Publication date: 1995-03
Dewey code: 780.8664
Price: $46.95
Review Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music / University of Minnesota Press:
Publication date: 1990-09-30
Dewey code: 818.5209
Price: $22.35
Review Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas / Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media:Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Publication date: 1989-06-26
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $72.95
Review Ned Rorem: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:As a composer and as an author, Ned Rorem occupies a position of considerable influence and importance in American music. His numerous musical works are performed frequently, and his critical writings offer unmatched insights into contemporary music. This bibliography will serve as an important resource for those seeking more information about this distinguished American composer and his works. The book is divided into four sections: a brief biography, a complete list of works and performances, a discography of commercially produced sound recordings, and a bibliography of writings by and about Ned Rorem. The list of works and performances includes Rorem's plays and books, works in preparation, and his musical compositions. The latter are classified by genre and arranged alphabetically within each category. Each entry provides as much information as possible about the date of composition and publication, publisher, duration, medium of performance, literary source, commission, dedication, and dates of the premiere and subsequent performances. A directory of publishers and their addresses is also provided. Citations in the discography are arranged by label and number and include contents, performers, date of issue, and album title. The bibliographical section includes annotations or brief quotations from the cited item. [+]Three appendixes complete the work. The first provides an alphabetical listing of Rorem's compositions, including individual songs in cycles, distinctive subtitles, working titles, and titles of unpublished works. Appendix II is a chronological list of compositions and Appendix III provides a list of the literary sources for Rorem's works. This unique reference tool belongs in all music reference collections.
Creator: Tilar J. Mazzeo
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $625.00
Price: $612.18
Review Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings (The Pickering Masters) / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:Following the success of Mary Shelley's Novels and Selected Works there was some regret that Mary Shelley's remaining writing remained unpublished. In particular, this includes her lyric poetry and her writing for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography as well as some material that has only recently been positively attributed to her. This can now be rectified with this four volume set that is edited to the same standard as the earlier edition. Publication of this material will allow libraries to complete the canon of Mary Shelley's work at a time when her literary reputation and interest in her continues to grow.
Creator: Stephen Bending
Publication date: 2008-04-30
Dewey code: 792.028092242
List Price: $750.00
Price: $749.99
Review WOMEN'S THEATRICAL MEMOIRS (Chawton House Library Series) / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:By the close of the eighteenth century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. The texts brought together in this ten-volume facsimile collection present the lives of some of the most celebrated actresses of their day. As well as offering fascinating accounts of the late eighteenth-century stage, these memoirs also provide revealing insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame. The features include: all texts are republished in full; selected for their rarity, the texts are drawn from Chawton House's unparalleled collection; and, most of the texts included have never before been republished. Each set in the series includes a substantial general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in their final volume. Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original.
Edition: Premium
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 910
Price: $19.99
Review The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont / IndyPublish.com:So we started off into the unknown, with no more provision or equipment than if we were going for a stroll of a mile or so. Yamba carried her yam-stick and basket, and I had my usual weapons- -tomahawk and stiletto in my belt, and bow and arrows in my hand. I never dreamed when we started that to strike due south would take us into the unexplored heart of the continent.
Publication date: 1989-12
Dewey code: 759.9492
Price: $160.00
Review Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age (Aetas Aurea, 9.) / Davaco Publishers:
Creator: Deborah Klezmer
Publication date: 2002-06
Dewey code: 920.7203
List Price: $1,890.00
Price: $699.99
Review Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia / Yorkin Publications:
Creator: Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1999-12-03
Dewey code: 810.9928703
Price: $540.00
Review American Women Writers Edition 2. / St. James Press:Offering up-to-date coverage of 1,300 writers (100 new to this edition) and spanning from colonial days to the present, American Women Writers offers biography, criticism, bibliography and much more. Look for essays from 400 to 5,000 words assessing each writer's works; basic biographies; complete bibliographies; comprehensive data on writers' names, including pseudonyms, aliases, parents' names and husbands' names; and more. This edition includes the best-known names: Rachel Blau DuPlessis; Sue Grafton; Donna Haraway; Lucy Lippard; Jane Smiley; Jacqueline Mitchard; Anne Waldman; etc. as well as updated or rewritten entries on outstanding writers from the fields of anthropology, religion, psychology and history: Ruth Benedict, Karen Horney, Margaret Mead, Barbara Tuchman, to name a few. This resource also includes hundreds of unjustly ignored writers who address themselves in journals, letters, stories, even hymns to their world and time. This edition of American Women Writers is enhanced with indexes and lists that make it possible to access data by author or title. It promises concise, up-to-date critical assessments for students and teachers of American literature; enhances the interests of young or seasoned feminists; and offers good reading for browsers and popular culture fans.
Creator: Juile Peakman
Publication date: 2007-06-30
Dewey code: 306.7420922
List Price: $625.00
Price: $624.99
Review Whore Biographies, 1700-1825, Part 2: Vols. 5-8 / Pickering & Chatto Ltd:Across eight meticulously edited volumes, this two-part collection of carefully selected and extremely rare texts focuses on autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets. These provide invaluable primary sources for the study of sexuality, gender, women's studies and the literature and history of the eighteenth century. This new edition brings together an assortment of well-chosen primary material, offering academics easy access to as yet underused resources. This second part focuses on the genre of courtesans' autobiographies, on the little-known memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Julia Johnstone and Mrs Leeson. These autobiographies express the views of the women themselves: what they thought of their paramours; the sexual double standard; their jealousies; their friends; of chastity and infidelity. Descriptions of some of the leading figures of the day also feature in this part.
Publication date: 1991-06
Price: $19.95
Review Case of Injustice: A True Story of a Woman Scorned / Palatine Pr:
Creator: Jeffrey W. Hunter
Publication date: 2004-11
Dewey code: 809.89287
List Price: $1,026.00
Price: $1,024.99
Review Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion (6 volume set) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 2002-04
Review A Song Flung Up to Heaven / Random House:
Publication date: 1991-07-15
Dewey code: 746.92092
Price: $150.00
Review Madeleine Vionnet / Rizzoli:
Publication date: 1997-09-01
Dewey code: 811.0099287
Price: $47.50
Review Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self (Poets on Poetry) / University of Michigan Press:The sense of self in poetry written by women is historically elusive, certainly less culturally defined than in poems by men. Yet it has ended up, in the present climate of truth-telling, autobiography, and testimony, that the positioning of the self as autobiographical referent in poetry has become central to our reading of poems by women. In Women and Poetry, poet Carol Muske focuses a critical eye on her writings over the last fifteen years in an effort to investigate her evolving attitudes on the subject of women poets and the self. Muske argues that the poem of "testimony," created in part by the reinforcement of critics, has dramatically overshadowed the diverse variety and range of poems by women. She reexaminines what many have taken for granted for some time now-that the poem of testimony "fits" women's needs in particular, as if it were a defining characteristic. Springboarding from Muriel Rukeyser's famous lines, "If just one women told the truth about her life/the world would split open," Muske retorts with a question of her own, "What truth?" In so doing, she illustrates a split in women's poetry between those whose self stood as representative of truth or moral narrative, and those who continued to write as if the self were a fiction. In her engaging introductory essay, Muske reflects on these and other pressing questions concerning the current state of women and poetry. Carol Muske has published five collections of poetry, most recently Red Trousseau. She writes frequently for the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Nation, Parnassus, and the Washington Post Book World. Currently she is Professor of English, University of Southern California.
Publication date: 1980-12
Price: $166.00
Review W.-A. Mozart: Sa Vie Musicale Et Son Oeuvre. Repr of the Ed Pub by Desclee De Brouwer, Paris. 2 Vol Set (2275p) / Da Capo Press:
Publication date: 1991-12
List Price: $584.00
Price: $584.00
Review Peter Simon Pallas (Veroffentlichungen Der Historischen Kimmission Zu Berlin, Bd 80/I-Bd 80/II) / Walter De Gruyter Inc:
Publication date: 1999-04
Dewey code: 759.5
List Price: $101.00
Price: $550.00
Review Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art: Critical Reading and Catalogue Raisonne / Pennsylvania State Univ Pr:A beautifully illustrated study of the life and works of this influential seventeenth-century woman artist, including the first catalogue raisonné of her autograph works. One of the most memorable creative personalities of the Baroque age and arguably the most forcefully expressive and influential woman painter in history, the Roman-born Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1652/3) has become the central figure in the recovery of the history of art produced by women. Applying a rigorous methodology, this profusely illustrated study with interpretative text and catalogue raisonné embeds Gentileschi’s pictorially and emotionally compelling pictures within the actual sociocultural contexts in and for which they were created. The interpretive text analyzes key pictures and primary literary evidence to reveal the sweep of Artemisia’s oeuvre, chart her travels, define her standing with artists and patrons of the period, investigate the links between her financial situations and the artistic decisions that she made, and assess the validity of proposals regarding her activity as a still-life painter, her access to professional organizations, her level of literacy, and the nature of her subject matter. Exploring the question of the interrelationships among Gentileschi ’s gender and experiences as a woman, the state of her psyche, and her art, the text also confronts—and often challenges—the widely embraced feminist interpretation of her pictures. Many of the conclusions in the text are supported by an extensive register of archival documents and by the very core of the study: the first and only catalogue raisonné of Artemisia’s autograph works, each of the fifty-seven pictures exhaustively investigated as to basic factual information, condition and color, iconography, history, documentation and dating, existing copies, and bibliography. Catalogues of misattribued and lost paintings complete this comprehensive volume.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-06-26
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $570.00
Price: $570.00
Review International Who's Who in Classical Music and Popular Music 2003 Set / Routledge:This specially priced set includes both the International Who's Who in Popular Music 2003 and the International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003. The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2003 provides biographical details on some of the most talented, influential and up-and-coming artists and individuals from the world of popular music. Now in its fifth edition, it includes over 5,000 biographies charting the achievements and careers of pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world, and country artists throughout the world. The International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003 provides an invaluable and practical source of biographical information on classical musicians, composers and conductors, as well as the organizations associated with them. Covering the classical and light classical fields, it brings together reliable and up-to-date information on an exhaustive range of people and organizations.
Creator: Julie Peakman
Publication date: 2006-11-19
Dewey code: 306.7420922
List Price: $625.00
Price: $624.99
Review Whore Biographies, 1700-1825, Part 1: Vols. 1-4 / Pickering & Chatto Ltd:Across eight meticulously edited volumes, this two-part collection of carefully selected and extremely rare texts focuses on autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets. These provide invaluable primary sources for the study of sexuality, gender, women's studies and the literature and history of the eighteenth century. This new edition brings together an assortment of well-chosen primary material, offering academics easy access to as yet underused resources. This, the first part, contains biographies of well-known whores such as Fanny Murray, Sally Salisbury and Nancy Dawson, as well as lesser-known prostitutes such as Phoebe Phillips and Fanny Davies. It also contains texts on contemporary views on prostitution. These works have never before been printed in their full unexpurgated versions since the eighteenth century. There are full editorial apparatus, including substantial general introduction to each part, headnotes to each text and endnotes. There is a fully consolidated index for the complete set in the final volume, and original footnotes or asides are included. Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original.
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Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music, Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas, Ned Rorem: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music), Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings (The Pickering Masters), WOMEN'S THEATRICAL MEMOIRS (Chawton House Library Series), The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont, Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age (Aetas Aurea, 9.), Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia, American Women Writers Edition 2., Whore Biographies, 1700-1825, Part 2: Vols. 5-8, Case of Injustice: A True Story of a Woman Scorned, Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion (6 volume set), A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Madeleine Vionnet, Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self (Poets on Poetry), W.-A. Mozart: Sa Vie Musicale Et Son Oeuvre. Repr of the Ed Pub by Desclee De Brouwer, Paris. 2 Vol Set (2275p), Peter Simon Pallas (Veroffentlichungen Der Historischen Kimmission Zu Berlin, Bd 80/I-Bd 80/II), Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art: Critical Reading and Catalogue Raisonne, International Who's Who in Classical Music and Popular Music 2003 Set, Whore Biographies, 1700-1825, Part 1: Vols. 1-4Top headlines: Yum! Pistachio-crusted goat cheese salad: Why Democrats gave Big Three a reprieve: A look at the political reasoning behind the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to give the Big Three auto makers another shot at a $25 billion loan. ›21:49 Drugs: Meet Mexicos Suspected Queenpin: Sexy, stylish and female. Meet Mexicos unlikely druglord suspect. ›22:00 10 Oct, Wed Climate crusader to chair House energy panel: Rep. 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