For much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. *The Life of Saul Bellow* , by the literary scholar and biographer Zachary Leader, marks the centenary of Bellow's birth as well as the tenth anniversary of his death. It draws on unprecedented access to Bellow's papers, including much previously restricted material, as well as interviews with more than 150 of the novelist's relatives, close friends, colleagues, and lovers, a number of whom have never spoken to researchers before. Through detailed exploration of Bellow's writings, and the private history that informed them, Leader chronicles a singular life in letters, offering original and nuanced accounts not only of the novelist's development and rise to eminence, but of his many identities--as writer, polemicist, husband, father, Chicagoan, Jew, American.The biography will be published in two volumes. The first volume, *To Fame and Fortune: 1915-1964* , traces Bellow's Russian roots; his birth and early childhood in Quebec; his years in Chicago; his travels in Mexico, Europe, and Israel; the first three of his five marriages; and the novels from *Dangling Man* and *The Adventures of Augie March* to the best-selling *Herzog.* New light is shed on Bellow's fellow writers, including Ralph Ellison, John Berryman, Lionel Trilling, and Philip Roth, and on his turbulent and influential life away from the desk, which was as full of incident as his fiction. Bellow emerges as a compelling character, and Leader's powerful accounts of his writings, published and unpublished, forward the case for his being, as the critic James Wood puts it, "the greatest of American prose stylists in the twentieth century."words : 338193

A collection of papers, largely based on clinical work, which covers a range of concepts and mechanisms which are central to any psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, or adults. It addresses an issue which lies at the heart of human relationships, that of intimacy.

When this second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow opens, Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters - rich, famous, critically acclaimed. The expected trajectory is one of decline: volume 1, rise; volume 2, fall. Bellow never fell, producing some of his greatest fiction ( Mr Sammler's Planet , Humboldt's Gift , all his best stories), winning two more National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize. At eighty, he wrote his last story; at eighty-five, he wrote Ravelstein. In this volume, his life away from the desk, including his love life, is if anything more dramatic than in volume 1. In the public sphere, he is embroiled in controversy over foreign affairs, race, religion, education, social policy, the state of culture, the fate of the novel. Bellow's relations with women were often fraught. In the 1960s he was compulsively promiscuous (even as he inveighed against sexual liberation). The women he pursued, the ones he married and those with whom he had affairs, were intelligent, attractive and strong-willed. At eighty-five he fathered his fourth child, a daughter, with his fifth wife. His three sons, whom he loved, could be as volatile as he was, and their relations with their father were often troubled. Although an early and engaged supporter of civil rights, in the second half of his life Bellow was angered by the excesses of Black Power. An opponent of cultural relativism, he exercised great influence in literary and intellectual circles, advising a host of institutes and foundations, helping those he approved of, hindering those of whom he disapproved. In making his case, he could be cutting and rude; he could also be charming, loyal, and funny. Bellow's heroic energy and will are clear to the very end of his life. His immense achievement and its cost, to himself and others, are also clear.

As State Control Of Private Life In China Has Loosened Since 1980, Citizens Have Experienced An Unprecedented Family Revolution--an Overhaul Of Family Structure, Marital Practices, And Gender Relationships. While The Nuclear Family Has Become A Privileged Realm Of Romance And Individualism Symbolizing The Post-revolutionary Freedoms Of Economic And Affective Autonomy, Women's Roles In Particular Have Been Transformed, With The Ideal Iron Girl Of Socialism Replaced By The Feminine, Family-oriented Ïgood Wife And Wise Mother. Problems And Contradictions In This New Domestic Culture Have Been Exposed By China's Soaring Divorce Rate. Reading Popular Divorce Narratives In Fiction, Film, And Tv Drama, Hui Faye Xiao Shows That The Representation Of Marital Discord Has Become A Cultural Battleground For Competing Ideologies Within Post-revolutionary China. While These Narratives Present Women's Cultivation Of Wifely And Maternal Qualities As The Cure For Family Disintegration And Social Unrest, Xiao Shows That They In Fact Reflect A Problematic Resurgence Of Traditional Gender Roles And A Powerful Mode Of Control Over Supposedly Autonomous Private Life.hui Faye Xiao Is Assistant Professor Of Modern Chinese Literature And Culture At The University Of Kansas.an Original And Important Contribution To The Scholarship On Chinese Culture In The Post-mao Era With A Breadth Of Perspective And Depth Of Insight That Few Works Have Matched. A Devastating Critique Of The Social, Economic, And Cultural Regendering Of China In The Reform Era. -jason Mcgrath, University Of Minnesotainsightfully Manages To Situate The Chosen Texts In Relation To The Larger Contexts Of Ideological And Socioeconomic Changes. -xueping Zhong, Tufts University-- Divorcing The Rural: Miss Science And Marital Crisis In The Reform Era -- Midlife Crisis And Misogynist Rhetoric: Male Intellectuals' Divorce Narratives -- Utopia Or Dystopia?: The Sisterhood Of Divorced Women -- What Quality Do Chinese Wives Lack? Performing Middle-classness In Chinese-style Divorce -- Seeking Second Chances In A Risk Society: The Cinema Of Divorce In The New Millennium -- A New Divorce Culture: Rupture And Reconstruction -- Appendix 1. Television Dramas About Divorce, 1990--2010 -- Appendix 2. Feature Films About Divorce, 2000--2010. Hui Faye Xiao. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This collection highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment. Scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and art history reveal new facets of the colonial experience by emphasizing the wide range of indigenous individuals who used knowledge to subvert, undermine, critique, and sometimes enhance colonial power. Seeking to understand the political, social, and cultural impact of indigenous intellectuals, the contributors examine both ideological and practical forms of knowledge. Their understanding of "intellectual" encompasses the creators of written texts and visual representations, functionaries and bureaucrats who interacted with colonial agents and institutions, and organic intellectuals. Contributors: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Kathryn Burns, John Charles, Alan Durston, María Elena Martínez, Tristan Platt, Gabriela Ramos, Susan Schroeder, John F. Schwaller, Camilla Townsend, Eleanor Wake, Yanna Yannakakis

In 1999, the hurlers of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield won the All-Ireland club championship. That winter, they became only the second club in history to win successive Munster club titles, and the following March they became the only Munster club to reach successive All-Ireland club finals. Ten years on, St Joseph's is in a totally different place, well down the pecking order not just nationally, but in County Clare. the senior team is still spearheaded by many members of the 1999 All-Ireland winning team, who are raging at the dying of the light. At the beginning of the 2009 season, the team, club and parish were deeply wounded by two family tragedies. One of those tragedies - the sudden death of one member of the 1999 team - cut deep into the soul of the senior team. And that was not the last tragedy to strike the club ... As part of the healing process, the senior team made a pact to honour the memory of those lost by defying the odds and becoming county champions once again. A campaign fuelled by emotion and pain began promisingly, but slowly began to unravel into one of the stormiest and controversial in the club's history. The story of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield is unique; but it is also a story that anyone connected with one of the 1,700 other GAA clubs will relate to. From player infighting to player-management stand-offs, team-bonding and on-pitch battles, The Club is a chronicle of the 2009 season told with unflinching honesty by Christy O'Connor, who covers GAA for the Sunday Times and who has been the St Joseph's senior team goalkeeper for 20 years. This is a story like no other, a fly-on-the-wall tale of the effort, agony and struggles that define the journey undertaken every season by every club side. This is grass-roots GAA at its purest and rawest, a great story brilliantly told.

"Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. For them, becoming 'enlightened' meant diversion, status seeking, satisfying curiosity about the tropical environment, and making sense of the brutal societies and the enslaved Africans"-- Provided by publisher

Using the community of the Waxhaws as his proving ground, Peter N. Moore challenges the notion that the Carolina upcountry was a static, undeveloped backwater until entrepreneurial cotton planters entered the region after 1800. Moore looks through the lens of a single community - a predominately Scots-Irish settlement in the lower Catawba River valley in what is today Fairfield, Lancaster, York, and Chester counties - to document the social, economic, and cultural characteristics of a locale that was dynamic before planters set their sights on piedmont South Carolina. Moore shows that social tensions within the Waxhaw community drove its transformation, rather than the land-grabbing speculators and aggressive planters. He identifies the forces for change within the Waxhaw community - immigration patterns, neighborhood rivalries, population growth, and developing markets for slaves and wheat. By 1800 the Waxhaws bore little resemblance to the backcountry community of the late colonial period. Moore complicates the broader picture of the transformation of the southern interior. He also contributes to the debate over the rural transition to capitalism and engages the literature of the evangelical Great Revival to demonstrate the influence of revivals, familial loyalties, and doctrinal differences on the region's religious culture. Telling a more inclusive story than many studies of the late-colonial piedmont, ""World of Toil and Strife"" points to the importance of Indian-white conflicts in shaping both the geography of local communities and the mentality of white settlers. Throughout the volume, Moore relocates the origins of southernness to an earlier period, arguing that commercial agriculture, slavery, and evangelical religion took hold in the upcountry immediately after the Revolution, long before the arrival of cotton culture.

Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This collection highlights the critical role that indigenous intellectuals played in this cultural ferment. Scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and art history reveal new facets of the colonial experience by emphasizing the wide range of indigenous individuals who used knowledge to subvert, undermine, critique, and sometimes enhance colonial power. Seeking to understand the political, social, and cultural impact of indigenous intellectuals, the contributors examine both ideological and practical forms of knowledge. Their understanding of "intellectual" encompasses the creators of written texts and visual representations, functionaries and bureaucrats who interacted with colonial agents and institutions, and organic intellectuals. Contributors. Elizabeth Hill Boone, Kathryn Burns, John Charles, Alan Durston, María Elena Martínez, Tristan Platt, Gabriela Ramos, Susan Schroeder, John F. Schwaller, Camilla Townsend, Eleanor Wake, Yanna Yannakakis

"Based on thorough archival research combined with stunning visual analysis, Maya Stanfield-Mazzi demonstrates that Andeans were active agents in Catholic image-making and created a particularly Andean version of Catholicism. Object and Apparition describes the unique features of Andean Catholicism while illustrating its connections to both Spanish and Andean cultural traditions"--Provided by publisher. Abstract: "Based on thorough archival research combined with stunning visual analysis, Maya Stanfield-Mazzi demonstrates that Andeans were active agents in Catholic image-making and created a particularly Andean version of Catholicism. Object and Apparition describes the unique features of Andean Catholicism while illustrating its connections to both Spanish and Andean cultural traditions"--Provided by publisher

A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as Spain colonized the Quechua-speaking Andean world, the communication of religious beliefs and practices--especially the practice of confession--to the native population became a primary concern, and as a result, expansive bodies of Spanish ecclesiastic literature were translated into Quechua. In this fascinating study of the semantic changes evident in translations of Catholic catechisms, sermons, and manuals, Regina Harrison demonstrates how the translated texts often retained traces of ancient Andean modes of thought, despite the didactic lessons they contained.In Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru, Harrison draws directly from confession manuals to demonstrate how sin was newly defined in Quechua lexemes, how the role of women was circumscribed to fit Old World patterns, and how new monetized perspectives on labor and trade were taught to the subjugated indigenous peoples of the Andes by means of the Ten Commandments. Although outwardly confession appears to be an instrument of oppression, the reformer Bartolome de Las Casas influenced priests working in the Andes; through their agency, confessional practice ultimately became a political weapon to compel Spanish restitution of Incan lands and wealth. Bringing together an unprecedented study (and translation) of Quechua religious texts with an expansive history of Andean and Spanish transculturation, Harrison uses the lens of confession to understand the vast and telling ways in which language changed at the intersection of culture and religion.

__Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes__ examines the little known province of Mizque and its colonial populations from 1550 to 1782. Mizque's sub-puna valleys, lowland plains, and tropical forests boasted multiple desirable ecological zones. It was inhabited by diverse Andean ethnic groups, some with Amazonian ties and some who were aggressive warriors. The Spanish conquest of the region, incomplete at best, reconfigured the land and labor systems and created a hinterland-to-highland colonial market system, fostering an economic boom in wine, sugar, coca, and livestock. African slaves brought in to supplement the rapidly declining indigenous labor force further contributed to demographic and economic change beyond the control of the Spanish imperial state. Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington's work also analyzes how imperial control met with resistance and how Africans, Indians, and Spaniards, and their descendants interacted with one another. Her study uncovers an intersection and cross-fertilization of sociocultural measurements identifiable in the workplace, courts, church, and private lives. Brockington innovatively uses Spanish colonial documentary sources, including serial financial accounts of wealthy orphans, court cases, parish records, and census information of hacienda workers to elucidate race, ethnic, class, and gender issues within the colonial reality of contradiction and ambiguity.

Examining the vivid, often apocalyptic church murals of Peru from the early colonial period through the nineteenth century, Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between explores the sociopolitical situation represented by the artists who generated these murals for rural parishes. Arguing that the murals were embedded in complex networks of trade, commerce, and the exchange of ideas between the Andes and Europe, Ananda Cohen-Aponte also considers the ways in which artists and viewers worked through difficult questions of envisioning sacredness. This study brings to light the fact that, unlike the murals of New Spain, the murals of the Andes possess few direct visual connections to a pre-Columbian painting tradition; the Incas' preference for abstracted motifs created a problem for visually translating Catholic doctrine to indigenous congregations, as the Spaniards were unable to read Inca visual culture. Nevertheless, as Cohen Suarez demonstrates, colonial murals of the Andes can be seen as a reformulation of a long-standing artistic practice of adorning architectural spaces with images that command power and contemplation. Drawing on extensive secondary and archival sources, including account books from the churches, as well as on colonial Spanish texts, Cohen Suarez urges us to see the murals not merely as decoration or as tools of missionaries but as visual archives of the complex negotiations among empire, communities, and individuals.

As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution-an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism symbolizing the post-revolutionary "freedoms" of economic and affective autonomy, women's roles in particular have been transformed, with the ideal "iron girl" of socialism replaced by the feminine, family-oriented "good wife and wise mother." Problems and contradictions in this new domestic culture have been exposed by China's soaring divorce rate. Reading popular "divorce narratives" in fiction, film, and TV drama, Hui Faye Xiao shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. While these narratives present women's cultivation of wifely and maternal qualities as the cure for family disintegration and social unrest, Xiao shows that they in fact reflect a problematic resurgence of traditional gender roles and a powerful mode of control over supposedly autonomous private life. Review For those who do not study contemporary China or for those who need English translations or subtitles to gain access to these stories and films, this book is a gold mine....[B]ecause Xiao so frequently engages European social theory and film criticism, the book addresses the urgent need to integrate Chinese experiences and analyses into intellectual discourse that focuses primarily on the literature and films of the Americas and Europe.--Deborah Davis"Journal of Asian Studies" (01/01/2015) Hui Faye Xiao makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the cultural representation of marital strife in contemporary China....Combining insightful aesthetic understanding of literature and visual culture with a savvy engagement of knowledge from sociology and cultural anthropology, Xiao's book presents important scholarship on the gendered reading of postsocialist Chinese modernity with a genealogical approach.--Yipeng Shen"Modern Chinese Literature and Culture" (01/01/2015) Through the lense of divorce narratives in literature and visual culture, the book produces an in-depth cultural study of the 'family revolution' in the People's Republic of China between 1980 and 2010....?Divorce culture, as [Xiao's] skillful reading shows, reveals postsocialist subjects' eager desire to move forward to a utopic future, but it always fails to deliver in reality.... "Family Revolution" is a well-researched book with a coherent structure, theoretically informed arguments, and intriguing close reading, making it a wonderful addition to the scholarship on postsocialist Chinese culture and/or Chinese women's and gender studies.--Ping Zhu"H-Asia (H-Net)" (01/01/2015) For those who do not study contemporary China or for those who need English translations or subtitles to gain access to these stories and films, this book is a gold mine....[B]ecause Xiao so frequently engages European social theory and film criticism, the book addresses the urgent need to integrate Chinese experiences and analyses into intellectual discourse that focuses primarily on the literature and films of the Americas and Europe. --Deborah Davis"Journal of Asian Studies" (01/01/2015) Hui Faye Xiao makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the cultural representation of marital strife in contemporary China....Combining insightful aesthetic understanding of literature and visual culture with a savvy engagement of knowledge from sociology and cultural anthropology, Xiao's book presents important scholarship on the gendered reading of postsocialist Chinese modernity with a genealogical approach. --Yipeng Shen"Modern Chinese Literature and Culture" (01/01/2015) Through the lense of divorce narratives in literature and visual culture, the book produces an in-depth cultural study of the 'family revolution' in the People's Republic of China between 1980 and 2010.... Divorce culture, as [Xiao's] skillful reading shows, reveals postsocialist subjects' eager desire to move forward to a utopic future, but it always fails to deliver in reality....  Family Revolution  is a well-researched book with a coherent structure, theoretically informed arguments, and intriguing close reading, making it a wonderful addition to the scholarship on postsocialist Chinese culture and/or Chinese women's and gender studies. --Ping Zhu"H-Asia (H-Net)" (01/01/2015) Review "An original and important contribution to the scholarship on Chinese culture in the post―Mao era with a breadth of perspective and depth of insight that few works have matched. A devastating critique of the social, economic, and cultural regendering of China in the reform era."―Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota "Insightfully manages to situate the chosen texts in relation to the larger contexts of ideological and socioeconomic changes."―Xueping Zhong, Tufts University Chinese Asian Literary Criticism Contents 8 Preface 10 Introduction: Family Revolution, Divorce Representations 16 1. Divorcing the Rural: Miss Science and Marital Crisis in the Reform Era 40 2. Midlife Crisis and Misogynist Rhetoric: Male Intellectuals’ Divorce Narratives 65 3. Utopia or Dystopia?: The Sisterhood of Divorced Women 98 4. What Quality Do Chinese Wives Lack? Performing Middle-Classness in Chinese-Style Divorce 129 5. Seeking Second Chances in a Risk Society: The Cinema of Divorce in the New Millennium 153 6. A New Divorce Culture: Rupture and Reconstruction 190 Appendix 1: Television Dramas about Divorce, 1990–2010 198 Appendix 2: Feature Films about Divorce, 2000–2010 202 Notes 204 Bibliography 224 Index 254

When the Spanish landed on the coast of what is today Peru in 1532, they encountered the socially complex, artistically vibrant Inca Empire, whose vast, geographically diverse domain encompassed almost the entire length of the rugged Andes. Inca master weavers and metalsmiths, building on thousands of years of local artisanal mastery, had created a spectacular body of imperial art whose bold, mostly geometric designs were powerful expressions of Inca identity and sovereignty. Within one generation that culture had been forever transformed by the establishment of the viceroyalty of Peru. The remarkable exchange of cultures that ensued brought Europe and the New World together through a vibrant trade in goods, services, and ideas, creating a unique society that was richer and far more intriguing than the mere sum of its influences.

In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions of blood from the nose and mouth. Most died within days. The great Andean pandemic of 1717–22 was likely the most destructive disease to strike South America since the days of the Spanish conquest. __Pandemic in Potosí__ features the single longest narrative of this nearly forgotten period, penned by local historian Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, along with shorter treatments of the disease’s ravages in Cuzco, Arequipa, and the outskirts of Lima. The “Gran Peste,” as it was called, was a pivotal event about which Arzáns wrote at length because he lived through it, but also because it was believed to have cosmic significance. Kris Lane translates and contextualizes Arzáns’s account, which is rich in local detail that sheds light on a range of topics—from therapeutics, devotional life, class relations, gender, and race to conceptions of illness, sin, and human will and responsibility during a major public health crisis. Original narratives of the pandemic, translated here for the first time, help readers see commonalities and differences between past and present disease encounters. Designed for use in courses on Latin American history, this concise work will also interest scholars and students of the history of religion, history of medicine, urban studies, and epidemiology.

When this second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow opens, Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters - rich, famous, critically acclaimed. The expected trajectory is one of decline: volume 1, rise; volume 2, fall. Bellow never fell, producing some of his greatest fiction ( Mr Sammler's Planet , Humboldt's Gift , all his best stories), winning two more National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize. At eighty, he wrote his last story; at eighty-five, he wrote Ravelstein. In this volume, his life away from the desk, including his love life, is if anything more dramatic than in volume 1. In the public sphere, he is embroiled in controversy over foreign affairs, race, religion, education, social policy, the state of culture, the fate of the novel. Bellow's relations with women were often fraught. In the 1960s he was compulsively promiscuous (even as he inveighed against sexual liberation). The women he pursued, the ones he married and those with whom he had affairs, were intelligent, attractive and strong-willed. At eighty-five he fathered his fourth child, a daughter, with his fifth wife. His three sons, whom he loved, could be as volatile as he was, and their relations with their father were often troubled. Although an early and engaged supporter of civil rights, in the second half of his life Bellow was angered by the excesses of Black Power. An opponent of cultural relativism, he exercised great influence in literary and intellectual circles, advising a host of institutes and foundations, helping those he approved of, hindering those of whom he disapproved. In making his case, he could be cutting and rude; he could also be charming, loyal, and funny. Bellow's heroic energy and will are clear to the very end of his life. His immense achievement and its cost, to himself and others, are also clear. ** Review “As a friend to Saul and as an awestruck admirer of his astonishing work, I was not always at ease reading portions of this painfully intimate biography. Nonetheless, the book's sweep and majesty—like that of its subject—are not to be denied. All the personal strife is there, the controversies and the disasters, his magical power of observation, that intellect, along with a meticulous record of how, with what labor—the peasant doggedness and the meticulous workmanship and the grinding patience and the hard won inspiration—the great novels came to be written.” —Philip Roth "This masterful account of the second half of Bellow’s life is impressive in both content and accessibility... A compulsively readable biography." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This is a top-notch exploration of one of the most important midcentury writers." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *** "This is biography at its best and will appeal widely." —Library Journal * (starred review) "A comprehensive and intimate biography." —Jewish Week About the Author ZACHARY LEADER is professor of English literature at the Uni­versity of Roehampton in London. Although born and raised in the United States, he has lived in Britain for more than forty years and has dual British and American citizenship. In addi­tion to teaching at Roehampton, he has held visiting profes­sorships at Caltech and the University of Chicago. He was educated at Northwestern University; Trinity College, Cam­bridge; and Harvard University; and is the author of Reading Blake’s Songs, Writer’s Block, Revision and Romantic Authorship, The Life of Kingsley Amis, a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915–1964. He has edited Romantic Period Writings, 1798–1832: An Anthology (with Ian Haywood); The Letters of Kingsley Amis; On Modern British Fiction; Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works (with Michael O’Neill); The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and Their Contemporaries; and On Life-Writing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series.

For much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. __The Life of Saul Bellow__, by the literary scholar and biographer Zachary Leader, marks the centenary of Bellow's birth as well as the tenth anniversary of his death. It draws on unprecedented access to Bellow's papers, including much previously restricted material, as well as interviews with more than 150 of the novelist's relatives, close friends, colleagues, and lovers, a number of whom have never spoken to researchers before. Through detailed exploration of Bellow's writings, and the private history that informed them, Leader chronicles a singular life in letters, offering original and nuanced accounts not only of the novelist's development and rise to eminence, but of his many identities--as writer, polemicist, husband, father, Chicagoan, Jew, American. The biography will be published in two volumes. The first volume, __To Fame and Fortune: 1915-1964__, traces Bellow's Russian roots; his birth and early childhood in Quebec; his years in Chicago; his travels in Mexico, Europe, and Israel; the first three of his five marriages; and the novels from __Dangling Man__ and __The Adventures of Augie March__ to the best-selling __Herzog.__ New light is shed on Bellow's fellow writers, including Ralph Ellison, John Berryman, Lionel Trilling, and Philip Roth, and on his turbulent and influential life away from the desk, which was as full of incident as his fiction. Bellow emerges as a compelling character, and Leader's powerful accounts of his writings, published and unpublished, forward the case for his being, as the critic James Wood puts it, "the greatest of American prose stylists in the twentieth century."

This lively new book examines the origins of modern intimacy and domestic life. Focusing on Paris in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author explores the emergence and development of ideas such as 'sociability', 'comfort' and 'the home. On the basis of extensive and original research, Pardailhé-Galabrun describes early modern Paris as a city of contrasts: between buildings constructed as rental properties with ordinary, cramped facades, and the townhouses of the nobility, with carriage entrances, standing on lots alongside spacious courtyards and gardens. She has produced a vivid picture of the texture and warmth of life in the domestic world of pre-Revolutionary Parisians.

Dietrich von Hildebrand here explores the mystery of sexuality with a firm and beautiful Catholic understanding. He corrects mistakes some Christian authors make about marital sexuality, details the unique profundity of sexual desire, warns you about wrong approaches to sex that can destroy a marriage, explains the meaning of the conjugal act (it's much more than mere satisfaction of desire), and shows why modesty and purity are important even within marriage. He even reveals how to tell genuine from false love, and how the true lover regards his beloved's shortcomings!

Dom and Clara's Fake Dating StoryFake dating my enemy so I can design my dream bakery should be easy ... as long as I don't fall in love with him.Dominic Hardy might be an award-winning architectural engineer with fancy degrees and considerable accolades, but he doesn’t know a thing about baking. He doesn’t even like sugar.So when my late stepfather’s will states that Dominic Hardy is set to inherit the Pacific Coast Resort he’d painstakingly designed, as long as my bakery can be plopped in the middle of it, it’s no surprise he balks.Yet, my jaw drops when the will further requires us to mutually approve plans for my bakery’s design.His stuffy taste will never mix with my whimsical vibe.But then Dominic comes to me with a proposal I can’t refuse. He’ll give me everything I want in my bakery as long as I agree to oneFake date him for five months.Keep his ex away by pretending we’re in love.Smile and stare into his piercing green eyes at a gala or two.Maybe share a kiss.Nothing extreme.Five months of acting in love when I really loathe him and his filthy mouth.Even when he’s using it on me.This should be a cakewalk.Except there’s a fine line between love and loathing, and I think I’ve made the colossal mistake of blurring it.

Dr. Arthur Ciaramicoli believes that empathy is the driving force behind love-and that its power goes vastly unrecognized by most people. His book, <i>The Power of Empathy</i>, is an important new resource for people who hope to enrich their emotional lives, improve their communication skills, and explore the spiritual dimensions of the human capacity for love. While traditional relationship books emphasize loving each other and oneself, Ciaramicoli and Ketcham argue that they overlook the critical fact that love itself needs help-and that empathy is the solution. But empathy can do more than attract and foster love. <i>The Power of Empathy</i> shows how people can use empathy as an assessment tool in all their relationships. Empathy can signal when people are well-intentioned and when they are deceitful. It can shield people from manipulative strangers and strengthen the bonds between loved ones. It is an emotion that has been overlooked, underused, and misunderstood for too long. Both prescriptive and narrative, <i>The Power of Empathy</i> provides a practical framework for anyone to use empathy to better his or her life.

“Frazzetto uses psychology, neurology and biological information to explore the ways in which intimacy manifests in different types of relationships. He recounts the stories of eight relationships.... Each story puts intimacy and how we experience it on display.” —Concepción De León, The New York Times“Together, Closer examines the way humans relate to each other across a spectrum of relationships from parent-child to platonic friendships and, of course, romantic love.” —The Guardian “An ambitious project... Giovanni Frazzetto marries science with art, the most recent discoveries of neuroscience with human stories about intimacy.... A clear love of art and science shines from the book.” —The Irish TimesFor readers of Oliver Sacks and Stephen Grosz, a wondrous, deeply felt book that explores intimacy through the stories of eight relationships, from the author of Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love The bonds we are capable of feeling toward other people—how we know and belong to one another—provide fascinating glimpses into the intricacies of human behavior. Intimacy is that moment when our true identity is revealed to another, when traumas, fears, and ambitions are shared. Through the ordinary stories of eight relationships, Giovanni Frazzetto has woven an extraordinary narrative of togetherness. He shares the details of romantic partners trapped in a long cycle of attraction and rejection, a single woman who finds herself deep in a fictional relationship with a boyfriend she has invented out of frustration with her love life, and a couple absorbed in a years-long clandestine affair. But intimacy can also extend beyond romantic encounters: coping with the loss of a loved one, dealing with overbearing or emotionally distant parents, or celebrating the joys and comforts of our dearest friends. In Together, Closer, Frazzetto unravels the components of intimacy in all of these relationships, illuminating the mysteries, challenges, and pleasures of intimacy through a brilliant mix of storytelling and science.

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This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "spiritual consolidation" of cities. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, cities became home to the majority of friars and to the orders' wealthiest houses, and mendicants became deeply embedded in urban social and cultural life. Friars ministered to urban residents of all races and social standings and engaged in traditional mendicant activities, serving as preachers, confessors, spiritual directors, alms collectors, educators, scholars, and sponsors of charitable works. Each order brought to this work a distinct identity that informed people's beliefs and shaped variations in the practice of Catholicism. Contrary to prevailing views, mendicant orders flourished during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and even the eighteenth-century reforms that ended this era were not as devastating as has been assumed.Even in the face of new institutional challenges, the demand for their services continued through the end of the colonial period, demonstrating the continued vitality of baroque piety.

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## Acknowledgments For decades, thanks largely to modernist legacies, four forms of historical pessimism and philosophical skepticism have been common in the humanities and de rigueur in some bastions of literary theory. One does not logically entail another, but they share family resemblances, and when two or more combine, they capture a complex attitude of non-complicity in a stultifying status quo, disillusionment that yields intellectual liberation. First, disbelief in historical progress-the steady improvement of public-sphere life-was a major symptom of the First World War and an impetus to modernist originality across the arts. The Second World War, the social unrest of 1968, wars in Vietnam and elsewhere, the gathering threat of anthropogenic climate change, and in the last half decade, the global rise of ethnonationalism have been among the many reasons why this modernist-inflected form of skepticism has retained cachet. Second, disbelief in love, whether in the restricted forms that social norms permit, or in any form, has been a recurrent theme in literature by modernists and their legatees. While the "era of mandatory marriage" persisted, roughly through 1960, critiques of love often focused on its normative conventions; with the commencement of the era of "mass divorce" c. 1970, 1 such critiques have often focused on the fragility and impermanence of intimacy. But in each case, critics have linked public-and private-sphere woes. If civilization is ailing, then it makes sense that love relations would suffer-and vice versa. Third, a disbelief in the coherence of the human subject has been among modernism's philosophical legacies. E. M. Forster said in "What I Believe" that "Psychology has split and shattered the idea of a 'Person, ' and has shown that there is something incalculable in each of us, which may at any moment rise to the surface and destroy our normal balance. " 2 From Lacan's linguistically inflected readings of Freud, down through poststructuralism, this intuition has been revisited. It is not surprising that Foucault admired Beckett's subject-dissolving formulation from the third of his Texts for Nothing ("What matter who's speaking, someone said what matter who's speaking?"): Beckett's linguistic experiments foreshadow an array of French theories. When Women in Love's Ursula attempts to extract a confession of love from Birkin, he resists this conventional emotion with the claim that her selfhood-even if it is real-is not what allures him. "I want to find you, where you don't know your own existence, " he explains, "the you that your common self denies utterly. " 3 However annoying a lover Birkin makes, with his lapses into weariness and cynicism, he might seem like an astute reader of Forster's theory-were the portion of "What I Believe" quoted above taken out of context. If the "I" that people present to the world and the "you" by which they know their lovers, friends, parents, children, etc. are reductive-perhaps inaccurate-presentations of a dynamic and unstable core, then, Birkin in effect asks, aren't intimacies based on the pledge "I love you" made in bad faith, and always in peril? Shouldn't he and Ursula strive for a more adventurous bond, one that is truer to their changeable and unknowable natures? Forster cagily embeds his talk of a "split and shattered" person within a pragmatic Pascalian defense of this same humanist concept. As if he were reassuring his inner Birkin-his own doubts about subjecthood and hence intimate bonds-Forster asserts his "faith" in "personal relationships ... something comparatively solid in a world full of violence." Although "Psychology" has taught us that "in theory" we cannot put trust in them, "in practice we can and do." Although "A is not unchangeably A, or B unchangeably B," he maintains, "there can still be love and loyalty between the two." 4 Forster's and Lawrence's doubts are sometimes appeased by this reassurance and sometimes not. Birkin's skepticism always threatens to undermine Ursula's Forsterian faith in the love between (more or less) coherent subjects, and Ursula's love always threatens to contain and normalize Birkin's radical modernist quest to transvalue the terms on which bourgeois men and women construct lives together. Finally, a mistrust of realist narrative techniques-those relics of Victorian intellectual confidence that modernists so delighted in revaluing-has for a century provoked poets, novelists, and other artists to "remake it new, " in the words of Lynn Keller. (But modernists so effectively made so many things new that in their wake, avant gardism has passed through phases of exhaustion and replenishment. 5 ) Why shouldn't literary realism seem anachronistic? If civilization is unstable-with world wars and totalitarian states threatening to emerge-if love feels like a cage to those who have it and like a fairytale to those who don't, and if the coherent self is a mirage, then how could a storyteller not dispense with the techniques appropriate to a more epistemologically naïve and sedate epoch? Virginia Woolf famously opined in "Modern Fiction" that "if a writer were a free man and not a slave ... there would be no plot ... in the accepted style. " 6 Some of her works, such as The Waves, test this hypothesis severely, while her more popular efforts, including Mrs Dalloway, balance the demands and rewards of radical post-realism with fiction's familiar comforts. Forster's ruminations on Gertrude Stein (he said that her attempt to "abolish time" in her fiction was an instructive "failure" 7 ) suggest not merely his personal ambivalence toward avant-garde extremes. They suggest modernism's general uncertainty about how far it should go, in what directions, toward dismantling novels and short stories as they have been known and training readers of literary fiction to develop new epistemological habits. critics to privilege a hermeneutics of suspicion over other styles of reading. Felski was preceded by, among others, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose Touching Feeling (2003) complained that paranoid reading practices have become so common in queer studies that they have lost critical power. 23 Questioning the value of critiques unleavened by appreciation for past social progress or hope for further gains, José Muñoz and others have theorized time and futurity in hopeful veins. 24 Muñoz argues that a "romance [with] negativity" leads many queer critics-including Edelman, whom he admires-to jettison the utopian energies that he sees as necessary to a flourishing resistance. 25 He credits some theorists, including Sedgwick, with thinking flexibly about "negativity" and not foregoing hope in the process. His own project turns toward the future, toward "queer utopianism, " in language strongly reminiscent of Forster. The subtitle of Muñoz's Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity recalls Passage's final words ("not yet ... not there"). Reiterating Forsterian motifs of deferral and longing, Muñoz asserts that "queerness is not yet here" and that "we must vacate the here and now" and look toward "openings" and "horizons. " 26 It may seem disheartening that Cruising Utopia (2009) still postpones the dream that the conclusion of Passage (1924) held in such poignant suspense almost a century earlier. As Muñoz acknowledges, "disappointment is a big part of utopian longing. " 27 But he values the longing. He does not see negativity as necessary to rigorous dissidence, nor as the best route to jouissance for the sexually dispossessed. Instead, as Judith (Jack) Halberstam says in praise of Cruising Utopia, "for some queers, particularly for queers of color, " hope and futurity are not luxuries to be dispensed with. 28 Robyn Wiegman and Elizabeth Wilson broaden critiques of historical pessimism into a wide-ranging meditation on oppositionality in an essay entitled "Antinormativity's Queer Conventions. " These co-authors describe "antinormativity" as a tendency in queer theory to adopt narrowly oppositional stances with regard to "norms" thatin the eyes of such radicals-are themselves fixed and narrow. Wiegman and Wilson conceive of norms as broad constellations, not wholly oppressive, whose boundaries can be difficult for dissidents to step "outside" of. 29 With their Derridean approach to containment, subversion, and social change, Wiegman and Wilson represent a strain in queer and feminist theory akin to Bloomsbury's ambivalent, insider/outsider spirit. 30 Woolf 's father and his library gave her an insider's access to great men of letters, yet her sex barred her from Oxbridge. Her bisexual curiosity, including her passionate, erotic bond with Vita Sackville-West, gave her an outsider's perspective on a world emerging from Victorian proprieties. But her long and stable partnership with a patient and caring spouse ensconced her in the bourgeois redoubt of marriage. Forster's fear of having his sexual orientation exposed likely motivated his remaining a virgin until he was nearly thirty-eight, and his ninety years of unmarried life (the latter of which may have suited his temperament). But his academic talents; his early brilliance as a prose fiction writer; his inheritance from his great-aunt, combined with his widowed mother's finances; and his sane, ambivalent, liberal, not exactly middle-of-the-road politics-an object of Smith's admiration-all helped to ensconce him in English privilege. Bloomsburians had footholds from which to experiment in their personal Christopher Reed promotes Bloomsburian values in less heroic terms than Froula. He shares Williams's frustration with formulaic Marxist indictments, but he demurs from Williams's call for a comprehensive "alternative idea"-which is, after all, another formulaic standard of evaluation. 36 Reed distinguishes subculture from utopia, seeing Bloomsbury as a shining example of the former. Unlike utopian schemes, he argues, subcultures oppose dominant norms "without the promise of eventually becoming, themselves, normative. " While interior design is not my primary focus, as it is for Reed, his valuation of Bloomsbury's "domestic avant garde" informs this study. Modernist creators such as Le Corbusier and theorists such as Clement Greenberg would have seen this label as oxymoronic, given their associations of domesticity with feminine artistry and avant gardism with masculine heroism. But Reed values Bloomsburian "housework" in contrast to Corbusian "heroism. " Although he admires Bloomsbury's dissidence, he recognizes-pace Wiegman and Wilson-that "counter-hegemonic movements ... are never completely outside the mainstream cultural forms they challenge. " Todd Avery also discusses Bloomsbury's dissident individualism in examining their experiments in art and life. 37 Avery asks, in a Bloomsburian spirit, whether it is more important to write a great novel or paint a church mural than to achieve blissful intimacy with a friend or lover. The group had a "foundational, self-defining understanding of sexuality, " he explains, "as a private psychophysical capacity with public implications. " Sexuality was central to their way of being, Avery says, and he quotes Virginia Woolf 's description in her memoir "Old Bloomsbury" of how there was "nothing that one could not say, nothing that one could not do, at 46 Gordon Square. It was, I think, a great advance in civilization. " There may be playful hyperbole in this assertion, but not much. For Woolf, the word "civilization" had no taint of the Victorian high diction that Paul Fussell lampoons. 38 "Civilization" did not ring to Woolf 's or Bloomsbury's ears with the hollowness of the word "empire, " for example. 39 Instead, Clive Bell employed it as a book title, and group members including John Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey use it as a standard against which to measure contemporary society's shortcomings. That Woolf speaks of "advance" is also noteworthy: it underscores this volume's theme of progress: Bloomsbury's belief in progress already achieved and the hope of more progress in the future. Brenda Helt and Madelyn Detloff 's 2016 Queer Bloomsbury 40 shares Avery's interest in the public implications of the "psychophysical" phenomena of "sexuality. " The editors acknowledge the impossibility of imagining an "unqueer" Bloomsbury, but they nonetheless reanimate the group's dissident queerness for readers a century later, when the term "queer" may have lost its edge, given the LGBT community's focus on mainstream acceptance. In Helt and Detloff 's telling, the group courageously pushed beyond families as units of cohabitation, living with friends in the city and countryside. They pursued sexual intimacy with friends of either gender, which they saw as a "rich source of intellectual, artistic, and philosophical affinity. " Helt and Detloff honor the group's "conviviality, " a term borrowed from Paul Gilroy: he employs it in a post-imperial sense and they employ it in a post-heteronormative sense. They argue that conviviality enables the "becoming together" of multiple Contemporary novelists like Cusk (haunted as she is by Woolf and Lawrence), Smith (with her debts to Forster and other modernists), and Cunningham (whose most popular novel, The Hours, might not emerge from Woolf 's shadow) evince Bloomsbury's part in a passionate scholarly and literary engagement with "the central experiments and debates of twentieth-century modernist culture. " I borrow this language and adapt this section title from David James and Urmila Seshagiri's seminal 2014 essay "Metamodernism. " 42 At a time when scholars are widening the geographical and temporal scope of modernism 43 -witness the New Modernisms Series from Bloomsbury Academic-James and Seshagiri argue that innovative contemporary authors have been provoked by an "era, aesthetic, and archive" of innovative late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century works. They see these contemporary authors, among whom they include McEwan and Smith, engaging with this temporally and culturally bound modernism in two ways: by pushing forward modernist aesthetics (discontinuity, perspectivalism, etc.) and/or by plotting fictions around "the very creation and reception of modern arts and letters. " 44 remaining invested in the gender typologies (and flirting with the homophobia) that undergirded it. Each of these kinds of self-divided thought helped Bloomsburian novels to transcend the easy self-confidences of both conservative and radical thinkers. Conservatives such as Coventry Patmore-Woolf 's target of critique in "Professions for Women"-envisioned a natural fit between what they believed were men's and women's innate natures on the one hand and the sexes' social roles on the other hand. For its part, the Freudian Left 48 envisioned an equally logical fit, though one that would disrupt the monogamic social order, between men's and women's innately polymorphous perversities and the sexually freer and more promiscuous society they desired. Lacking faith in any model that proposed such consistency between people's psychic endowments and society's ideal structure, Bloomsbury's novels depict self-divided characters (who aren't sure who they are or what they want) who both rebel against and embrace the psychosexual norms of a society that is also self-divided and in the process of transforming. Neither the protagonists of these novels nor their societies are ever perfected, any more than a Freudian analysand is cured. Instead, Bloomsbury makes ambivalence and irresolution a basis for its philosophical wisdom and aesthetic form-and yet frequently maintains hope for a future in which lovers and friends on the one hand, and society on the other hand, will make strides toward more perfect unions. This commitment to ambivalence, irresolution, and (in many cases) dogged hope as not only philosophical but also aesthetic principles is central to the legacy that this volume sees Bloomsbury bequeath to its varied successors. In addition to working through philosophical ambivalences, Bloomsburians also searched for sentence styles and narrative forms appropriate to their epistemological ambitions. New ways of writing, new ways of seeking personal happiness and authenticity, and progressive ways of thinking about social organization did not present themselves in simple analogies, although Bloomsbury's excursions in each realm were mutually fructifying. A virtuous circle carried Bloomsbury from aesthetics to intimacy to politics and back to aesthetics. The group's curiosities bled from making art and decorating their homes into making love and friendship, informing their searches for beauty in exterior and interior living spaces. (Plate 1, The Walled Garden at Charleston (1916), is one of many paintings by Vanessa Bell of the garden at the farmhouse that she and Duncan Grant made their country home. They shaped the garden after designs by Roger Fry. A place for essentials during wartime-vegetables and hens-it transformed in the '20s into an aesthetic laboratory combining Mediterranean and cottage-garden elements bursting with color and texture. Plate 2 shows the dining room at Monk's House, where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived, a few short miles from Charleston. The furniture was designed by Vanessa and Duncan and includes Virginia's initials-"VW"-in the foregrounded chair.) Bloomsbury's boundary testing in their intimate lives enriched their thinking about society and justice, including the roles of women in politics and the degree to which queer sexualities could win tolerance and respect beyond the group's charmed circles in London and Sussex. These knotty social questions supplied their literary art with new quandaries and productive tensions. suggests between progress in the public and private realms will serve as reference points. But how clear can such reference points be, if they purport to span two spheres of life and decades of history? Supposed north stars for progressive politicseven those limited to public-sphere questions-can prove to be wandering bodies. (Lyotard exposes how much aura has been drained from Marxist utopian dreams.) Forster awarded only "two cheers" to democracy, the arena governed by documents. He reserved "three cheers" for "Love the Beloved Republic, " where the heart rules. 53 If Giddens labors to draw the two together, then surely his sweeping history will collapse under the burden of its own hubris. But perhaps there are good-faith forms of credulity toward metanarratives of progress in personal and social life. I refer not to a Pollyannaism nor to a mythopoetry untethered from historical paradoxes, ambiguities, or reversals, but instead-among other things-to the aesthetic and philosophical value of ambivalence. Building on Reinvention's treatment of Bloomsbury's ambivalences, this study traces a thread from Bloomsbury's self-divided thoughts to those of six legatees and to their philosophical kindred spirits such as Wiegman and Wilson.

Russia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal, cultural, and political consequences of these dramatic changes, focusing on their impact on intimate life and expectations and the resulting challenges to the traditional, patriarchal family order, the cornerstone of Russia's authoritarian political and religious regime. The widely perceived "marriage crisis" had far-reaching legal, institutional, and political ramifications. In Breaking the Ties That Bound, Engel draws on exceptionally rich archival documentation—in particular, on petitions for marital separation and the materials generated by the ensuing investigations—to explore changing notions of marital relations, domesticity, childrearing, and intimate life among ordinary men and women in imperial Russia. Engel illustrates with unparalleled vividness the human consequences of the marriage crisis. Her research reveals in myriad ways that the new and more individualistic values of the capitalist marketplace and commercial culture challenged traditional definitions of gender roles and encouraged the self-creation of new social identities. Engel captures the intimate experiences of women and men of the lower and middling classes in their own words, documenting instances not only of physical, mental, and emotional abuse but also of resistance and independence. These changes challenged Russia's rigid political order, forcing a range of state agents, up to and including those who spoke directly in the name of the tsar, to rethink traditional understandings of gender norms and family law. This remarkable social history is thus also a contribution to our understanding of the deepening political crisis of autocracy. | Russia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal, cultural, and political consequences of these dramatic changes, focusing on their impact on intimate life and expectations and the resulting challenges to the traditional, patriarchal family order, the cornerstone of Russia's authoritarian political and religious regime. The widely perceived "marriage crisis" had far-reaching legal, institutional, and political ramifications. In Breaking the Ties That Bound , Engel draws on exceptionally rich archival documentation—in particular, on petitions for marital separation and the materials generated by the ensuing investigations—to explore changing notions of marital relations, domesticity, childrearing, and intimate life among ordinary men and women in imperial Russia. Engel illustrates with unparalleled vividness the human consequences of the marriage crisis. Her research reveals in myriad ways that the new and more individualistic values of the capitalist marketplace and commercial culture challenged traditional definitions of gender roles and encouraged the self-creation of new social identities. Engel captures the intimate experiences of women and men of the lower and middling classes in their own words, documenting instances not only of physical, mental, and emotional abuse but also of resistance and independence. These changes challenged Russia's rigid political order, forcing a range of state agents, up to and including those who spoke directly in the name of the tsar, to rethink traditional...

When Christianity was imposed on Native peoples in the Andes, visual images played a fundamental role, yet few scholars have written about this significant aspect. __Object and Apparition__ proposes that Christianity took root in the region only when both Spanish colonizers and native Andeans actively envisioned the principal deities of the new religion in two- and three-dimensional forms. The book explores principal works of art involved in this process, outlines early strategies for envisioning the Christian divine, and examines later, more effective approaches. Maya Stanfield-Mazzi demonstrates that among images of the divine there was constant interplay between concrete material objects and ephemeral visions or apparitions. Three-dimensional works of art, specifically large-scale statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary, were key to envisioning the Christian divine, the author contends. She presents in-depth analysis of three surviving statues: the Virgins of Pomata and Copacabana (Lake Titicaca region) and Christ of the Earthquakes from Cusco. Two-dimensional painted images of those statues emerged later. Such paintings depicted the miracle-working potential of specific statues and thus helped to spread the statues’ fame and attract devotees. “Statue paintings” that depict the statues enshrined on their altars also served the purpose of presenting images of local Andean divinities to believers outside church settings. Stanfield-Mazzi describes the unique features of Andean Catholicism while illustrating its connections to both Spanish and Andean cultural traditions. Based on thorough archival research combined with stunning visual analysis, __Object and Apparition__ analyzes the range of artworks that gave visual form to Christianity in the Andes and ultimately caused the new religion to flourish.

Are you more distant from your spouse than you'd like to be? Do you sometimes get into big struggles over what amount to mere administrative details? Do you or your spouse waste time "screensucking"--mindlessly viewing email or surfing the Web? Welcome to the club! Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. Now Edward M. Hallowell, the bestselling co-author of the hugely popular Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, teams up with his wife, Sue George Hallowell, a couples' therapist, to explain the subtle but dangerous toll today's overstretched, undernurtured lifestyle takes on our most intimate relationship. The good news is that there are straightforward and effective ways to maneuver your marriage out of the destructive roadblocks created by the avalanche of busy living. Just thirty minutes of effort a day for thirty days can restore and repair communication and connection, resurrect long-buried happiness and romance, and strengthen--even save--a marriage.We deal with overload by tuning it out, but the repercussions on couples and commitment are serious. Without attention, there is no intimacy. And without intimacy, there is no connection. So how do couples find their way back?• Observe the natural sequence of sustaining love: attention, time, connection, and play.• Develop and nurture empathy--the essential building block to healthy communication.• Carve out small moments of uninterrupted attention for each other.• Identify the pressures that our crazybusy lifestyles put on love and marriage, and fight back with tenderness and appreciation. All of us who have been part of a couple for more than a few years will recognize ourselves in this reassuring book. Complete with scripts, tips, specific communication and interaction techniques, and a detailed 30-day reconnection plan, as well as inspiring real-life stories from relationships that were brought back from the brink, Married to Distraction will set couples on a course of understanding, healing, and love.From the Hardcover edition.

"In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens. Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008-09, which brought into power the country's most right-wing government to date, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo peace process. As Blumenthal reveals, Israel has become a country where right-wing leaders like Avigdor Lieberman and Bibi Netanyahu are sacrificing democracy on the altar of their power politics; where the loyal opposition largely and passively stands aside and watches the organized assault on civil liberties; where state-funded Orthodox rabbis publish books that provide instructions on how and when to kill Gentiles; where half of Jewish youth declare their refusal to sit in a classroom with an Arab; and where mob violence targets Palestinians and African asylum seekers scapegoated by leading government officials as "demographic threats." Immersing himself like few other journalists inside the world of hardline political leaders and movements, Blumenthal interviews the demagogues and divas in their homes, in the Knesset, and in the watering holes where their young acolytes hang out, and speaks with those political leaders behind the organized assault on civil liberties. As his journey deepens, he painstakingly reports on the occupied Palestinians challenging schemes of demographic separation through unarmed protest. He talks at length to the leaders and youth of Palestinian society inside Israel now targeted by security service dragnets and legislation suppressing their speech, and provides in-depth reporting on the small band of Jewish Israeli dissidents who have shaken off a conformist mindset that permeates the media, schools, and the military. Through his far-ranging travels, Blumenthal illuminates the present by uncovering the ghosts of the past-the histories of Palestinian neighborhoods and villages now gone and forgotten; how that history has set the stage for the current crisis of Israeli society; and how the Holocaust has been turned into justification for occupation. A brave and unflinching account of the real facts on the ground, Goliath is an unprecedented and compelling work of journalism"-- Provided by publisher

"This book challenges assumptions about the motivations that drive women from relatively poor, developing countries to use intermarriage dating sites to find partners from relatively wealthy, developed countries. It is generally assumed that economic deprivation or economic opportunities are the main factors, but this book instead focuses on the work of women's imagination in online cross-cultural relationships, including the role of desire, love and intimacy. The experiences of Thai women are used to explore how they initiate, develop and maintain love and intimacy with Western men across distance and time. The book shows that, in the absence of opportunities to search and meet partners from geographically distant parts of the world, the technology of the internet offers new ways of searching for and managing relationships and has significant consequences for local experiences and expectations of love and partnering. The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in family and intimate life, gender and sexualities, Asian and Thai studies, globalization and nationalism, culture and media, sociology and anthropology."-- Provided by publisher