Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack

Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack

Praised at the time as the most emphatically American book ever written, Margaret is a breathtaking combination of female bildungsroman, utopian novel, and historical romance. First published in 1845, Sylvester Judd's novel centers on the fictional New England village of Livingston, where the young Margaret Hart strives to escape the poverty and vice of her surroundings by learning from a mysterious teacher, the Master, and by entwining herself with the powers of nature. But when Margaret's brother is tried and hanged for murder, this rural community collapses, forcing Margaret to face the temptations of an urban underworld and to confront the intrigue of her family history. Margaret is the story of a young woman's attempt to create a new social order, founded on beauty and truth, in a land plagued by violence, debauchery, and political instability.As Gavin Jones points out in his new introduction, Margaret perhaps stands alone in its creation of a female character who grows in social rather than domestic power. The novel also remains unique in its exploration of transcendental philosophy in novelistic form. Part eco-criticism, part seduction novel, part temperance tract, and part social history, Margaret is a virtual handbook for understanding the literary culture of mid-nineteenth-century America, the missing piece in puzzling out connections between writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Thoreau. Margaret was widely read and deeply influential on both British and American writers throughout the nineteenth century but controversial for its representations of alcoholism and capital punishment. Judd's novel remains resonant for today's readers as it overturns conventional views of the literary representation of women and the origins of the American Renaissance.

Rachel Pollack is the author of thirty-two books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, published in fifteen languages. She is a poet, an award-winning novelist, an authority on the modern interpretation of Tarot cards, and a Tarot card artist. She has published fifteen books on Tarot and divination, including 78 DEGREES OF WISDOM, often called the Bible of Tarot reading, read by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. SEEKER won the COVR Award at the 2006 New Age Trade Show. Her SHINING TRIBE TAROT, designed and drawn by Rachel herself, draws on tribal and prehistoric images from six continents and 50,000 years. She has had several shows of her artwork, both Tarot and other images. She has taught classes and workshops in Europe, North America, and Australia. Her novel GODMOTHER NIGHT won the World Fantasy Award. Her earlier novel, UNQUENCHABLE FIRE, won Britain's famed Arthur C. Clarke Award. Rachel grew up in Poughkeepsie, the setting for UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. After nineteen years living in Europe, she returned, in 1990, to live in the Hudson Valley. With Mary K. Greer, Rachel has taught at the famed Omega Institute for 23 years. She also is a senior faculty member for the Master of Fine Arts degree from Goddard College.

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ISBN 13	9780312146061
ISBN 10	031214606X
Titel	Godmother Night
Autor	Rachel Pollack
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	St. Martin's Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-09-01
Seitenanzahl	355
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