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      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2016

        Flesh and Spirit

        An anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing

        by Rachel Adcock, Sara Read, Anna Ziomek

        This anthology makes accessible to readers ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period. Providing a detailed and engaging introduction to the issues confronted when studying women's writing from this era, the anthology also examines female interpretations of illness, exploring beliefs that toothache and miscarriage could be God's punishments, but also, paradoxically, that such terrible suffering could be understood as proof that a believer was eternally beloved. The extracts in the anthology explore how illness was an important part of women's religious conversion, often confirming religious belief, but also how women could advise others about their physical and spiritual health in manuscript and print. The anthology includes a thorough introduction to the period's medical and religious beliefs, as well as an introduction to contemporary ideas about women's physical and spiritual make up. Each of the ten extracts also has its own preface, highlighting relevant contexts and further reading, and is fully annotated.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2017

        Literature of the Stuart successions

        An anthology

        by Andrew McRae, John West

        Literature of the Stuart Successionsis an anthology of primary material relating to the Stuart successions. The six Stuart successions (1603, 1625, 1660, 1685, 1688-9, 1702) punctuate this turbulent period of British history. In addition, there were two accessions to the role of Lord Protector (those of Oliver and Richard Cromwell). Each succession generated an outpouring of publications in a wide range of forms and genres, including speeches, diary-entries, news reports, letters and sermons. Above all, successions were marked in poems, by some of the greatest writers of the age. By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart Successions offers fresh perspectives upon the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing, as well as introductory and explanatory material.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2014

        Flesh and Spirit

        An anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing

        by Rachel Adcock, Sara Read, Anna Ziomek

        This anthology makes accessible to readers ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period. Providing a detailed and engaging introduction to the issues confronted when studying women's writing from this era, the anthology also examines female interpretations of illness, exploring beliefs that toothache and miscarriage could be God's punishments, but also, paradoxically, that such terrible suffering could be understood as proof that a believer was eternally beloved. The extracts in the anthology explore how illness was an important part of women's religious conversion, often confirming religious belief, but also how women could advise others about their physical and spiritual health in manuscript and print. The anthology includes a thorough introduction to the period's medical and religious beliefs, as well as an introduction to contemporary ideas about women's physical and spiritual make up. Each of the ten extracts also has its own preface, highlighting relevant contexts and further reading, and is fully annotated. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2001

        Victorian women's magazines

        An anthology

        by Margaret Beetham, Kay Boardman

        This anthology makes available to students and general readers the rich variety of Victorian magazines for women. The extracts range from fashion magazines to feminist journals, from serious works for Christian mothers to tales of romance and passion for 'sweethearts'. Focusing on the historical development of the British women's magazine, this extensively illustrated work gives access to texts which few readers ever see. The first main section describes and illustrates eight kinds of magazine for women. Though they have common features, the differences between the drawing room journal of the 1830s and 1840s and the cheap domestic magazines of the 1890s are clearly demonstrated. The second section focuses on those elements which made up the magazine's typical mix of ingredients, including fiction, the fashion plate, poetry, political journalism, advice columns and reader's letters. The last section is the most comprehensive listing of British Victorian women's magazines which currently exists. This is a work of scholarship but one which will appeal to students of Cultural, Historical, Literary and Women's Studies, as well as to the general interested reader. Like the magazines it represents, it offers its readers both entertainment and instruction. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2017

        Literature of the Stuart successions

        An anthology

        by Andrew McRae, John West

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2016

        Flesh and Spirit

        An anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing

        by Rachel Adcock, Sara Read, Anna Ziomek

        This anthology makes accessible to readers ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period. Providing a detailed and engaging introduction to the issues confronted when studying women's writing from this era, the anthology also examines female interpretations of illness, exploring beliefs that toothache and miscarriage could be God's punishments, but also, paradoxically, that such terrible suffering could be understood as proof that a believer was eternally beloved. The extracts in the anthology explore how illness was an important part of women's religious conversion, often confirming religious belief, but also how women could advise others about their physical and spiritual health in manuscript and print. The anthology includes a thorough introduction to the period's medical and religious beliefs, as well as an introduction to contemporary ideas about women's physical and spiritual make up. Each of the ten extracts also has its own preface, highlighting relevant contexts and further reading, and is fully annotated.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2017

        Literature of the Stuart successions

        An anthology

        by Andrew McRae, John West

        Literature of the Stuart Successionsis an anthology of primary material relating to the Stuart successions. The six Stuart successions (1603, 1625, 1660, 1685, 1688-9, 1702) punctuate this turbulent period of British history. In addition, there were two accessions to the role of Lord Protector (those of Oliver and Richard Cromwell). Each succession generated an outpouring of publications in a wide range of forms and genres, including speeches, diary-entries, news reports, letters and sermons. Above all, successions were marked in poems, by some of the greatest writers of the age. By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart Successions offers fresh perspectives upon the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing, as well as introductory and explanatory material.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2019 - December 2024

        Hesitate

        by Lu Xun,Fan Zeng

        " Hesitate " is a collection of novels by Lu Xun, which has a total of 11 novels from 1924 to 1925. The entire collection of novels reveals the concern for the peasants and intellectuals living under the weight of feudal forces. Every article in the book is accompanied by illustrations drawn by Mr. Fan Zeng, a famous Chinese scholar and teacher of traditional Chinese painting, which vividly presents the world in Lu Xun's novels.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies

        Six stories of Floating Life

        by Shen Fu

        "Six stories of Floating Life" takes the life of the author Shen Fu and his wife as the main line, and narrates what they saw and heard about the ordinary and interesting life at home. The work describes the life of the author and his wife Chen Yun, who want to live a kind of cloth clothes and vegetarianism and engage in art. Because of the oppression of feudal ethics and the suffering of poor life, their ideals are finally broken.The whole article is nearly 40000 words, saying that the world is sweet and sour.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2017

        China’s War On Poverty

        by Ji Hongjian

        China is facing a difficult time for poverty solving. The author has been to poverty areas to experience life in order to tackle the problem and created this long documentary literature.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2018

        Selection of Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literary Works

        by Li Wei, Yang Cheng

        The book encompasses representative Chinese modern and contemporary poetry, novels, proses, and dramas created by several well-known Chinese writers, like Gong Zizhen, Xu Zhimo, Dai Wangshu, Lu Xun, Lao She, Cao Yu, etc. In this book, each piece of work is presented with author introdcution, analysis of theme and artistic characteristics, and questions to be answered by readers.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies

        Verspätete Monologe

        by Günter Kunert

        Verspätete Monologe. Außer diesem Titel - spontan schon vor Monaten gefunden, um die Veröffentlichung einzelner Textstücke zusammenfassend zu benennen - ist mir kein anderer mehr für das heir vorliegende Buch eingefallen. Von ihm her erhalten alle Stücke eine zusätzliche Bedeutung, denn jedes ist ein Selbstgespräch, und alle entstanden gründlich verspätet, fast wäre ich geneigt zu sagen: zu spät. Was sie an Überlegungen entahlten, hätte ich früher wissen können. Hast du dich vielleicht, so fragt sich der Autor, solcher Einsicht verweigert und wenn ja, warum?

      • Trusted Partner
        Anthologies (non-poetry)
        2021

        Not Only Kobzar. The Anthology of Ukrainian literature. 1792–1883 (in two books)

        by Mykhailo Nazarenko

        Ukrainian literature of the 19th century was far more exciting and diverse than one might imagine. Mykhailo Nazarenko's anthology contains one hundred and fifty texts that are not known or very little known to the modern reader (some of them are reprinted for the first time after 150 years of oblivion). These texts help to understand Ukrainian literary movement in a wider context. The compilation starts with the "The Song of the Black Sea Army" by Anton Golovaty. This novel precedes the famous "Aeneid" and marks the beginning of the printed literature "in the contemporary Ukrainian language". "It is not time..." by Ivan Franko is the last one in the compilation and describes further evolution of the independent Ukrainian literary word. The compilation also contains fifty essays about each of the authors: why did they write in a particular that way and about what? Why did some turn out to be forgotten, while others are remembered for their works?

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        Strange Days in Thessaloniki

        by Anthology

        A collection of award-winning short stories from the 1st Strange Cities contest. We created a series of Strange Days contests in order to showcase authors from a different Greek city in each edition. We started from Thessaloniki, the co-capital of Greece, convinced that it has a lot of significant and unique literary voices to offer. As the reader will discover, the collection is indeed full of work by talented people who, apart from beautiful short stories, can offer something more: snapshots of their city, a sensitive look at how it actually is today. Even though the past reclaims its own in many of the stories, the reader's main impression is that of a modern city which belongs to a country in constant crisis but, despite of that, never stops hoping and dreaming.  Thessaloniki is a city worth discovering. Among other events, it hosts one of the most important film festivals in Europe and the only international book fair in Greece. If you can’t make it there, the next best option is to experience its atmosphere through a series of contemporary, award-winning short stories.

      • Anthologies (non-poetry)
        July 2016

        First Hand

        Graphic Non-Fiction from India

        by Orijit Sen,Vidyun Sabhaney

        First Hand Volume I, a collection of new non-fiction graphic narratives, features works by independent writers, artists, reporters, activists, researchers, designers, anthropologists, academicians, and film-makers based in India, who comment on and describe their world through comics in six genres: biography, autobiography, oral history, documentary, commentary, and reportage.By combining image and word to tell stories that range from urgent contemporary narratives to more exploratory historical perspectives to simply the extraordinary lives of ordinary people, the book offers new worlds through which we can re-enter our own. Whether it be reporting the murder of an RTI applicant, or an account of the Gujarat riots, or a biography of Begum Akhtar, or a narrative about becoming familiar with one’s city through the use of its public transport system, each comic tells the story of an Indian reality, bringing alive what has only been encountered in word till now, visually.

      • Anthologies (non-poetry)
        June 2018

        First Hand 2

        Exclusion

        by Vidyun Sabhaney

        The anthology, which has been developed using both primary and secondary research, will leave readers with a sense of how government policy and programmes affect the everyday life of people, as well as the complex and varied forms that exclusion can take, specifically, themes like health, water and sanitation, women and work, communal and ethnic violence, amongst others. In holding up a mirror to our times, this timely volume ends with narratives about two communities that have become the unsung survivors of exclusion in our country: the Devadasis, and the Jarawas of the Andamans.

      • Anthologies (non-poetry)
        May 2021

        You Look Good for Your Age

        An Anthology

        by Rona Altrows

        You Look Good for Your Age is a collection of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry about ageism by 29 women writers ranging from their forties to their nineties. The anthology responds to a culture that values youth and that positions aging in women as a failure. Questions arise. What effects do negative social assumptions have on women as they age? What messages about aging do we pass on to our daughters? Through essays, short stories, and poetry, the contributing writers explore these questions with thoughtfulness, satire, and fury. Contributors: Rona Altrows, Debbie Bateman, Moni Brar, Maureen Bush, Sharon Butala, Jane Cawthorne, Joan Crate, Dora Dueck, Cecelia Frey, Ariel Gordon, Elizabeth Greene, Vivian Hansen, Joyce Harries, Elizabeth Haynes, Paula Kirman, Joy Kogawa, Laurie MacFayden, JoAnn McCaig, Wendy McGrath, E.D. Morin, Lisa Murphy Lamb, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Olyn Ozbick, Roberta Rees, Julie Sedivy, Madelaine Shaw-Wong, Anne Sorbie, Aritha van Herk, Laura Wershler

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories

        A City by the Sea

        and other Fairy Tales

        by Martha Cinader

        True to the tradition of fairy tales, this collection of stories is humorous and dramatic. Each one contains a valuable message for young readers in modern times. Written over a period of about a decade, these short stories were developed in performance while raising my young daughter. Titles: A City by the Sea  Orimar's Flying Machine  The Man with Golden Hands  Crystal Clear Waters The Fat Lady and the Cuckoo Bird  The Boy with the Huge Behind  The Truth as She Knew It  A City by the Sea is an un-published collection of fairy tales, about 13,400 words, 48 6"x9" pages, available for publication as a volume, or as separate titles for an illustrated children's book or series of books. They would also be suitable for adaptation for TV or film.     For a more detailed description, please refer to the Supporting Document PDF keywords: fairytales, fairy tale, fairytale, fairy tales

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