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Bachelor Sketches: Invisible Women in Irving's Domestic Writings
This essay examines Washington Irving's domestic writings of the 1820s, and it argues that Irving devised the sketch as the literary genre of bachelorhood. In lavish, detailed sketches of numerous homes, Irving created a literary counterpart of the still life, but the effect of these sketches depended on the excision of women's domestic labor and the portrayal of the home in a state of static readiness, with all housework already completed. Irving's tales, however, often depict women's hidden domestic activities and show the invisible labors that underlie his sketches. These tales, however, portray women's housework as a source of terror, and they provide an implicit explanation for his sketches' omissions. The home in Irving's writings is an appealing aesthetic spectacle, but it poses grave danger to the unwitting bachelor, and Irving suggests that it is better to remain detached and unsettled than to risk the perils of heterosexual intimacy.
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Love love : a novel
\"Told in alternating chapters from the points of view of [sister and brother] Judy and Kevin, Love Love is a story about two people figuring out how to live, how to love, and how to be their best selves amidst the chaos of their lives\"--Amazon.com.
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Chick Lit and Postfeminism
Originally a euphemism for Princeton University's Female Literary Traditioncourse in the 1980s, \"chick lit\" mutated from a movement in American women'savant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a humorous subset ofwomen's literature, journalism, and advice manuals. Stephanie Harzewski examines such bestsellers as Bridget Jones's Diary The Devil Wears Prada,and Sex and the City as urban appropriations of and departures from the narrativetraditions of the novel of manners, the popular romance, and the bildungsroman. Further, Harzewskiuses chick lit as a lens through which to view gender relations in U.S. and British society in the1990s. Chick Lit and Postfeminism is the first sustained historicization of thismajor pop-cultural phenomenon, and Harzewski successfully demonstrates how chick lit and thecritical study of it yield social observations on upheavals in Anglo-American marriage andeducation patterns, heterosexual rituals, feminism, and postmodern values.
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Motherland Hotel : a novel
\"Zebercet, the last surviving member of a once prosperous Ottoman family, is the owner of the Motherland Hotel, a run-down establishment near the railroad station. A lonely, middle-aged introvert, his simple life is structured by daily administrative tasks and regular, routine sex with the hotel's maid. One day, a beautiful woman from the capital comes to spend the night, promising to return 'next week,' and suddenly Zebercet's insular, mechanical existence is dramatically and irrevocably changed\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bachelors, manhood and the novel, 1850-1925
Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little-recognised figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford and Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literary discourse as threshold figures who, by crossing the shifting, permeable boundaries of bourgeois domesticity, highlighted the limits of conventional masculinity. The very marginality of the figure, Snyder argues, effects a critique of gendered norms of manhood, while the symbolic function of marriage as a means of plot resolution is also made more complex by the presence of the single man. Bachelor figures made, moreover, an ideal narrative device for male authors who themselves occupied vexed cultural positions. By attending to the gendered identities and relations at issue in these narratives, Snyder's study discloses the aesthetic and political underpinnings of the traditional canon of English and American male modernism.
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The tundra within me
After living for many years in Oslo, Lena moves back to Sapmi in Northern Norway with her young son to explore her native Sami culture in an art project. While researching in the tundra, she falls in love with reindeer herder Mahtte, whose mother disapproves of their relationship. As decisions from the past come to haunt her, Lena struggles to find out whether their lifestyles are compatible.
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