wyszukanych pozycji: 5
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Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman
ISBN: 9780691115269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. In Men in Wonderland, Catherine Robson explores the ways in which various nineteenth-century British male authors constructed girlhood, and analyzes the nature of their investment in the figure of the girl. In so doing, she reveals the link between the idealization of little girls and a widespread fantasy of male development--a myth suggesting that men become... Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; b... |
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189,26 zł |
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Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem
ISBN: 9780691163376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who... Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades ea... |
cena:
151,41 zł |
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My Family's Journey: Memories of a Twentieth-Century Childhood?The "Good Old Days" of World Wars and the Great Depression
ISBN: 9781500139162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A grandmother recalls for her children and grandchildren the life she led as a young girl in a New York family made up of arrivals from Nova Scotia. Born to a Wall Street broker during the prosperous 1920s, Catherine Mathews recounts how her life changed when the stock market crashed in 1929, bringing on hard times for her family and necessitating a long series of moves from town to town, state to state. "We were part of a new down-and-out middle class," Mathews recounts, "on the move, looking for work, looking for a cheaper place to live." Then her brother was caught up in World War II, just...
A grandmother recalls for her children and grandchildren the life she led as a young girl in a New York family made up of arrivals from Nova Scotia. B...
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cena:
37,49 zł |
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Not Just for Kicks: Dublin, 2016
ISBN: 9781544168296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What does it take inside and out to compete in karate with world-class athletes? Follow our mother-daughter journey to find out
What does it take inside and out to compete in karate with world-class athletes? Follow our mother-daughter journey to find out
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cena:
66,11 zł |
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Off Highway: Journeys of Nova Scotia Writers
ISBN: 9780993833816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
52,92 zł |