LIBROS DEL AUTOR: kathleen renk

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: kathleen renk

  • Toward Her Awakening
    Kathleen Williams Renk
    Kathleen Williams Renk re-imagines the life of novelist Kate Chopin.In 1850s’ St. Louis, five-year-old Katy O’Flaherty’s father sends her to a strict convent school to stifle her precocious nature. Thus begins the life of the girl who becomes a progressive, feminist, 'new woman' writer who shocks the world with her novel The Awakening, which Willa Cather derided as the 'Creole ...
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  • No Coward Soul Have I
    Kathleen Williams Renk
    Imagine Percy and Harriet Shelley meeting Anne Devlin, an Irish rebel who had been imprisoned for three years in Dublin’s notorious Kilmainham Gaol for her involvement in Robert Emmet’s failed 1803 rebellion.It’s 1812 and young Percy Shelley, recently expelled from Oxford University, because of his professed atheism, decides to begin his political life by aiding the Irish in th...
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  • The Rossetti Diaries
    Kathleen Williams Renk
    Historian Maggie Winegarden decides she needs to spend some time away from her partner Bethany, who is upset over Maggie’s desire to be a painter. Maggie visits the seaside town of Hastings and while in St. Clement’s Church discovers that poet Christina Rossetti and artist Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Siddal had been frequent visitors to Hastings and the church. Agatha, the church careta...
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  • Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel
    Kathleen Renk
    Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel: Erotic 'Victorians' focuses on the work of British, Irish, and Commonwealth women writers such as A.S. Byatt, Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys, Margaret Atwood, and Ahdaf Soueif, among others, and their attempts to re-envision the erotic. Kathleen Renk argues that women writers of the neo-Victorian novel are far more philosophi...
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    122,13 €