Writers in Paris literary lives in the city of light / by Burke, David, 1936-

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Reformulating Russia the cultural and intellectual historiography of Russian first-wave emigré writers / by Mjør, Kåre Johan

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Between Scylla and Charybdis learned letter writers navigating the reefs of religious and political controversy in early modern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Humanist letters as a miror of the reformation -- pt. 3. Learned letter writers in the Netherlands as witnesses of the Dutch revolt -- pt. 4. …”
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Eros and inwardness in Vienna Weininger, Musil, Doderer / by Luft, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Liberal Vienna -- Scientific materialism -- Philosophical irrationalism -- Thinking about sexuality and gender -- Gender and character -- Gender and method -- Gender and ethics -- Gender and modernity -- Science and the writer -- Sexuality and ethics -- Ideology and soul -- Gender and the other condition -- The war and the writer -- The novel and national socialism -- Eros and apperception : 1938-1955 -- Ideology and the novel.…”
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Once were Pacific Māori connections to Oceania / by Te Punga Somerville, Alice

Table of Contents: “…Tapa : Aotearoa in the Pacific Region -- Māori People in Pacific Spaces -- Pacific-Based Māori Writers -- Aotearoa-Based Māori Writers -- The Realm of Tapa -- Part II. …”
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Literary and cultural images of a nation without a state the case of nineteenth-century Poland / by Nance, Agnieszka B. (Agnieszka Barbara)

Table of Contents: “…The Prussian part of Poland -- Prussian writers vis-à-vis the Poles : from dedication and admiration to critique and condemnation -- Galicia in the nineteenth century -- Images of Galicia in nineteenth century literature : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -- Jan Lam and Galician society -- Galicia and Kongresówka in the time of the January uprising of 1863 : Wielopolski's Realpolitik -- The January uprising and Lam's response : Pan komisarz wojenny and Koroniarz w Galicji.…”
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Exemplary bodies constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Mondry, Henrietta

Table of Contents: “…Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s -- The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.…”
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Egypt's culture wars politics and practice / by Mehrez, Samia

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: take them out of the ball game - Egypt's cultural players in crisis -- Dr Ramzi and Mr Sharaf: Sonallah Ibrahim and the duplicity of the literary field -- Children of our alley: the AUC Naguib Mahfouz award and the Egyptian literary field -- The big one: the intellectual and the political in modern Egyptian literary field -- The value of freedom: the writer against the establishment -- Lost in globalization: education and the stranded Egyptian elite -- Translating gender between the local and the global -- Where have all the families gone? …”
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Weimar thought a contested legacy /

Table of Contents: “…Gordon -- Method, moment, and crisis in Weimar science / Cathryn Carson -- Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Weimar criticism / Michael Jennings -- Writers and politics in the Weimar Republic / Karin Gunnemann -- Aesthetic fundamentalism in Weimar poetry : Stefan George and his circle, 1918-1933 / Martin A. …”
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