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The science of Michael Crichton an unauthorized exploration into the real science behind the fictional worlds of Michael Crichton /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “….: Michael Crichton's State of fear / David Lawrence -- Science comes second in next / Phill Jones.…”
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Intrigue espionage and culture /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Spies : a theory of intrigue -- Thrills : fear and catharsis as ideological effects -- Codes : self-evident meaning in narratives of intrigue -- Ghosts : illegitimacy and commitment in Under western eyes -- Sewers : fantasies of death and disgust in The third man -- Collaborations : love and war in The heat of the day -- Walls : The spy who came in from the cold as allegory -- Leaks : fighting the queer cold war in The untouchable -- Disappearances : missing bodies in Sabbatical -- Democracy : the death of a spy.…”
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The social life of fluids blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dark ecologies : A tale of two cities and "The cow with the iron tail" -- Disavowing milk : psychic disintegration and domestic reintegration in Dickens's Dombey and son -- A river runs through him : Our mutual friend and the embankment of the Thames -- Perilous reversals : fluid exchange in George Eliot's early works -- Merging with others : destiny and flow in Daniel Deronda -- Tempted by the milk of another : the fantasy of limited circulation in Esther Waters -- Ever-widening circulations : Dracula and the fear of management.…”
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Super-history comic book superheroes and American society, 1938 to the present /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…We need a hero: New Deal social avengers and vigilantes (1938-1940) -- World War II and super-patriots (1941-1945) -- The nuclear era (1945-1989) -- The postwar 1940s and 1950s: supernormal (1946-1959) -- Counterculture heroes (1960-1969) -- The American malaise (1970-1979) -- Super-conservatives and neo-cowboys (1980-1989) -- Searching for a new direction (1990-1999) -- Decade of fear (2000-2009).…”
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Scenes of Sympathy : Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction /
Published 2000Table of Contents: “…Detecting the beggar: Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and the construction of social identity -- Part II. Fear of falling -- ch. 3. Under cover: sympathy and ressentiment in Gaskell's Ruth -- ch. 4. …”
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Menacing Environments : Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema /
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Echoes from Dharamsala music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theory at home and in the field -- Dharamsala : a resting place to pass through -- "There is a tension in our hearts" : constructing the rich cultural heritage of Tibet -- Taking refuge in (and from) India : film songs, angry mobs, and other exilic pleasures and fears -- The West as surrogate Shangri-La : rock and roll and rangzen as style and ideology -- The nail that sticks up gets hammered down : making modern Tibetan music -- Little jolmo bird in the willow grove : crafting Tibetan song lyrics -- A peek through ragged tent flaps and Heaven's door : concerts that rupture and bond -- Conclusion : Cycles, echoes, and their implications.…”
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Sexual violence and rape in the Middle Ages a critical discourse in premodern German and European literature /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Female suffering and rape in Hartmann von Aue's Erec -- Nibelungenlied: a male poet reveals his fear of women -- Date rape, or the breaking of a contract? …”
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Documenting the Black experience : essays on African American history, culture and identity in nonfiction films /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Smith -- The Clinton 12 and prom night in Mississippi: conversations in integration / Eric Pierson -- A national concern: remembering and teaching the death of Emmett Till / Kevin E. Grimm -- Fear factor: when black equality is framed as militant winsome / Chunnu-Brayda and Travis D. …”
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Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers /
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Realism's Empire : Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel /
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Masked Atheism : Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home /
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Recovering 1940s horror cinema : traces of a lost decade /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Serial killers, deals with the devil and the madness of crowds: the horror film in Nazi-occupied France / David Hanley -- Always hearing voices, never hearing mine: sound and fury in The snake pit / Karen Herland -- The demise of the cinematic zombie: from the golden age of Hollywood to the 1940s / Louise Fenton -- Fears new and old: the post-war American horror film / Gary D. …”
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The Troll Inside You: Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North /
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Crazy funny : popular black satire and the method of madness /
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A Body of Individuals : The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction /
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Tabloid, Inc. : Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives /
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Eschatological Subjects : Divine and Literary Judgment in Fourteenth-Century French Poetry /
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