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Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

Lyn Pykett

Using recent feminist work on gender and genre Lyn Pykett throws fresh light on the complexities of Wuthering Heights, and suggests that much of this novel's distinctiveness may be attributed to the particular ways in which it both combines ...
The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel

The Nineteenth-century Sensation Novel

Lyn Pykett

First published in 1994, Lyn Pykett''s The Sensation Novel from ''The Woman in White'' to ''The Moonstone'' charted the re-emergence into critical view of a nineteenth-century fictional genre which had, in its own day, enjoyed immense popular ...
Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Lyn Pykett

AUTHORS IN CONTEXT The Brontës Patricia Ingham Wilkie Collins Lyn Pykett Charles Dickens Andrew Sanders George Eliot Tim Dolin Thomas Hardy Patricia Ingham Oscar Wilde John Sloan Virginia Woolf Michael Whitworth OXFORD ...
The Sensation Novel: From The Woman in White to The Moonstone

The Sensation Novel: From The Woman in White to The Moonstone

Lyn Pykett

A concise but comprehensive coverage of Soyinka''s approach to the question of African identity.
Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Lyn Pykett

The book includes a chronology of Collins's life and times, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index.
Engendering Fictions: The English Novel in the Early ...

Engendering Fictions: The English Novel in the Early ...

Lyn Pykett

Challenging traditional literary history, these books deploy new perspectives in the understanding of history, and show their importance for critical practice.
The ''Improper'' Feminine: The Women''s Sensation Novel and the ...

The ''Improper'' Feminine: The Women''s Sensation Novel and the ...

Lyn Pykett

By exploring in impressive depth and breadth the material and discursive conditions in which these novels were produced, The `Improper'' Feminine draws attention to key gendered interrelationships within the literary and wider cultures of ...
Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions

Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions

Lyn Pykett

The essays in this volume form a valuable introduction to fin de siècle cultural studies and provide a commentary on important aspects of current critical debate and the place of culture in society.
Nelly Dean: Memoirs of a Survivor

Nelly Dean: Memoirs of a Survivor

Lyn Pykett

Wuthering Heights is a story told from two perspectives. Lockwood presents the male outsider''s view, while Nelly Dean narrates the story form the perspective of an observer.
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Lyn Pykett

Each chapter of this text analyses the work of a particular decade in Dickens's career, providing a lively contextual study which places his writings in relation to the worlds that made him, and the literary worlds which he made.
Surviving Santiago

Surviving Santiago

Lyn Miller-Lachmann

The tense, final months of the Pinochet regime in 1989 provide the backdrop for author Lyn Miller-Lachmann's suspenseful tale of the survival and redemption of the Aguilar family, first introduced in the critically acclaimed Gringolandia.
Rogue

Rogue

Lyn Miller-Lachmann

In Rogue, author Lyn Miller-Lachmann celebrates everyone’s ability to discover and use whatever it is that makes them different.
The Private Library

The Private Library

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... 7:4, 182-185 Fischer, Gerald Lyn, and the Pump Press, 7:1, 45-46 For Personal Pleasure: Gerald Lyn Fischer and the Pump Press, 7:1, 45-46 Forwarded and Finished: An Amusement Concerning Bookbinders, 7:4, 188-189 Gill, Eric, ...
Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in ...

Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in ...

Carol Faulkner

I also want to thank Bonnie Anderson, Margaret Hope Bacon, Lyn Blackwell, Lyn Blanchfield, Kate Culkin, Tom Dublin, Laura Edwards, Claudette Fillard, Ann Gordon, Nancy Hewitt, Kathi Kern, Michelle Kuhl, Linda Janke, Bonnie ...
Annual Meeting Program

Annual Meeting Program

American Educational Research Association

Donald B. Yarbrough, University of Iowa Proposed Revisions to the Propriety Standards. Rodney K. Hopson, Duquesne University; Lyn Shulha, Queen s University Proposed Revisions to the Utility Standards. Lyn Shulha, Queen s University; ...
Censored 2005: The Top 25 Censored Stories

Censored 2005: The Top 25 Censored Stories

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UPDATE BY LYN DUFF AND DENNIS BERNSTEIN: For an update on this story, please see Chapter 10, "Haiti: The Untold Story." Dennis Bernstein is executive producer of Pacifica Radio's Flashpoints (KPFA in Berkeley, California). Lyn Duff  ...
In All Sincerity, Peter Cushing

In All Sincerity, Peter Cushing

Christopher Gullo

Sutton, Tommy Stanziola, Elaine Cusack, James Willis, Karl Nolan, Sarah Dozier, Janet O'Dell, Jack Dickens, Randall Vest, Joe Skinnell, Derek Pykett, Rob Fisher, Paul Durkan, Elmar Podlasly, Brian Russo, Dave Aquino, Simon Moss, Carl ...
Effective Internal Communication

Effective Internal Communication

Lyn Smith

Here messages are simply injected into the recipient who, it is assumed, will accept them without argument and without distorting the incoming data. Phillip Clampitt (1991) in his book Communicating for Managerial Effectiveness provides a ...
Lyn - a Tribute to Lynette Elizabeth Ward (nee Wilson)

Lyn - a Tribute to Lynette Elizabeth Ward (nee Wilson)

Colin Ward

She considered herself an ordinary person and in later years regretted not going to University and taking up a profession. Yet as described in this book, she had a rich and rewarding life.
Hiding Places

Hiding Places

Lyn Miller-Lachmann

When living with his abusive stepfather becomes unbearable, seventeen-year-old Mark tries unsuccessfully to commit suicide then runs away to New York City where he encounters new problems living on his own.
A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia

A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia

Robert G. Ousterhout

The rock- cut monasteries are only beginning to be given the attention they deserve, most notably in the study by Lyn Rodley, but other types of settlements have been generally overlooked.21 Major urban centers, such as Kaisareia ( Kayseri) ...
Widget

Widget

Lyn Rossiter McFarland

But when Mrs. Diggs takes a fall and doesn't get up, it's up to Widget to save the day with a particularly canine solution. A very simple text and droll pictures make Widget a book to read again and again.
Report 1-

Report 1-

Royal commission on historical manuscripts

Instrument of Dispensation by James Lyn, Canon of Dunkeld, in virtue of a commission to him from the Penitentiary of ... of Torboltoune, on the part of the said Mathew, Earl of Lennox, being the balance of 200 merks of his daughter's tocher.
Stochastic Modelling in Innovative Manufacturing: ...

Stochastic Modelling in Innovative Manufacturing: ...

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Proceedings, Cambridge, U.K., July 21–22, 1995 Anthony H. Christer, Shunji Osaki, Lyn C. Thomas. [16] Matrosov, V.M. (1967a). On differential equations and ... International Journal of Production Research, 14, 699-702. Tocher, K.D. (1963) .
Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts

Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts

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Instrument of Dispensation by James Lyn, Canon of Dunkcld, in virtue of a commission to him from the Penitentiary of ... of 'l'orboltoune, on the part of the said Mathew, Earl of Lennox, being the balance of 200 merks of his daughter's tocher.
Dirt Cheap: A Novel

Dirt Cheap: A Novel

Lyn Miller-Lachmann

A recent cancer survivor and aware of the alarming increase in the number of cancer cases in his neighborhood, Nicky Baran risks everything to take on Hometown Chemical, a company that polluted the lands that local developers want to turn ...
Slow Living

Slow Living

Geoffrey Craig

Geoffrey Craig, Wendy Parkins. other resident scholars ... More recently, at the University of Otago in New Zealand we thank Professor Lyn Tribble for her support and understanding in the final preparation of the manuscript. On the home front, ...

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