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The power to name : a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa / by Newell, Stephanie, 1968-

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The Lost Chord : Essays on Victorian Music /

Table of Contents: “…Heroines at the piano : women and music in nineteenth-century fiction /…”
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The Lost Chord : Essays on Victorian Music /

Table of Contents: “…Heroines at the piano : women and music in nineteenth-century fiction /…”
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Popular Fiction in the age of Bismarck : E. Marlitt and her narrative strategies / by May, Terrill John

“…Women in German literature ;…”
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Prostitution prevention and reform in England, 1860-1914 / by Bartley, Paula

“…Women's and gender history.…”
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My beloved Toto letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo, 1833-1882 / by Drouet, Juliette, 1806-1883

“…SUNY series, women writers in translation.…”
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Wars within a war controversy and conflict over the American Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Women numerous and armed : gender and the politics of subsistence in the Civil War south /…”
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Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition /

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Berlin Coquette : Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933 / by Smith, Jill Suzanne, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Berlin's bourgeois whores -- Sex, money, and marriage : prostitution as an instrument of conjugal critique -- Righteous women and lost girls : radical bourgeois feminists and the fight for moral reform -- Naughty Berlin? …”
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Berlin Coquette : Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933 / by Smith, Jill Suzanne, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Berlin's bourgeois whores -- Sex, money, and marriage : prostitution as an instrument of conjugal critique -- Righteous women and lost girls : radical bourgeois feminists and the fight for moral reform -- Naughty Berlin? …”
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Common scents comparative encounters in high-Victorian fiction / by Carlisle, Janice

Table of Contents: “…Smelling others -- Melancholic men -- Women of substance -- Treating the melancholic of Our mutual friend.…”
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Judaism today by Cohn-Sherbok, Dan

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the Jewish faith -- Sources of authority -- The effects of the Jewish enlightenment -- Modern biblical scholarship and the rise of science -- The religious impact of the Holocaust -- The status of women -- Jewish ethics -- The future of Judaism.…”
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Love's whipping boy violence & sentimentality in the American imagination / by Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Wieland, familicide, and the suffering father -- Melville's fraternal melancholies -- Fathers of violence: Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and the radical reproduction of sensibility -- The death of boyhood and the making of Little women.…”
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Between birth and death : female infanticide in nineteenth-century China / by King, Michelle Tien

Table of Contents: “…Deciding a child's fate : women and birth -- Reforming customs : scholars and morality -- Seeing bodies : experts and evidence -- Saving souls : missionaries and redemption -- Reframing female infanticide : the emerging nation.…”
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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / by Sommerville, Diane Miller

Table of Contents: “…A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.…”
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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / by Sommerville, Diane Miller

Table of Contents: “…A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.…”
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Entertainment in the Old West theater, music, circuses, medicine shows, prizefighting and other popular amusements / by Agnew, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…On with the show -- Entertainment for everyone -- Women as actresses -- Strutting their stuff -- Bright lights of the Pacific Coast -- Theaters across the Old West -- A few of the famous -- The amateurs -- Medicine shows -- Motley pleasures -- The Wild West shows -- Afterword : the stage lights dim.…”
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New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / by Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: mapping marriage -- Why marriage mattered then -- Comparing rights, comparing stories -- Making room for coquettes and fallen women -- A postcolonial heroine "writes back" -- Bungling bundling -- Epilogue: why marriage matters now.…”
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New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / by Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: mapping marriage -- Why marriage mattered then -- Comparing rights, comparing stories -- Making room for coquettes and fallen women -- A postcolonial heroine "writes back" -- Bungling bundling -- Epilogue: why marriage matters now.…”
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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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