Dorothy Richardson

Richardson, Dorothy M. - 1882–1957, English novelist. Her important work is Pilgrimage (12 vol., 1915–38; omnibus ed. 1938), a novel that records in great detail the inner experience of one woman. In constructing the English novel as a series of images running through the mind of a character, Richardson prefigured Joyce and Woolf. She preferred the label "interior Read More...

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The Myth of the Heroine: The Female Bildungsroman in the Twentieth Century: Dorothy Richardson, Simone de Beauvoir, Doris Lessing, Christa Wolf
by Esther Kleinbord Labovitz. 288 pgs.

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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION

INTRODUCTION

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1: Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage: Four Volumes1

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2: Simone De Beauvoir: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter1

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3: Doris Lessing: Children of Violence1, Five Volumes

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4: Christa Wolf:

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Conclusion

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Strategies for Showing: Women, Possession, and Representation in English Visual Culture, 1665-1800 (Chap. 3 "Abundant Leisure and Extensive Knowledge: Dorothy Richardson")
by Marcia Pointon. 456 pgs.

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In this unusual and original study, Marcia Pointon examines the cultural effects and consequences of the participation by women in acts of representation in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She explores their lives and work, and a cultural environment in which images of female saints and goddesses established indices of femininity in the homes of wealthy men. Did the women portrayed also possess artifacts, and did they use the power of gifts and bequests to determine social relations? Did they themselves participate in the processes of creating images of the seen world? Pointon sets out to answer some of these questions through a series of novel and vividly recounted case studies of women such as Emma Hamilton (wife and mistress), Mary Moser, the artist, and Dorothy Richardson, the antiquarian.

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1: Purchasing and Consuming: Elizabeth Harley. . . and Others

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2: Marriage and Its Boundaries: The Montgomery Sisters Adorning A Term of Hymen

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3: Abundant Leisure And Extensive Knowledge: Dorothy Richardson Delineates

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4: Working, Earning, Bequeathing: Mary Grace and Mary Moser -- 'Paintresses'

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5: Portraiture, Excess, and Mythology: Mary Hale, Emma Hamilton, And Others . . . 'In Bacchante'

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6: Protestants and 'Fair Penitents': With Special Reference to St Cecilia

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Appendix: An Anthology of Wills Relating to Women's Property 1739-1760

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Men by Women (includes "What Are Men to Dorothy Richardson?" begins on p. 168)
by Janet M. Todd. 268 pgs.

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Men by Women

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Introduction

Dreams and Nightmares: Male Characters in the Feminine Novel of the Eighteenth Century

Posture and Imposture: the Gothic Manservant in Ann Radcliffe's the Italian

Fathers and Daughters: the Trauma of Growing Up Female

Jane Austen's Men: Inside/Outside "The Mystery"

Men in Female Condition of England Novels

" 'Hush, Hush! He's a Human Being' ": a Psychological Approach to Heathcliff

The Humanization of Edward Rochester

Unveiling Men: Power and Masculinity in George Eliot's Fiction

Women and the Garden: Andrew Marvell, Emilia Lanier, and Emily Dickinson

What Are Men to Dorothy Richardson?

"Spectacular Spinelessness": the Men in Dorothy Arzner's Films

The Great Divide: Gender in Sylvia Plath's Short Fiction

From Subtext to Dream Text: the Brutal Egoism of Iris Murdoch's Male Narrators

Phallus/Penis: Same Difference
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States of Fantasy (Chap. 6 "Dorothy Richardson and the Jew")
by Jacqueline Rose. 200 pgs.

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In September 1993, Israel and the PLO signed their first peace treaty; in April 1994, South Africa held its first nonracial elections. Jacqueline Rose argues here for the importance of these two arenas of historic conflict to the English literary and cultural imagination and to the new disciplinary boundaries of the humanities today. As in her previous books, her fundamental question is the place of fantasy in public and private identities. But in States of Fantasy she pushes her investigation into what at first glance seem unlikely places. In fact, as she convincingly demonstrates, nowhere demonstrates more clearly than the above regions the need for a psychoanalytically informed understanding of historical process. And nothing makes more visible the unbreakable line that runs between literature and politics than the place of England and its writing in those histories. Her provocative study offers the strongest rebuttal to critics who try to sever the links between the study of literature and culture and the making and unmaking of the modern world.

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Introduction States of Fantasy

Part One the Clarendon Lectures

One in the Land of Israel

Two Black Hamlet

Three the English at Their Best

Four Just, Lasting, Comprehensive

Part Two the Limits of Culture

Five on the 'Universality" of Madness: Bessie Head's a Question of Power

Six Dorothy Richardson and the Jew

Afterword Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture

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The Wrong Material: Gender and Jewishness in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage, in Journal of Modern Literature
by Maren Linett. 18 pgs.

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Dorothy Richardson's Foreword to 'Pilgrimage,' in Twentieth Century Literature
by George H. Thomson. 16 pgs.

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Dorothy Richardson and Her Sister: More Letters and Biography, in English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
by George H. Thomson. 19 pgs.

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Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to Living Authors ("Dorothy M. Richardson" begins on p. 562)
by Stanley J. Kunitz, Howard Haycraft, Wilbur C. Hadden. 742 pgs.

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Key to Pronunciations

Authors Today and Yesterday

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Conrad in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives (Chap. 11 "Conrad on the Borderlands of Modernism: Maurice Greiffenhagen, Dorothy Richardson and the Case of Typhoon")
by Carola M. Kaplan, Peter Mallios, Andrea White. 326 pgs.

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Reading Conrad Now is a collection of original essays by leading Conrad scholars that rereads Conrad in light of his representations of post-colonialism, of empire, imperialism, and of modernism and modernity-questions that are once again relevant today. The collection is framed by an introduction by J. Hillis Miller, one of the most important literary critics today, and a concluding extensive interview with Edward Said (one of his final interviews before his death on September 25, 2003), the most prominent postcolonial critic-addressing his lifelong fascination with Conrad. Reading Conrad Now will be essential reading for anyone seeking a contemporary introduction to this great writer, and will be of great interest to scholars working with Conrad in a variety of fields including literary studies, cultural studies, ethnic and area studies, and postcolonial studies.

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Abbreviations

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Foreword

1: Millennial Conrad: Heart of Darkness in the Twenty-First Century

1: Beyond Mastery: the Future of Conrad's Beginnings

2: The Moment and Afterlife of Heart of Darkness

3: Some Millennial Footnotes on Heart of Darkness

4: Conrad's Darkness Revisited: Mediated Warfare and Modern(Ist) Propaganda in Heart of Darkness and “the Unlighted Coast”

2: Global Conrad

5: Between Men: Conrad in the Fiction of Two Contemporary Indian Writers

6: Opera and the Passage of Literature: Joseph Conrad, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and the Cultural Dialectic of Abysmal Taste

7: Conrad's Heterotopic Fiction: Composite Maps, Superimposed Sites, and Impossible Spaces

8: Connoisseurs of Terror and Thepolitical Aesthetics of Anarchismnostromo and a Set of Six

9: Reading the Secret Agent Now: the Press, the Police, the Premonition of Simulation

3: Conrad and Textuality

10: Suspended

11: Conrad on the Borderlands of Modernism: Maurice Greiffenhagen, Dorothy Richardson and the Case of Typhoon

12: Conrad and Posthumanist Narration:Fabricating Class and Consciousness Onboard the Narcissus

13: “the Thing Which Was Not” and the Thing That is Also: Conrad's Ironic Shadowing

4: Conrad and Subjectivity

14: Writing from Within: Autobiography and Immigrant Subjectivity in the Mirror of the Sea

15: “a Matter of Tears”: Grieving in Under Western Eyes

16: Beyond Gender: Deconstructions of Masculinity and Femininity from “karain” to Under Western Eyes

5: Traveling with Conrad

17: An Interview with Edward Said

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Modern British Women Writers: An A-To-Z Guide ("Dorothy Richardson" begins on p. 273)
by Vicki K. Janik, Del Ivan Janik, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 428 pgs.

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This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta.

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Fleur Adcock 1934-

Beryl Bainbridge 1933-

Pat Barker 1943-

Sybille Bedford 1911-

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Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973

Vera Brittain 1893-1970

Anita Brookner 1928-

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Brigid Brophy 1929-1995

A.S. Byatt 1936-

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Angela Carter 1940-1992

Agatha Christie 1890-1976

Caryl Churchill 1938-

Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1969

Anne Devlin 1951-

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Margaret Drabble 1939-

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Maureen Duffy 1933-

Buchi Emecheta 1944-

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Penelope Fitzgerald 1916-2000

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Pam Gems 1925-

Susan Elizabeth Hill 1942-

Winifred Holtby 1898-1935

Attia Hosain 1913-1998

Elizabeth Jane Howard 1923-

P.D. James 1920-

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Storm Jameson 1891-1986

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Ann Jellicoe 1927-

Pamela Hansford Johnson 1912-1981

Charlotte Keatley 1960-

Rosamond Lehmann 1901-1990

Doris Lessing 1919-

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Penelope Lively 1933-

Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923

Kamala Markandaya 1924-

Pauline Melville 1948-

Charlotte Mew 1869-1928

Penelope Mortimer 1918-1999

Iris Murdoch 1919-1999

Grace Nichols 1950-

Barbara Pym 1913-1980

Jean Rhys 1890-1979

Dorothy Richardson 1873-1957

Vita Sackville-West 1892-1962

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Dorothy L. Sayers 1893-1957

May Sinclair 1863-1946

Edith Sitwell 1887-1964

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Stevie Smith 1902-1971

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Muriel Spark 1918-

Lisa St. Aubin De Terán 1953-

Elizabeth Coles Taylor 1912-1975

Angela Thirkell 1890-1961

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Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893-1978

Fay Weldon 1931-

Timberlake Wertenbaker 1944(?)-

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Mary Wesley 1912-

Rebecca West 1892-1983

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Jeanette Winterson 1959-

Virginia Woolf 1882-1941

E. H. Young 1880-1949

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