"Footsteps of liberty and revolt" : essays on Wales and the French Revolution / / edited by Mary-Ann Constantine and Dafydd Johnston

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822260003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-7083-2591-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Collana: Wales and the French Revolution
• Disciplina: 940.27
• Soggetti: Wales History 1536-1700; Wales History; Wales History 1284-1536
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Writing the Revolution in Wales; Wales as Nowhere: the tabula rasa of the 'Jacobin' imagination; Rousseau and Wales; 'Our first concern as lovers of our country must be to enlighten it':Richard Price's response to the French Revolution; The Welsh in Revolutionary Paris; The 'Marseillaise' in Wales; The 'Rural Voltaire' and the 'French madcaps'; Networking the nation: the bardic and correspondence networks of Wales and London in the 1790's; Radical adaptation: translations of medieval Welsh poetry in the 1790's 'Brave Republicans': representing the Revolution in a Welsh interlude; 'A good Cambrio-Briton': Hester Thrale Piozzi, Helen Maria Williams and the Welsh sublime in the 1790's; What is a national Gothic?; Terror, treason and tourism: the French in Pembrokeshire 1797; The voices of war: poetry from Wales 1794-1804; The Revd William Howels (1778-1832) of Cowbridge and London: the making of an anti-radical; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A collection of essays exploring the impact on Welsh culture of one of the most exciting periods in history, the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789.

Maternal Modernism : Narrating New Mothers / / by Elizabeth Podnieks

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910633921203321
• Autore: Podnieks Elizabeth <1964->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783031089114; 9783031089107
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 pages)
• Disciplina: 823.008; 823.80935252
• Soggetti: Comparative literature; Literature, Modern - 19th century; Literature, Modern - 20th century; Women - History; Comparative Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Women's History / History of Gender
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: The “persistent rebels” of Maternal Modernism -- Chapter 2: The New Woman, New Modernisms, and New Motherhoods -- Chapter 3: Mothers in New Woman Fiction: “the terra incognita of herself” -- Chapter 4: “The ‘momentousness’ of motherhood”: Maternal Ideologies, Discourses, and Debates in The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review and The Freewoman: A Weekly Humanist Review -- Chapter 5: “The Title Role of ‘Mother’”: Silent-Film Stardom and Celebrity Maternity in Photoplay Magazine -- Chapter 6: “Freedom and childbearing”: Prams, Politics, and Literary Life in NewWoman Autobiographies of the Interwar Era -- Chapter 7: “A mother, a wife, a worker and a wonder-woman”: Matroethnography, Black Feminism, and Postcolonial New Womanhood in Buchi Emecheta’s London Narratives -- Chapter 8: Coda: New Womanism in the Twenty-First Century. .
• Sommario/riassunto: “Operating within the frame of the “New Modernist Studies,” Podnieks considers the challenges and alternatives women writers and performers make to social conventions relating to motherhood. She engages with scholarship in modernist, feminist and maternal areas, is highly qualified to do so, and advances these fields. The narratives she studies come from a refreshing variety of sources, including New Woman narratives, the journal The Freewoman, the film magazine, Photoplay, and autobiographies, usefully juxtaposing the more recent London narratives of Buchi Emecheta and extending her thinking into the 21st century.” – Bonnie Kime Scott, Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University, USA Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity. Tracing the period from the end of the nineteenth century through the twentieth, this study explores how some of the numerous elements and forces we identify with modernism are manifested in equally diverse and often competing representations of mothers, mothering and motherhood. It investigates how historical personages and fictional protagonists used and were constructed within textual spaces where they engaged critically with the maternal as institution, identity and practice, from perspectives informed by gender, sexuality, nationhood, race and class. The matrifocal literatures examined in this book exemplify how feminist motherhoods feature as a prominent thematic of the long modernist era and how rebellious New Woman mothers provocatively wrote maternity into text and history. Elizabeth Podnieks is Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Her publications include, among others, Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart and Anaïs Nin; the critical edition Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman; and the edited collection Mediating Moms: Mothers in Popular Culture.