Household Words: A Novel

Household Words: A Novel
Author: Joan Silber
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2005-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393070719

Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award "Unqualified praise goes to this rarity: an extraordinary novel about ordinary people." —Chicago Tribune The year is 1940, and Rhoda Taber is pregnant with her first child. Satisfied with her comfortable house in a New Jersey suburb and her reliable husband, Leonard, she expects that her life will be predictable and secure. Surprised by an untimely death, an unexpected illness, and the contrary natures of her two daughters, Rhoda finds that fate undermines her sense of entitlement and security. Shrewd, wry, and sometimes bitter, Rhoda reveals herself to be a wonderfully flawed and achingly real woman caught up in the unexpectedness of her own life.

Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words

Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words
Author: Catherine Waters
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754655787

From 1850 to 1859, Charles Dickens 'conducted' Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain predominantly middle-class readers. He filled the journal with articles about various commodities, many of which raise questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services.Although studies of Victorian commodity culture have tended to focus on the novel, scholarly interest in Victorian periodicals and material culture has been prompted by recognition of the major role the press played in disseminating knowledge and information about the proliferating world of goods. At the same time, periodicals like Household Words were themselves commodities that relied on their marketability for survival. This book provides a cultural study of the journal's representation of commodities that records the changing relationship between people and things exposed in the contributors' attempts to come to terms with the development of urban commodity culture at mid-century.

Dickens, Journalism, Music

Dickens, Journalism, Music
Author: Robert Terrell Bledsoe
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-02-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441150870

Explores the coverage of music in the journals edited by Dickens and how they reflect Dickens' own attitude to music and its social role.

Household Words

Household Words
Author: LOHRLI
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1973-12-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781487577056

Words from the White House

Words from the White House
Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2020-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 048683722X

Entertaining, eminently readable volume compiles words and phrases coined or popularized by American presidents. Alphabetical listings feature a definition and (usually) a brief discussion that places them in historical context.

Household Words

Household Words
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1852
Genre:
ISBN:

Household Words

Household Words
Author: Stephanie Ann Smith
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816645534

Looking in detail at words that “treat people as things, and things as people, and do so at that strange space where joking, ridiculing, demeaning, oppressing, resisting, and regretting converge,” Household Words is a study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history. Specifically, Stephanie A. Smith examines six words—bloomer, sucker, bombshell, scab, nigger, and cyber—and explores how these words with their contemporary “universal” meaning appeal to a dangerous idea about what it means to be human, an idea that denies our history of conflict. She traces “bombshell” from Marilyn Monroe through women’s liberation and the sexual revolution to Monica Lewinsky, “scab” from blemish to strikebreaker, “sucker” from lollipop to the routinely cheated. Exposing the ambiguities in each of the words, Smith reveals that our language is communal and cutting, democratic and discriminatory, social and psychological. Stephanie A. Smith is associate professor of English at the University of Florida and the author of Conceived by Liberty: Maternal Figures and Nineteenth-Century American Literature as well as three novels.

Household Words

Household Words
Author: Charles John Huffam Dickens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1856
Genre:
ISBN: