Phyllis Weliver

Award-winning professor and author Phyllis Weliver was in the first wave to fall ill with long COVID. Moving from the city to a woodland cottage above a Michigan lake in order to regain health, Weliver reflects on the process of integrating mind/body health with the natural world. As she recovers from long-haul COVID, the author draws inspiration from forest bathing, traditional Odawa and Ojibwe culture, ancient Chinese philosophy, and British and American literature. While this memoir may be of special interest to those dealing with chronic illness, Weliver's narrative ultimately addresses how we might all mend from the bruising pace of modern life. CONTENTS: Preface, Introduction, (1) Water Lingers, (2) The Arrow Tree, (3) Sleeping Bear, (4) Mother Earth, (5) The Golden Ship, (6) Coyote, (7) The Ha-Ha, (8) Two Cranes, (9) Dry Cabin, (10) Chipmunk, (11) Bald Eagle, (12) Crow and Deer, (13) Black Ice, (14) Squirrel and Cedar, (15) Snowstorm, (16) Making Tracks, Appendix A: Our Long COVID; Appendix B: Michigan Tribal Culture

Healing from Long COVID

The Arrow Tree

Katharine Ellis

A new wave of scholarship inspired by the ways the writers and musicians of the long nineteenth century themselves approached the relationship between music and words.

Words and Notes in the Long Nineteenth Century

The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late-Victorian London, and probably the first female prime ministerial private secretary in Britain. Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual history draws on a trove of unpublished archival material that reveals for the first time the role of music in Victorian liberalism, explores its intersections with literature, recovers what the high Victorian salon was within a wider cultural history, and shows Mary's influence on her father's work. Paying close attention to literary and biographical details, the book also sheds new light on Tennyson's poetry, George Eliot's fiction, the founding of the Royal College of Music, the Gladstone family, and a broad plane of wider British culture, including political liberalism and women, sociability, social theology, and aesthetic democracy.

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