Mary E Talbot

All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture

All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture

Language and Gender: An Introduction

Language and Gender: An Introduction

How Green Is Green: 38 Eucharistic Celebrations for Today's Youth

Language and Power in the Modern World

Language and Power in the Modern World

Media Discourse: Representation and Interaction

Dotter of Her Father's Eyes

Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father''s Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted ambitio...

The Lady Tars: The Autobiographies of Hannah Snell, Mary Lacy and Mary Anne Talbot

Out of Print for over 200 Years, the original text of three of the most remarkable naval biographies ever written. We know that women served as sailors in the Royal Navy as early as 1650. Unfortunately, what little we know of these women is based largely on second- and third-hand accounts and deduct...

Language and Gender: An Introduction

This is an up-to-date textbook in the growing area of language and gender. It will be popular with students for its accessibility and with teachers for the range and depth it achieves in a single volume. The book contains detailed discussion of work in the field, including recent research that has p...

Miracle Tales from Byzantium (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. Together, the collections offer an exceptional variety of miracles from the Byzantine era. First are the fifth-century M...

Language and Gender

This new edition of Language and Gender has been thoroughly revised and updated, including the addition of entirely new chapters that explore recent work in the field. A range of approaches is covered at an introductory level, presenting sometimes difficult and complex issues in an understandable wa...

Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)

The fall of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople to the Latin West in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade abruptly interrupted nearly nine hundred years of artistic and cultural traditions. In 1261, however, the Byzantine general Michael VIII Palaiologos triumphantly re-entered Constantinople and rec...

The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century (Dumbarton Oaks Studies)

Leo's firsthand experience of the campaigns and courts of two Byzantine emperors provides vivid descriptions of sieges, pitched battles, and ambushes. His account of the conspiracy against Nikephoros II Phokas, murdered as he slept on the floor in front of his icons, is one of the most dramatic in ...