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Scarecrows of chivalry English masculinities after empire / by Gopinath, Praseeda, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: English masculinities in transition -- Manly independent men: (de)constructing the English gentleman -- Out of place: Evelyn Waugh and the retreating gentleman -- An orphaned manliness: George Orwell and the Bovex man -- "One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys": posting the gentleman in Philip Larkin's poetry -- "Moulded and shaped": John Wain, Ian Fleming, and threshold masculinities -- Writing women, reading men: A. S. Byatt, Barbara Pym, and the post-gentlemen -- Epilogue: The postcolonial gentleman.…”
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Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / by Garcia, Humberto, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century -- "A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna -- Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism -- In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial -- Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir -- "The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic -- A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Epilogue: postcolonial reflections.…”
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Mongrel nation diasporic culture and the making of postcolonial Britain / by Dawson, Ashley, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Colonization in reverse : an introduction -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain.…”
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Mongrel Nation : Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain / by Dawson, Ashley, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Colonization in reverse : an introduction -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain.…”
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Form and Reform : Reading across the Fifteenth Century /

Table of Contents: “…(registrum F) / Andrew Cole -- Osbern Bokenham's "englische boke" : re-forming holy women / Karen A. Winstead -- "Ete this book" : literary consumption and poetic invention in John Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine / Shannon Gayk -- Jesus' voice : dialogue and late medieval readers / Rebecca Krug -- Conception is a blessing : Marian devotion, heresy, and the literary in Skelton's A replycacion / Robert J. …”
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Victorian literature and finance

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Francis O'Gorman -- "Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side" : money in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton -- Inside out : value and display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt / Gordon Bigelow -- Edward Bulwer Lytton dreams of copyright : "It might make me a rich man" / Catherine Seville -- "Vulgar needs" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, profit, and literary value / Alison Chapman -- The drama of capital : risk, belief, and liability on the Victorian stage / Jane Moody -- "Ladies do it?" : Victorian women investors in fact and fiction / Nancy Henry -- Literary realism in the wake of business cycle theory : the way we live now (1875) / Tara McGann -- Speculative fictions and the fortunes of H. …”
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Victorian literature : an anthology /

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Definitions of Irishness in the 'Library of Ireland' literary anthologies by MacCarthy, Anne, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…James Duffy; Margaret Callan;Thornton MacMahon; The casket of Irish pearls; Educating to be free; The selection; A space for women in Irish literature -- The songs of Ireland. …”
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Participatory reading in late-medieval England / by Blatt, Heather

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Reinventing Liberty / by Price, Fiona L.

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Irish writers and the thirties : art, exile and war / by Goldstone, Katrina, 1958-

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Other Mothers : Beyond the Maternal Ideal /

Table of Contents: “…"How to be a domestic goddess" redux / Deirdre D'albertis -- "Long, long disappointment": maternal failure and masculine exhaustion in Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography / Laura Green -- "Bland, adoring, and gently tearful women": debunking the maternal ideal in George Eliot's Felix Holt / Heather Milton -- Elderly mothers and middle-aged daughters in Charles Dickens's Dombey and son / Teresa Mangum -- Unforgiven: drunken mothers in Hesba Stretton's Religious Tract Society and Scottish Temperance League fiction / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- Infant doping and middle-class motherhood: opium warnings and Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy chain / Dara Rossman Regaignon -- Motherhood on trial: violence and unwed mothers in Victorian England / Ginger Frost -- A murdering mother: Frances Knorr / Lucy Sussex -- "My own dear sons": discursive maternity and proper British bodies in Wonderful adventures of Mrs. …”
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Feminist Narrative Ethics : Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form / by Nash, Katherine Saunders, 1973-

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Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices /

Table of Contents: “…Culture, criticism, theory since 1990 / Scott Brewster -- Home places: Irish Drama since 1990 / Clare Wallace and Ondřej Pílný -- Women on stage in the 1990s: foregrounding the body and performance in plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr / Mária Kurdi -- The stuff of tragedy? …”
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The Bront�es in context

Table of Contents: “…Careers for middle-class women / Elizabeth Langland; 38. Marriage and family life / Marianne Thorm�ahlen; 39. …”
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