Search Results - "Women."

When sex changed : birth control politics and literature between the world wars / by Craig, Layne Parish

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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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The Other Side of the Story : Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives / by Hite, Molly, 1947-

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The sympathetic medium feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 / by Galvan, Jill Nicole, 1971-

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The Gender of Modernism : A Critical Anthology /

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Reform and resistance formations of female subjectivity in early medieval ecclesiastical culture / by Scheck, Helene

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Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850-1914 by Easley, Alexis, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Harriet Martineau: gender, national identity, and the contemporary historian; rooms of the past: Victorian women writers, history, and the reconstruction of domestic space -- Part III: Celebrity and fin de siecle print culture. …”
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Imoinda's original shades : African women in British antislavery literature. Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in mid-eighteenth century British drama ; Amelioration, African women, and the soft, strategic voice of paternal tyranny in 'The grateful negro' ; "Between the saints and the rebels" : Imoinda and the resurrection of the Black African heroine -- Part two. …”
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Masked Atheism : Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home / by LaMonaca, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Extravagant creature worship: Protestant and Catholic "sermons" on marriage -- "Sick souls": love, guilt, and the Catholic confessional in Victorian women's fiction -- Narratives of female celibacy -- "Hoc est corpus meum": Aurora Leigh, Goblin Market, and transubstantiation -- The "Queen of heaven" or a very confused nun? …”
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The Chartist Imaginary : Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice / by Loose, Margaret A., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Chartism and the politics of form -- Ernest Jones and the poetics of internationalism -- Epic agency -- Revolutionary strategy and formal hybridity in Chartist fiction -- The gender legacy: women in early to late Chartist literature -- The politics of cognition in Chartist women's poetry.…”
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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / by Anderson, Amanda, 1960-

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The creators by Sinclair, May

“…Late Victorian and early Modernist women writers.…”
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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters : Gender, Transgression, Adolescence / by Higginbotham, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…'A wentche, a gyrle, a damsell' : defining early modern girlhood -- Roaring girls and unruly women : producing femininities -- Female infants and the engendering of humanity -- Where are the girls in English renaissance drama? …”
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Religious diversity and early modern English texts : Catholic, Judaic, feminist, and secular dimensions /

Table of Contents: “…Hebraism and the Bible -- part IV. Women and religion -- part V. Religion and secularization.…”
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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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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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Liminal borderlands in Irish literature and culture

Table of Contents: “…Einarsson -- Caught in the liminal: Dorothy Cross's Udder series and Marina Carr's By the bog of cats / Risn O'Gorman -- Transformative spaces in contemporary Irish women's poetry. Identity as becoming: polymorphic female identities in contemporary Irish women's poetry / Katarzyna Poloczek -- Land [. . .] to reclaim?…”
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Victorian Sacrifice Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / by Blumberg, Ilana M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service.…”
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Victorian Sacrifice : Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / by Blumberg, Ilana M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service.…”
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Music hall & modernity the late-Victorian discovery of popular culture / by Faulk, Barry J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the popular not the public -- Music hall : the middle class makes a subculture -- Camp expertise : Arthur Symons, music hall, and the defense of theory -- Spies and experts : Laura Ormiston Chant among late-Victorian professionals -- Tales of the culture industry : professional women, mimic men, and Victorian music hall -- "Spectacular" bodies : tableaux vivants at the Palace Theatre -- Conclusion : Cyrene at the Alhambra.…”
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