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| Author | : Carolina Fernández Rodríguez |
| Publisher | : Universitat de València |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2021-12-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 8491349103 |
Quaker characters have peopled many an American literary work—most notably, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"—as Quakerism has been historically associated with progressive attitudes and the advancement of social justice. With the rise in recent years of the Christian romance market, dominated by American Evangelical companies, there has been a renewed interest in fictional Quakers. In the historical Quaker romances analyzed in this book, Quaker heroines often devote time to spiritual considerations, advocate the sanctity of marriage and promote traditional family values. However, their concern with social justice also leads them to engage in subversive behavior and to question the status quo, as illustrated by heroines who are active on the Underground Railroad or are seen organizing the Seneca Falls convention. Though relatively liberal in terms of gender, Quaker romances are considerably less progressive when it comes to race relations. Thus, they reflect America’s conflicted relationship with its history of race and gender abuse, and the country’s tendency to both resist and advocate social change. Ultimately, Quaker romances reinforce the myth of America as a White and Christian nation, here embodied by the Quaker heroine, the all-powerful savior who rescues Native Americans, African Americans and Jews while conquering the hero’s heart.
| Author | : Hsu-Ming Teo |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2024-06-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1040085415 |
This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women’s achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.
| Author | : Ann Turnbull |
| Publisher | : Candlewick Press (MA) |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
In England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds.
| Author | : Claire A. Sanders |
| Publisher | : Barbour Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Christian fiction, American |
| ISBN | : 9781616266431 |
Follows the stories of four Quaker women as they struggle with affairs of the heart.
| Author | : Sandra Llopart Babot |
| Publisher | : Universitat de València |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2023-05-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 8411181707 |
This volume brings forward a descriptive approach to the translation and reception of African American women’s literature in Spain. Drawing from a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework, it traces the translation history of literature produced by African American women, seeking to uncover changing strategies in translation policies as well as shifts in interests in the target context, and it examines the topicality of this cohort of authors as frames of reference for Spanish critics and reviewers. Likewise, the reception of the source literature in the Spanish context is described by reconstructing the values that underlie judgements in different reception sources. Finally, this book addresses the specific problem of the translation of Black English into Spanish. More precisely, it pays attention to the ideological and the ethical implications of translation choices and the effect of the latter on the reception of literary texts.
| Author | : Tracy Chevalier |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2013-01-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101606649 |
New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850--only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. In her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality. However, Honor is drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network helping runaway slaves escape to freedom, where she befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal costs.
| Author | : Lucia St. Clair Robson |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2006-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780765344625 |
In July of 1776, the American colonies are ablaze with passion as the people of the new nation choose between their king and an uncertain future. Kate Darby, a once timid Quaker joins her brother as a spy for the patriots.
| Author | : Elisabeth Ellicott Poe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1927 |
| Genre | : Romances |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Lyn Cote |
| Publisher | : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 141437562X |
Honor Penworthy finds herself wedded through an arranged marriage to a hearing impaired man. As she becomes involved with the Underground Railroad Samuel must decide whether to support Honor in this pursuit.
| Author | : Vanessa Kelly |
| Publisher | : Kensington Publishing Corp. |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2011-10-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1420128469 |
An American pacifist and an English earl wage a war of seduction in this Christmas Regency romance by the bestselling author of the Clan Kendrick series. Blame It On The Mistletoe. . . When Major Lucas Stanton inherited his earldom, he never dreamed his property would include the previous earl's granddaughter. Phoebe Linville is a sparkling American beauty, yes, but with a talent for getting into trouble. Witness the compromising position that forced them into wedlock. Whisked away to Mistletoe Manor, his country estate, it isn't long before she is challenging his rules—and surprising him in and out of bed… Phoebe has no intention of bowing to Lucas's stubbornness even though he offers all that she wants. His kisses and unexpected warmth are enticing, but Phoebe is determined to show the earl of Merritt what real love is all about. And if that takes twelve nights of delicious seduction by a roaring fire, she's more than willing to reveal her gifts very slowly… “Wildly sexy and romantic…will warm your heart and send you straight to the mistletoe!”—Kieran Kramer, USA Today–bestselling author of the House of Brady series “Kelly…combines wit, innocent sensuality, and seduction in this tale of a forced marriage between a beautiful plain-speaking pacifist Quaker and a handsome war hero who inherits a rundown earldom.”—Publishers Weekly “[An] emotionally intense and beautifully crafted novel.”—RT Book Reviews
