Moodie, Susanna (1803–85) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.)
... Richard Bentley , her writing again found English publication. Her most enduring work is autobiographical in nature and includes her best-known book, Roughing it in the bush: or, Life in Canada (2 vols, London, 1852 ; ncl ); its hastily put-together sequel, Life in the clearings versus the bush (London, 1853 ; ncl , with an Afterword by Carol Shields ); and a fictionalized narrative, Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an eventful life (London, 1853 ). Together the three form a loose trilogy, Flora Lyndsay in fact recounting the events leading up to...
Theatre and New Zealand literature Reference library
Simon Garrett
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature
...Theatre in Auckland, primarily a working-class theatre ‘encouraging’, in the words of a programme note, ‘the production of plays with a special working class interest, focussing the efforts of dramatic groups in trade unions and other working class organisations, providing a clearing house of information and guidance for such groups, and encouraging the writing of plays’ by members of them. Mason's work for the theatre included sketches and longer pieces, such as ‘Squire Speaks’ (a dramatic monologue), ‘International Brigade’, ‘Skull on Silence’, ‘This Dark...
Anthologies in English: Poetry Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.)
... ( 1974 ). The most interesting of these anthologies, in terms of imaginative structure, is Warkentin's, which uses Stephen Leacock's ‘The marine excursion of the Knights of Pythias’ as the prologue to sections entitled ‘In the clearings’ (an echo of the title of Susanna Moodie 's book of descriptive sketches Life in the clearings ), ‘“Is this the way to Sunshine?”’ (a line from Alice Munro's story ‘Walker Brothers cowboy’, included in the anthology), ‘Men and women’ (the title of a short-story collection by Hugh Garner ), and ‘Where the myth touches us’...
Novels in English. Beginnings to 1900 Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.)
...abroad. Publication in either London or New York guaranteed large markets, good distribution, and sometimes favourable copyright arrangements. Publication in Great Britain had the further advantage of allowing authors to feel that they were writing for people who, because of their position at the artistic and intellectual centre of the British Empire, set the fashions for the fiction that they tried to create. Some writers in the colonies gained access fairly easily to these markets because they had published works in London before immigrating to Canada....
Biography and memoirs in English Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.)
...of youth among Canadian Icelanders; and Frederick Niven 's Coloured spectacles ( 1938 ) is a sensitive evocation of a varied life. But imaginatively meagre are such autobiographies as Ernest Thompson Seton 's Trail of an artist naturalist ( 1940 ), Nellie McClung 's Clearing in the West ( 1935 ) and The stream runs fast ( 1945 ), Robert Service 's Ploughman of the moon ( 1945 ) and Harper of heaven ( 1948 ), and Mazo de la Roche 's Ringing the changes ( 1957 ). Since the mid-1960s, however, Canadian writers were inclined to write their...
London Reference library
Andrew Sanders, Andrew Sanders, Andrew Sanders, Andrew Sanders, Paul Schlicke, David Parker, Andrew Sanders, David Parker, Andrew Sanders, Andrew Sanders, Anne Humpherys, and David Parker
The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens
...the senses’ ( OT 21; see also 16). Pip complained that ‘the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me’ ( GE 20). Passing allusions are made in Dickens's works to the Borough Market ( PP 10, 32), Clare Market ( PP 20), Fleet Market ( BR 8, 69), and Newgate Market ( BH 5). David Parker 9. Residential segregation. Contrary to a commonly held belief, classes and economic groups were not rigorously segregated in Victorian London. The physical shape of the city and the nature of its development in...
Bristol Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...time abroad as he was consumptive but he was at 7 Victoria Sq. for some time after giving up his London home in 1868 until he moved back to Clifton Hill House after his father's death in 1871 . He left finally in 1880 and wrote ( Letters , 1907 ) of the difficulty of clearing up accumulations of family papers. He wrote of his home in his essay ‘Clifton and a Lad's Love’, published in In the Key of Blue ( 1893 ). Clifton Hill House is now a university residential hall. The Manx poet T. E. Brown was a housemaster at the new Clifton College from ...
Infrastructure Reference library
Russell Coldicutt
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...by regulating “its own rhythms and customs.” 48 The novel begins in a Manhattan overrun by infected humans who have become flesh-eating automatons and documents the attempts of an urban renewal team to reclaim highways and subway tunnels, establish a waste disposal system for clearing away the dead, and manage the reconstruction of the island blockaded off from the infected population. This zone (i.e., “Zone One”) is far from a solution to the masses of infected individuals who intrude upon its borders: it is a problem in itself. The zone is “the germ of a...
Wordsworth, William Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
...initiated by Coleridge, over whether Wordsworth really used the “language really used by men” has largely obscured this contribution. The purpose of this argument, like so many of the others cited, was to construct an audience for poetry. In this case, it was a matter of clearing ground, of making a space for a new grouping. On the one hand, Wordsworth wanted to reject the language of elitists who “confer honour upon themselves.” On the other, he wanted to purify the language of “humble and rustic life” from what is “disgust[ing]” in that “rank in...
Censorship Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
...Telling a neighbor that another man or woman was a scoundrel or a rake could not lead to prosecution; however, telling the neighbor that another was an adulterer, murderer, or a thief could. Slander and libel were initially actionable only in the ecclesiastical courts, where clearing the injured party's name, or possibly excommunication, was the only remedy available. Later, when injured parties sought material damages, the common law courts acquired jurisdiction in slander and libel cases. Even though defendants frequently claimed the truth of an allegation...
Trans Reference library
Quinn Eades
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...and thrilling prospect of creating a perfect world built from nothing. 34 We know too that colonialism, fascism, and ongoing eugenic practices are founded on the desire to annihilate what is already present in order to make new worlds and must tread very carefully if this clearing/cleaning is our first instinct when thinking/writing/dreaming utopias. Haraway writes that unlike inhabitants in many other utopian movements, stories, or literatures in the history of the earth, the Children of Compost knew they could not deceive themselves that they could start...
The Matter of Drafts Reference library
Jani Scandura
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...thought. Jean-Michel Rabaté posits a “spectral” modernity allegorized by “the figure of a ghostly writer who imagines himself posthumous so as to mediate between his past and the future and to judge the present.” 32 A literary or commercial writer’s leftovers have market value or potential market value as saleable commodities: Many descendants or literary heirs donate or sell writers’ papers to libraries after their death ( Figure 5 ). Figure 5. Letter from Malcolm Cowley to Lew Feldman regarding Hart Crane. Hart Crane Collection (1923–1961), Harry Ransom Center...
Everyday Reference library
William Galperin
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...Bessborough, recognized, what Lady Byron was getting at in praising Pride and Prejudice , what forced Maria Edgeworth to stop reading Emma after just one volume, are all versions of the same understanding. The binary choice between the probable and the fantastic provides a clearing for a possible world—call it the present, call it “no story,” call it “amus[ing]” (Lady Bessborough), call it “real natural every day life”—that is striking to readers because they are encountering it “again” and for the “first time.” Recalling the Present If the everyday proves...
Bush Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...were safe to let us know when the ‘traps’ were closing in on us, and then – why the coach would be ‘stuck up’ a hundred miles away, in a different direction, within twenty-four hours. Bushwacker In Australia, a person who lives in the bush, especially an axeman engaged in clearing scrub. Hence generally any unsophisticated person or ‘hick’. In the USA the word was used for a deserter in the Civil War ( 1861–5 ), who looted behind the lines. Pulling a boat along by means of bushes growing on the river banks was also known as bushwhacking. Beat about the...
English Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... from the eleanor cross erected here by Edward I . Chelsea (district, London). Probably meaning ‘landing-place for chalk or limestone’, Old English cealc ‘chalk, limestone’ + hyth ‘landing-place’. Chipping Sodbury (town, Gloucestershire). ‘Market at Sodbury’, Chipping , Old English cieping ‘market’; Sodbury ‘Soppa’s fortified place’, Old English male personal name Soppa + bury ‘fortified place’. Clerkenwell (district, London). ‘Scholars’ spring’, Middle English clerken plural of clerk ‘scholar, student’ + well ‘well, spring’....
North Korea in Asian American Literature and Culture Reference library
Christine Hong
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture
...22. Immigration and Nationality Act , September 11, 1957. 23. No and Osterholm, A MiG-15 to Freedom , 179. As No details, although his mother did not meet the bar of English fluency, then a requirement for naturalization, the examiner—on orders from Washington—passed her, clearing the way for her to become a US citizen. 24. Erin Aeran Chung, “The Politics of Contingent Citizenship: Korean Political Engagement in Japan and the United States,” in Diaspora without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan , ed. Sonia Ryang and John Lie (Berkeley: University of...
Strategic Hybridity in Early Chinese and Japanese American Literature Reference library
Floyd Cheung
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture
...to jump into the water to do the work of deepening the river, and on one occasion I had to jump in, with the water up to my waist, in order to set them an example. When they caught the idea and saw me in the water, every man followed my example and vied with each other in clearing a way for the boats, for they saw I meant business and there was no fooling about it either. 26 With performances of physical manliness and colloquial American language like this, Yung communicated to his readers also that he bore the requisite qualities of tough masculinity....
Selsdon Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable
...A prosperous southerly outpost of Croydon , situated in an elevated position to the north-east of Sanderstead. Most of Selsdon used to be a single farm covering more than one square mile (2.5 sq km), and its woodland was used for pheasant shooting in the 19th century, with clearings and rides that can still be seen. In 1923 the farm was sold off and split up. The early 19th-century farmhouse-cum-mansion became Selsdon Park Hotel and was much extended, and its parkland was laid out as a golf course in 1929 . Selsdon Group A right-wing Conservative...
Barnet Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable
...hill. The variant form ‘Barnetley’ was in use for several centuries, the affix signifying a clearing. East Barnet may have been the earliest part of the district to be permanently inhabited and a church stood here by 1140. However, a more significant settlement soon evolved on the higher ground to the north-west following the establishment of a market by the abbey of St Albans. From the 14th century the new centre was known as Chipping Barnet (Barnet market). See also battle of barnet ; high barnet . Barnet, London Borough of An Outer London ...
Bromley Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable
...in 862 , from Old English brōm lēah , ‘the heath where broom grows’. An Anglo-Saxon settlement developed around the site now occupied by the market square and Gilbert Glanville , Bishop of Rochester, built a palace nearby in 1185 . The bishop's successors encouraged pilgrims to visit St Blaise 's well, which was fed by a spring whose waters tasted of iron. In 1205 King John granted a charter to the town's market, which specialized in the wool trade. Bromley flourished as a spa town after the rediscovery of the St Blaise's well in 1754 . A new episcopal...
