Lydia's Awakening

Lydia's Awakening
Author: Suzanne Muir
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2024-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Leaning against the white pillar of the office building, she sees the woman standing near the far end of the long porch. Lydia has seen her before, and these frequent sightings are becoming a concern to her. The woman never approaches, just stares. During Lydia's twenty-six years of life, there has been doubt and puzzlement that has filtered in her private life for as long as she can remember. Her parents always seemed to have guarded looks, then would quickly look away. What was wrong? And now there seems to be a woman following her. Questions that pop into Lydia's head never get a solid answer. As a child, Lydia had happenings within the structure of her parents' lives. She just tried to accept them as they were and not cause trouble. She knew that she could always trust her dad but never had that same secure feeling about her mother. A child accepts family problems as just being the normal for them. Up until recently, Lydia has tried not to dwell on the strange feelings or questions within her mind, about the tension, just hoping it does not involve her. But a hint of uncomfortable doubt or uneasiness lingers. In America, we are made up of mixtures of diversities of culture and ways of life. Breeding and background rarely rears its ugly head as we become adults. Finding our own roots and knowing from whom we are descended is often just a passing interest. Such knowledge can be enlightening at times or can be a little fearful. Lydia comes face-to-face with a prejudice attitude, forcing her to see the damage that can be inflicted on another human being. Will she have to dig deep into her own beginnings for her own peace of mind?

The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930

The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930
Author: D. Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 345
Release: 1995-02-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230379338

In an exciting and important book... The theoretical chapters are a model of elegantly styled accommodation; yet they brook no fudging of the issues, no comfortable ambiguities - Modern Fiction Studies The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930: Studies in Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster and Woolf is a provocative exploration of a crucial period in the development of the English novel, integrating critical theory, historical background and sophisticated close reading. Divided into two major sections, the first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for developing powerful readings. The second section is theoretical and speaks of the transformation in the way that we read and think about authors, readers, characters and form in the light of recent theory, offering an alternative to the deconstructive and Marxist trends in literary studies.

The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890–1930

The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890–1930
Author: Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1989-06-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1349097039

Focusing on the work of Hardy, Lawrence, Conrad, Joyce, Forster and Woolf, this study is divided into two sections: the first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for developing powerful readings; the second discusses how new theory has transformed the way we read and think.

Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930

Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930
Author: Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0470779837

Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels of the first half of the twentieth century. An insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Draws on the author’s decades of experience researching and teaching the modern British novel. Sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. Features close readings of Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow, Joyce’s Dubliners and Ulysses, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse and Forster’s A Passage to India. Shows how these novels are essential components in a modernist cultural tradition which includes the visual arts. Takes account of recent developments in theory and cultural studies. Written in an engaging style, avoiding jargon.

Lydia Green of Mulberry Glen

Lydia Green of Mulberry Glen
Author: Millie Florence
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2019-03-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781732878907

Eleven-year-old Lydia Green's world is turned upside down when rumors reach her home about a mysterious Darkness that dwells in the forest Tenebrae. Lydia Green of Mulberry Glen is a story about hope and facing the darkness of the world - but finding light!

New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman

New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman
Author: Giovanna Summerfield
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-10-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441151184

New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman reflects the change in direction of research on the Bildungsroman, focusing on more psychological, authorial and feminist contents.Departing from the father of the prototype of the genre, Goethe, the authors trace imperative pathways to its French, British, and Italian counterparts, examining spiritual and female Bildungsromane. A wide-ranging analysis provides fresh insights into the genre through comparative analyses of Bildungsromane both diatopically and diachronically, while critical analysis of novels such as Voltaire's Candide, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, Collodi's Pinocchio, Aleramo's Una donna present new readings of the characters, plots and purposes of the most famous European novels.

Lydia Sigourney

Lydia Sigourney
Author: Lydia Sigourney
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2008-08-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1460402952

Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) was the most widely read and respected pre-Civil War American woman poet in the English-speaking world. In a half-century career, Sigourney produced a wide range of poetry and prose envisaging the United States as a new kind of republic with a unique mission in history, in which women like herself had a central role. This edition contributes to the current recovery of Sigourney and her republican vision from the oblivion into which they were cast by the aftermath of the Civil War, the construction of a male-dominated American “national” literary canon, and the aesthetics of Modernism. In this Broadview edition, a representative selection of poetry and prose from across her career illustrates Sigourney’s national vision and the diversity of forms she used to promote it. In the appendices, letters and documents illustrate her challenges and working methods in what she called her “kitchen in Parnassus.”

Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siecle Writing

Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siecle Writing
Author: Catherine Delyfer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317323173

Lucas Malet is one of a number of forgotten female writers whose work bridges the gap between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Malet’s writing was intrinsically linked to her passion for art. This is the first book-length study of Malet’s novels.

Lydia Gwennap: A Cornish masterpiece uncovered...

Lydia Gwennap: A Cornish masterpiece uncovered...
Author: David E Carter
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2013-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1291470859

An enigmatic gaze from a young girl in a neglected portrait, obscured by a veil of yellowed varnish, reached out to a dealer in Cornish art when it was spotted in a Midlands saleroom.The artist was John Opie, the 18th century self-taught "Cornish Wonder", who was famously described by Sir Joshua Reynolds as being "like Caravaggio and Velazquez in one".This monograph describes the exciting discovery and careful restoration of a portrait which can now rightfully claim it's place as a Cornish masterpiece.It reaches into the murky depths of history to shed light on the remarkable life of the sitter, Lydia Gwennap, and takes us from her humble roots in Cornwall to the fashionable environs of London during an age of important social and cultural reform.Lydia was a true daughter of Falmouth, and finally, some 240 years after her birth, her story can be told...