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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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THE RIGHT STUFF: From Western to melodrama and comedy
NECSUS, 2016 THE RIGHT STUFF (1983), directed by Philip Kaufman, has explored which genre conventions were appropriate for space travel. The film first uses the Hollywood Western, as has been acknowledged by several authors.
Wim Staat
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The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence: On Recent German Right‐Wing Fiction
The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel ...
Sophie Salvo
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Victorian Literature and Culture, 2012 Starting with Dickens himself, many critics have understood that melodrama is not the opposite of realism. This essay argues for the tight relation between Dickens’s parodies of melodrama and his adaptations or transformations of it. After considering the melodramatic alternation between tragic and comic scenes – theorised in Chapter 17 of Oliver Twist
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Legal mobilization and anti‐fluoridation campaigning in post‐war Britain
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract The fluoridation of public water supplies to improve dental health is often cited as an example of an ‘intractable controversy’ in public health, reflecting deeply held principles about rights and the public sphere. This article examines legal mobilization to prevent fluoridation in Britain, from the first pilot studies in the mid‐1950s ...
JANET WESTON
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Melodrama, gênero dramatúrgico e linguagem televisiva: uma análise à luz de Bakhtin
Revista Eco-Pós, 2009 Ainda que as análises do melodrama sejam variadas, controversas e até mesmo incompatíveis, dois aspectos geram unanimidade: a durabilidade do gênero e sua maleabilidade. São essas características, aliadas à combinação de sentimentalismo e prazer visual,
Clara Fernandes Meirelles
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The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid‐and‐Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named ...
Hector Becerril +2 more
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Estrategias narrativas y género policiaco en la ficción televisiva de Gran Hotel (2011-2013)
Comunicación, 2022 El presente trabajo analiza las estructuras narrativas de la ficción seriada Gran Hotel, la cual incorpora los cánones del género policiaco al formato del melodrama histórico, representativo del modelo de televisión pública de los años ochenta. A través
Pablo Sánchez Blasco
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Creative Nonfiction: The Christian Dior woman
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract This work of creative nonfiction emerges from ethnographic research on Arab women's testimonies of their cancer experience conducted in 2016–2018. It focuses on the account of one Lebanese woman diagnosed with breast cancer and highlights her feelings, thoughts, and perceptions from the time of the initial medical examination through to final ...
Abir Hamdar
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Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2017 The text approaches the problems of music-dramatic work of Wojciech Bogusławski in a new way by examining it from the standpoint of opera studies. The article analyses relations between opera libretto and melodrama in the work of the father of the Polish
Daniel Stachuła
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