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Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s ...

Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s ...

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'Isak Dinesen and Photo/Graphic Recollection' by Susan Hardy Aiken, copyright © Susan Hardy Aiken 1985, reprinted by permission of Susan Hardy Aiken. ' Remembrance' by Annette Kuhn, copyright © Annette Kuhn 1991, reprinted by ...
Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative

Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative

Susan Hardy Aiken

This important book will at last give Isak Dinesen's work the prominence it deserves in literary studies. For Aiken's generation, it will be the most original, forceful, provocative, and elegant critical reading of this Danish writer.
The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays: On Gender, ...

The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays: On Gender, ...

Marianne T. Stecher

The centennial year of Blixen's birth, 1985, was marked by an article in Scandinavian Studies by Susan Hardy Aiken, “The Uses of Duplicity: Isak Dinesen and Questions of Feminist Criticism,” in which Aiken summarizes the feminist critical ...
Dialogues

Dialogues

Susan Hardy Aiken

Truly a dialogue, the book juxtaposes fiction by American and Soviet women from the 1960s to the present to reveal their similarities and differences and to show how questions of gender, race, and ethnicity are enacted in the societies and ...
Passion, Humiliation, Revenge: Hatred in Man-Woman ...

Passion, Humiliation, Revenge: Hatred in Man-Woman ...

Lapidus

There are possible foreign influences on Grekova's work as well; see Susan Hardy Aiken, “Stages of Dissent: Olsen, Grekova and the Politics of Creativity,” in Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (ex)Soviet and ...
Changing Our Minds: Feminist Transformations of Knowledge

Changing Our Minds: Feminist Transformations of Knowledge

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Feminist Transformations of Knowledge EDITED BY Susan Hardy Aiken, Karen Anderson, Myra Dinnerstein, Judy Nolte Lensink and Patricia MacCorquodale What happens when traditionally-trained academics begin to reconsider their ...
Isak Dinesen and Narrativity

Isak Dinesen and Narrativity

Centre TADAC.

As Susan Hardy Aiken rightly points out in her recent book Isak Dinesen and the Engenden'ng of Narrative, the first sentence of the novel sets up a number of hierarchical dichotomies: "I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills" (0A  ...
Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer

Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer

I. Bernard Cohen

Biography of Howard Aiken, a major figure of the early digital era, by a major historian of science who was also a colleague of Aiken's at Harvard.
Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature: ...

Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature: ...

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Hardy's. Tess. Susan David Bernstein I In the Preface to the Fifth and Later Editions to Tess of the d'Urber- villes, Thomas Hardy elaborately defends his novel against what he construes as a vicious assault. He qualifies these critical assailants ...
The Hardy Review

The Hardy Review

Rosemarie Morgan

Brief description of The Hardy Review The Hardy Review is the journal of The Thomas Hardy Association and is the premier journal devoted to the scholarly study of Thomas Hardy.
A Companion to Thomas Hardy

A Companion to Thomas Hardy

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Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and ...
The Hardy Review, XV-I

The Hardy Review, XV-I

Rosemarie Morgan

The Hardy Review is a publication of The Thomas Hardy Association and is the premier journal devoted to the scholarly study of Thomas Hardy.
Thomas Hardy and the Law: Legal Presences in Hardy's Life ...

Thomas Hardy and the Law: Legal Presences in Hardy's Life ...

William A. Davis

... the dream-world of books.''" If this is indeed Hardy's admission, then it would appear that Hardy is again being somewhat misleading, this time about his novels. Hardy's novels certainly do not seem to come from a "dream-world," nor do they ...
Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate

Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate

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In Thomas Hardy Reappraised, editor Keith Wilson pays tribute to Millgate's many contributions to Hardy studies by bringing together new work by fifteen of the world's most eminent Hardy scholars.
Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams ...

Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams ...

Karin Koehler

Phillip Mallett's 'Thomas Hardy and Time', Trish Ferguson's 'Hardy's Wessex and the Birth of Industrial Subjectivity', and Ken Ireland's recent book Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative: A Narratological Approach to His Novels (2014) testify to ...
Thomas Hardy in Our Time

Thomas Hardy in Our Time

Robert Woodrow Langbaum

Taking into account the latest criticism, Langbaum discusses Hardy's fiction and poetry from various contemporary points of view so as to show Hardy as a still-powerful literary presence.
Reports of Cases and Matters Determined by the Supreme Court ...

Reports of Cases and Matters Determined by the Supreme Court ...

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[292 S. C. Aiken and ascertained that the child wished to reside with his father, Robert Scott Aiken. The court found that both appellant and respondent were suitable parents. However, based upon the totality of the circumstances, the court  ...
The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy

The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of Thomas Hardy.
South Carolina and Black Migration, 1865-1940: In Search of ...

South Carolina and Black Migration, 1865-1940: In Search of ...

George Alfred Devlin

Blanding Papers, SCL. 89Mary Aiken to Augustus M. Aiken, July 8, 1865, David Wyatt Aiken Papers, SCL. 90Farm Journal of David Golightly Harris, June 5, 1865 , David Golightly Harris Papers; "Holmes Diary," August 22, 1865, John Holmes ...
Thomas Hardy: The Novels

Thomas Hardy: The Novels

Norman Page

Rosemarie Morgan, Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy (1992) For entirely understandable reasons, Hardy's fiction has in recent years received a considerable amount of attention from feminist critics such as Penny Boumelha, ...
Technical Report

Technical Report

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Alexander Scott Aiken 1988 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED COMPACTION-BASED PARALLELIZATION Alexander Scott Aiken, Ph.D. Cornell University 1988 We.
The Thomas Hardy Journal

The Thomas Hardy Journal

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TRIAL AND ERROR IN THOMAS HARDY'S LEGAL FICTIONS TRISH FERGUSON Thomas Hardy held the role of Justice of the Peace, or borough magistrate, from 1884 to 1912. In an interview with The World in 1886 he stated that 'he played ...
Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy

Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy

Rosemarie Morgan

The manuscript pages, some of which are reproduced here in facsimile, reveal Hardy's original composition in the novel, and the reluctantly `cancelled words' which were the result of a long struggle with Sir Leslie Stephen, Hardy's editor.
GRANNY RUTH'S KINGDOM

GRANNY RUTH'S KINGDOM

Clara Garner Aiken

To my mother Emma Virginia Garner who is 92 years old and still is the best momin the whole world. To all of my family (The Garner/ Spry/Aiken Family) and friends I love so dearly. In Memory of my father Charlie Garner, Sr., my brother.
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy

The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

For the first time The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy can be read as a true work of autobiography - an addition to the Hardy canon.
Sharecropping, Ghetto, Slum: A History of Impoverished ...

Sharecropping, Ghetto, Slum: A History of Impoverished ...

H. Viscount Nelson Jr.

Christopher M. Span, From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi 1862–1875 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 3–5; Aiken, Cotton Plantation, 21. 20. Aiken, Cotton Plantation, 26. 21.
A Companion to Thomas Hardy

A Companion to Thomas Hardy

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Under the Greenwood Tree, ed. Tim Dolin. London: Penguin. Hardy, Thomas ([ 1873] 1998) A Pair of Blue Eyes, ed. Pamela Dalziel. London: Penguin. Hardy, Thomas ([1874] 2000). Far From the Madding Crowd, ed. Rosemarie Morgan, with ...
Dr. Cinderella's Midnight Fling

Dr. Cinderella's Midnight Fling

Kate Hardy

Kate Hardy. Kate Hardy Dr. Cinderella's Midnight Fling Praise for Kate Hardy, who writes for both Harlequin® MedicalTM.

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