Fictions Of Modesty

Author : Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226950969
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fictions of Modesty written by Ruth Bernard Yeazell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-06-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining evidence from conduct books and ladies' magazines with the arguments of influential theorists like Hume, Rousseau, and Wollstonecraft, this book begins by asking why writers were devoted to the anxious remaking of women's "nature" and to codifying rules for their porper behavior. Fictions of Modesty shows how the culture at once tried to regulate young women's desires and effectively opened up new possibilities of subjectivity and individual choice. Yeazell goes on to demonstrate that modest delaying actions inform a central tradition of English narrative. On the Continent, the English believed, the jeune fille went from the artificial innocence of the convent to an arranged marriage and adultery; the natural modesty of the Englishwoman, however, enabled her to choose her own mate and to marry both prudently and with affection. Rather than taking its narrative impetus from adultery, then, English fiction concentrated on courtship and the consciousness of the young woman choosing. After paired studies of Richardson's Pamela and Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (even Fanny Hill, Yeazell argues, is a modest English heroine at heart), Yeazell investigates what women novelists made of the virtues of modesty in works by Burney, Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Gaskell.

Author : Peter O'Donnell
Publisher : Souvenir PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9780285637283
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modesty Blaise written by Peter O'Donnell and published by Souvenir PressLtd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first adventure for British Intelligence Modesty Blaise with her loyal lieutenant, Willie Garvin, must foil a multi-million pound diamond heist. They travel from London to the South of France, across the Mediterranean to Cairo before battling, against impossible odds, a private army of professional killers.

Author : Wendy Shalit
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476765170
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Return to Modesty written by Wendy Shalit and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with a new introduction, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty. When A Return to Modesty was first published in 1999, its argument launched a worldwide discussion about the possibility of innocence and romantic idealism. Wendy Shalit was the first to systematically critique the "hook-up" scene and outline the harms of making sexuality so public. Today, with social media increasingly blurring the line between public and private life, and with child exploitation on the rise, the concept of modesty is more relevant than ever. Updated with a new preface that addresses the unique problems facing society now, A Return to Modesty shows why "the lost virtue" of modesty is not a hang-up that we should set out to cure, but rather a wonderful instinct to be celebrated. A Return to Modesty is a deeply personal account as well as a fascinating intellectual exploration into everything from seventeenth-century manners to the 1948 tune "Baby, It’s Cold Outside." Beholden neither to social conservatives nor to feminists, Shalit reminds us that modesty is not prudery, but a natural instinct—and one that may be able to save us from ourselves.

Author : Hafsa Lodi
Publisher : Neem Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 9781911107255
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modesty written by Hafsa Lodi and published by Neem Tree Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modest fashion is a young, fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar retail sector. What do we mean by Modest Fashion? Who are the personalities and companies driving this industry?

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Author : Thom Dancer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192893327
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction written by Thom Dancer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From climate catastrophe to pandemics and economic crises, the problems facing humanity are dizzyingly complex and increasingly planetary in scale. Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction argues for contemporary fiction's capacity to help those who may feel despair at the enormity of such problems--not, as one might think, through the ambitious search for grand solutions, but rather by inculcating a temperament of modesty. This new temperament of critical modesty locates the fight for freedom and human dignity within the limited and compromised conditions in which we find ourselves. Through readings of Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, J. M. Coetzee, and David Mitchell, this volume shows how contemporary works of literature model modesty as a critical temperament. Exploring modest forms of entangled human agency that represent an alternative to the novel of the large scale that have been most closely associated with the Anthropocene, it makes the surprising, yet compelling, case that precisely by adopting a modest stance, the novel actually has the potential to play a more important socio-cultural role. In doing so, the book offers an engaging response to the debate over critical and surface readings, bringing novels into the conversation and arguing for a fictional mode that is both critical and modest, reminding us how much we are already engaged with the world, implicated and compromised, before we start developing theories, writing stories, or acting within it.

Author : E. Falk
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780873068741
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sefer ʻOz Ṿe-hadar Levushah written by E. Falk and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tznius -- modesty -- is an integral facet of Jewish life. In a world where modesty is recognized more by its absence than by its presence, there has never been a greater need for a definitive work on this vital quality. But what precisely are the laws of modesty, what are its parameters, where are its applications? In this long-awaited work, the laws and ideology of modesty are tackled in an exhaustive and comprehensive manner. All the laws of Tznius, whether in dress or behavior, speech and social interaction, are collated and explained in the clear and lucid manner that is characteristic of the author. -- Back cover.

Author : Peter O'Donnell
Publisher : Souvenir PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9780285638341
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pieces of Modesty written by Peter O'Donnell and published by Souvenir PressLtd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spotlighting the popular female detective and her trusty sidekick, this collection of short stories pursues Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin through one adventure after another, following their footsteps from South America to Finland. Recounting their constant duels with the world's villains, these tales also detail the dauntless duo's improvised weaponry?from circus cannons to human kites. Serving as a fascinating companion to the legendary crime fighter's full-length escapades, this anthology delves deeper into her relationship with Willie Garvin, who is given his own heroic story while he is once again carried along on even more cunning plans.

Author : David J. Vaughan
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781630264383
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beauty of Modesty written by David J. Vaughan and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at our cultural preferences today of showing as much skin as possible transposed against the choice to be modest and the values of the choice.

Author : Clifton Fahie Jr
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1637108621
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modesty written by Clifton Fahie Jr and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to enter a world where a nation so great is finally tested as if jackals and lions collide. Will Valkar be a jackal or a lion?