a poor wretch sitting on the steps of the door.

“Prithee, don’t plague me, man,” cried Mrs. Crayton impatiently, as the servant advanced something in behalf of the unhappy girl. “I tell you I don’t know her.”

Sir

you are united to a man of honour and humanity, united by the most sacred ties, respected, esteemed, and admired

a nasty, impudent hussey

Never did any human being wish for death with greater fervency or with juster cause; yet she had too just a sense of the duties of the Christian religion to attempt to put a period to her own existence.

she was no longer an object of desire:

bosom

he was bent on the complete ruin of the unhappy girl, and supposed, by reducing her to an entire dependance on him, to bring her by degrees to consent to gratify his ungenerous passion.

had it not been for her, I might have been happy—” He paused.

“Sure,” said he, “you cannot mean to insinuate that Charlotte is false.”

Mother, my dear mother! do not let me quite break your heart when I tell you, in a few months I shall bring into the world an innocent witness of my guilt. Oh my bleeding heart, I shall bring a poor little helpless creature, heir to infamy and shame.

“I am a villain,” said he mentally, as he turned from her to hide his emotions.

“I shall never forget you, Charlotte,”

I fear I have not only entailed lasting misery on that poor girl, but also thrown a barrier in the way of my own happiness, which it will be impossible to surmount.

Julia Franklin was the very reverse of Charlotte Temple:

he forgot Charlotte,

He was immediately introduced, found she was the owner of the jewels,

guilt, poverty, and disease close the dreadful scene: she sinks unnoticed to oblivion.

he should learn that babies are born from the bowel,

He either parts obediently with his faeces, “sacrifices” them to his love, or else retains them for purposes of auto-erotic satisfaction and later as a means of asserting his own will.

we not infrequently meet with the repressedwish to possess a penis like a man.

If we penetrate deeply enough into the neurosis of a woman

(money, gift)

anal-erotic instinctual impulses.

n a way which reminds one of historical intrigues

his desire to bring his mother (who is the subject of the most intense sexual curiosity) into situations of secret infidelity and into secret love-affairs.’

This stage is reached at a time at which the child is still in ignorance of the sexual determinants of procreation.

verisimilitude

the child’s imagination becomes engaged in the task of getting free from the parents of whom {223} he now has a low opinion and of replacing them by others

the child’s imagination becomes engaged in the task of getting free from the parents of whom {223} he now has a low opinion and of replacing them by others

On the other hand, there is a class of neurotics whose condition is recognizably determined by their having failed in this task.

legally prostituted

when, waiting for an answer, he discovered, under the concealment of a large bonnet, the face of Charlotte Temple.

he chaste Queen of Night with her silver crescent faintly illuminated the hemisphere.

the Argus’s who guarded the Hesperian fruit

a musket ball from our friends, the Americans, may in less than two months make you feel worse.

“Pho,”

I shall feel a much higher gratification in reflecting on this trifling performance, than could possibly result from the applause which might attend the most elegant finished piece of literature whose tendency might deprave the heart or mislead the understanding.

FOR the perusal of the young and thoughtless of the fair sex, this Tale of Truth is designed;

"traditional" truths

Don't ask; You shouldn't know.

tautologies

"I'm nobody. Who are you?"

The most notorious instance of this has occurred with feminist studies in literature, which by on the one hand confronting the master-canon with alternative canons of women's literature, and on the other hand reading rebelliously within the master-canon, has not only somewhat rearranged the table of contents for the master-canon but, more important, given it a title.

Their more important effect, however, has been to challenge, if not the empirical centrality, then the conceptual anonymity of the master-canon.

Blush, ye vaunters of fortitude; ye boasters of resolution; ye haughty lords of the creation; blush when ye remember, that he was influenced by no other motive than a bare pusilianimous attachment to a woman!

rib under the arm, at a distance from the head

gewgaws

we can only reason from what we know, and if an opportunity of acquiring knowledge hath been denied us, the inferiority of our sex cannot fairly be deduced from thence.

Another instance of our creative powers, is our talent for slander; how ingenious are we at inventive scandal? what a formidable story can we in a moment fabricate merely from the force of a prolifick imagination? how many reputations, in the fertile brain of a female, have been utterly despoiled?

That such distinctions only dwell below;

Who this distinction to the sex ascribe, As if a woman’s form must needs enrol, A weak, a servile, an inferiour soul; And that the guise of man must still proclaim, Greatness of mind, and him, to be the same:

THAT minds are not alike, full well I know,

CONSTANTIA

love, friendship and esteem, ought to take place of marriage,

throw herself away upon the first who approaches her with tenders of love

nature

Those, for example, who have the care of a beautiful female, they assiduously guard every avenue, they arrest the stream of due admiration, and endeavour to divest her of all idea of the bounties of nature:

Rous’d by a new stimulus

indolence of virtue

Bard

embow’ring

if heterosexuality is compelled to repeat itself in order to establish the illusion of its own uniformity and identity, then this is an identity permanently at risk, for what if it fails to repeat, or if the very exercise of repetition is redeployed for a very different performative purpose?

constitutive malaise

For it is only as a copy that homosexuality can be argued to precede heterosexuality as the origin. In other words, the entire framework of copy and origin proves radically unstable as each position inverts into the other and confounds the possibility of any stable way to locate the temporal or logical priority of either term.

homosexuality is thus the origin, and heterosexuality the copy.

Lesbianism is not explicitly prohibited in part because it has not even made its way into the thinkable

gay men exist as objects of prohibition; they are, in his twisted fantasy, sadomasochistic exploiters of children, the paradigmatic exemplars of “obscenity”;

what precisely that sign signifies.

identity categories tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes, whether as the normalizing categories of oppressive structures or as the rallying points for a liberatory contestation of that very oppression

For it is a production, usually in response to a request, to come out or write in the name of an identity which, once produced, sometimes functions as a politically efficacious phantasm.

that the scriptures everywhere from genesis to the revelations warn us against it;

Although you are deprived of the means of education; yet you are not deprived of the means of meditation; by which I mean thinking, hearing and weighing matters, men and things in your own mind, and making that judgment of them as you think reasonable to satisfy your minds and give an answer to those who may ask you a question.

our African brethren six years ago, in the French West Indies.

how are you shamefully abus’d, and that at such a degree, that you may truly be said to carry your lives in your hands; and the arrows of death are flying about your heads;

The great law-giver, Moses,

Thus, my brethren, we see what a chequered world we live in. Sometimes happy in having our wives and children like olive branches about our tables;

let us see them dragg’d from their native country, by the iron hand of tyranny and oppression, from their dear friends and connections, with weeping eyes and aching hearts, to a strange land and strange people, whose tender mercies are cruel; and there to bear the iron yoke of slavery & cruelty till death as a friend shall relieve them.

I have been most grievously afflicted, and yet thro’ the Divine Goodness, as miraculously preserved, and delivered out of many Dangers;

After being at Jamaica a short Time we sail’d for London, as convoy to a Fleet of Merchantmen, who all arrived safe in the Downs, I was turned over to another Ship, the Arcenceil, and there remained about a Month. From this Ship I went on board the Sandwich of 90 Guns; on board the Sandwich, I tarry’d 6 Weeks, and then was order’d on board the Hercules, Capt. John Porter, a 74 Gun Ship, we sail’d on a Cruize, and met with a French 84 Gun Ship, and had a very smart Engagement,*

I immediately jump’d overboard, chusing rather to be drowned, than to be kill’d by those barbarous and inhuman Savages.

The colony being essentially agricultural cannot suffer the least disruption in the works of its cultivation.

said ministers can never, under any circumstance, form a corps in the colony.

departments, arrondissements (districts) and parishes.

that no lady dances after marriage

Pope, Dryden, Thompson, Shakspeare, and of the French, Molière, Racine, the Corneilles, may be read with pleasure and improvement.

When this poison infects the mind, it destroys its tone and revolts it against wholesome reading.

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.

We know that among the Romans, about the Augustan age especially, the condition of their slaves was much more deplorable than that of the blacks on the continent of America.

They are more ardent after their female: but love seems with them to be more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation.

The circumstance of superior beauty, is thought worthy attention in the propagation of our horses, dogs, and other domestic animals; why not in that of man?

The first difference which strikes us is that of colour. Whether the black of the negro resides in the reticular membrane between the skin and scarf-skin, or in the scarf-skin itself; whether it proceeds from the colour of the blood, the colour of the bile, or from that of some other secretion, the difference is fixed in nature, and is as real as if its seat and cause were better known to us.

It is to be lamented then, very much to be lamented, that we have suffered so many of the Indian tribes already to extinguish, without our having previously collected and deposited in the records of literature, the general rudiments at least of the languages they spoke.

Groenland

The women are submitted to unjust drudgery. This I believe is the case with every barbarous people. With such, force is law. The stronger sex therefore imposes on the weaker. It is civilization alone which replaces women in the enjoyment of their natural equality. That first teaches us to subdue the selfish passions, and to respect those rights in others which we value in ourselves. Were we in equal barbarism, our females would be equal drudges. The man with them is less strong than with us, but their woman stronger than ours; and both for the same obvious reason; because our man and their woman is habituated to labour, and formed by it…

though it be to the whites, who he knows will treat him well

enterprize

origin of the prohibition of incest.

The paradox is that the metaphysical reduction of the sign needed the opposition it was reducing.

There is no sense in doing without the concepts of metaphysics in order to attack metaphysics. We have no language-no syntax and no lexicon-which is alien to this history; we cannot utter a single destructive proposition which has not already slipped into the form, the logic, and the implicit postulations of precisely what it seeks to contest.

(sign without truth present)

an infinite number of sign-substitutions came into play

this law of the central presence-but a central presence which was never itself

It would be possible to show that all the names related to fundamentals, to principles, or to the I center have always designated the constant of a presence-eidos, arche, telos, energeia, ousia (essence, existence, substance, subject) aletheia [truth], transcendentality, consciousness, or conscience, God, man, and so forth.

metonymies.

a linked chain of determinations of the center

eschatology

The center is not the center

the center is, paradoxically, within the structure and outside it.

concept of structure and even the word "structure" itself are as old as the episteme

this event will have the exterior form of a rupture and a redoubling.

But it appears that Thomas did not believe the resurrection; and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I; and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas..

heathen mythology.

nineteenth of April 1775

sullen tempered Pharaoh of England for ever

A temporary stoppage of trade,

junto

I am not induced by motives of pride, party, or resentment to espouse the doctrine of separation and independance; I am clearly, positively, and conscientiously persuaded that it is the true interest of this continent to be so;

Every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual. Our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning

I mean not to exhibit horror for the purpose of provoking revenge, but to awaken us from fatal and unmanly slumbers, that we may pursue determinately some fixed object.

But let our imaginations transport us for a few moments to Boston, that seat of wretchedness will teach us wisdom, and instruct us for ever to renounce a power in whom we can have no trust. The inhabitants of that unfortunate city, who but a few months ago were in ease and affluence, have now, no other alternative than to stay and starve, or turn and beg.

Even the distance at which the Almighty hath placed England and America, is a strong and natural proof, that the authority of the one, over the other, was never the design of Heaven.

Because, any submission to, or dependence on Great Britain, tends directly to involve this continent in European wars and quarrels; and sets us at variance with nations, who would otherwise seek our friendship, and against whom, we have neither anger nor complaint.

But admitting, that we were all of English descent, what does it amount to? Nothing. Britain, being now an open enemy, extinguishes every other name and title: And to say that reconciliation is our duty, is truly farcical. The first king of England, of the present line (William the Conqueror) was a Frenchman, and half the Peers of England are descendants from the same country; therefore, by the same method of reasoning, England ought to be governed by France.

the king and his parasites

they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great towards them as to those that are actually suffering the executions of the fierceness of his wrath in hell, and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold ’em up one moment; the devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and swallow them up;

they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it

The very thought of any joy arising in me, on any consideration of my own amiableness, performances, or experiences, or any goodness of heart or life, is nauseous and detestable to me.

Often, since I lived in this town, I have had very affecting views of my own sinfulness and vileness

panted

The soul of a true Christian

ejaculatory prayer

sweet

sweetly to represent the loveliness and beauty of Jesus Christ

and returned like a dog to his vomit, and went on in the ways of sin

We would no longer hear the questions that have been rehashed for so long: Who really spoke? Is it really he and not someone else? With what authenticity or originality? And what part of his deepest sell did he express in his discourse? Instead, there would be other questions, like these: What are the modes of existence of this discourse? Where has it been used, how can it circulate, and who can appropriate it for himself? What are the places in it where there is room for possible subjects? Who can assume these various subject functions? And behind all these questions, we would hear hardly anything but the stirring of an indifference: What difference does it make who is speaking?

The truth is quite the contrary: the author is not an indefinite source of significations that fill a work; the author does not precede the works; he is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes, and chooses; in short, by which one impedes the free circulation, the free manipulation, the free composition, decomposition, and recomposition of fiction.

Saint Jerome proposes four criteria: (i) if among several books attributed to an author one is inferior to the others, it must be withdrawn from the list of the author's works (the author is therefore defined as a constant level of value); (2) the same should be done if certain texts contradict the doctrine expounded in the author's other works (the author is thus defined as a field of conceptual or theoretical coherence); (3) one must also exclude works that are written in a different style, containing words and expressions not ordinarily found in the writer's production (the author is here conceived as a stylistic unity); (4) finally, passages quoting statements made or mentioning events that occurred after the author's death must be regarded as interpolated texts (the author is here seen as a historical figure at the crossroads of a certain number of events).

The author allows a limitation of the cancerous and dangerous proliferation of significations within a world where one is thrifty not only with one's resources and riches but also with one's discourses and their significations.

Freud is not just the author of The Interpretation of Dreams or Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious; Marx is not just the author of the Communist Manifesto or Das Kapital: they both have established an endless possibility of discourse

Texts, books, and discourses really began to have authors (other than mythical, sacralized and sacralizing figures) to the extent that authors became subject to punishment

Traditions are no longer passed down the generations. Instead, they are learned from celebrity chefs, the modern day oracles.

From 2007, the visual images of the men got bigger, so in the end they were bigger than the visual images of the food. During the same period, the women were shown serving the food. In some cases, because the image was small, the woman was shown as torso only.

Increasingly, the magazines featured visual images of male chefs, who were usually shown either sitting, or carving, but not serving.

A semiotic analysis of texts looks at how words and images combine to create meaning together.

Our analysis clearly showed that ‘perfect’ means not just how the food was cooked but how it was displayed;

domestic goddesses?

How should brands talk to 21st Century women about making the Christmas meal?

The Christmas meal is an event of considerable symbolic and commercial importance in many countries, certainly the UK and Australia where the research for this paper was conducted.

a word is always, first and foremost, a member of a system, interconnected with other words, sometimes in one order of relations, sometimes in another.

syntagmatic

what creates general phenomena is the collaboration of all the individuals involved

The latter can be defined at the level of the individual. It is an abstract thing and requires the human being for its realisation.

the written word is confused with the spoken word

By using the witch hunt as a les­son on proper eth­i­cal behav­ior, the museum removes the 1692 events from the past and makes them part of a con­tem­po­rary moral code.

Cry Inno­cent,” the brochures read, “It’s April 1692. Brid­get Bishop is on the wit­ness stand, and YOU are on the jury. Play your part in his­tory.”

“true”

This phe­nom­e­non hap­pens over and over again in Salem

fol­low their Cham­ber of Com­merce maps from site to site.

Fifty Pounds

Jael upon Sisera

Penacook

Salvages

Heb

Spectre

he lost a Cow in a strange Preternatural unusual manner

Moreover the Look of Carrier then laid the Afflicted People for dead; and her Touch, if her Eye at the same time were off them, raised them again

And I do what I can to have that Country, now, as well as always, in the best Terms with my own.

Frowardness, Asperity, Untreatableness, and Inconsistency

he found me sitting and reading in my Bible; she snatched it hastily out of my hand, and threw it out of doors

hey would break my face

their filthy trash

where I saw the ground was newly digged, and there they told me they had buried it

it

but instead of that, sometimes one Indian would come and tell me one hour that “your master will knock your child in the head,” and then a second, and then a third, “your master will quickly knock your child in the head.”

Gilman

The feminist content of feminine art is typically oblique, displaced, ironic, and subversive; one has to read it between the lines, in the missed possibilities of the text.

During the Feminine phase, dating from about 1840 to 1880, women wrote in an effort to equal the intellectual achievements of the male culture, and internalized its assumptions about female nature. The distinguishing sign of this period is the male pseudonym, introduced in England in the 1840s, and a national characteristic of English women writers. In addition to the famous names we all know - George Eliot, Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell - dozens of other women chose male pseudo- nyms as a way of coping with a double literary standard.

educational, experiential, and biological handicaps of the woman novelist

Hating one’s mother was the feminist enlightenment of the fifties and sixties; but it is only a metaphor for hating oneself

images and stereotypes of women in literature

For some radical feminists, methodology itself is an intellectual instrument of patriarchy, a tyrannical methodolatry which sets implicit limits to what can be’ questioned and discussed

feminist criticism will naturally be obsessed with the phallus

Members of English departments who can remember what Harold Bloom means by clinamen, and who know the difference between Tartu and Barthian semiotics, will remark that they are against feminist. criticism and consequently have never read any.

They are still arguing when she comes out, twenty-one pages later.

and would bring bottles of strong liquor to him

Captain Shrimp,

Chap. XV. Of a great Monster supposed to be at Ma-re-Mount ; and the preparation made to destroy it

beaver coats

Vncover thy head

Hymens

did from that time afterwards call the English Planters Wotawquenange, which in their language signifieth stabbers, or Cutthroats

They are not delighted in baubles, but care ‘ in ufefull things…

Englishman ; and then he would be a good man

and made God so angry that he let in the sea upon them, and drowned the greater part of them

get children

The 'unity for liberation' should beone of solidarity between different struggles for freedom rather than an attempt to bind everythinginto one single point of struggle

'Anti-Social behaviour'

Dialectical materialism is not 'true'; a scientific theory of history is notpossible