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Dressed As in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in ...

Dressed As in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in ...

Kimberly Wahl

In Dressed as in a Painting, Kimberly Wahl provides a lucid exploration of the interrelations between fashion, art, and Aestheticism during the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Radical Decadence: Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles ...

Radical Decadence: Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles ...

Julia Skelly

related to the male aesthete; indeed, the figures of the “decadent” and the “ aesthete” have often been construed as overlapping or interchangeable.29 Kimberly Wahl has shown that women were very much part of the Aesthetic movement that ...
Anne Around the World: L.M. Montgomery and Her Classic

Anne Around the World: L.M. Montgomery and Her Classic

Jean Mitchell

Alison Matthews David and Kimberly Wahl have identified “fashion” as “a comforting and reifying presence in the novel,” participating in the “girlhood rituals” of Anne and Diana's formative years in pastoral Avonlea.” It also, however , “serves a ...
Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice

Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice

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... our research will be nuanced, complex and historically valid' (2009:193). Unlike disciplines such as archaeology Picturing the material/manifesting the visual: aesthetic dress in late- nineteenthcentury British culture Kimberly Wahl.
Colors in Fashion

Colors in Fashion

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Kimberly Wahl is Associate Professor in the School of Fashion, Ryerson University, Toronto. She holds a PhD in Art History from Queen's University, where her dissertation focused on late nineteenth-century Aesthetic Dress in the context of ...
The Parvenu's Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of ...

The Parvenu's Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of ...

Stephanie Foote

... NineteenthCentury England Katherine Joslin and Daneen Wardrop, editors, Crossings in Text and Textile SarahWay Sherman, Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, andthe Spiritof Modern Consumerism Kimberly Wahl, ...
The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

Corinne Saunders

... in Paris, 1825–45', Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine: Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe, ed. Willem de Blécourt and Cornelie Usborne (New York, 2004), pp. 187–213. Cited in Kimberly Wahl, Dressed as ...
Dressed As in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in ...

Dressed As in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in ...

Kimberly Wahl

READING DRESS SERIES Series Editors Katherine Joslin Daneen Wardrop Department of English Department of English Western Michigan University Western Michigan University This series engages questions about clothing, textiles, ...
The Best American Travel Writing 2012

The Best American Travel Writing 2012

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“Holy City of the Wichitas” by Kimberly Meyer. First published in Ecotone 11. Copyright © 2011 by Kimberly Meyer. Reprinted by permission of Kimberly Meyer . “How to Explore Like a Real Victorian Adventurer” by Monte Reel. First published ...
Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and ...

Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and ...

Sarah Way Sherman

For a complete list ofbooks available in this series, see www.upne.com Sarah Way Sherman, Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism Kimberly Wahl, Dressed as in a Painting: Women  ...
The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common ...

The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common ...

Jenny Bourne Wahl

An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery Jenny Bourne Wahl Christopher Tomlins. John D. Parsons, Jr., 1877), 280. Accounts of the transformation in the Anglo-American employment relation appeared in Robert J.
Midnight Justice

Midnight Justice

Kimberly Dean

When the sun goes down, the bad boys come out to play. Blade of Moonlight by Kimberly Dean Court reporter by day, by night Luna fights crime with moon power.
Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly Akimbo

David Lindsay-Abaire

THE STORY: Set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, KIMBERLY AKIMBO is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should.
Union: Twin Flames, Soul Mates, and True Love

Union: Twin Flames, Soul Mates, and True Love

Kimberly E. Powers

Recognizing this story as her own — only much less glamorous (without the travel to exotic places but rather in a normal town as a single soccer mom with two sons and an advertising agency) ­— Kimberly embarked on a dream she almost ...
Kimberly the Koala: A Tale of Independence

Kimberly the Koala: A Tale of Independence

Felicia Law

Kimberly the koala likes to hold onto her mother and refuses to walk anywhere on her own, even when her mother is expecting a new baby and a fire rages in the bush.
The Scattering

The Scattering

Kimberly McCreight

New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight raises the stakes in the second book of the heart-pounding Outliers trilogy, a uniquely speculative story about secrets, betrayal, and a world where one small group of people are ...
Kimberly's Song

Kimberly's Song

Barbara Jones Harman

Kimberly's Song is a love story about a young women's love for her mother Dea, her father, Big Jim Danoon, and the untamed Salmon river.
How Do You Spell Geek?

How Do You Spell Geek?

Julie Anne Peters

The relationship between best friends Kimberly and Ann is put to the test when Ann takes a geeky new student named Lurlene under her wing and encourages her to compete against front-runner Kimberly in the school spelling bee.
Prayers That Bring Change: Power-Filled Prayers that Give ...

Prayers That Bring Change: Power-Filled Prayers that Give ...

Kimberly Daniels

Use the authority God has given you to move to the next level in your prayer life with this collection of proclamation prayers by best-selling author Kimberly Daniels.
White Man's Heaven: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in ...

White Man's Heaven: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in ...

Kimberly Harper

Kimberly Harper explores events in the towns of Monett, Pierce City, Joplin, and Springfield, Missouri, and Harrison, Arkansas, to show how post–Civil War vigilantism, an established tradition of extralegal violence, and the rapid ...
Dream Walker:

Dream Walker:

Kimberly Dean

Kimberly Dean. Dream Walker Research scientist Shea Caldwell has always had a thing for security consultant, Derek Oneiros. He's smart, handsome, and built like a Greek god. As attracted as she is to him, though, she's afraid to let him into  ...
Death and dying: opposing viewpoints

Death and dying: opposing viewpoints

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Kimberly Clark Sharp, interviewed by Guy Spiro Kimberly Clark Sharp is the director of the Seattle chapter of the International Association for Near-Death Studies. She is also the author of After the Light: What I Discovered on the Other Side of ...
Dark Delta Deep, Blue Goodbye

Dark Delta Deep, Blue Goodbye

George Harmon Smith

Kimberly Kincaid, sixteen, had to move from the Delta town of Crossroads when her father died in a logging accident, but when Venus Bolton, all-state center on the Crossroads championship basketball team dies giving birth, Kimberly insists ...
A Broadening Conversation: Classic Readings in Theological ...

A Broadening Conversation: Classic Readings in Theological ...

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Kimberly Winston, “Publishing Not Perishing,” Publishers Weekly (November 16, 1998): 56—59. 3. Kimberly Winston, “Opening New Pathways to Consumers,” Publishers Weekly (March 15, 1999): 56—58, s10—s11. 4. David Young, “ Spiritual ...
Here I Am!: Chef Kimberly's Answer to the Question "Where ...

Here I Am!: Chef Kimberly's Answer to the Question "Where ...

Chef Kimberly Brock Brown Cepc Cca Ace

People of color do have the drive and determination needed to be the Executive Chef when they plan the work and work the plan. We need to wake up, step up and make it happen.
First Kisses and Other Misfortunes

First Kisses and Other Misfortunes

Kimberly Karalius

In Kimberly Karalius's First Kisses and Other Misfortunes, two boys discover that true love is harder than it looks, even in the charming town of Grimbaud, in this lovely novella from the author of Love Fortunes and Other Disasters.
The Kimberlys: A Glimpse at One Family's Years in North America

The Kimberlys: A Glimpse at One Family's Years in North America

William Allen Brehm

Their children include Marilyn Marie Meyer (Jones) (1920) who graduated from Stanford, Kathleen Kimberly Meyer The home at No. 1 Temple Lane in Davenport , Iowa was in the Kimberly family for over 50 years and is now on the Federal ...
Monograms for the Home

Monograms for the Home

Kimberly Schlegel Whitman

From linens, lamps and chairs to silver, china, desk accessories and more, here are exquisite examples of how to use monograms as your "personal logo" in stylish, elegant ways in any part of your home. KIMBERLY SCHLEGEL.
Federal Regulatory Directory: The Essential Guide to the ...

Federal Regulatory Directory: The Essential Guide to the ...

CQ Press

... by a recorded message service, (301) 415–1292, or by contacting Rochelle Bavol at (301) 415– 1651. To coordinate access for disabled persons, contact Kimberly Meyer-Chambers by phone at (301) 415–1224 or by e-mail at Kimberly.

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