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UNINA9910461403303321 |
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Autore |
Hopkins Chris <1960-> |
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Titolo |
English fiction in the 1930s [[electronic resource] ] : language, genre, history / / Chris Hopkins |
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London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2006 |
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1-283-12297-9 |
9786613122971 |
1-4411-7289-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (189 p.) |
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Collana |
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Continuum literary studies series |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Nineteen thirties |
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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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Modernism and modernity -- pt. 2. Documentary and proletarian pastoral -- pt. 3. History and the historical novel -- pt. 4. Thrillers and dystopias. |
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This study approaches the fiction of the 1930s through critical debates about genre, language and history, setting these in their original context, and discussing the generic forms most favoured by novelists at the time. Chris Hopkins uses a series of case studies of texts to draw on, develop or explore the boundaries, contemporary usefulness and complexities of particular prose genres. Generic debates and the political-aesthetic effects of different kinds of representation were live issues as discursive struggles and negotiations took place between modernist and realist modes, between high, |
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UNISALENTO991000304529707536 |
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Autore |
Jones, Robert M. (Robert Millard) |
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Titolo |
Mechanics of composite materials / Robert M. Jones |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : Taylor & Francis, c1999 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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xvi, 519 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
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Composite materials - Mechanical properties |
Laminated materials - Mechanical properties |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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UNINA9910971751603321 |
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Autore |
Hill Bridget |
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Titolo |
Eighteenth-century women : an anthology / / Bridget Hill |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-136-24796-3 |
0-203-10407-2 |
1-299-44792-9 |
1-136-24797-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (476 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge library editions. Women's history ; ; v. 21 |
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Women - History - 18th century |
Sex role - History - 18th century |
Sexual ethics - History - 18th century |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"First published in 1984"--T.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Ideas of female perfection -- pt. 2. And the greatest of these was chastity -- pt. 3. Female education -- pt. 4. Approaching marriage -- pt. 5. Marriage and after -- pt. 6. Women's legal position : marriage law and custom -- pt. 7. Women without husbands -- pt. 8. Crime and punishment -- pt. 9. The female poor -- pt. 10. Women and agriculture -- pt. 11. Women in industry and other occupations -- pt. 12. Female domestic servants -- pt. 13. Women protest. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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When it was first published in 1984, this book filled an acknowledged gap in the social history of the period and made available hitherto inaccessible sources. The work draws on newspapers and journals, memoirs, diaries, courtesy books, county surveys and records, but also on the literature of the period, its novels, poetry and plays. It examines the role assigned to women in eighteenth-century society and the education thought fitting to perform it. It looks at attitudes to courtship and marriage, chastity and sexual passion. It explores the role of women as wives and mothers, as spinsters |
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