Praise for A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians : "A rich, sprawling epic full of history and magic, Declaration is Jonathan Strange with international politics and vampires. And it will require the combined efforts of revolutionaries, magicians, and abolitionists to unmask this hidden enemy before the whole world falls to darkness and chaos. But amidst all of the upheaval of the early modern world, there is an unknown force inciting all of human civilization into violent conflict. It is the Age of Enlightenment - of new and magical political movements, from the necromancer Robespierre calling for a revolution in France, to the weather mage Toussaint L'Ouverture leading the slaves of Haiti in their fight for freedom, to the bold new Prime Minister William Pitt weighing the legalization of magic amongst commoners in Britain and abolition throughout its colonies overseas. A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern world.
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This dissertation combines post-colonial theory and other literary theory, particularly by Kenneth Burke, to propose a rhetoric of motives for post-colonial authors who "write back" to Shakespeare through the use of counter-discursive metatheatre. As particular post-colonial authors identify with marginalized Shakespearean characters and aim to amplify their conflicts from the perspective of a dominated culture, they interpret themes of race, gender, and colonialism in 'Othello' (1604), 'Antony and Cleopatra' (1608), and 'The Tempest' (1611) as explicit problems. What role did identification play in the motives, processes, and products of select post-colonial authors who "wrote back" to William Shakespeare and colonialism? How did post-colonial counter-discursive metatheatre function to make select post-colonial adaptations creative and critical texts? In answer to these questions, this dissertation proposes that counter-discursive metatheatre resituates post-colonial plays as criticism of Shakespeare's plays. Within days, her colleagues at Avon sent boxes of clothes and books to help the family recover. She and her family lost everything except the clothes they were wearing and her purse. In October 1998, Kleypas's Texas home flooded within a matter of hours after heavy rains inundated their town. Her novels have ranked high on major best-seller lists, sold millions of copies around the globe and have been translated into fourteen different languages. Kleypas has been a full-time romance writer since 1985. During her competition at the Miss America pageant, Kleypas performed a song she had written, earning her a "talented nonfinalist" award. The same year she sold her first novel, Kleypas was named Miss Massachusetts. Approximately two months later, at age 21, Kleypas sold her first novel. 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