Ruth Hall and Other Writings

Ruth Hall and Other Writings
Author: Fanny Fern
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780813511689

Fanny Fern was one of the most popular American writers of the mid-nineteenth century, the first woman newspaper columnist in the United States, and the most highly paid newspaper writer of her day. This volume gathers together for the first time almost one hundred selections of her best work as a journalist. Writing on such taboo subjects as prostitution, venereal disease, divorce, and birth control, Fern stripped the façade of convention from some of society's most sacred institutions, targeting cant and hypocrisy, pretentiousness and pomp.

The Treachery of Beautiful Things

The Treachery of Beautiful Things
Author: Ruth Long
Publisher: Speak
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2013-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0142426067

Seven years after the forest seemingly swallowed her brother whole, seventeen-year-old Jenny, whose story about Tom's disappearance has never been believed, sets out to finally say goodbye, but instead she is pulled into a mysterious world of faeries and other creatures where nothing is what it seems.

Selected Writings on Race and Difference

Selected Writings on Race and Difference
Author: Stuart Hall
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2021-04-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478021225

In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora. Spanning the whole of his career, this collection includes classic theoretical essays such as “The Whites of Their Eyes” (1981) and “Race, the Floating Signifier” (1997). It also features public lectures, political articles, and popular pieces that circulated in periodicals and newspapers, which demonstrate the breadth and depth of Hall's contribution to public discourses of race. Foregrounding how and why the analysis of race and difference should be concrete and not merely descriptive, this collection gives organizers and students of social theory ways to approach the interconnections of race with culture and consciousness, state and society, policing and freedom.

Creative Drama Resource Book for Grades K-3

Creative Drama Resource Book for Grades K-3
Author: Ruth Beall Heinig
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 271
Release: 1987
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780131893252

The teaching of performing arts has often mystified teachers and daycare providers. This book is ideal to help them overcome their hesitations and begin teaching the performing arts in their K-3 classrooms. Written by a teacher with over 25 years of experience, this book is chock-full of activities that will help readers incorporate theater arts and creative drama in their classrooms - from puppetry to play attendance. Includes over 20 sample lesson plans! K-3 teachers, daycare providers, and after-school program facilitators.

Ruth Hall

Ruth Hall
Author: Fanny Fern
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752388102

Reproduction of the original: Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern

The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism

The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism
Author: William E. Dow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2019-11-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1315525992

Taking a thematic approach, this new companion provides an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and international study of American literary journalism. From the work of Frederick Douglass and Walt Whitman to that of Joan Didion and Dorothy Parker, literary journalism is a genre that both reveals and shapes American history and identity. This volume not only calls attention to literary journalism as a distinctive genre but also provides a critical foundation for future scholarship. It brings together cutting-edge research from literary journalism scholars, examining historical perspectives; themes, venues, and genres across time; theoretical approaches and disciplinary intersections; and new directions for scholarly inquiry. Provoking reconsideration and inquiry, while providing new historical interpretations, this companion recognizes, interacts with, and honors the tradition and legacies of American literary journalism scholarship. Engaging the work of disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, African American studies, gender studies, visual studies, media studies, and American studies, in addition to journalism and literary studies, this book is perfect for students and scholars of those disciplines.

Women’s Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Women’s Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Author: Elena V. Shabliy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2020-08-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793631425

Women’s Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture sheds light on women's rights advancements in the nineteenth century and early twentieth-century through explorations of literature and culture from this time period. With an international emphasis, contributors illuminate the range and diversity of women’s work as novelists, journalists, and short story writers and analyze the New Woman phenomenon, feminist impulse, and the diversity of the women writers. Studying writing by authors such as Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy, Netta Syrett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Seacole, Charlotte Brontë, and Jean Rhys, the contributors analyze women’s voices and works on the subject of women’s rights and the representation of the New Woman.

Affective Labour in British and American Women’s Fiction, 1848-1915

Affective Labour in British and American Women’s Fiction, 1848-1915
Author: Katherine Skaris
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2018-07-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527514277

This volume is a comprehensive and transatlantic literary study of women’s nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction. Firstly, it introduces and explores the concept of women’s affective labour, and examines literary representations of this work in British and American fiction written by women between 1848 and 1915. Secondly, it revives largely ignored texts by the “scribbling women” of Britain and America, such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mona Caird, and Mary Hunter Austin, and rereads established authors, such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton, to demonstrate how all these works provide valuable insights into women’s lives in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Finally, by adopting the lens of affective labour, the study explores the ways in which women were portrayed as striving for self-fulfilment through forms of emotional, mental, and creative endeavours that have not always been fully appreciated as ‘work’ in critical accounts of nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction.