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    Politics, desire, and the Hollywood novel by Rhodes, Chip

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Nathanael West: desire, art, and cynicism -- Budd Schulberg: unionism and sadomasochism -- Raymond Chandler: individualism and populism -- Joan Didion: gender and Lacanian tragedy -- Bruce Wagner: double consciousness and the death of desire -- Elmore Leonard: realism after the end of ideology.…”
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    The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

    Published 2002
    Table of Contents: “…Dialectical desires: the eighteenth-century coquette and the invention of nineteenth-century fictional character -- The flirtation of species: Darwinian sexual selection and Victorian narrative -- George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: flirtation, female choice and the revision of Darwinian belief -- Deadly deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the exhaustion of flirtatious desire -- "Acceptable hints of infinity": dissident desires and the erotics of countermodernism.…”
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    Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…"Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception.…”
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    Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…"Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception.…”
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    Scare tactics supernatural fiction by American women / by Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Wilkins Freeman -- Ghosts of desire : Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Helen Hull -- Ghostly returns : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Atherton, and Josephine Daskam Bacon -- Coda: The decline of the American female Gothic.…”
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    A Body of Individuals : The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction / by Lee, Sue-Im, 1969-

    Published 2009
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    A Body of Individuals : The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction / by Lee, Sue-Im, 1969-

    Published 2009
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