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UNINA9910451130703321 |
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Mahaffey Vicki |
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States of desire [[electronic resource] ] : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish experiment / / Vicki Mahaffey |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
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1-280-52960-1 |
0-19-535388-9 |
1-4294-0448-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
National characteristics, Irish, in literature |
Electronic books. |
Ireland In literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and index. |
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Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Reading and ""Irish"" Desire; 2. Wilde's Desire: A Study in Green; 3. ""Horrible Splendour of Desire"": The Will of W.B.Yeats; 4. Joyful Desire: Giacomo Joyce and Finnegans Wake; 5. Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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This study shows how the writings of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce are politically subversive in the most local and dangerous sense of the term: they aim to take apart the assumptions and verbal practices that make dominance possible. |
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UNINA9910460446503321 |
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William J. Scheick |
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Authority and female authorship in colonial America / / William J. Scheick |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1998 |
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©1998 |
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0-8131-8513-0 |
0-8131-5859-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (164 p.) |
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American literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism |
Women and literature - United States - History - 18th century |
Women and literature - New England - History - 17th century |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Authority in literature |
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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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Authority; Authorship; Literacy; Strangers in a Strange Land; Purview; 1. Authority and Witchery; Cotton Mather's Manual for Women; Mary English's Acrostic; 2. Love and Anger; Anne Bradstreet's Verse Letter to Her Husband; Esther Edwards Burr's Letter-Journal; 3. Captivity and Liberation; Elizabeth Hanson's Captivity Narrative; Elizabeth Ashbridge's Autobiography; 4. Subjection and Prophecy; Phillis Wheatley's Poetry; ""Goliath and Garth""; ""Isaiah LXIII. 1-8"" |
""On Being Brought from Africa to America""Conclusion; Works Cited; Index |
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Should women concern themselves with reading other than the Bible? Should women attempt to write at all? Did these activities violate the hierarchy of the universe and men's and women's places in it? Colonial American women relied on the same authorities and traditions as did |
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colonial men, but they encountered special difficulties validating themselves in writing. William Scheick explores logonomic conflict in the works of northeastern colonial women, whose writings often register anxiety not typical of their male contemporaries. This study features the poetry of Mary English and Anne Bradstre |
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