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This fascinating book examines what sixteen radical and conservative, famous and notorious British women wrote about their sex in the 1790s. In doing so it offers the most comprehensive survey of what they thought about their fellow women with regard to love, sexual desire and marriage; their domestic roles and their engagement in the 'public' sphere; and issues of gender and female abilities including sensibility and genius. Texts studied include 'feminist' and conduct material by Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Catharine Macaulay, Priscilla Wakefield, Maria Edgeworth and Hannah More; historical writings by Helen Maria Williams, and prose fiction by Mary Robinson, Anne Radcliffe, Elizabeth Inchbald, Eliza Fenwick, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Elizabeth Hamilton and Frances Burney. How contemporary reviewers divided these writers into 'unsex'd' and 'proper' is investigated, as is the issue of whether they attempted to exclude women from certain kinds of writing. The book reveals the depth of female complaint but contends that women did not passively submit.Conservative and radicals alike sought to extend their sphere of activity, to reform men, challenge gender stereotypes and propose that a woman should be a self for herself and her God rather than for her husband. This book will be indispensable to academics and students of history, literature, gender and the history of social and political thought. ... Read more

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The death of Mozart intrigued his contemporaries and has continued to fascinate posterity. Many different accounts, often dramatic and colourful have been woven about it. Stories proliferated about Mozart during his life, and his death left an unresolved enigma. How could so prodigious a genius be, apparently neglected and in despair at the time of his death, yet so celebrated only a few years later? Why was the death such a turning point? Contemporaries, and their biographers up to the present day, have constructed their narrative to cope with this enigma. This book attempts to expound and explore the most important of these, arguing that they are narrative strategies and as such not simply neutral summaries of established facts. It weighs the evidence for and against each narrative identifying in each case the primary evidence on which it is based and critically assessing the reliability of that primary evidence. Not only does the book consider accounts of the immediate clinical causes of death but it is also concerned with those stories which relate Mozart's death to his extraordinary life.Was the death of Mozart the necessary, inevitable consequence of that life and the manner of its living, or was it an unnecessary, accidental death? ... Read more

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Listening to the River is a celebration of anonymous places where we can still find nature's beauty. Robert Adams first visited these particular locations as a boy, when the West seemed unchanging. Now in his fifties, he returns to them with the affection of a longtime acquaintance. The book records hushed walks when irrelevancies are forgotten, when sunlight makes the fields, hills, and roads new.

Adams has chosen twelve poems by William Stafford to accompany the pictures. Both photographer and poet observe a practice of quiet in the out-of-doors, and both discover there a promise.

This is an optimistic book, though not a sentimental one: a number of the photographs record views of the suburban West. "Any tree in the path of development appears to have an uncertain future," Adams observes. Listening to the River affirms, however, that trees and other elements of nature are ultimately protected. "Part of what their beauty means," says the photographer, "is that they are safe."

In 1989 Adams spoke at the Philadelphia Museum of Art about his enjoyment of the landscape, citing as an example his experiences at rural crossroads on the plains: "Sometimes there doesn't seem to be anything there at all-- just two roads, four fields, and sky. Small things, however, can become important-- a lark or a mailbox or sunflowers. And if I wait I may see the architecture-- the roads and the fields and the sky. Were you and I to drive the prairie together, and the day turned out to be a good one, we might not say much. We might get out of the truck at a crossroads, stretch, walk a little ways, and then walk back. Maybe the lark would sing. Maybe we would stand for a while, all views to the horizon, all roads interesting. We might find there a balance of form and openness, even of community and freedom. It would be the world as we had hoped, and we would recognize it together."
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Most music histories published in Britain during the nineteenth century amounted to little more than severely compressed and simplified versions of Burney's and Hawkins's mammoth treatises. Stafford's Historywas an exception to the rule. The emphasis placed there on both ancient and contemporary exotic music makes it a pioneer document in the literature of ethnomusicology. The text has been enlarged by three per cent for ease in reading. ... Read more

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Martin Booth, Knotting, 1980,First Edition One of 125 copies, this unnumbered Small 4to Wrappers ... Read more