1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780558303321

Autore

Ty Eleanor Rose <1958->

Titolo

Unsex'd revolutionaries : five women novelists of the 1790s / / Eleanor Ty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

1-281-99725-0

9786611997250

1-4426-8296-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Theory / Culture

Disciplina

823.6099287

Soggetti

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Revolutionary literature, English - History and criticism

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Political fiction, English - History and criticism

Livres numeriques.

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Foreign public opinion, British

France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Literature and the revolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Female confinement literalized: The Wrongs of woman; or, Maria -- Breaking the "magic circle": from repression to effusion in Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- The mother and daughter: the dangers of replication in The Victim of prejudice -- Resisting the phallic: a return to maternal values in Julia -- Disruption and containment: the mother and daughter in A Simple story -- Resisting the symbolic: exile and



exclusion in Nature and art -- Contradictory narratives: feminine ideals in Emmeline -- Revolutionary politics: domesticity and monarchy in Desmond -- Celebrating the ex-centric: maternal influence in The Young philosopher.

Sommario/riassunto

Women had been writing long before the French Revolution, but the reactionary character of the 1790s infused their work with a public importance and an urgency. The decade was one of intense argument and reflection on the role of women in society. Eleanor Ty studies the ways in which five women writers of the 1790s politicized the domestic or sentimental novel in response to oppression and exclusion. Influenced by radical post-revolution thinkers, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Helen Maria Williams, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Charlotte Smith wrote fiction that questioned existing social, economic, legal and cultural practices as they related to women. In particular, they dealt with historically specific gender issues such as female education, the rights and 'wrongs' of woman, and the duties of a wife. Using historical and feminist psycho-linguistic studies as a base, Ty explores some of the complexities encountered in the writings of these five women. Through their challenge to Edmund Burke's patriarchal ideas, they discovered strategies of writing based on the maternal or female aesthetic. For these 'unsex'd revolutionaries, ' sentimental or domestic fiction was not just about courtship, love, and romance. Their writings interrogate the structures of society, and criticize and make relevant the connections between the personal and the political, the domestic and the public sphere.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797659003321

Autore

Philpott Don

Titolo

Understanding the Department of State / / Don Philpott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Bernan Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-59888-746-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

The Cabinet Series

Disciplina

321

Soggetti

United States Foreign relations administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Understanding The Department Of State ; Contents ; Acknowledgement; PART I: STRUCTURE AND ROLE; 1. Introduction; Department Mission Statement ; 2. An Overview of the State Department; Fighting Terrorism; Homeland Security; Visas: Welcoming Foreign Citizens; Regional Stability ; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Criminal Justice ; Helping Americans; Economic Prosperity and Security; Democracy and Human Rights; Other Transnational Issues; Supporting Foreign and Civil Services; 3. Organization; Secretary of State and Deputy Secretaries; Under Secretaries; Special Advisors, Envoys, and Representatives

Bureaus and OfficesPART II: MAJOR EXTERNAL ISSUES; 4. Terrorism; ISIL ; Other Terrorist Threats; 5. Russia; Ukraine ; Russia and Closer Ties with China ; 6. China ; U.S. Assistance to China ; Bilateral Economic Relations ; China's Membership in International Organizations ; The Country ; Investment in China for U.S. Companies ; 7. Afghanistan ; U.S. Assistance to Afghanistan; Bilateral Economic Relations; Afghanistan's Membership in International Organizations ; The New Silk Road; Drug Trade; 8. Korea; Diplomacy; Six Party Diplomacy; The Role of China; Sanctions; Deterrence ; Human Rights

Protecting American Citizens9. Iran and Iraq; Iran; Iraq; 10. Embassy Protection; Benghazi Attack; Buildings ; Staff ; International Travel and Health ; PART III: APPENDICES; Secretaries of State; Diplomacy Over the Years; 1750-1785: Colonial and Revolutionary Period; 1784-1800: The Diplomacy of the Early Republic; 1801-1829: Securing the Republic;



1830-1860: Diplomacy and Westward Expansion; 1861-1865: The Civil War and International Diplomacy; 1866-1898: Continued Expansion of United States Interests; 1899-1913: Defending U.S. International Interests; 1914-1920: World War One

The Great Depression and U.S. Foreign Policy1937-1945: Diplomacy and the Road to War; 1945-1952: The Early Cold War; 1961-1968: The Presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson ; 1969-1976: The Presidencies of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford ; 1977-1981: The Presidency of Jimmy Carter; 1981-1988: The Presidency of Ronald W. Reagan; 1989-1992: The Presidency of George H.W. Bush; 1993-2000: The Presidency of William J. Clinton; The Bush Administration (2001-2009); The Obama Administration (2009-2016)

Sommario/riassunto

Understanding the Department of State looks at the main current issues it faces around the globe from relations with Russia and China to the civil war in Iraq and the growing threat from the Islamic State and other terrorist groups. The book also has brief biographies of all the Secretaries of State from Thomas Jefferson, the first to hold the position in 1790 to John Kerry, the current incumbent.