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"Writing Home offers readers a firsthand account of the life of Emma Alderson, an otherwise unexceptional English immigrant on the Ohio frontier in mid-nineteenth-century America, who documented the five years preceding her death with astonishing detail and insight. Her convictions as a Quaker offer unique perspectives on racism, slavery, and abolition; the impending war with Mexico; presidential elections; various religious and utopian movements; and the practices of everyday life in a young country. Introductions and notes situate the letters in relation to their critical, biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Editor Donald Ulin discusses the relationship between Alderson's letters and her sister Mary Howitt's Our Cousins in Ohio (1849), a remarkable instance of transatlantic literary collaboration. Writing Home offers an unparalleled opportunity for studying immigrant correspondence due to Alderson's unusually well-documented literary and religious affiliations. The notes and introductions provide background on nearly all the places, individuals, and events mentioned in the letters,"--

Quaker women --- Frontier and pioneer life --- British Americans --- Alderson, Emma Botham, --- Howitt, Mary --- Family. --- Warsaw (Ohio) --- Emma Alderson, Quakers, epistolary, Ohio, immigration, immigrants, Mary Howitt, nineteenth-century America, transatlantic, American Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, History, Memoir, 19th Century, Christian, Christianity, Religion, Religious, critical, biographical, literary, historical contexts, religious affiliations.

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"Jesus loves borders, guns, unborn babies, and economic prosperity and hates homosexuality, taxes, welfare, and universal healthcare--or so say many Republican politicians, pundits, and preachers. Through outrageous misreadings of the New Testament gospels going back almost a century, conservative influencers have conjured a version of Jesus who speaks to their fears, desires, and resentments. In Republican Jesus, Tony Keddie explains not only where this right-wing Christ came from and what he stands for, but also why this version of Jesus is a fraud. By restoring Republicans' cherry-picked gospel texts to their original literary and historical contexts, Keddie dismantles the biblical basis for Republican positions on hot-button issues like Big Government, taxation, abortion, immigration, and climate change. At the same time, he introduces readers to an ancient Jesus whose life experiences and ethics were totally unlike those of modern Americans, conservatives and liberals alike"--

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Murder - the perpetrators, victims, methods and motives - has been the subject of law, literature, chronicles and religion, often crossing genres and disciplines and employing multiple modes of expression and interpretation. As the chapters in this volume demonstrate, definitions of murder, manslaughter and justified or unjustified homicide depend largely on the legal terminology and the laws of the society. Much like modern nations, medieval societies treated murder and murderers differently based on their social standing, the social standing of the victim, their gender, their mental capacity for understanding their crime, and intent, motive and means. The three parts of this volume explore different aspects of this crime in the Middle Ages. The first provides the legal template for reading cases of murder in a variety of sources. The second examines the public hermeneutics of murder, especially the ways in which medieval societies interpreted and contextualised their textual traditions: Icelandic sagas, Old French fabliaux, Arthuriana and accounts of assassination. Finally, the third part focuses on the effects of murder within the community: murder as a social ill, especially in killing kin. Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. Contributors: Dianne Berg, G. Koolemans Beynen, Dwayne C. Coleman, Jeffrey Doolittle, Carmel Ferragud, Jay Paul Gates, Thomas Gobbitt, Emily J. Hutchison, Jolanta N. Komornicka, Anne Latowsky, Matthew Lubin, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, Ben Parsons, Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar, Hannah Skoda, Bridgette Slavin, Larissa Tracy, Patricia Turning, Lucas Wood

Murder --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide --- History --- 343.9 --- 34 <09> --- 930.86.01 --- 930.86.01 Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Middeleeuwen --- Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Middeleeuwen --- 34 <09> Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) --- Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) --- 343.9 Criminologie --(algemeen) --- Criminologie --(algemeen) --- Murder. --- To 1699. --- Meurtre --- Crime --- Crimes --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Justice pénale --- History. --- Histoire --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Sociological aspects --- Aspect sociologique --- Administration --- Droit pénal --- Histoire. --- To 1699 --- Crime. --- Early Modern Murder. --- Historical Contexts. --- Homicide. --- Interpretation. --- Legal Contexts. --- Literary Contexts. --- Medieval Manuscripts. --- Medieval Murder. --- Society. --- medieval. --- Droit pénal

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Though much beloved and widely produced, Molière's satirical comedies pose a problem for those reading or staging his works today: how can a genre associated with biting caricature and castigation deliver engaging theater? Instead of simply dismissing social satire as a foundation for Molière's theater, as many have done, Larry F. Norman takes seriously Molière's claim that his satires are first and foremost effective theater. Pairing close readings of Molière's comedies with insightful accounts of French social history and aesthetics, Norman shows how Molière conceived of satire as a "public mirror" provoking dynamic exchange and conflict with audience members obsessed with their own images. Drawing on these tensions, Molière portrays characters satirizing one another on stage, with their reactions providing dramatic conflict and propelling comic dialogue. By laying bare his society's system of imagining itself, Molière's satires both enthralled and enraged his original audience and provide us with a crucial key to the classical culture of representation.

Molière --- Criticism and interpretation --- Moli re, - 1622-1673 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Moli©9·re, - 1622-1673 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Authors, French. --- French authors --- Molière, --- Molière, J.-P. B. --- Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Molière --- Molière, J.-B. P. --- Molière, J.-B. P. de --- Poquelin de Molière, Jean Baptiste, --- Molʹer, Zhan-Batist, --- Mo-li-ai, --- Moliai, --- Molyér, --- Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, --- Moliere, I. B. P. de, --- Molʹer, Zh.-B. --- Molieros, --- Moliyer, --- Molʹer, --- Mollierŭ, --- Molyer, Zshan Poḳlen, --- Мольер, --- Moriēru, --- מאליער --- מולייר --- מולייר, ב׳אן בטיסט --- מולייר, פ. --- מולייר, --- מולירה --- موليير --- 莫里哀, --- モリエール, --- depiction, depicting, jean-baptiste poquelin, moliere, satire, satirical comedy, literature, literary studies, playwright, social commerce, society, genre, caricature, castigation, theater, theatre, effectiveness, comedies, france, french writings, insightful, aesthetics, history, historical contexts, images, imagery, stage, performance, dramatic conflict, comic dialogue, representation, criticism, interpretation, reflexivity, dramaturgy. --- Moliere,

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Growing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters. In this moving book, Mutongi explores how both the challenges and contradictions of colonial rule and the frustrations and failures of independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community. Throughout the twentieth century...

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