Search Results - "Venus"

The birth of Venus : a novel / by Dunant, Sarah

Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus a biography / by Jarnot, Lisa, 1967-

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Early African entertainments abroad : from the Hottentot Venus to Africa's first Olympians / by Lindfors, Bernth

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The moon that wasn't the saga of Venus' spurious satellite / by Kragh, Helge, 1944-

“…Venus (Planet)…”
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The hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour : patronage, politics, art, and the French Enlightenment / by Hooper-Hamersley, Rosamond, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The hunt for Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour : beyond the Toilet of Venus -- Pompadour at the Court of Versailles -- Pompadour and diplomacy -- Pompadour and artistic patronage -- Pompadour in a culture of enlightenment -- The Pompadour paradox.…”
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Before Victoria extraordinary women of the British Romantic era / by Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell

Table of Contents: “…Mary Robinson, eighteeth-century romantic -- Exemplary women : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their worlds -- Not quite good enough : three imperfect lives -- The modern Venus, or improper ladies, and others -- Strong passions of the mind : women in literature and the visual arts -- Rational dames and ladies on horseback : scientists and travelers -- The youngest romantics -- The Pforzheimer Collection and its female inhabitants : an afterword.…”
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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus : John Burgoyne's remediated pleasures -- Out to America : performance and the politics of mediated space -- Regime Change. …”
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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 / by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus : John Burgoyne's remediated pleasures -- Out to America : performance and the politics of mediated space -- Regime Change. …”
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Classical sculpture and the culture of collecting in Britain since 1760 by Coltman, Viccy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Lord Lansdowne's Wounded Amazon -- 'The loving labours of a learned German' : Adolf Michaelis and the historiography of classical sculpture in Britain -- 'The spoils of Roman grandeur' : correspondence collecting and the market in Rome -- The operations of sculpture : (Re) writing restoration -- Collecting and global politics : the export of marbles from Rome and their transport to Britain -- 'The lecture on Venus's arse' : Richard Cosway's Charles Townley with a group of connoisseurs, c.1771-5 -- 'Placed with propriety' : the display and viewing of ancient sculpture -- 'Casting a lustful eye' : Charles Townley as collector and cataloguer -- Conclusion : Joseph Nollekens' The judgement of Paris.…”
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Making medicine scientific John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science / by Romano, Terrie M.

Table of Contents: “…From evangelical to medical officer of health -- Choosing medicine -- Medical officer of health -- Making a career in medical research -- Before the germ theory : the cattle plague of 1865-1866 and the state support of pathology -- From clinician-researcher to professional physiologist : making the pulse visible -- Becoming a research pathologist : the rise of laboratory medicine in Britain -- Focusing on physiology : capturing the venus's flytrap's electrical activity -- The medical sciences : critics and allies -- Physicians, antivivisectionists, and the failure of the Oxford School of Physiology -- A corner turned? …”
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A History of the Case Study : Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature / by Lang, Birgit, Lewis, Alison, Damousi, Joy

Table of Contents: “…The shifting case of masochism: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus im Pelz (1870) / Birgit Lang -- 2. Fin de siecle investigations of the 'creative genius' in psychiatry and psychoanalysis / Birgit Lang -- 3. …”
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Creolizing Europe : Legacies and Transformations /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : creolizing Europe : legacies and transformations -- Creolite and the process of creolization -- World systems and the Creole, rethought -- Creolization and resistance -- Continental creolization : French exclusion through a Glissantian prism -- Archipelago Europe : on creolizing conviviality -- Are we all Creoles? : 'Sable-Saffron' Venus, Rachel Christie and aesthetic creolization -- Re-imagining Manchester as a queer and haptic brown Atlantic space -- Queering diaspora space, creolizing counter-publics : on British South Asian gay and bisexual men's negotiations of sexuality, intimacy and marriage -- On being Portuguese : luso-tropicalism, migrations and the politics of citizenship -- Comics, dolls and the disavowal of racism : learning from Mexican Mestizaje -- Creolizing citizenship? …”
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Satiric advice on women and marriage from Plautus to Chaucer /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley -- Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund -- The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. …”
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Historicizing Fat in Anglo-american Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- "As Horace fat" in a thin land : Ben Jonson's experience and strategy / Anne Brumley -- American excess : cultural representations of Lillian Russell in turn-of-the-century America / Cookie Woolner -- Greedy bastards : fat kids, class war, and the ideology of classlessness / Alex Evans -- Resisting fatphobia in the critical tradition of Venus and Adonis / Elena Levy-Navarro -- "It's not over till the fat lady sings" : the weight of the opera diva / Serena Guarracino -- Fat's no four-letter word : fat feminism and identity politics in the 1970s and 1980s / Greta Rensenbrink.…”
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Documenting the Black experience : essays on African American history, culture and identity in nonfiction films /

Table of Contents: “…A "perpetual threat": unforgivable blackness and Jack Johnson as a transmedia sports icon / Michael Graves -- From Compton to center court: Venus and Serena and the black female experience in professional tennis / Novotny Lawrence -- Electronic media immortalizing Dorothy Dandridge in documentary, African American press and mainstream press / Charlene Regester -- "Rated R because it's real": discourses of authenticity in Wattstax / Mike Phillips -- A glance at her story: black female documentarians navigating beyond the Theresa / Renee White, Sara Tekle and Melanie Shaw -- Documenting grassroots history as a means to social change: 778 bullets, community engagement and the legacy of rural civil rights / Angela J. …”
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