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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Incompatible with life is a medical term used when birth defects are so severe a baby cannot survive. The advent of medical technology has given doctors the ability to identify fetal problems early in pregnancy. Unfortunately, not all of these problems can be remediated. Termination is often the only option that modern medicine has to offer. In>Incompatible with Life, author Laura J. Schubert shares the heart-wrenching story of her experience of discovering that the child she is carrying in her womb has a chromosome defect-and the most likely outcome is stillbirth. Despite everything, she decides to continue with the pregnancy. Schubert tells of how the prospect of this much-wanted child was her salvation when she had breast cancer and of how she waited out the two-year moratorium on baby-making imposed by her doctors. Now, an ultrasound exam reveals not only that it's a little girl, but also her grim prognosis. The story illustrates the rippling effects of grief and the challenges of keeping a family afloat in a sea of churning emotions and uncertainty. Yet, it's also a hope-filled story that offers a real-life example of walking by faith and illuminates the unexpected gifts granted through tragedy. …

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Incompatible with life is a medical term used when birth defects are so severe a baby cannot survive. The advent of medical technology has given doctors the ability to identify fetal problems early in pregnancy. Unfortunately, not all of these problems can be remediated. Termination is often the only option that modern medicine has to offer. In>Incompatible with Life, author Laura J. Schubert shares the heart-wrenching story of her experience of discovering that the child she is carrying in her womb has a chromosome defect-and the most likely outcome is stillbirth. Despite everything, she decides to continue with the pregnancy. Schubert tells of how the prospect of this much-wanted child was her salvation when she had breast cancer and of how she waited out the two-year moratorium on baby-making imposed by her doctors. Now, an ultrasound exam reveals not only that it's a little girl, but also her grim prognosis. The story illustrates the rippling effects of grief and the challenges of keeping a family afloat in a sea of churning emotions and uncertainty. Yet, it's also a hope-filled story that offers a real-life example of walking by faith and illuminates the unexpected gifts granted through tragedy. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2010 Routledge hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1) The Custom of the Country: Edith Wharton's Conversation with the Atlantic Monthly (2) When the Reading Had to Stop: Readers, Reading and the Circulation of Texts in The Custom of the Country (3) 'Don't Cry - it ain't that Kind of a Story': Wharton's Business of Fiction, 1908-12 (4) Worst Parents Ever: Cultures of Childhood in The Custom of the Country (5) Crude Ascending the Staircase: Undine Spragg and the Armory Show (6) 'It's Better to Watch': Compulsive Voyeurism in The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth (7) A 'Mist of Opopanax': Mapping the Scentscape of The Custom of the Country (8) Landscape with the Fall of Undine (9) Girls from the Provinces: Wharton's Undine Spragg and Cather's The Song of the Lark (10) Men at Work in The Custom of the Country (11) 'Lost in Translation': Financial Plots and the Modernist Reader in The Custom of the Country.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume examines 'enfreakment' as the cultural logic through which certain bodies, characters, and traits are framed as 'freakish' across US culture. Exploring the scripts that underwrite figurations of freakishness, the collection illuminates how freak-show logics persist across contemporary media and continue to shape the spectacularization of bodies, identities, and communities. Bringing together contributions on film, reality TV, fanfiction, comics, novels, and other literary works and popular media, the collection approaches enfreakment as a performative and aesthetic process through which difference is staged, circulated, and consumed. In doing so, the volume highlights the enduring cultural power of the freak-show and its legacies and explores how they continue to inform negotiations of normalcy and belonging in US culture. 312 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume examines 'enfreakment' as the cultural logic through which certain bodies, characters, and traits are framed as 'freakish' across US culture. Exploring the scripts that underwrite figurations of freakishness, the collection illuminates how freak-show logics persist across contemporary media and continue to shape the spectacularization of bodies, identities, and communities. Bringing together contributions on film, reality TV, fanfiction, comics, novels, and other literary works and popular media, the collection approaches enfreakment as a performative and aesthetic process through which difference is staged, circulated, and consumed. In doing so, the volume highlights the enduring cultural power of the freak-show and its legacies and explores how they continue to inform negotiations of normalcy and belonging in US culture. 312 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume examines 'enfreakment' as the cultural logic through which certain bodies, characters, and traits are framed as 'freakish' across US culture. Exploring the scripts that underwrite figurations of freakishness, the collection illuminates how freak-show logics persist across contemporary media and continue to shape the spectacularization of bodies, identities, and communities. Bringing together contributions on film, reality TV, fanfiction, comics, novels, and other literary works and popular media, the collection approaches enfreakment as a performative and aesthetic process through which difference is staged, circulated, and consumed. In doing so, the volume highlights the enduring cultural power of the freak-show and its legacies and explores how they continue to inform negotiations of normalcy and belonging in US culture.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2012 Cambridge University Press hadrcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume provides the first substantial text dedicated to the various contexts that frame Wharton's remarkable career. Each essay offers a clearly argued and lucid assessment of Wharton's work as it relates to seven key areas: life and works, critical receptions, book and publishing history, arts and aesthetics, social designs, time and place, and literary milieux. These sections provide a broad and accessible resource for students coming to Wharton for the first time while offering scholars new critical insights. CONTENTS: Part I. Life and Works 1. Edith Wharton: contextual revisions by Laura Rattray 2. Chronology: Wharton in cultural and historical context by Pamela Knights and Laura Rattray 3. Biography by Melanie Dawson 4. Composition and publication by Sharon Kehl Califano 5. Portraits of Wharton by Susan Goodman Part II. Critical Receptions 6. Contemporary reviews, 1877-1938 by Heidi M. Kunz 7. Obituaries by Linda De Roche 8. 'Justice' to Edith Wharton? The early critical responses by Melissa M. Pennell 9. Modern critical receptions by Jessica Schubert McCarthy Part III. Book and Publishing History 10. Wharton and her editors by Sharon Shaloo 11. Selling Wharton by Gary Totten 12. Serialization by Elsa Nettels 13. Short story markets by Bonnie Shannon McMullen Part IV. Arts and Aesthetics 14. Stage adaptations of Wharton's fiction by John Dennis Anderson 15. Wharton's writings on screen by Anne-Marie Evans 16. Visual arts by Emily J. Orlando 17. Architecture by Cecilia Macheski 18. Interior and garden design by Helena Chance 19. Images of Wharton by Katherine Joslin Part V. Social Designs 20. The marriage market by Pamela Knights 21. Leisured lives by Maureen E. Montgomery 22. Wharton and gender by Linda Wagner-Martin 23. Race and imperialism by Margaret Toth 24. Social transitions by Adam Jabbur Part VI. Time and Place 25. Wharton and France by William Blazek 26. Wharton and Italy by Robin Peel 27. Wharton and World War I by Julie Olin-Ammentorp 28. The 1920s by Gail D. Sinclair 29. Wharton and the Great Depression by Carol J. Singley Part VII. Literary Milieux 30. Literary influences by Judith P. Saunders 31. Wharton and the American romantics by Linda Costanzo Cahir 32. The novel of manners by Cecilia Macheski 33. Naturalism by Donna Campbell 34. Modernism by Jennifer Haytock.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Enfreakment: The Poetics and Politics of Freak Show Legacies in US Culture | Ella Ernst (u. a.) | Buch | 344 S. | Englisch | 2026 | Universitätsverlag Winter | EAN 9783825397678 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Universitätsverlag WINTER GmbH Heidelberg, Andrea Hehn, Dossenheimer Landstr. 13, 69121 Heidelberg, gpsr[at]winter-verlag[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. "Incompatible with life" is a medical term used when birth defects are so severe a baby cannot survive. The advent of medical technology has given doctors the ability to identify fetal problems early in pregnancy. Unfortunately, not all of these problems can be remediated. Termination is often the only option that modern medicine has to offer. In Incompatible with Life, author Laura J. Schubert shares the heart-wrenching story of her experience of discovering that the child she is carrying in her womb has a chromosome defect-and the most likely outcome is stillbirth. Despite everything, she decides to continue with the pregnancy. Schubert tells of how the prospect of this much-wanted child was her salvation when she had breast cancer and of how she waited out the two-year moratorium on baby-making imposed by her doctors. Now, an ultrasound exam reveals not only that it's a little girl, but also her grim prognosis. The story illustrates the rippling effects of grief and the challenges of keeping a family afloat in a sea of churning emotions and uncertainty. Yet, it's also a hope-filled story that offers a real-life example of walking by faith and illuminates the unexpected gifts granted through tragedy. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…