The forerunner of today's book clubs, nineteenth-century literary societies provided a lively social and intellectual forum where people could gather and discuss books, cultural affairs, and current events. In Come, bright Improvement Heather Murray explores the literary societies of Ontario between 1820 and 1900 - some of which are still in existence today - and examines the extent to which they mirrored or challenged contemporary social, political, and intellectual trends.
Based on a wealth of original research with periodicals and local archival materials, Murray traces...
The forerunner of today's book clubs, nineteenth-century literary societies provided a lively social and intellectual forum where people could gath...
This book operates from one basic contention-that in order to understand and reform the discipline of English, it is first necessary to shift the focus of examination down and back. This crudely spatializes what could be put in other terms: that we have a great deal to learn about the day-to-day operations and practices of English studies; and that present examinations will be much more effective when grounded in a history that includes both disciplinary developments and their cultural contexts.
This book operates from one basic contention-that in order to understand and reform the discipline of English, it is first necessary to shift the focu...
Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from disapproving families. "Not in This Family" challenges this myth and shows how kinship ties were an animating force in gay culture, politics, and consciousness throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.
Historian Heather Murray gives voice to gays and their parents through an extensive use of introspective writings, particularly personal correspondence and diaries, as well as through published memoirs, fiction, poetry, song lyrics, movies, and visual and print media....
Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from disapproving families. "Not in This F...
