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Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Margaret Homans

Homans considers versions of Victoria in the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Margaret Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Julia Margaret Cameron.
Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in ...

Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in ...

Margaret Homans

A reprint of the 1986 work in which Homans (English, Yale) explores the variety of ways in which 19th c. women writers attempted to reclaim their own experiences as paradigms for writing.
Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism

Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism

Gaura Shankar Narayan

See also Margaret Homans, "Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats" in Studies in Romanticism 29 (Fall, 1990): 341-370. My findings here are clearly at odds with the conclusions of Margaret Homans, who says that Keats writes for an  ...
The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, ...

The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, ...

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Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (Cambridge, 1983). 40. Munich, Queen Victoria's Secrets. 41. Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich, Introduction in Remaking Queen Victoria, eds. Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich ( Cambridge, ...
Coming to My Senses: The Autobiography of a Sociologist

Coming to My Senses: The Autobiography of a Sociologist

George Caspar Homans

Homans considers academic and intellectual as well as nonacademic influences on his development: personalities of highly idiosyncratic individuals against whose views of culturalism, functionalism, and structuralism he reacted, discussions ...
Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily ...

Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily ...

Margaret Homans

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
Remaking Queen Victoria

Remaking Queen Victoria

Margaret Homans

An exploration of the diverse and conflicting meanings Queen Victoria held for her subjects and others.
Jung in Context: Modernity and the Making of a Psychology

Jung in Context: Modernity and the Making of a Psychology

Peter Homans

In this new edition, Homans has added an extensive foreword linking the core of Jungian psychology to contemporary works it has shaped—such as those of M. Scott Peck and Clarissa Pinkola Estes—that proclaim the power of Jungian concepts ...
Romanticism

Romanticism

Cynthia Chase

Margaret Homans's Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in NineteenthCentury Women's Writing (1986) makes a strongcase for animportanttenet of feminist criticism: works by women reflect the fact that women necessarily ...
Behavioral Theory in Sociology: Essays in Honor of George C. ...

Behavioral Theory in Sociology: Essays in Honor of George C. ...

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Essays in Honor of George C. Homans George Caspar Homans, Robert Lee Hamblin, John H. Kunkel. Social. Exchange. Theory. in. a. World. of. Transient. Fact. Kenneth J. Gergen Over a decade has passed since the initial publication of  ...
The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human ...

The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human ...

Margaret Homans

Three recent books—by Mark C.Jerng, CarolJ. Singley, and Cynthia Callahan— present differing yet compatible historical arguments about adoption in American literature from colonial times to the present.8 Marianne Novy's Reading ...
Certainties and Doubts: Collected Papers, 1962-1985

Certainties and Doubts: Collected Papers, 1962-1985

George Caspar Homans

Collected Papers, 1962-1985 George Caspar Homans. and u o OLLECTED PAPERS, 1962-1985 George Caspar Homans Certainties and Doubts Collected Papers, 1962-1985 George Caspar Unmans George. Front Cover.
The Human Group

The Human Group

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In all five cases, Homans selects comparable phenomena for analysis with a contextually different emphasis and elaboration each time.
The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret ...

The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret ...

Hildegard Kuester

1n 1981, Patricia Morley published the monograph Margaret Laurence9 in Twayne's World Authors series; with a few additions, it reappeared on the market ten years later under the title Margaret Laurence: The Long Journey Home.
Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon: An Illustrated Novel

Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon: An Illustrated Novel

Margaret Weis

Here begins Justin Sterling's centuries-spanning story, as told by bestselling author Margaret Weis and her chosen band of dark fantasists, in the world's first major illustrated novel.
George C. Homans: History, Theory, and Method

George C. Homans: History, Theory, and Method

A. Javier Treviño

It is the first volume in over thirty years to offer a reappraisal of the life and work of one of the twentieth century's leading social scientists.
George C. Homans: History, Theory, and Method

George C. Homans: History, Theory, and Method

A Javier Treviqo

It is the first volume in over thirty years to offer a reappraisal of the life and work of one of the twentieth century's leading social scientists.
Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur

Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur

Margaret Somerville

When author Margaret Somerville met her in 1991 she was still painting and writing, and continued to produce a monthly play for the Lunch Hour Theatre well into her eighties.In Wildflowering the conversations between Kathleen and Margaret ...
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Judy Blume

It’s Me Margaret is very special.” —Amy Poehler quoted on Vulture.com “Generations of teenage girls have grown up reading the tales of teenage angst told by beloved author Judy Blume.” —Mashable.com Margaret Simon, almost twelve ...
The Ice Age

The Ice Age

Margaret Drabble

Set against a backdrop of the Cold War and the political turmoil that led England to Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Age tells the story of three people desperately seeking firm ground amidst chaos with Margaret Drabble’s characteristically ...
Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery, Revised and ...

Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery, Revised and ...

Margaret M. Furtado

... on Lower-BMI Gastric Banding Procedures Margaret M. Furtado, Margaret Furtado, Lynette Schultz, Joseph Ewing. About the Authors lVI&I'g&II'€T F1lI'T&d0 , M.S., R.D., L.D.N., R.Y.T., is a registered and licensed dietitian with over twenty ...
Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence, John Lennox, Ruth Panofsky, Adele Wiseman. from the Grade 13 English curriculum at Lakefield District Secondary School pending a decision by the Textbook Review Committee of the Peterborough Board of Education.
Margaret Dow Gebby Diaries

Margaret Dow Gebby Diaries

Margaret Dow Gebby

Margaret Dow Gebby recorded in her eleven diaries daily work and leisure activities as well as income and expenses on a grain and livestock farm near Bellefontaine, Ohio.
The Witch Hazel: Poems of a Lifetime

The Witch Hazel: Poems of a Lifetime

George Caspar Homans

The volume also includes a few of his translations from Greek, Latin, and Provencal verse. The sheer variety of its subjects adds further interest to the volume.
The Human Group

The Human Group

George C. Homans

Published in 1998, The Human Group is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.

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