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Journal articles on the topic "British Personal narrative"

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Murphy, Lucinda. "The British Nativity Play." Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) 20 (September 21, 2018): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.18792/jbasr.v20i0.33.

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Year upon year the scene is set for what has, for many in Britain, become a strikingly and tangibly familiar image of Christmas and ultimately of childhood. Shepherds fiddle distractedly with their tea-towels. Angels preen their sparkly foil wings and hoist up their white woollen tights. Proudly bejewelled Kings fight over makeshift cardboard crowns. The school nativity play has become an ingrained part of British culture, and perhaps even something of a rite of passage. Despite the continuing prevalence and popularity of this ritualized narrative in British churches and schools, this phenomenon has not, until now, attracted any sustained academic study. This paper discusses four qualitative interviews I conducted in 2016 with parents whose children had recently performed in a nativity play at a non-faith state primary school in London. Examining how these parents interpreted their experiences, understandings, and memories of this dramatized narrative, I consider how the religious/cultural narrative is retold and reinterpreted through and in relation to personal life narratives. I draw upon anthropological and psychological theories of meaning seeking, memory making, and identity construction to explore how personal participation in, connection to, and narration of cultural/religious narratives might impact the type of valueattributed to their contents.
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Lassner, Phyllis. "Rachel Lichtenstein’s Narrative Mosaics." Humanities 9, no. 3 (August 21, 2020): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9030088.

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Rachel Lichtenstein’s books, along with her multimedia art, represent her explorations of her British Jewish identity and her place in British Jewish culture as an imaginative odyssey. Her work represents research, stories, and traces from London’s Jewish past and multicultural present as well as from Poland and Israel, her family’s accounts, and the testimony of recent immigrants and long-time residents. Lichtenstein is a place writer whose artistic projects subject her relationship to the Jewish past and East End to critical interrogation through a metaphorical method composed of fragments that represent varied segments of Jewish history and memory as well as wandering as a narrative of personal exploration.
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Giangiulio Lobo, Alejandra. "Patricia Duncker, escritora de lectores (Patricia Duncker, a Writer for Readers)." LETRAS 1, no. 59 (February 6, 2017): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rl.1-59.5.

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Es una sucinta descripción del proceso, en doble dirección, que vincula al autor con su lector personal, y los efectos mutuos de simpatía, entendida como un efecto semiótico tanto en el proceso de escritura como de lectura. Se centra en el caso de la obra narrativa de la escritora británica contemporánea Patricia Duncker.This succinct description refers to a two-fold process that links the author with a personal reader, and the mutual effects of attraction, understood as a semiotic effect concerning both the reading and writing process. It focuses on the case of the narrative work of the contemporary British writer Patricia Duncker.
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Fuchs, Vivian, and Clements Markham. "Antarctic Obsession: A Personal Narrative of the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-4." Geographical Journal 153, no. 2 (July 1987): 279. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/634908.

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Maslen, Joseph. "Autobiographies of a generation? Carolyn Steedman, Luisa Passerini and the memory of 1968." Memory Studies 6, no. 1 (January 2013): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698012463891.

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The meeting-point between memory studies and auto/biographical studies provides new perspectives on the study of the radical generation of 1968 through life-writing techniques, including oral history. A comparison between Carolyn Steedman’s Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives, published in 1986, and Luisa Passerini’s Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968, published in 1988, suggests that belonging to this generation involves tensions between the social master narrative of 1968 and auto/biographical memories. Steedman and Passerini’s personal narratives relate in complex ways to this master narrative, and exploring these ambiguities helps us to generate further innovation in ‘generational thinking’ as well as a comparative understanding of the ‘memory studies’ of two of the most important thinkers in British and Italian contemporary history.
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Caldera, Altheria, Sana Rizvi, Freyca Calderon-Berumen, and Monica Lugo. "When Researching the “Other” Intersects with the Self." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9, no. 1 (2020): 63–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.1.63.

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Although the field of critical qualitative inquiry is saturated with literature on methodologies and theoretical orientations, there is less scholarship that explores the dynamics that prevail when women of color conduct critical qualitative inquiry with participants who share their identities. Using scholarly personal narrative (SNP), our project examines the intricacies of kinship found between women of color researchers and their research participants. More specifically, this article presents narratives of an African American scholar, a British Pakistani immigrant scholar, and two Latina (Mexican) immigrant scholars who explore dilemmas and rewards that surfaced in our research within our individual communities.
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Spokes, Matthew. "Class and Narrative Accrual: Personal Troubles and Public Issues in Five Vignettes." Journal of Working-Class Studies 2, no. 2 (December 1, 2017): 83–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v2i2.6089.

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This paper develops Bruner’s (1991) notion of narrative accrual, in conjunction with ‘lifestories’ and ‘event-stories’, to focus on the accumulation of experiences as a contributor to working-class identity. Situated between Mills’ (1959) personal troubles and public issues, and framed by Nouri and Helterline’s (1998) argument that identity is framed by social interaction with signification systems and other people, the author’s own experiences as an early-career academic in two different British Universities – one more research-oriented with a predominantly middle-class student body, the other more teaching-oriented with a more class diverse student body – are utilized to forward ‘personal narrative accrual’ as a way of both conceptualizing and unpacking class associations, reflecting on Warnock’s (2016) fivefold typology of alienation, cultural capital, stereotyping/microaggression, survivor guilt/impostor syndrome and middle class networking. Ultimately, this paper considers the interrelated problems of working-class identity, career development, and ‘playing the game’ through autobiographical vignettes, and suggests the potential application of personal narrative accrual in decreasing feelings of isolation in academia by working-class academics.
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McDowell, Felice. "Inside the Wardrobe: Fashioning a Fashionable Life." European Journal of Life Writing 8 (May 18, 2019): DM56—DM74. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.8.35550.

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This article looks to the manifestation of the personal wardrobe in digital fashion media. It focuses upon the example of British Vogue’s YouTube series ‘Inside the Wardrobe’ and episodes that feature, firstly Vogue Fashion Editor Sarah Harris and Vogue Contributing Editor and Freelance Stylist Bay Garnett, and, secondly, acclaimed fashion blogger Susie Lau aka Susie Bubble of StyleBubble.com. In doing so it addresses ways in which fashion is an ‘autobiographical act’ and explores how such acts participate in the production and consumption of life narratives, and in particular the narrative of a ‘fashionable life’. The article argues that fashion, in this sense, is a narrative tool employed in the fashioning of oneself and that this is strategically utilised, both consciously and subconsciously, in the field of fashion. Thus, when employed as strategic narrative tools the autobiographical acts that can fashion a self constitute the particular autobiographical form, or autobiography, that is the ‘fashionable life’. In doing so this article demonstrates the contribution that the study of fashion makes to a wider understanding and knowledge of self­identity, life narrative, autobiographical acts and autobiography in digital mediums and media.
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Zhou, Tingting. "Life Writing in the Era of Genetics: Contemporary Genetic Risk Narratives in Great Britain and America." English Language and Literature Studies 11, no. 3 (July 29, 2021): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v11n3p45.

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The development of genetic science brings forth a third group besides the healthy and the ill: the high-risk group who carries certain disease-related genes. In the era of genetics, people try to assess risks with statistical numbers and eliminate risks by Western medical measures. In this context, personal genetic risk narratives (usually in the form of memoirs) emerged in Great Britain and America in the 1990s. The thesis has a close reading of three British and American genetic risk memoirs and wants to find the characteristics and values of the new genre. The memoirs are featured by their vivid description of the narrator’s difficult and complex situation in face of genetic risks. In an era when the body is dominated by statistical numbers, these narratives make personal meaning of impersonal statistics. Genetic risk narratives express a strong belief in genetic technology and Western medical myth. However, the narrative divergence and self-contradiction in the memoirs exposes the limitation of genetic determinism and thus deconstructs the Western medical myth.
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Hussain, Ifsa, Sally Johnson, and Yunis Alam. "Young British Pakistani Muslim women’s involvement in higher education." Feminism & Psychology 27, no. 4 (February 1, 2017): 408–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353516686123.

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This article explores the implications for identity through presenting a detailed analysis of how three British Pakistani women narrated their involvement in higher education. The increased participation of British South Asian women in higher education has been hailed as a major success story and is said to have enabled them to forge alternative, more empowering gender identities in comparison to previous generations. Drawing on generative narrative interviews conducted with three young women, we explore the under-researched area of Pakistani Muslim women in higher education. The central plotlines for their stories are respectively higher education as an escape from conforming to the “ good Muslim woman”; becoming an educated mother; and Muslim women can “ have it all.” Although the women narrated freedom to choose, their stories were complex. Through analysis of personal “I” and social “We” self-narration, we discuss the different ways in which they drew on agency and fashioned it within social and structural constraints of gender, class and religion. Thus, higher education is a context that both enables and constrains negotiations of identity.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "British Personal narrative"

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Ebrahim, Hallat Rajab. "Narrative analysis of the oral stories of personal experience told by Iraqi Kurdish and white British English-speaking women." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/39096.

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Narrative has long been investigated as a culturally sensitive mode of expression which may vary in terms of narrative content, linguistic expression and interactional style. This thesis builds on earlier cross-cultural studies of narrative, exploring the stories told by Kurdish and English speakers. Through the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data (80 stories told by Iraqi Kurdish and white British English-speaking women, and semi-structured ethnographic interviews with the same participants), I examine the variation in the structure and styles of the stories of personal experiences told by selected Iraqi Kurdish and white British English-speaking women using Labov’s (1972) and Ochs and Capps' (2001) models of narrative analysis. The thesis then goes on to explore the implications that these variations might have for interpreting the cultural identities of the participants through their stories. The findings show cross-cultural variation in the Iraqi Kurdish and white British English women’s style and structure of storytelling. All the Kurdish participants preferred repetition in their stories, regardless of their multilingual status or whether they told stories in Kurdish or English. In contrast the white British English participants favoured lexical intensifiers in their storytelling style. Another difference emerged between the groups of participants. Whilst all the Kurdish participants perceived boosters as more vivid, it was the English monolinguals who perceived repetition as more vivid (on average).The Kurdish participants’ style of storytelling is more dramatized and more interactive than that of the the white British English-speaking women. This difference could not be explained by a surface level comparison based on the cultural identity of the tellers, but instead involved the complex interplay of cultural context, story genre and topics of story genres. In terms of structure, the participants in this study did not only tell narratives but also other types of story genres including anecdotes, exemplums and recounts with exemplums being the most frequent for the Kurdish speakers. This confirmed the Kurdish women’s assertion, in the ethnographic interviews, of the moral purpose of storytelling, with their frequent use of exemplums reflecting this emphasis on moral purpose.
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Dömötör, Ildikó. "Gentlewomen in the bush : a historical interpretation of British women's personal narratives in nineteenth-century rural Australia." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5283.

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Vaughn, Tracy L. "(W)rites of passing: The performance of identity in fiction and personal narratives." 2005. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3212756.

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In my dissertation, "(W)rites of Passing: The Performance of Identity in Fiction and Personal Narratives," I explore the literary, historical, psychological and cultural dimensions of passing, particularly as it relates to race and class. Through the works of Arnold van Gennep, Stephen Greenblatt, and Victor Turner, I have discovered intriguing comparisons between the forms of "class-passing" presented in 16th and 18th century British novels with 20th and 21st century "race passing" novels. In much of my work on race passing and African American literature, I argue that while racial passing may have brought certain socio-economic benefits to those who passed (whether temporarily or permanently,) it also invariably forced them to engage in what I would describe as exercises of restraint. These exercises of restraint might manifest themselves in various forms of cultural impotency ranging from a loss and/or repression of emotional expressivity to a more extreme decision to be voluntarily childless---a forced barrenness, if you will. One of the main questions my research attempts to answer is: "Does the act of passing, whether it be through race or class, reinforce the very hierarchy it seems to subvert?" Also, if in fact race and/or class are identities that are performative, then what role does the audience play in permitting individuals to pass? In an attempt to answer these and other questions, I apply performance theory as a lens to provide a clearer and perhaps alternative perspective to the ways in which passing is both implicit (through the individual's choice to pass) and complicit (through the audience's suspension of disbelief.) My research questions how much responsibility the audience carries in the passing individual's effort to pass successfully. At the same time, I discuss how the performance element of improvisation is absolutely necessary in the process and act of passing. What I have defined as the "process of passing" is a variation of Arnold van Gennep's Rites de Passage: a performance ritual with "distinct phases in the social processes whereby groups [and individuals] become adjusted to internal changes, and adopt them to their external environment." Van Gennep's three phases of separation, transition and incorporation that define a rite of passage serve as the foundation of my definition of the process of passing.
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Baker, Janet. "Lest we forget: the children they left behind: the life experience of adults born to black GIs and British women during the Second World War." 1999. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/8408.

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An estimated 22,000 children were born in England during the Second World War as a result of relationships between British women and .American GIs. Of these children, around 1,200-1,700 were born to African .American servicemen. These figures are estimates only; the actual number of births will never be known.
The research study is based on personal interviews with eleven members of this cohort. The interviews explore their life experience and examines their sense of identity as ex-nuptial children, of mixed-race parentage, who had no contact with and usually little information about their GI fathers. Of the eleven mothers, over half were married with at least one other child at the time of the birth. Nine participants/respondents were raised by their mother or her extended family. Two were institutionalised. At the time of the interviews all of the respondents were either searching for, or had found, their black GI fathers.
This is a qualitative study which aims to bear witness to the lived experience of this cohort and to analyse the meaning individuals gave to their experience. Data collection involved personal interviews with the eleven participants. The data was then subject to a thematic analysis and the major themes and issues identified. Content analysis was undertaken using a constructivist approach.
The interviews are presented as elicited narrative relayed through an interpretive summary. Consistency was maintained by using common questions organised within a loose interview framework. The findings were organised around the major conceptual issues and themes that emerged from the case summaries. Common themes, including resilience, racial identity, self esteem and stress were identified.
The researcher has professional qualifications as a social worker and clinical family therapist. She has ten years experience in the field of adoption, including the transracial placement of Aboriginal and overseas children in Australian families. She is also a member of the researched cohort. Issues arising when the researcher is also a member of the researched cohort are discussed in the methodology.
The experience of this cohort suggests that despite the disadvantages of their birth, they fared better than expected. The majority demonstrated high levels of resilience, successfully developing a sense of identity that incorporated both the black and white aspects of their racial heritage. However, for some this success was only achieved at considerable personal cost, with several participants reporting relatively high levels of stress and/or stress related symptoms, such as anxiety, mental illness and heart disease.
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Balážová, Anna. "Zobrazení rodiny v románech Intimacy (Hanif Kureishi), Scissors Paper Stone (Elizabeth Day)." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-323087.

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This thesis concentrates on the depiction of family in two contemporary British novels. These are: Hanif Kureishiʼs In macy (1998), wri en in the first person narra ve, and Elizabeth Day's Scissors Paper Stone (2011), written in the third person narrative. This thesis analyses the novels from various perspectives with the main emphasis put on the theme of family. It also takes into consideration the different narrative modes used in the novels. In the theoretical part this thesis concentrates on the development of family with the main stress placed on the changes that took place in the second half of the twentieth century in Britain. The topics that it deals with are the breakdown of a relationship, fatherhood, dysfunctional communication and other themes concerning the family and interpersonal relationships.
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Books on the topic "British Personal narrative"

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Wood, George. The subaltern officer: A narrative. [Cambridge: Ken Trotman, 1986.

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Moody, James. Narrative of the exertions and sufferings of Lieut. James Moody in the cause of the government since the year 1776. New York: Privately printed, 1986.

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Clive, Holland, ed. Antarctic obsession: A personal narrative of the origins of the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. Alburgh: Erskine, 1986.

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R, Markham Clements. Antarctic obsession: A personal narrative of the origins of the the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904. Alburgh, Harleston, Norfolk: Bluntisham Books, 1986.

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Read, I. L. Of those we loved: A Great War narrative remembered and illustrated. Barnsley, [England]: Pen & Sword Military, 2013.

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A teenage soldier. Dunbar: Tyne & Esk Writers, 2008.

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1952-, Wise Stephen R., ed. Running the blockade: A personal narrative of adventures, risks, and escapes during the American Civil War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

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William, Brown. The autobiography, or, Narrative of a soldier. London: [Maggs?], 1985.

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Ethan, Allen. Ethan Allen's narrative of the capture of Ticonderoga, his captivity and treatment by the British. 5th ed. Burlington [Vt.]: C. Goodrich & S.B. Nichols, 1985.

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Scawen, Blunt Wilfrid. Gordon at Khartoum: Being a personal narrative of events in continuation of "A secret history of the English occupation of Egypt". Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Pub., 2004.

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Book chapters on the topic "British Personal narrative"

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Golding, Sandra. "Moving Tu Balance: An African Holistic Dance as a Vehicle for Personal Development from a Black British Perspective." In Narratives in Black British Dance, 101–13. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70314-5_8.

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Melia, Paul. "The Phrase “The Great War” in British Discourse During World War One." In Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914–18), 273–86. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66851-2_18.

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Branach-Kallas, Anna, and Piotr Sadkowski. "Sharing Grief: Local and Peripheral Dimensions of the Great War in Contemporary French, British and Canadian Literature." In Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914–18), 121–33. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66851-2_8.

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Ashraf, Ana. "The Ambivalence of Testimony in Elizabeth Bowen’s." In British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960, 109–22. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621822.003.0007.

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Ana Ashraf’s exploration of Bowen’s novel demonstrates how, in the post-war milieu, ambivalent narratives of testimony and witnessing challenged the ideology of war and the machinery of propaganda. The novel’s metafictional style emphasizes the self-reflexive nature of witness and testimony. Interweaving personal and political spheres in an experimental form that juxtaposes the classic romance plot and the traditional spy novel, The Heat of the Day offers a feminine view of the masculine world of intelligence. In its presentation of the conflict between love and patriotism, the novel’s treatment of treachery appears unstable and unusual. It also highlights the role of literary testimony in challenging the dominant narrative of war. Demonstrating the ‘intermodern’ preoccupation with political commitment during periods of war, the novel exemplifies an ‘interfeminist’ awareness of the notion of ‘women’s time’, the marginalisation of women’s experience of war and the binary division between fact and fiction.
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Plain, Gill. "‘We Must Feed the Men’." In British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960, 145–60. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621822.003.0009.

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Gill Plain interrogates the trend towards domestic heteronormativity post World War Two in the light of the complex and profound disorientation of women’s post-war lives. She identifies a pervasive sense of personal, social and cultural loss, following the ‘smothering’ of wartime expectations, that often extended beyond the heterosexual matrix. Where ‘male’ plots reprogrammed masculine identity through purposeful activity beyond the home, the absence of plot in women’s fiction signals a lack of interest in the post-war rebuilding of the normative feminine psyche. The ‘resistant plotting’ of Pamela Hansford Johnson’s post-war trilogy, and its emphasis on the urgency of maternity, exhibits a turn toward the gothic. Male damage is offset by female guilt and the onset of a second childhood in her male characters, leading to a narrative of remasculinization. The largely absent figure of the child in post war narratives suggests a generation in mourning for its abruptly foreclosed childhood.
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Martin, Alison E. "‘A Colossal Literary and Scientific Task’: Helen Maria Williams and the Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (1814–1829)." In Nature Translated, 75–116. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439329.003.0004.

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This chapter concentrates on Helen Maria Williams, Paris salonnière, radical author and poet. Her translation of Humboldt’s weighty account of his voyage through the Americas with the French Botanist Aimé Bonpland, the Relation historique du voyage aux regions équinoxiales du nouveau continent (1814-25), appeared as the seven-volume Personal Narrative of the Equinoctial Regions (Longman, 1814-29). Her rather literal translation was as unpopular as Black’s was well liked by a British readership, but it enjoyed Humboldt’s approval. Previously overlooked archival material detailing the corrections he made to her translation illustrate the close collaborative nature of the undertaking, but also the stylistic freedoms Humboldt permitted her. Williams’s frequently creative (or downright ‘unfaithful’) translational choices favoured the idiom of the sublime in tropical descriptions, which, in their phrasing, also recalled lines from Milton, Thomson or Blake. Williams therefore allowed works from the British literary canon to echo through Humboldt’s prose, making it seem subtly familiar to Anglophone readers. This chapter concludes by focusing briefly on William MacGillivray’s Travels and Researches of Alexander von Humboldt (1832), a successfully revised version of William’s Personal Narrative.
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Hurl-Eamon, Jennine, and Lynn MacKay. "Lady Alicia Blackwood, Narrative of Personal Experiences and Impressions During a Residence on the Bosphorus Throughout the Crimean War (London: Hatchard, 1881), PP. 49–60." In Women, Families and the British Army 1700-1880, 280–85. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003017974-120.

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Robertson, Lisa C. "Through the mill: Margaret Harkness on conjectural history and utilitarian philosophy." In Margaret Harkness, 201–17. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526123503.003.0012.

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This chapter evaluates the writing Harkness produced during her time living in the countries that are now India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Placing Harkness’s work in a nineteenth-century tradition of British historiographical writing about India that begins with James Mill’s History of British India (1817), the chapter argues that her work during this period consciously eschews conventional historical methodology and offers an important counter-narrative to colonial history. It suggests that in her attention to the ways that social movements and political institutions shape people’s daily lives, which is set within a broad foundation of personal knowledge, Harkness’s writing engages more ardently with the conventions of cultural history than it does with those of travel writing.
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BINSKI, PAUL. "How Northern was the Northern Master at Assisi?" In Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 117. British Academy, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197262795.003.0003.

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The origins of the painters of the upper walls of the right (north) transept of the Upper Church of S. Francesco has mystified historians of the greatest early showcase of Italian narrative art. These origins have been explored in a literature dominated by specialists in Italian and Byzantine art, and the conclusions have generally been the same, namely that the right transept was worked on by artists who were not only Italian but also French or English, and who remained content to work in distinctively native styles. This chapter argues that the case for specifically English influence at Assisi is actually vastly weaker than that proposed for Sigena, and that to understand the right transept we may have to look away from thirteenth-century London or Paris. This is not to rule out categorically the possibility of any English influence at Assisi; caution may simply help us to expose and understand the kinds of assumption about artistic identity and experience, which can be seen in practice to have influenced our understanding of what are exceedingly complex monuments that defy categorical definitions of personal, group, or national style.
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Howarth, Anita. "Hunger Hurts." In Socio-Economic Development, 538–53. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7311-1.ch028.

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Austerity food blogs have become prominent as household food budgets have become tighter, government finances constrained, and an ideology of austerity has become dominant. The British version of austerity privileges reducing government spending by cutting welfare benefits, and legitimizes this through individual failure explanations of poverty and stereotypes of benefit claimants. Austerity food blogs, written by those forced to live hand to mouth, are a hybrid form of digital culture that merges narratives of lived experience, food practices and political commentary in ways that challenge the dominant views on poverty. The popular blog A Girl Called Jack disrupts the austerity hegemony by breaking the silence that the stigma of poverty imposes on the impoverished and by personalizing poverty through Jack Monroe's narratives of her lived experience of it, inviting the reader's pity and refuting reductionist explanations of the causes of poverty. Monroe also challenges austerity through practices derived through her personal knowledge gained during her struggle to survive and eat healthily on £10-a-week food budget. This combination of narrative and survival practices written evocatively and eloquently resonate powerfully with readers; however the response to Monroe's blog highlights a deep uneasiness in British society over growing levels of poverty, and deep divisions over who is responsible for addressing it; and more fundamentally, over identifying and defining the modern poor and modern poverty.
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