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"Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face" (p. 65)The poems in Gravesend explore ghosts as instances of collective grief and guilt, as cultural constructs evolved to elide or to absorb a given society’s actions, as well as, at...
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"Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face" (p. 65)The poems in Gravesend explore ghosts as instances of collective grief and guilt, as cultural constructs evolved to elide or to absorb a given society’s actions, as well as, at times, to fill the gaps between such actions and the desires and intentions of its individual citizens. Tracing the changing nature of the ghostly in the western world from antiquity to today, the collection focuses particularly on the ghosts created by the European expansion of the 16th through 20th centuries, using the town of Gravesend, the seaport at the mouth of the Thames through which countless emigrants passed, as an emblem of theambiguous threshold between one life and another, in all the many meanings of that phrase
Virtual Exhibitions ; at "Women and books: from the sixteenth century to the suffragettes" was an exhibiton held in the Hunterian Library, University of Glasgow in November 1971. The material of the exhibiton was made available on the web in 2002....
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Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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Virtual Exhibitions ; at "Women and books: from the sixteenth century to the suffragettes" was an exhibiton held in the Hunterian Library, University of Glasgow in November 1971. The material of the exhibiton was made available on the web in 2002. "The exhibition, under the broad heading of "Women and books", examines women and the written word through the centuries. This ranges from 16th century material, such as early printed guidebooks on childbirth and manuscript collections of recipes, to later examples including material written by important members of the women's suffrage movement. Several prominent women are featured in this exhibition, such as Elizabeth Blackwell, Joanna Baillie, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence. In total, the original exhibition displayed 138 items, including manuscripts, printed books and journals. This online exhibition highlights 65 of these items, with updated and edited descriptions of the works."
