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Food and the novel in nineteenth-century America by McWilliams, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : conflicting tastes -- Old food in a new land -- Wholesome food for a wholesome people -- Revolution in the kitchen -- Good women bake good biscuits -- Dining out in the novel -- Eating nostalgia -- Afterword: food and the novel in America.…”
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Sex and the citizen interrogating the Caribbean /

Table of Contents: “…King -- Macocotte: an exploration of same-sex friendship in selected Caribbean novels / Antonia MacDonald-Smythe -- What is a Uma? Women performing gender and sexuality in Paramaribo, Suriname / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley -- Colonial girl: and what would it be like / Michelle Cliff.…”
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Thinner / by Bachman, Richard

Knut Hamsun the dark side of literary brilliance / by Žagar, Monika

Table of Contents: “…Discourses of race and primitivism in Scandinavia -- Hamsun's women as scapegoats for modernity's sins -- Imagining the Indians -- Imagining black and white -- A taste of the Orient -- Imagining the sly magic "lapps" -- Imagining degeneration and revolution -- The rhetoric of defense in Hamsun's Paa gjengrodde stier.…”
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The new death American modernism and World War I / by James, Pearl

Table of Contents: “…"Clean" wounds and modern women: World War I in one of ours -- The story Nick can't tell: trauma in The Great Gatsby -- Regendering war trauma and relocating the abject: Catherine Barkley's death -- The missing of Sartoris -- Conclusion: New death, blood simple.…”
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Illusive utopia theater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea / by Kim, Suk-Young, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hybridization of performance genres -- Time and space in North Korean performance -- Revival of the state patriarchs -- Model citizens of the family-nation -- Acting like women in North Korea -- Performing paradoxes : staging utopia, upstaging dystopia -- Conclusion : looking back, moving forward.…”
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Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones illuminating gender and nation / by Vera Tudela, Elisa Sampson

Table of Contents: “…Unveiling the lady: the representation and appropriation of femininity -- The rhetoric of gender -- Women's voices in narrative pt. 3. Defining spaces -- The space of the nation -- Inside the city museum -- Hilachas.…”
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The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / by Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the belly of Sheol -- "Strange introversions": Newman, mature conversion, and the poetics of purgatory -- George Eliot's Winter tales -- The bachelor's purgatory: arrested development and the progress of shades -- Odd women and eccentric plotting: maturity, modernism, and Woolf's Victorian retrospection -- Coda: descent and tradition.…”
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Cultural Reflections of Medusa The Shadow in the Glass. by Hedgecock, Jennifer

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Between self and society : inner worlds and outer limits in the British psychological novel / by Rodden, John

Table of Contents: “…Smollett's Roderick Random : in love with Narcissa -- Godwin's Caleb Williams : "A half-told and mangled tale" -- Hardy's The mayor of Casterbridge : the infernal triangle -- Ford's The good soldier : movements of the heart -- Lewis's Tarr : portraits of the failed artist -- Lawrence's Women in love : the role of miss "Dawington".…”
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Serenity found more unauthorized essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly universe /

Table of Contents: “…Catching up with the future / Orson Scott Card -- Mars needs women / Maggie Burns -- Girls, guns, gags / Natalie Haynes -- River Tam and the weaponized women of the Whedonverse / Michael Marano -- I, Malcolm / Nathan Fillion -- Freedom in an unfree world / P. …”
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The literature of jealousy in the age of Cervantes by Wagschal, Steven, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Jealousy and epistemology in Lope de Vega's "Honor plays" -- Women, jealousy, and power -- Representing dramatic jealousy : from comic to tragic -- Religion, race, and ethnicity in Cervantes's Jealous old man from Extremadura -- Cervantes's virtuous jealousy -- Myth and the fractured "I" in Góngora -- Góngora on the beautiful and the sublime.…”
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Romance and readership in twentieth century France by Holmes, Diana, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…A feminine genre, romance and women -- Passion, piety, and the new woman: romantic fiction at the Belle Epoque -- Reaction and resistance, romance in the 1930's and under the Occupation -- Love in a brave new world, romance in the 1950's -- Romance after feminism -- Love in a postmodern age, contemporary romance in France.…”
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Rethinking historicism from Shakespeare to Milton

Table of Contents: “…/ Andrew Hadfield -- Theory and practice in historical method / Michael McKeon -- Limiting history / Marshall Grossman -- The politics of Renaissance historicism : Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and More / Thomas Fulton -- Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello / Heather Hirschfeld -- The new presentism and its discontents : listening to Eastward ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue / Paul Stevens -- In great men's houses : playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history / Lawrence Manley -- Medea's dilemma : politics and passion in Milton's Divorce tracts / Sharon Achinstein -- Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism / Martin Dzelzainis -- You shall be our generalless : fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton / Laura Knoppers -- War times : seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives / Erin Murphy.…”
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American literature and American identity : a cognitive cultural study from the Revolution through the Civil War / by Hogan, Patrick Colm

Table of Contents: “…Nationalism -- Chapter Six: Harriet Jacobs, Women's Friendship, and Anti-Nationalism -- Chapter Seven: Frederick Douglass, Manhood, and the Lost Home -- Chapter Eight: The Scarlet Letter: Sexuality, Sin, and Spiritual Realization -- Chapter Nine: Poe's "The Black Cat": An Allegory of Misogyny -- Chapter Ten: Judith Sargent Murray on Women's Virtue and the Equality of the Sexes -- Chapter Eleven: Moby Dick: Interracial Romance Beyond the Nation -- Afterword: In Place of a Premature Conclusion.…”
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The American Lawrence / by Jenkins, Lee M. (Lee Margaret)

Table of Contents: “…Mawr," "The princess," and "The woman who rode away" -- Conclusion. Wilful women: Lawrence's three fates and Georgia O'Keeffe.…”
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Romanticism and the question of the stranger by Simpson, David, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…After 9/11: the ubiquity of others -- Theorizing strangers: a very long romanticism -- Hearth and home: Coleridge, De Quincey, Austen -- Friends and enemies in Walter Scott's crusader novels -- Small print and wide horizons -- Strange words: the call to translation -- Hands across the ocean: slavery and sociability -- Strange women.…”
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The jewel-hinged jaw notes on the language of science fiction / by Delany, Samuel R.

Table of Contents: “…Ethical aesthetics, an introduction / by Matthew Cheney -- About 5,750 words -- Critical methods/speculative fiction -- Quarks -- Thickening the plot -- Faust and Archimedes -- Alyx -- Prisoners' sleep -- Letter to the symposium on "Women in science fiction" -- To read The dispossessed -- A fictional architecture that manages only with great difficulty not once to mention Harlan Ellison.…”
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Telling the little secrets American Jewish writing since the 1980s / by Burstein, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile : revisiting the past -- Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving on.…”
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Reporting from Washington the history of the Washington press corps / by Ritchie, Donald A., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The news bureaus and the New Deal -- Race, rules, and reporting -- Radio voices -- The friends of Joe McCarthy -- News center of the world -- Flash : the wire services -- The business of being opinionated -- Off the women's page -- The camera's eye -- Washington, deceit -- Company town papers -- Anyone with a modem -- Washington, D.C., 2001.…”
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