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The indistinct human in Renaissance literature
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Jean E. Feerick,Vincent Joseph Nardizzi |
"This volume argues for the necessaity of a re-articulation of the differences that separated man from other forms of life. Building on the increased attention paid in recent criticism to both plant … |
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Women adrift
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Noriko J. Horiguchi |
" Women's bodies contributed to the expansion of the Japanese empire. With this bold opening, Noriko J. Horiguchi sets out in Women Adrift to show how women's actions and representations of women's b… |
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Italian pulp fiction
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Stefania Lucamante |
"This volume attempts to provide an analytical, structured context for and a critical approach to the Giovani Cannibali movement that takes into account how the changing cultural and social landscape… |
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Gender, desire, and sexuality in T.S. Eliot
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Nancy K. Gish,Cassandra Laity |
"This collection of new essays brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism, and early twentieth-century feminism in … |
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Closet devotions
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Richard Rambuss |
Religion and sex, body and soul, sacred and profane: In Closet Devotions, Richard Rambuss traces the relays between these cultural formations by examining the issue of “sacred eroticism,” the literar… |
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Victorian pain
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Rachel Ablow |
"The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set … |
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Embodiment of a nation
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Cecelia Tichi |
"From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's vision of Cape Cod as the "bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the U.S. environment has been recurrently … |
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Reading sex in the eighteenth century
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Karen Harvey |
"Karen Harvey explores the construction of sexual difference and gender identity in eighteenth-century England. Using erotic texts and their illustrations, and rooting this evidence firmly in histori… |
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Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith
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Paula Gallant Eckard |
"Throughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture. Religion, art, medicine, psychoanalysis, and other bastions of male power h… |
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Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature
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Santanu Das |
"Through extensive archival and historical research, analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside close investigative readings of literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain,… |
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Muscular Christianity
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Hall, Donald E. |
Muscular Christianity was an important religious, literary, and social movement of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume draws on recent developments in culture and gender theory to reveal ideologi… |
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