The Red Trailer Mystery by Julie Campbell

The Red Trailer Mystery by Julie Campbell

This is the first collection to bring together leading scholars from diverse disciplines to offer a variety of perspectives on ideology and its analysis, emphasizing the input of different intellectual and scholarly traditions to the meaning of ideology.

The articles explore commonalities in the use and understanding of ideology as well as delineating constructive differences in its interpretation, while illuminating the changes that the concept of ideology, as well as the practices it signifies, has undergone in recent years. Contributions are included from the fields of political theory, history, literature, political science, cultural studies, post-Marxism, discourse analysis, language studies, law, and sociology.

The Meaning of Ideology advances our understanding of the intricacy and relevance of ideology, and offers the latest theories and insights that currently inform scholarship on the subject. Ideology emerges through the pages of this collection more strongly than ever as a major tool of understanding political language and as a durable and normal phenomenon that is inherent in the many ways we conceive the world around us.

This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Political Ideologies and will be of interest to students of political ideologies and political and social theory.

Julie Campbell (1908-1999) was born in Flushing, New York, and she and her character, Mart Belden, had the same birthday. She traveled extensively as a child as the daughter of an Army officer. She won her first short story contest when she was eight years old, while living in Hawaii. Campbell married Charles Tatham Jr. in 1933, and the two collaborated on a number of magazine pieces and articles. Campbell began writing the Trixie Belden series while living in a restored farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley with her husband and two sons.

The series was set in the fictional town of Sleepyside, but it was based on Campbell's hometown in the Hudson River Valley near Ossining at the time. Campbell lived on Glendale Road, and her home, Wolf Hollow, was the inspiration for Crabapple Farm. Julie Campbell, who was 91 years old at the time of her death, died in 1999. She was still passionate and determined, just like Trixie, at the age of 91.