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"'Dying To Live': Remembering And Forgetting May Sinclair”, Suzanne Raitt
"'Dying To Live': Remembering And Forgetting May Sinclair”, Suzanne Raitt
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For Sinclair, the past was a wound. She feared being unable to escape it, and she feared in turn her own persistence in a form that she could not control. Mystic ecstasy – what she called the “new mysticism” – was a way of entering a timeless realm in which there was no longer any past to damage her. But she was also fascinated by what could never be left behind – hence her interest in heredity, the unconscious, and the supernatural. However, the immanence of the future can also emancipate us from the past, in Sinclair’s view, and this …
Marital Law In He Knew He Was Right, Suzanne Raitt
Marital Law In He Knew He Was Right, Suzanne Raitt
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Bringing together leading and newly emerging scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope offers a comprehensive overview of Trollope scholarship and suggests new directions in Trollope studies. The first volume designed especially for advanced graduate students and scholars, the collection features essays on virtually every topic relevant to Trollope research, including the law, gender, politics, evolution, race, anti-Semitism, biography, philosophy, illustration, aging, sport, emigration, and the global and regional worlds.
The Remains Of Several Hearts, Suzanne Raitt
The Remains Of Several Hearts, Suzanne Raitt
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On 27 December 1910, Virginia Stephen ate some hearts at Saxon Sydney-Turner's house in Brighton. Her account of the visit is both intense and dismissive. For a few hours, she glimpsed the contours and colours of lives that were profoundly different from her own. And then she went home. But fourteen years later, she remembered Mrs Turner and her own younger self when she sat down to describe what it means to be a writer. In this essay I ask: when in 1924 Virginia Woolf wrote the famous words that are the seed of this volume, what memories was she …
Introduction To "The Uncollected Letters Of Algernon Charles Swinburne Vol 1", Terry L. Meyers
Introduction To "The Uncollected Letters Of Algernon Charles Swinburne Vol 1", Terry L. Meyers
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These three volumes of letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne add approximately 600 letters by this poet that were not available when Cecil Y. Lang published his six volume edition of Swinburne's letters. The volumes also contain a selection of several hundred other letters addressed to Swinburne.
"Contagious Ectasy": May Sinclair's War Journals, Suzanne Raitt
"Contagious Ectasy": May Sinclair's War Journals, Suzanne Raitt
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The Great War stimulated a sudden growth in the novel industry, and the trauma of the war continued to reverberate through much of the fiction published in the years that followed its inglorious end. The essays in this volume, by a number of leading critics in the field, considers some of the best-known, and some of the least-known, women writers on whose work the war left its shadow. Ranging from Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and H.D. to Vernon Lee, Frances Bellerby, and Mary Butts, the contributors challenge current thinking about women's responses to the First World War and explore the …