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Fictions of Modesty
Author | : Ruth Bernard Yeazell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1991-06-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226950969 |
Combining evidence from conduct books and ladies' magazines with the arguments of influential theorists like Hume, Rousseau, and Wollstonecraft, this book begins by asking why writers were devoted to the anxious remaking of women's "nature" and to codifying rules for their porper behavior. Fictions of Modesty shows how the culture at once tried to regulate young women's desires and effectively opened up new possibilities of subjectivity and individual choice. Yeazell goes on to demonstrate that modest delaying actions inform a central tradition of English narrative. On the Continent, the English believed, the jeune fille went from the artificial innocence of the convent to an arranged marriage and adultery; the natural modesty of the Englishwoman, however, enabled her to choose her own mate and to marry both prudently and with affection. Rather than taking its narrative impetus from adultery, then, English fiction concentrated on courtship and the consciousness of the young woman choosing. After paired studies of Richardson's Pamela and Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (even Fanny Hill, Yeazell argues, is a modest English heroine at heart), Yeazell investigates what women novelists made of the virtues of modesty in works by Burney, Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Gaskell.
Modesty Blaise
Author | : Peter O'Donnell |
Publisher | : Souvenir PressLtd |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780285637283 |
In her first adventure for British Intelligence Modesty Blaise with her loyal lieutenant, Willie Garvin, must foil a multi-million pound diamond heist. They travel from London to the South of France, across the Mediterranean to Cairo before battling, against impossible odds, a private army of professional killers.
Pieces of Modesty (Large Print 16pt)
Author | : Peter O'Donnell |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781459643741 |
Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin are legendary names and in the 6 stories in this collection it is non - stop adventure as they travel and fight their way around the world. From South America to Berlin, Finland to London they use everything that comes to hand, from a circus cannon to human kite - flying, to survive against the odds....
A Return to Modesty
Author | : Wendy Shalit |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2014-05-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476765170 |
Updated with a new introduction, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty. When A Return to Modesty was first published in 1999, its argument launched a worldwide discussion about the possibility of innocence and romantic idealism. Wendy Shalit was the first to systematically critique the "hook-up" scene and outline the harms of making sexuality so public. Today, with social media increasingly blurring the line between public and private life, and with child exploitation on the rise, the concept of modesty is more relevant than ever. Updated with a new preface that addresses the unique problems facing society now, A Return to Modesty shows why "the lost virtue" of modesty is not a hang-up that we should set out to cure, but rather a wonderful instinct to be celebrated. A Return to Modesty is a deeply personal account as well as a fascinating intellectual exploration into everything from seventeenth-century manners to the 1948 tune "Baby, It’s Cold Outside." Beholden neither to social conservatives nor to feminists, Shalit reminds us that modesty is not prudery, but a natural instinct—and one that may be able to save us from ourselves.
The Beauty of Modesty
Author | : David J. Vaughan |
Publisher | : Cumberland House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781630264383 |
A look at our cultural preferences today of showing as much skin as possible transposed against the choice to be modest and the values of the choice.
Modesty
Author | : Hafsa Lodi |
Publisher | : Neem Tree Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-05-19 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9781911107255 |
Modest fashion is a young, fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar retail sector. What do we mean by Modest Fashion? Who are the personalities and companies driving this industry?
Secret Keeper
Author | : Dannah Gresh |
Publisher | : Moody Publishers |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802478492 |
EVERY WOMAN IS BORN WITH POWER! We live in the age of low-rise jeans, belly-button rings, and backless shirts. Many girls and young women today could not even define the word modesty, let alone tell you how to live it out. Teen girls often ask: Why can't I wear what everyone else is wearing? My parents are hung up on their old sense of fashion. Times have changed, why can't I? Isn't is really the guy's problem if he is tempted? In a fresh and trusted voice, Dannah Gresh has a new message for them: modesty itself is a delicate yet formidable power. In Secret Keeper, she teaches that modesty not only issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue, but it also expresses your love for and obedience to God. Includes The "Truth or Bare" Fashion Tests and Fashion Challenges that will resonate with a teen girl.
Eye of the Archangel
Author | : Forrest DeVoe |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 006186563X |
JFK is in the Oval Office. "Love Me Do" is climbing the charts. And in West Berlin, a wealthy ex-black marketeer, the Dane, is offering a stolen spy satellite for sale. Nothing unusual there, except the asking price: half a billion dollars. Too much for any satellite—unless it's Hitler's legendary, long-lost Project Archangel. Archangel, it's rumored, is a device capable of shifting the balance of the Cold War. To find it, Mallory and Morse fly to the Monaco Grand Prix and infiltrate the Dane's entourage: a pair of lovely and vicious blonde twins, a ravishing Polish giantess with a taste for movie magazines, and an American ex-mercenary with quiet eyes and hands like stone. The Dane is both a perfect host and a savage killer, and has already done one of the Consultancy's agents to death. But their greatest peril may come from the long-buried passions of the icily beautiful Laura Morse. . . .