Karen K Chase

Middlemarch In The Twenty-first Century

Middlemarch In The Twenty-first Century

George Eliot: Middlemarch

Middlemarch

The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family

Bonjour 40: A Paris travel Log: (40 years. 40 days. 40 seconds.)

If Karen A. Chase absolutely had to turn forty, she decided she could do it gracefully in Paris… for nearly forty days. Released after the e-book, this stunning paperback version contains over 100 of Chase's photographs, plus quotes and thoughts not found in the streamlined e-book version. For reade...

FDR on His Houseboat: The Larooco Log, 1924-1926

In the midst of the Jazz Age, while Americans were making merry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken by polio and withdrew from public life. From 1924 to 1926, believing that warm water and warm air would help him walk again, he spent the winter months on his new houseboat, the "Larooco," sailing...

Polio Boulevard: A Memoir (Excelsior Editions)

In 1954, Karen Chase was a ten-year-old girl playing Monopoly in the polio ward when the radio blared out the news that Dr. Jonas Salk had developed the polio vaccine. The discovery came too late for her, andPolio Boulevardis Chase's unique chronicle of her childhood while fighting polio. From her l...

The Spectacle of Intimacy

Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to gover...

Jamali - Kamali

Just off busy Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road in Delhi, India, the 16th century Sufi court poet Jamali is buried in a tomb next to Kamali, whom helpful guides say, according to oral tradition, was the poet's lover. Little about them is known. Karen Chase reconstructs the expressions of love and longing betwee...

Land of Stone: Breaking Silence Through Poetry (William Beaumont Hospital Series in Speech and Language Pathology)

For more than a decade, Karen Chase taught poetry writing to severely incapacitated patients at a large psychiatric hospital outside of New York City. During that time, she began working with Ben, a handsome, formerly popular and athletic young man who had given up speaking and had withdrawn from so...

Eliot: Middlemarch (Landmarks of World Literature)

A comprehensive introduction to Middlemarch, offering both general information and an original interpretation. It pays considerable attention to the intellectual and social context surrounding Middlemarch, and situates the work within nineteenth-century traditions of the novel in England and Europe....

Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century

Middlemarch is the prime example of George Eliot's dictum that "interpretations are illimitable," and in this collection of new essays Middlemarch is re-examined as an open text responsive to gaps and fissures, and as resistant to authority as it is to other fixed notions of identity, idealism, and ...