Search Results - "Woman"

The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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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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From Old Woman to Older Women : Contemporary Culture and Women's Narratives / by Chivers, Sally, 1972-

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El edredón : novela naturalista japonesa / by Tayama, Katai, 1871-1930

Subjects: “…Man-woman relationships. fast (OCoLC)fst01007080 36560…”
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

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I Made You to Find Me : The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / by Hedley, Jane

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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 /

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Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace : Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism / by Brennan, Mary C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.…”
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Perspectives : Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England / by Shires, Linda M., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Rossetti's double work of art and the viewer/reader -- The photographic perspectives of Henry Peach Robinson and Lady Clementina Hawarden -- Points of view in "Pippa passes," The woman in white, and Silas Marner -- Coda.…”
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Written in Blood : Fatal Attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam / by Spierenburg, Petrus Cornelis

Table of Contents: “…A big city in cultural flux: eighteenth-century Amsterdam -- No one suspected he would end as a murderer -- A new woman -- How to dump a body when there are no cars? …”
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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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Literary Identification from Charlotte Bronte to Tsitsi Dangarembga / by Green, Laura Morgan

Table of Contents: “…Coming together : George Eliot, Simone de Beauvoir, and Tsitsi Dangarembga. George Eliot : dark woman, dutiful daughter ; Simone de Beauvoir : my freedom, her death ; Tsitsi Dangarembga : school stories -- 3. …”
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Figures of the World : The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form / by Hill, Christopher L., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Degenerate Body -- The Genealogy of the Naturalist Body -- Nerves and Cracks -- The Story of the Leg -- Translating Gervaise -- Jaws and Fists, the Chin and That Hair -- The Civilized Nerve -- The Transformation of Mimesis -- 3. The Unbound Woman -- Cipher Assembled -- The Birth of the Nana Figure -- Enclosing an Enigma -- Individuality without Content…”
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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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Narkomania : Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine / by Carroll, Jennifer J., 1981-

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Let Burn : The Making and Breaking of a Firefighter/Paramedic / by Wentz, Rachel K.

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A New Dawn for the Second Sex : Women's Freedom Practices in World Perspective / by Vintges, Karen

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