Grotesque Figures Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity / by Swain, Virginia E., 1943-

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The Work of Poverty Samuel Beckett’s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis / by Duerfahrd, Lance Alfred, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Begging context -- Godot behind bars -- Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo and New Orleans -- La pensee vagabonde : vagabond thought -- Textual indigence : the reader in an aesthetics of poverty -- Afterword. Staging Godot in Zuccotti Park.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Father of Persian Verse Rudaki and his Poetry / by Tabatabai, Sassan, 1967-

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