dream the impossible dream...a folk museum for Wales? Planning for the move Developing the folk park Frustration and fulfilment Retrospects Select Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Financial Gothic — Financial Gothic
Amy Bride
2h03min00
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164 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h03min.
Financial Gothic explores the persistent concern of American Gothic literature with finance - and finance as having always been a gothic phenomenon - from 1880 to the present day. The study reads Frankensteinian monsters, haunted houses, vampires and zombies in American literature and film as cultural responses to such twentieth and twenty-first century financial phenomena as the 1929 Wall Street Crash, post-war housing debt, financial deregulation, and the 2008 Credit Crunch. Consideration is also given to the pre-existing consensus on racial readings of American gothic, and how these interpretations of the slave trade can be expanded upon in conversation with their financial contexts. Drawing on contemporary insights into financialised understandings of economics within the humanities, new analysis of finance as an inherently gothic phenomenon, and archival work completed on the Library of Congress's Black History Collection, Financial Gothic highlights an as-yet-unrecognised dimension of haunting and monstrosity within American gothic fiction.

Financial Gothic
Amy Bride
2h03min00
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Financial Gothic explores the persistent concern of American Gothic literature with finance - and finance as having always been a gothic phenomenon - from 1880 to the present day. The study reads Frankensteinian monsters, haunted houses, vampires and zombies in American literature and film as cultural responses to such twentieth and twenty-first century financial phenomena as the 1929 Wall Street Crash, post-war housing debt, financial deregulation, and the 2008 Credit Crunch. Consideration is also given to the pre-existing consensus on racial readings of American gothic, and how these interpretations of the slave trade can be expanded upon in conversation with their financial contexts. Drawing on contemporary insights into financialised understandings of economics within the humanities, new analysis of finance as an inherently gothic phenomenon, and archival work completed on the Library of Congress's Black History Collection, Financial Gothic highlights an as-yet-unrecognised dimension of haunting and monstrosity within American gothic fiction.

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Affiche du document Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism — Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism
Alex Bevan
1h27min45
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117 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h28min.
Gothic tourism is a growing phenomenon and a medium through which Gothic fictions and folkloric tales are re-imagined and generated. This book examines the complex relationship between contemporary English Gothic attractions and storytelling, uncovering how works of Gothic fiction can both inspire Gothic tourism and emerge from the spaces of Gothic tourism, contending that Gothic tourist attractions are multi-layered storytelling experiences. Contributing to the study of literature and place, Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism draws together the study of literary Gothic tourism and spatial philosophy, offering interdisciplinary analysis into the interface between Gothic narrative(s) and the spaces in which the tourist navigates. The storytelling practices taking place in Gothic caves, theme parks, ghost tours and rural walks serve to reflect contemporary fears and anxieties. This book situates the act of touring a Gothic site as a process of literary and social discovery.Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Theme Park Gothic 1. Scare Mazes 2. Gothic Attractions Part Two: Guided Gothic Tours 3. Ghost Walks 4. Cave Tours Part Three: Self-Guided Gothic Walks 5. Rural Ghost Walks 6. The Lancashire Witches Walk Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism
Alex Bevan
1h27min45
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117 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h28min.
Gothic tourism is a growing phenomenon and a medium through which Gothic fictions and folkloric tales are re-imagined and generated. This book examines the complex relationship between contemporary English Gothic attractions and storytelling, uncovering how works of Gothic fiction can both inspire Gothic tourism and emerge from the spaces of Gothic tourism, contending that Gothic tourist attractions are multi-layered storytelling experiences. Contributing to the study of literature and place, Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism draws together the study of literary Gothic tourism and spatial philosophy, offering interdisciplinary analysis into the interface between Gothic narrative(s) and the spaces in which the tourist navigates. The storytelling practices taking place in Gothic caves, theme parks, ghost tours and rural walks serve to reflect contemporary fears and anxieties. This book situates the act of touring a Gothic site as a process of literary and social discovery.Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Theme Park Gothic 1. Scare Mazes 2. Gothic Attractions Part Two: Guided Gothic Tours 3. Ghost Walks 4. Cave Tours Part Three: Self-Guided Gothic Walks 5. Rural Ghost Walks 6. The Lancashire Witches Walk Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Theatre Censorship in Spain, 1931–1985 — Theatre Censorship in Spain, 1931–1985
Catherine O'Leary
3h42min00
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This is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain. It draws on extensive archival evidence, vivid personal testimonies and in-depth analysis of legislation to document the different kinds of theatre censorship practised during the Second Republic (1931–6), the civil war (1936–9), the Franco dictatorship (1939–75) and the transition to democracy (1975–85). Changes in criteria, administrative structures and personnel from these periods are traced in relation to wider political, social and cultural developments, and the responses of playwrights, directors and companies are explored. With a focus on censorship, new light is cast on particular theatremakers and their work, the conditions in which all kinds of theatre were produced, the construction of genres and canons, as well as on broader cultural history and changing ideological climate – all of which are linked to reflections on the nature of censorship and the relationship between culture and the state.Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of abbreviations Introduction 1. The Evolution of Theatre Censorship in Spain from the 1830s to the 1930s 2. Un teatro de ida y vuelta: All Change and No Change in the Second Republic and the Civil War Case Study: Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús, by Vicente Mena Pérez 3. The Franco Dictatorship: Censorship as ‘Propaganda’, ‘Education’ and ‘Information’ Case Study: La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca 4. The Pervasiveness of Censorship during the Dictatorship: Right-Wing Triumphalism, Commercial Theatre, Revistas and Catalan Theatre Case Study: La Infanzona, by Jacinto Benavente 5. The Realist Generation: A Spotlight on the Margins of Society Case Study: Escuadra hacia la muerte, by Alfonso Sastre 6. Experimental, Avant-Garde and Independent Theatre: Pushing the Boundaries Case Study: Castañuela 70, by Tábano and Las Madres del Cordero 7. The Censorship of Foreign Theatre: From Taming the Text to Disruptive Drama Case Study: El círculo de tiza caucasiano, by Bertolt Brecht 8. Dénouement: Dismantling the Apparatus during the Transition to Democracy Case Study: La torna, by Els Joglars/Albert Boadella Conclusion Bibliography: Archival sources Legislation Other sources Index

Theatre Censorship in Spain, 1931–1985
Catherine O'Leary
3h42min00
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This is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain. It draws on extensive archival evidence, vivid personal testimonies and in-depth analysis of legislation to document the different kinds of theatre censorship practised during the Second Republic (1931–6), the civil war (1936–9), the Franco dictatorship (1939–75) and the transition to democracy (1975–85). Changes in criteria, administrative structures and personnel from these periods are traced in relation to wider political, social and cultural developments, and the responses of playwrights, directors and companies are explored. With a focus on censorship, new light is cast on particular theatremakers and their work, the conditions in which all kinds of theatre were produced, the construction of genres and canons, as well as on broader cultural history and changing ideological climate – all of which are linked to reflections on the nature of censorship and the relationship between culture and the state.Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of abbreviations Introduction 1. The Evolution of Theatre Censorship in Spain from the 1830s to the 1930s 2. Un teatro de ida y vuelta: All Change and No Change in the Second Republic and the Civil War Case Study: Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús, by Vicente Mena Pérez 3. The Franco Dictatorship: Censorship as ‘Propaganda’, ‘Education’ and ‘Information’ Case Study: La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca 4. The Pervasiveness of Censorship during the Dictatorship: Right-Wing Triumphalism, Commercial Theatre, Revistas and Catalan Theatre Case Study: La Infanzona, by Jacinto Benavente 5. The Realist Generation: A Spotlight on the Margins of Society Case Study: Escuadra hacia la muerte, by Alfonso Sastre 6. Experimental, Avant-Garde and Independent Theatre: Pushing the Boundaries Case Study: Castañuela 70, by Tábano and Las Madres del Cordero 7. The Censorship of Foreign Theatre: From Taming the Text to Disruptive Drama Case Study: El círculo de tiza caucasiano, by Bertolt Brecht 8. Dénouement: Dismantling the Apparatus during the Transition to Democracy Case Study: La torna, by Els Joglars/Albert Boadella Conclusion Bibliography: Archival sources Legislation Other sources Index

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Affiche du document The Blaxploitation Horror Film — The Blaxploitation Horror Film
Jamil Mustafa
1h50min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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147 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h50min.
This book is a pioneering study of Blaxploitation horror films, connecting them with both mainstream horror movies and classic Gothic texts. The author argues that conventional horror films adapt, while Blaxploitation horror films appropriate, the archetypes of Gothic fiction – and rather than exploit, it is argued that they function to satisfy Black audiences. Of the few scholars who have given consideration to Blaxploitation horror films, only occasional chapters have been devoted by them in monographs focused on either Blaxploitation films or horror films. In marked contrast, the present study gives a book-length consideration to Blaxploitation horror films per se, demonstrating how they engage both Gothic fiction and film, and issues of vital significance to American society and culture in the 1970s. In this important and innovative study, chapters explore the sociocultural significance of the vampire, Frankenstein’s monster, Jekyll/Hyde and the werewolf, the zombie and the demon.Acknowledgements Introduction: Blaxploitation, Adaptation/Appropriation and the (Black) Gothic 1. Queer Bloodlines: The Vampire 2. Making Monsters: Frankenstein’s Creature 3. Beyond ‘the animal within’: Jekyll/Hyde and the Werewolf 4. Body and Soul: The Zombie and the Evil Spirit Conclusion: The Legacy of the Blaxploitation Horror Film

The Blaxploitation Horror Film
Jamil Mustafa
1h50min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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This book is a pioneering study of Blaxploitation horror films, connecting them with both mainstream horror movies and classic Gothic texts. The author argues that conventional horror films adapt, while Blaxploitation horror films appropriate, the archetypes of Gothic fiction – and rather than exploit, it is argued that they function to satisfy Black audiences. Of the few scholars who have given consideration to Blaxploitation horror films, only occasional chapters have been devoted by them in monographs focused on either Blaxploitation films or horror films. In marked contrast, the present study gives a book-length consideration to Blaxploitation horror films per se, demonstrating how they engage both Gothic fiction and film, and issues of vital significance to American society and culture in the 1970s. In this important and innovative study, chapters explore the sociocultural significance of the vampire, Frankenstein’s monster, Jekyll/Hyde and the werewolf, the zombie and the demon.Acknowledgements Introduction: Blaxploitation, Adaptation/Appropriation and the (Black) Gothic 1. Queer Bloodlines: The Vampire 2. Making Monsters: Frankenstein’s Creature 3. Beyond ‘the animal within’: Jekyll/Hyde and the Werewolf 4. Body and Soul: The Zombie and the Evil Spirit Conclusion: The Legacy of the Blaxploitation Horror Film

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Affiche du document The British Industrial Canal — The British Industrial Canal
Jodie Matthews
1h36min45
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129 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h37min.
Thousands of literary, popular, non-fiction and archival texts since the eighteenth century document the human experience of the British industrial canal. This book traces networks of literary canal texts across four centuries to understand our relationships with water, with place, and with the past. In our era of climate crisis, this reading calls for a rethinking of the waterways of literature not simply as an antique transport system, but as a coal-fired energy system with implications for the present. This book demonstrates how waterways literature has always been profoundly interested in the things we dig out of the ground, and the uses to which they are put. The industrial canal never just connected parts of Britain: via its literature we read the ways in which we are in touch with previous centuries and epochs, how canals linked inland Britain to Empire, how they connected forms of labour, and people to water.Acknowledgements Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Practical Arts of the Waterways Chapter Three: Colonizing Canal-Land Chapter Four: Women, War, and the Waterways Chapter Five: Waters of Life and Death Chapter Six: The Basin, or Conclusion Notes Bibliography

The British Industrial Canal
Jodie Matthews
1h36min45
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Thousands of literary, popular, non-fiction and archival texts since the eighteenth century document the human experience of the British industrial canal. This book traces networks of literary canal texts across four centuries to understand our relationships with water, with place, and with the past. In our era of climate crisis, this reading calls for a rethinking of the waterways of literature not simply as an antique transport system, but as a coal-fired energy system with implications for the present. This book demonstrates how waterways literature has always been profoundly interested in the things we dig out of the ground, and the uses to which they are put. The industrial canal never just connected parts of Britain: via its literature we read the ways in which we are in touch with previous centuries and epochs, how canals linked inland Britain to Empire, how they connected forms of labour, and people to water.Acknowledgements Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Practical Arts of the Waterways Chapter Three: Colonizing Canal-Land Chapter Four: Women, War, and the Waterways Chapter Five: Waters of Life and Death Chapter Six: The Basin, or Conclusion Notes Bibliography

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Affiche du document Charlotte Dacre: The Passions — Charlotte Dacre: The Passions
4h12min45
SF et fantasy
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Countess Appollonia Zulmer – beautiful, rich, and popular – can have any man she wants, at least until she meets Count Wiemar. Interested only in submissive, uneducated and unworldly women, Wiemar rejects Appollonia in favour of Julia, a simple woman whose primary joy in life is to obey her husband’s will. Despondent and then furious, Appollonia vows revenge, becoming Julia’s intimate confidante, opening her eyes to the limitations of patriarchy, and convincing her that her growing feelings for Count Darlowitz, Wiemar’s best friend, are no crime. An epistolary novel about the destructive power of emotion, The Passions offers new insights into early feminism, romantic understandings of emotion and the sublime, and early nineteenth-century religious debates. It is an engrossing, powerful work of nineteenth-century literature, featuring one of the most memorable female villains of all time. Available to modern audiences for the first time, The Passions will engross literary scholars and casual readers alike.Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography Silent Changes The Passions Volume I Volume II Volume III Volume IV Notes

Charlotte Dacre: The Passions
4h12min45
SF et fantasy
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337 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h13min.
Countess Appollonia Zulmer – beautiful, rich, and popular – can have any man she wants, at least until she meets Count Wiemar. Interested only in submissive, uneducated and unworldly women, Wiemar rejects Appollonia in favour of Julia, a simple woman whose primary joy in life is to obey her husband’s will. Despondent and then furious, Appollonia vows revenge, becoming Julia’s intimate confidante, opening her eyes to the limitations of patriarchy, and convincing her that her growing feelings for Count Darlowitz, Wiemar’s best friend, are no crime. An epistolary novel about the destructive power of emotion, The Passions offers new insights into early feminism, romantic understandings of emotion and the sublime, and early nineteenth-century religious debates. It is an engrossing, powerful work of nineteenth-century literature, featuring one of the most memorable female villains of all time. Available to modern audiences for the first time, The Passions will engross literary scholars and casual readers alike.Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography Silent Changes The Passions Volume I Volume II Volume III Volume IV Notes

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Affiche du document Ramsey Campbell — Ramsey Campbell
Keith M. C. O'Sullivan
1h41min15
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135 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h41min.
This book pays overdue attention to the British writer Ramsey Campbell, a key figure in the post-1970s boom in Anglo-American horror fiction. Despite a huge output and receiving every accolade within his field over a long career, Campbell has not yet been accorded anything like the wider critical recognition given to his contemporary Stephen King. This study concentrates also on Campbell’s neglected novels and novellas, rather than the short stories for which he has been better known. The book Ramsey Campbell establishes the author’s unique prose style, denoted by a haunted self-consciousness about the act of writing and role of readership, and his distinctive mediation of the Gothic tradition: religiously agnostic, politically liberal and ethically humane. For the first time, Campbell’s works are interpreted in the contexts of trends in postmodernist and posthumanist thought and compared explicitly to King’s, and his contribution to both Gothic studies and wider contemporary literature is appraised. Acknowledgements Introduction: A Neglected ‘Poet’: Campbell and Gothic Tradition 1. Impractical Magic: Campbell’s Agnostic Gothic 2. Of Bonds and Beings: Campbell’s Gothic Sociopaths 3. Writing with Intensity: Campbell’s Gothic Novellas 4. ‘Ghosts’ from the Machine: Campbell’s Gothic Techno-Fictions Conclusion: ‘Something to Believe in’: Repositioning Campbell in the Gothic – and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index

Ramsey Campbell
Keith M. C. O'Sullivan
1h41min15
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This book pays overdue attention to the British writer Ramsey Campbell, a key figure in the post-1970s boom in Anglo-American horror fiction. Despite a huge output and receiving every accolade within his field over a long career, Campbell has not yet been accorded anything like the wider critical recognition given to his contemporary Stephen King. This study concentrates also on Campbell’s neglected novels and novellas, rather than the short stories for which he has been better known. The book Ramsey Campbell establishes the author’s unique prose style, denoted by a haunted self-consciousness about the act of writing and role of readership, and his distinctive mediation of the Gothic tradition: religiously agnostic, politically liberal and ethically humane. For the first time, Campbell’s works are interpreted in the contexts of trends in postmodernist and posthumanist thought and compared explicitly to King’s, and his contribution to both Gothic studies and wider contemporary literature is appraised. Acknowledgements Introduction: A Neglected ‘Poet’: Campbell and Gothic Tradition 1. Impractical Magic: Campbell’s Agnostic Gothic 2. Of Bonds and Beings: Campbell’s Gothic Sociopaths 3. Writing with Intensity: Campbell’s Gothic Novellas 4. ‘Ghosts’ from the Machine: Campbell’s Gothic Techno-Fictions Conclusion: ‘Something to Believe in’: Repositioning Campbell in the Gothic – and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Latin America and Existentialism — Latin America and Existentialism
Edwin Murillo
2h36min45
Philosophie
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209 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h37min.
Midnight Vallenato Floricanto Press 2019Latin America and Existentialism is a preliminary intellectual history, prioritising literature and contextualising Latin American philosophical contributions from the 1860s to the late 1930s, decades that coincide with the canon’s foundational years. This study takes a Pan-American approach to move the critical focus away from the River Plate, a region that has received some critical attention. In doing so, it focuses on existentially-neglected writers such as Brazil’s Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos, José Asunción Silva from Colombia, Cuba’s Enrique Labrador Ruiz, and the Chilean María Luisa Bombal. Underappreciated Latin American philosophical voices and existentialism’s canonical perspectives allow the author to discuss the many problems concerning the experiencing ‘I’ of these authors, and to consider such existential themes as ethical vacuity, forlornness, the crisis of insufficiency, the conundrum of choice, and the enigma of authentic being. The concentration on Latin America’s existentially-hued interest in the human condition is an invitation to the reader to reconsider the peripheral status in the existentialism canon.Acknowledgements 1. Latin America and Existentialism: An Introduction 2. Machado de Assis and the Art of Existential Deciphering 3. José Fernández as Modernity’s Impossible Patient 4. The Existential Exegete in Enrique Labrador Ruiz’s El laberinto de sí mismo 5. María Luisa Bombal and the Poetics of Inconformity 6. The Burden of Anonymity: Existential Toxicosis in Graciliano Ramos’s Angústia 7. Latin America and Existentialism: An Interlude Works Cited

Latin America and Existentialism
Edwin Murillo
2h36min45
Philosophie
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Midnight Vallenato Floricanto Press 2019Latin America and Existentialism is a preliminary intellectual history, prioritising literature and contextualising Latin American philosophical contributions from the 1860s to the late 1930s, decades that coincide with the canon’s foundational years. This study takes a Pan-American approach to move the critical focus away from the River Plate, a region that has received some critical attention. In doing so, it focuses on existentially-neglected writers such as Brazil’s Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos, José Asunción Silva from Colombia, Cuba’s Enrique Labrador Ruiz, and the Chilean María Luisa Bombal. Underappreciated Latin American philosophical voices and existentialism’s canonical perspectives allow the author to discuss the many problems concerning the experiencing ‘I’ of these authors, and to consider such existential themes as ethical vacuity, forlornness, the crisis of insufficiency, the conundrum of choice, and the enigma of authentic being. The concentration on Latin America’s existentially-hued interest in the human condition is an invitation to the reader to reconsider the peripheral status in the existentialism canon.Acknowledgements 1. Latin America and Existentialism: An Introduction 2. Machado de Assis and the Art of Existential Deciphering 3. José Fernández as Modernity’s Impossible Patient 4. The Existential Exegete in Enrique Labrador Ruiz’s El laberinto de sí mismo 5. María Luisa Bombal and the Poetics of Inconformity 6. The Burden of Anonymity: Existential Toxicosis in Graciliano Ramos’s Angústia 7. Latin America and Existentialism: An Interlude Works Cited

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Affiche du document Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913 — Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913
Joan Passey
1h58min30
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158 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h58min.
This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes in Cornwall that spurred this interest – from the collapse of the mining industry to the developing national rail network; from the birth of tourism to the neomedieval rise in interest in King Arthur. Understanding frequently overlooked Cornwall in this period is vital to understanding Gothic literature, the Victorian imagination, intellectual and creative networks, and attitudes towards regionality. The first part of the book considers landscape and legend, defining a mining Gothic tradition, exposing the shipwreck as Gothic mastertrope, and demonstrating how antiquarians drew from Cornish legends and lore. The second part explores encounters with modernity, investigating the impact of railway expansion on access to Cornwall, the development of a Cornish King Arthur as a key figure of Victorian masculinity, and the specific features of the Cornish ghost story.Introduction: Corpses, Coasts and Carriages Cornwall: A Brief Introduction The Cornish Gothic The Regional Gothic Cornish Gothic Criticism Part One - Landscapes and Legends: Preserving and Confronting the Past Chapter One: ‘The dead lay buried and yet unburied’: Minescapes and the Subterranean World The Subterranean Gothic Wheal Darkness by H. D. Lowry Chapter Two: ‘If there’s got to be wrecks, please send them to we’: Seascapes and Shipwrecks Shipwreck as Gothic Master Trope The Dead Secret and Wreck Media Bram Stoker and ‘The Coming of Abel Behenna’ Chapter Three: ‘Hear the most curious stories’: Folklore, Antiquarianism and Gothic Rewritings In the Roar of the Sea by Sabine Baring-Gould Part Two – Travel and Tourism: Cornish Identity and Encounters with Modernity Chapter Four: 'Out of the sound of the railway whistle': Gothic Travel and the Expansion of the Railway Victorian Gothic Travel Victorian Travel in Cornwall The Jewel of Seven Stars and Gothic Travel into Cornwall ‘Colonel Benyon’s Entanglement’ Chapter Five: ‘The poet gives all his votes to us’: King Arthur and Arthurian Tourism in Tintagel Nineteenth-Century Medievalism Arthur in Cornwall Case Studies Chapter Six: ‘A phantom to proclaim their hoary and solitary age’: Cornish Ghosts and Hauntings Visiting Haunted Cornwall Economic Spectres Haunted Shores Conclusion

Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913
Joan Passey
1h58min30
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This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes in Cornwall that spurred this interest – from the collapse of the mining industry to the developing national rail network; from the birth of tourism to the neomedieval rise in interest in King Arthur. Understanding frequently overlooked Cornwall in this period is vital to understanding Gothic literature, the Victorian imagination, intellectual and creative networks, and attitudes towards regionality. The first part of the book considers landscape and legend, defining a mining Gothic tradition, exposing the shipwreck as Gothic mastertrope, and demonstrating how antiquarians drew from Cornish legends and lore. The second part explores encounters with modernity, investigating the impact of railway expansion on access to Cornwall, the development of a Cornish King Arthur as a key figure of Victorian masculinity, and the specific features of the Cornish ghost story.Introduction: Corpses, Coasts and Carriages Cornwall: A Brief Introduction The Cornish Gothic The Regional Gothic Cornish Gothic Criticism Part One - Landscapes and Legends: Preserving and Confronting the Past Chapter One: ‘The dead lay buried and yet unburied’: Minescapes and the Subterranean World The Subterranean Gothic Wheal Darkness by H. D. Lowry Chapter Two: ‘If there’s got to be wrecks, please send them to we’: Seascapes and Shipwrecks Shipwreck as Gothic Master Trope The Dead Secret and Wreck Media Bram Stoker and ‘The Coming of Abel Behenna’ Chapter Three: ‘Hear the most curious stories’: Folklore, Antiquarianism and Gothic Rewritings In the Roar of the Sea by Sabine Baring-Gould Part Two – Travel and Tourism: Cornish Identity and Encounters with Modernity Chapter Four: 'Out of the sound of the railway whistle': Gothic Travel and the Expansion of the Railway Victorian Gothic Travel Victorian Travel in Cornwall The Jewel of Seven Stars and Gothic Travel into Cornwall ‘Colonel Benyon’s Entanglement’ Chapter Five: ‘The poet gives all his votes to us’: King Arthur and Arthurian Tourism in Tintagel Nineteenth-Century Medievalism Arthur in Cornwall Case Studies Chapter Six: ‘A phantom to proclaim their hoary and solitary age’: Cornish Ghosts and Hauntings Visiting Haunted Cornwall Economic Spectres Haunted Shores Conclusion

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