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Murder of a Medici princess by Murphy, Caroline, 1969-

Subjects: “…Medici, Isabella Romola de', 1542-1576.…”
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Murder of a Medici princess by Murphy, Caroline, 1969-

Subjects: “…Medici, Isabella Romola de', 1542-1576.…”
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Heretical Hellenism women writers, ancient Greece, and the Victorian popular imagination / by Fiske, Shanyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Hellenism and heresy -- Victorian Medea: from sensationalism to subjectivity -- Fragments of genius: Charlotte Brontë and the discourse of popular Greek -- Heretical humanism: Romola and Hellenism's distaff legacy -- The Daimon archives: Jane Harrison and the afterlife of dead languages -- Afterword: the First World War and the death of heresy.…”
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Heretical Hellenism women writers, ancient Greece, and the Victorian popular imagination / by Fiske, Shanyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Hellenism and heresy -- Victorian Medea: from sensationalism to subjectivity -- Fragments of genius: Charlotte Brontë and the discourse of popular Greek -- Heretical humanism: Romola and Hellenism's distaff legacy -- The Daimon archives: Jane Harrison and the afterlife of dead languages -- Afterword: the First World War and the death of heresy.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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The life of George Eliot a critical biography / by Henry, Nancy, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The history of a writer : George Eliot and biographies -- Early years (1819-1849) -- London and George Lewes (1850-54) -- Marian Lewes and George Eliot (1855-59) -- Silas Marner and Romola (1860-64) -- Felix Holt, the radical and The Spanish gypsy (1865-69) -- Middlemarch (1870-72) -- Daniel Deronda (1873-76) -- Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1877-78) -- The final years : 1879 to Cross's life.…”
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The life of George Eliot a critical biography / by Henry, Nancy, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The history of a writer : George Eliot and biographies -- Early years (1819-1849) -- London and George Lewes (1850-54) -- Marian Lewes and George Eliot (1855-59) -- Silas Marner and Romola (1860-64) -- Felix Holt, the radical and The Spanish gypsy (1865-69) -- Middlemarch (1870-72) -- Daniel Deronda (1873-76) -- Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1877-78) -- The final years : 1879 to Cross's life.…”
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George Eliot's intellectual life by Fleishman, Avrom

Table of Contents: “…The "evangelical": starting out in a Christian culture -- The apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos -- The journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview -- The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers -- The novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and mythmaking -- The historian: tracking ideals-utopian and national-in Romola and The Spanish gypsy -- The "radical": taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt -- The encyclopedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch -- The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda -- The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of theophrastus Such.…”
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George Eliot's intellectual life by Fleishman, Avrom

Table of Contents: “…The "evangelical": starting out in a Christian culture -- The apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos -- The journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview -- The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers -- The novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and mythmaking -- The historian: tracking ideals-utopian and national-in Romola and The Spanish gypsy -- The "radical": taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt -- The encyclopedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch -- The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda -- The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of theophrastus Such.…”
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The Post-Conflict Environment : Investigation and Critique /

Table of Contents: “…The post-conflict environment : a genealogy / Daniel Bertrand Monk and Jacob Mundy -- Statebuilding in a vacuum : Sierra Leone and the missing international political economy of civil wars / Catherine Goetze -- The performance and politics of trauma in northern Iraq / Sarah Keeler -- Algeria and the violence of national reconciliation / Jacob Mundy -- The work of exile : protracted refugee situations and the new Palestinian normal / Romola Sanyal -- Constructing reconstruction : building Kosovo's post-conflict environment / Andrew Herscher -- International finance and the reconstruction of Beirut : war by other means? …”
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The Post-Conflict Environment : Investigation and Critique /

Table of Contents: “…The post-conflict environment : a genealogy / Daniel Bertrand Monk and Jacob Mundy -- Statebuilding in a vacuum : Sierra Leone and the missing international political economy of civil wars / Catherine Goetze -- The performance and politics of trauma in northern Iraq / Sarah Keeler -- Algeria and the violence of national reconciliation / Jacob Mundy -- The work of exile : protracted refugee situations and the new Palestinian normal / Romola Sanyal -- Constructing reconstruction : building Kosovo's post-conflict environment / Andrew Herscher -- International finance and the reconstruction of Beirut : war by other means? …”
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. Blumberg -- Florence Nightingale's contributions to economics / Mary Poovey -- The cost of everything in Middlemarch / Gordon Bigelow -- Demand and desire in Dracula / Deanna K. …”
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. Blumberg -- Florence Nightingale's contributions to economics / Mary Poovey -- The cost of everything in Middlemarch / Gordon Bigelow -- Demand and desire in Dracula / Deanna K. …”
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