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Agency, Loneliness, and the Female Protagonist in the Victorian Novel
Many female Victorian-era heroines find themselves expressing a form of loneliness directly connected to their lack of agency. Loneliness is defined by a lack, and it is this that is prevalent to these characters’ discussion of the social structures that define their lives. As there is no way to easily discuss a lack of agency without stating that there is something missing from the root agency, loneliness is an expression of missing components. This work analyses this “lack” found in loneliness as a trope to discuss a social lack. Many novels are crucial to this discussion, and this book focuses on Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853), Anne Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860), Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1892), Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire (1897) and Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman (1894) to trace the evolution of the double use of lack in the nineteenth-century novel.
Hoosiers
Named by The New York Times as "a knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America" and containing a new foreword by legendary player Bob Plump, this is a book every basketball lover should own. The best of Phillip Hoose's classic writings are included here with a fresh look on Indiana's favorite and most beloved sport. A new edition of a well-known Indiana classic, Hoosiers profiles some of the world's most famous basketball players and coaches—Larry Bird, Bobby Plump, Damon Bailey, Steve Alford, Stephanie White, and Bob Knight among them—along with Indiana towns, schools, and programs. The ultimate book for the diehard fan, Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana explores Hoosier hysteria in all its glory.
Ozark Mosaic
As Northwest Arkansas entered the 21st Century, it found itself facing the same spiritual and political struggles that many other American cities faced. Here are the stories of people who were determined to make their communities better than they were. It is a book that tells the story of great triumphs, and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. Even in defeat, the men and women in these pages found spiritual solidarity. Ozark Mosaic is the perfect antidote for those who feel that people no longer are the masters of their own destinies.
COWBOY Comin' In Hot
Stilettos. Spurs. And one sizzlin’ hot Texas night… Julie Foster is not afraid of hard work and when her boss promises her a seat on the board of his prestigious law firm, she jumps at the chance…until she hears his conditions. Now she must decide if the cost of success is worth the price—to her reputation and her soul. Rodeo champion, Cord Cahill, is proud of his family’s name, and for four generations, his Irish ancestors have done whatever it took to protect the Cahill legacy against thieves and outlaws. But unlike when the West was wild, it isn’t as easy to spot an outlaw. Especially when they’re disguised in designer suits and smokin’ hot red stilettos. What happens when two worlds collide and everything’s at stake? Read Comin’ In Hot to find out!
Maria Edgeworth and Abolition
This Palgrave Pivot offers new readings of Maria Edgeworth’s representations of slavery. It shows how Edgeworth employed satiric technique and intertextual allusion to represent discourses of slavery and abolition as a litmus test of character – one that she invites readers to use on themselves. Over the course of her career, Edgeworth repeatedly indicted hypocritical and hyperbolic misappropriation of the sentimental rhetoric that dominated the slavery debate. This book offers new readings of canonical Edgeworth texts as well as of largely neglected works, including: Whim for Whim, “The Good Aunt”, Belinda, “The Grateful Negro”, “The Two Guardians”, and Harry and Lucy Continued. It also offers an unprecedented deep-dive into an important Romantic Era woman writer’s engagement with discourses of slavery and abolition.
The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson
Susan Egenolf's study, informed by visual culture and a wide range of archival texts, offers a new interdisciplinary reading of gendered and political responses to such key events in the history of Romanticism as the 1798 Irish Rebellion. She examines the artistry and political engagement of Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson, whose self-conscious use of glosses facilitated their critiques of politics and society and simultaneously revealed the process of fictional structuring.
Chopstix
Wendy is an ordinary teenager who lives with her parents. She has always been taught about the virtues of peace, tranquility and respect, always to use spoken word instead of violence. When fate delivers a cruel blow, her life is turned upside down. Mentally and emotionally Wendy struggles to come to terms with the changes and pretends that nothing has happened. Each evening, Wendy hides away in her room and passes time by continuing to make chopsticks for the family restaurant that is no more; the very same chopsticks that are soon to become her weapon for serving justice...
James Baldwin's Later Fiction
Scott develops readings of Tell me How Long the Train's Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Just Above My Head that explores the interconnected themes in Baldwin's work: the role of the family in sustaining the arts, the price of success in American society, and the struggle of black artists to change the ways that race, sex, and masculinity are represented in American culture.".
