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UNINA9910451951003321 |
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Nayder Lillian |
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The Other Dickens : A Life of Catherine Hogarth / / Lillian Nayder |
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Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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0-8014-6506-0 |
1-322-50370-2 |
0-8014-6514-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Authors' spouses - Great Britain |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructing Catherine Dickens -- 1. "The Mind of Woman Occasionally Asserts Its Powers": Catherine Hogarth among Enlightened Patriarchs, 1815-1835 -- 2. Becoming Galatea: Courtship and Marriage, 1835-1837. Interlude I. "The Girls Hogarth": Catherine and Mary -- 3. "Their Voices, Mr. Dickens's Imperative": Mesmerized, 1837-1842 -- 4. "Their Voices, Mrs. Dickens's Expostulatory": Disentranced, 1843-1847 -- 5. "Richer in That Respect": Overbearings, 1848-1852. Interlude II. "Catherine Georgina"; or, What's in a Name? -- 6. The Meaning of "Our": Sleights of Hand, 1853-1858 -- 7. "As If She Were Sole and Unmarried": Separation, 1858-1870. Interlude III. "Forget Me Not": Catherine and Helen -- 8. Last Wills and Last Words: Widowhood, 1870-1879 -- Afterword: "Suttee Business" -- Primary Sources -- Index |
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Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer pressured Catherine to leave their home, unjustly alleging that she was mentally disordered- |
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unfit and unloved as wife and mother. Constructing a plotline nearly as powerful as his stories of Scrooge and Little Nell, Dickens created the image of his wife as a depressed and uninteresting figure, using two of her three sisters against her, by measuring her presumed weaknesses against their strengths. This self-serving fiction is still widely accepted.In the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Dickens, Lillian Nayder debunks this tale in retelling it, wresting away from the famous novelist the power to shape his wife's story. Nayder demonstrates that the Dickenses' marriage was long a happy one; more important, she shows that the figure we know only as "Mrs. Charles Dickens" was also a daughter, sister, and friend, a loving mother and grandmother, a capable household manager, and an intelligent person whose company was valued and sought by a wide circle of women and men. Making use of the Dickenses' banking records and legal papers as well as their correspondence with friends and family members, Nayder challenges the long-standing view of Catherine Dickens and offers unparalleled insights into the relations among the four Hogarth sisters, reclaiming those cherished by the famous novelist as Catherine's own and illuminating her special bond with her youngest sister, Helen, her staunchest ally during the marital breakdown.Drawing on little-known, unpublished material and forcing Catherine's husband from center stage, The Other Dickens revolutionizes our perception of the Dickens family dynamic, illuminates the legal and emotional ambiguities of Catherine's position as a "single" wife, and deepens our understanding of what it meant to be a woman in the Victorian age. |
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UNINA9910313023603321 |
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Autore |
Mérieau Eugénie |
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Les Chemises Rouges de Thaïlande / / Eugénie Mérieau |
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Bangkok, : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine, 2018 |
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1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Asian Studies |
democracy |
nation |
State |
Populism |
Thailand |
political transition |
red shirts |
social movements |
monarchy |
monarchie |
démocratie |
État |
populisme |
Régime |
Thaïlande |
transition politique |
Thaksin Shinawatra |
chemises rouges |
UDD |
mouvements sociaux |
Thailand Politics and government 21st century |
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Cette étude retrace les différents événements fondateurs du mouvement dit des Chemises rouges, depuis leur création embryonnaire à la veille du coup d'État du 19 septembre 2006 jusqu'à leur écrasante victoire électorale du 3 juillet 2011. Offrant un examen détaillé des actions et des motivations des différentes organisations et groupuscules qui composent les Chemises rouges, l'auteur s'attache à décrypter leur rapport au monde, les relations qui les lient à la personne de Thaksin Shinawatra et à son parti, l'ancien Thai Rak Thai, mais aussi à la monarchie et à l'histoire officielle de leur propre pays. C'est par l'invocation de personnalités, de discours et de symboles que transparaissent alors les forces et les faiblesses de ce mouvement hétérogène, diffus et pourtant décisif dans l'histoire politique contemporaine de la Thaïlande. |
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UNINA9910337875603321 |
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Autore |
Webb Stephen |
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Titolo |
New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales / / by Stephen Webb |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
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[1st ed. 2019.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (309 pages) |
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Collana |
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Science and Fiction, , 2197-1188 |
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Physics |
Literature |
Fiction |
Artificial intelligence |
Popular Science in Physics |
Popular Science in Literature |
Artificial Intelligence |
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Life ... but not as we know It -- The terror of Blue John Gap / Arthur |
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Conan Doyle -- Transmogrification The Voice in the Night / William Hope Hodgsome -- Pandemic -- The Scarlet Plague / Jack London-- Life on Mars -- A Martian Odyssey / Stanley G. Weinbaum -- Artificial Intelligence -- Moxon's Master / Ambrose Bierce -- Attractive Androids -- The Sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Big Data -- The Universal Library / Kurd Lasswitz -- Faster Than Light Travel -- The Tacypomp: A mathematical demonstration / E.P. Mitchell -- Antigravity -- A Tale of Negative Gravity / Frank R. Stockton -- Matter Transmission -- Prof. Vehr's Electrical Experiment / Robert Duncan Milne -- The Sub-microscopic World -- The Diamond Lens / Fitz-James O'Brien -- Impact Events -- The Star / H.G. Wells. |
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This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories – all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers – dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages. This includes aspects of alien life forms, transmogrification, pandemics, life on Mars, android robots, big data, matter transmission and impact events to name but a few. The short stories are reprinted in full alongside extensive commentaries which also examine some of the latest scientific thinking surrounding the story’s main theme and provide the reader with suggestions for further reading. Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He has published an undergraduate textbook Measuring the Universe - The Cosmological Distance Ladder (1999) as well as several popular science books, among them Out of this World - Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics in 2004, New Eyes on the Universe - Twelve Cosmic Mysteries and the Tools We Need to Solve Them in 2012, the second edition of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life in 2015, All the Wonder that Would Be - Exploring Past Notions of the Future in 2017, also published as part of Springer’s Science and Fiction series, as well as recently, Clash of Symbols - A ride through the riches of glyphs. His 2018 TED talk on aliens has to date been watched more than 2.33 million times. |
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