"Thinking against the current" : literature and political resistance / Sybil Oldfield.
Sybil Oldfie ld is the Emeritus Reader in English at the University of Sussex. She is the author of several books, including Afterwords: Letters on the Death of Virginia Woolf, The Collective Biography of Women in Britain 1550-1900, and Spinsters of This Parish.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: 'Oh England, / Sick in head and sick in heart' (Anon, 1675); 1 'No Respecter of Persons': The impact of Quaker persecution history on the radicalism of Tom Paine; 2 Blake and Shelley versus Their Society; 3 Hazlitt versus Malthus; 4 'Warmint' and 'Gentleman' in Great Expectations: The ambiguous 'lowness' of Abel Magwitch; Part Two: Enter the Women; 5 'Ourstory' by Carole Satyamurti; 6 Introduction to 'Which Dead Should Awaken?': From the Collective Biography of Women, 1550-1900. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7 A 'Strong-minded Woman' -- Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1890): The 'mother' of the 19th century British women's movement8 Introduction to Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs. Nassau Senior (1828-1877), the first woman in Whitehall; 9 Introduction to International Woman Suffrage News (Ius Suffragii), 1906-1914; 10 Eleanor Rathbone MP (1872-1946) and Indian Girls: Cultural imperialist or friend to women?; Part Three: Twentieth-Century Women and the Problem of War; 11 England's Cassandras in World War One; 12 Caroline Playne (1858-1940): Cultural historian and and social psychologist. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 13 Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1860-1931): The chance the world missed14 Simone Weil (1909-1943): The wise fool; 15 Virginia Woolf and Antigone: Thinking against the current; 16 German Women in the Resistance to Hitler; 17 Germany's Antigone: Sophie Scholl (1921-1943); 18 Compiling the First Dictionary of British Humanitarians: Why? What? Who? How?; 19 Vera Brittain (1893-1970): The dogged pacifist; 20 American Visionaries: Helen Keller, and the poets Muriel Rukeyser, Denise Levertov and Sharon Olds; 21 Righteous Violence -- War in the Family, War in the World; Index; Back Cover. | |
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