Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody (Gender and Culture Series)

Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were the hottest send-ups of the day's political and cultural obsessions. Gilbert and Sullivan's productions always rose to the level of social commentary, despite being impertinent, absurd, or inane. Some viewers may take them straight, but what looks like sexism or stereotype was actually a clever strategy of critique. Parody was a powerful weapon in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England, and with defiantly in-your-face sophistication, Gilbert and Sullivan proved that popular culture can be intellectually as well as politically challenging. Carolyn Williams underscores Gilbert and Sullivan's creative and acute understanding of cultural formations. Her unique perspective shows how anxiety drives the troubled mind in the Lord Chancellor's "Nightmare Song" in Iolanthe and is vividly realized in the sexual and economic phrasing of the song's patter lyrics. The modern body appears automated and performative in the "Junction Song" in Thespis, anticipating Charlie Chaplin's factory worker in Modern Times. Williams also illuminates the use of magic in The Sorcerer, the parody of nautical melodrama in H.M.S. Pinafore, the ridicule of Victorian aesthetic and idyllic poetry in Patience, the autoethnography of The Mikado, the role of gender in Trial by Jury, and the theme of illegitimacy in The Pirates of Penzance. With her provocative reinterpretation of these artists and their work, Williams recasts our understanding of creativity in the late nineteenth century.

Williams, Carolyn

Humor & Entertainment

Columbia University Press

Exploring the intricacy and complexity of Walter Pater's prose, Transfigured World challenges traditional approaches to Pater and shows precise ways in which the form of his prose expresses its content. Carolyn Williams asserts that Pater's aestheticism and his historicism should be understood as dialectically interrelated critical strategies, inextricable from each other in practice.

Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism (American Culture)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Cornell University Press

Do the Sharks Have Shoes?

This is a story about a conversation, during an eventful September day, between two children, their grandmother, and their great-grandmother who is suffering from dementia.

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Christian Faith

This is a story about a conversation, during an eventful September day, between two children, their grandmother, and their great-grandmother who is suffering from dementia.

Now in its third edition, this comprehensive volume is recognized as the most authoritative review of the epidemiology of infectious disease. Divided into five sections that cover methods in infectious disease epidemiology, airborne transmission, diarrhea

Nelson and Williams' Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Gurley, Emily S.

Sociology

Jones& Bartlett Learning

ow in its third edition, this comprehensive volume is recognized as the most authoritative review of the epidemiology of infectious disease. Divided into five sections that cover methods in infectious disease epidemiology, airborne transmission, diarrheal diseases, blood and body fluid as a reservoir of infectious diseases, vectorborne and parasite disease, the book includes 'state-of-the-art' chapters on methodological issues, pathogenesis, and comprehensive reviews of virtually all known infectious diseases.New to the Third Edition:1. All chapters updated with significant new information2. HIV chapter completely updated including results of trials of Male Circumcision, HIV-vaccines, female condoms, Microbicides and new drugs3. New chapter on Infectious Disease Eradication (e.g. Smallpox, Polio, Measles)4. New chapter on Pneumococcal Disease (with material on S. pneumonia moved from the ARI and Vaccine chapters)5. Influenza chapter updated with new material on H1/N1 and control/prevention of Influenza during a pandemic 6. Consolidation of material from the chapters on Outbreaks and Surveillance.7. Nosocomial Infection chapter is shortened and updated with a new section on nosocomial/community MRSA8. Malaria chapter updated with new information on bed nets, prophylactic therapy of pregnant women and other high risk populations as well as new detailed examination of the organization, implementation, and accomplishments of the WHO--Roll-Back Malaria program; and a new description of the 5th Human Malaria parasite--P.knowlesi and its Epidemiology.9. STD chapter is updated with new information on the rapid diagnosis of STDs using urine PCR-methods as well as new information on partner prophylacitic treatment of STDs10. New information in Chickengunya virus, Enterovirus 71, Nipah and Hendra virus infections to the Emerging infections chapter.11. Hepatitis chapter is revised with new information on HEV virus12. New brief chapter discussing the various models of behavioral change that are useful in Infectious Diseases research--e.g. Health Belief model etc.

Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice: Theory and Practice

Nelson, Kenrad E.

A Lorton Prison Project

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Xlibris

Exploring the intricacy and complexity of Walter Pater’s prose, Transfigured World challenges traditional approaches to Pater and shows precise ways in which the form of his prose expresses its content. Carolyn Williams asserts that Pater’s aestheticism and his historicism should be understood as dialectically interrelated critical strategies, inextricable from each other in practice. Williams discusses the explicit and embedded narratives that play a crucial role in Pater’s aesthetic criticism and examines the figures that compose these narratives, including rhetorical tropes, structures of argument such as genealogy, and historical or fictional personae.

Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism

Historic Photos of Jacksonville captures the historical growth of this city in still photography from the top archives in the area. Stunning black and white pictures with most of the photographs never published before in this beautiful coffee table book. The book follows life, government, events and people important to Jacksonville history and the building of this unique late blooming city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of Jacksonville!

Historic Photos of Jacksonville

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Turner

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Books by Williams, Carolyn

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Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody (Gender and Culture Series)

Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody (Gender and Culture Series)

Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism (American Culture)

Do the Sharks Have Shoes?

Do the Sharks Have Shoes?

Nelson and Williams' Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice

Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice: Theory and Practice

A Lorton Prison Project

Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism

Historic Photos of Jacksonville