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Thinking Against the Current
Sybil Oldfield
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Description for Thinking Against the Current
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
This collection of literary/historical essays, written 1970-2010, covers political subjects as diverse as 17th Century Quaker persecution history, the social impact of Malthus, the self-emancipation of English women, Eleanor Rathbone on the human rights of girls and German women's resistance to Hitler. The more literary subjects include the social thinking of the English Romantics, Dickens' Great Expectations, Simone Weil's great essays attacking militarism and Virginia Woolf's opposition to the State -- as well as contemporary American women poets on the problem of war. But despite all its diversity, this collection has one unifying theme -- the necessity for resistance, for ... Read more
This collection of literary/historical essays, written 1970-2010, covers political subjects as diverse as 17th Century Quaker persecution history, the social impact of Malthus, the self-emancipation of English women, Eleanor Rathbone on the human rights of girls and German women's resistance to Hitler. The more literary subjects include the social thinking of the English Romantics, Dickens' Great Expectations, Simone Weil's great essays attacking militarism and Virginia Woolf's opposition to the State -- as well as contemporary American women poets on the problem of war. But despite all its diversity, this collection has one unifying theme -- the necessity for resistance, for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845195946
SKU
V9781845195946
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About Sybil Oldfield
Sybil Oldfield, Emeritus Reader in English, University of Sussex, is the author of Spinsters of This Parish; Women Against the Iron Fist, 19001989; The Collective Biography of Women in Britain 15501900; British Women Humanitarians 19001950; Afterwords Letters on the Death of Virginia Woolf; and Jeanie, an Army of One' Mrs. Nassau Senior 18281877, the First Woman in Whitehall. She has ... Read more
Reviews for Thinking Against the Current
"The book will inspire its readers and perhaps shock many at the extent of their own lack of awareness. There is an almost hidden history of political resistance which is so often ignored or concealed by the dominant ideology within which it sought voice. The book is a wellspring of ideas for future researchers who wish to explore further this ... Read more