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I Cannot Control Everything Forever
*One of TIME magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024* * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year* An eloquent and intimate debut memoir about navigating the gap between expectation and reality in modern motherhood. I Cannot Control Everything Forever is Emily Bloom’s journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology. Emily faces decisions regarding genetic testing and diagnosis, technologies that offer the illusion of certainty but carry the weight of hard decisions. Her desire to know more thrusts her back into the history of science, as she traces the discoveries that impacted the modern state of pregnancy and motherhoo...
Writing Noise in Interwar Britain
Interwar Britain--called the 'age of noise'--witnessed a pervasive preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound. With the rising hum of air and road traffic, the roar of industry, and the reverberations of newly popular sound technologies, everyday urban din became an increasingly urgent subject of interrogation. Practitioners across the arts and sciences sought to listen in to, represent, and regulate the causes and effects of excess or disruptive sound. Noise was one of the pre-eminent frameworks for conceptualizing modernity and its effects. Writing Noise in Interwar Britain explores this multi-disciplinary preoccupation and argues for its connection to the sonic legacy of the First World War. The...
Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing
During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a locus of spirituality, and then as a brave communist experiment containing the promise of utopia. After the war, many hailed Tito's Yugoslavia as an exceptional socialist society steering a course between the extremes of western free-market capitalism and Soviet repression, while others cursed the regime as totalitarian, or mourned the loss of a picturesque Ruritanian kingdom to a communist regime. From the BBC to Ealing Studios, from special operations memoirs to Cold War travelogues, this book...
Yeats’s Mask
Yeats’s Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the system of A Vision. Chronologically tracing the concept through Yeats’s plays and those poems written as ‘texts for exposition’ of his occult thought which flowers in A Vision itself (1925 and 1937), the volume also spotlights ‘The Mask before The Mask’ numerous plays including Cathleen Ni-Houlihan, The King’s Threshold, Calvary, The Words upon the Window-pane, A Full Moon in March and The Death of Cuchulain. There are excurses into studies of Yeats’s friendship with the Oxford don and cleric, Will...
The Wireless Past
Emily Bloom chronicles the emergence of the British Broadcasting Corporation as a significant promotional platform and aesthetic influence for Irish modernism from the 1930s to the 1960s. She situates the works of W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Louis MacNeice, and Samuel Beckett in the context of the media environments that shaped their works.
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The American Herd Book
To which is prefixed a concise history of English and American Short horns, compiled from the best authorities.
