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Book Review: All for Nothing by Rachel K. Ward
Contemporary Decadence and the Trauma of Truth All for Nothing. Ward, Rachel K. New York: Atropos Press, 2010.  305pp. Tara Aveilhe Rachel K. Ward’s thoughtful and challenging 2010 publication, All for Nothing, explores the concept of decadence in contemporary culture through a series of 247 philosophical aphorisms on thematic topics ranging from fortune and vanity to attraction and desire....
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August 2011
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The Horror Timeline of the 1890's: From Tabula...
Horror Timeline of the 1890s: In this decade, and into the next one, the Grand Guignol flourished on the Paris stage (and was still around a lot later). The term originally referred to a puppet (possibly the work of one Laurent Mourquet a century before), but came to refer to brief plays based around violence, murder, rape, ghostly apparitions and suicide. There was indeed a Théâtre du...
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William Butler Yeats
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,  Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;  There midnight’s all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow,  And evening full of the linnet’s wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day  I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;  While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, ...
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July 2011
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Litanies Of The Rose
Rose with dark eyes,  mirror of your nothingness,  rose with dark eyes,  make us believe in the mystery,  hypocrite flower, flower of silence. Rose the colour of pure gold,  oh safe deposit of the ideal,  rose the colour of pure gold,  give us the key of your womb,  hypocrite flower,  flower of silence. Rose the colour of silver,  censer of our dreams,  rose the colour of silver,  take our heart...
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May 2011
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A Collection of New Woman Fiction
Pickering and Chatto Publishers Part I Volume 1 Jessie Fothergill Kith and Kin (1881) edited by Brenda Ayres. Volume 2 Vernon Lee Miss Brown (1884) edited by Karen Yuen Volume 3 Mona Caird The Wing of Azrael (1889) edited by Alexandra Warwick. Part II Volume 4 C L Pirkis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894) edited by Adrienne E Gavin. Volume 5 Annie E Holdsworth The...
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New Woman Fiction: 1881-1899
“The figure of the ‘New Woman’ is notoriously hard to pin down. She was variously derided in the late nineteenth century press as mannish and unattractive, over educated and hysterical, unsexed and oversexed. The very ambivalence of this image of the New Woman was often useful to her opponents, who had a seemingly endless range of stereotypes to fall back on in discussing her exploits. ...
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