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Austerity baby / / Janet Wolff



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Autore: Wolff Janet Visualizza persona
Titolo: Austerity baby / / Janet Wolff Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester University Press, 2017
Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017
©2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iv, 262 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps, facsimiles, portraits ; digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 941.0820922
Soggetto topico: Art critics - England - Manchester
Art and society
Jews - Social conditions - 20th century
Jewish families
Jewish families - England
Soggetto geografico: England Manchester
Soggetto non controllato: second world war
manchester
uk
spinsters
exile
displacement
henry simon of manchester
eleanor rathbone
third reich
art
fridtjof nansen
rochester
new york
Manchester
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: 1. Atlantic moves --2. Provincial matters --3. Aliens -- 4. Colour (mainly blue) --5. Austerity baby --6. Tante Leonie --7. Houses and barns --8. Philately and chemistry --9. Spinster --10. Annunciation --Postscript --Acknowledgements --Family trees --Image credits --Bibliography.
Sommario/riassunto: "Austerity Baby might best be described as an ‘oblique memoir’. Janet Wolff’s fascinating volume is a family history – but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and experience; transatlantic reflections; and the struggle for creative expression. Stories mobilised, and people encountered, in the course of the narrative include: the internment of aliens in Britain during the Second World War; cultural life in Rochester, New York, in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of colour(s); the industrialist and philanthropist, Henry Simon of Manchester, including his relationship with the Norwegian explorer, Fridtjof Nansen; the liberal British campaigner and MP of the 1940s, Eleanor Rathbone; reflections on the lives and images of spinsters. The text is supplemented and interrupted throughout by images (photographs, paintings, facsimile documents), some of which serve to illustrate the story, others engaging indirectly with the written word."
Titolo autorizzato: Austerity baby  Visualizza cluster
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910219865603321
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