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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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Novel strategies to improve shelf-life and quality of foods : quality, safety, and health aspects /

Table of Contents: “…Mishra -- Novel Packaging Systems for Food Preservation / Narender K. Chandla, Venus Bansal, Gopika Talwar, Santosh K. Mishra, and Sunil K. …”
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The Augustinian epic, Petrarch to Milton by Warner, J. Christopher (James Christopher), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Petrarch's Culpa and Augustine's counsel -- Petrarch's Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa -- Renaissance allegories of the Aeneid: the doctrine of the two Venuses and the epic of the two cities -- Petrarch's Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata -- The epic imitation of Christ: Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad -- Vergil the evangelist: the Christiad of Alexander Ross -- Augustinian epic in Paradise lost -- Augustinian epic in romance epic: the example of Spenser's Faerie queene.…”
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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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The secret Gospel of Mark unveiled imagined rituals of sex, death, and madness in a biblical forgery / by Jeffery, Peter, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…"A discovery of extraordinary importance" -- Questions -- The secret gospel and the origins of Christian liturgy -- The secret gospel and the Alexandrian lectionaries -- A gospel in fragments -- Hypnotic hymns -- The happiness of the dead: Morton Smith on Christian morality -- Hellenistic homosexualities -- Uranian Venus: a homoerotic subculture in English universities -- The wisdom of Salome -- The one who knows -- Appendix: Morton Smith's translation of the Mar Saba letter of Clement.…”
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Traumatic possessions the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / by Griffiths, Jennifer L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"The quick gasp of sympathy": trauma and interracial witnessing in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Betrayal trauma and the test of complicity in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus -- Between women: trauma, witnessing, and the legacy of interracial rape in Robbie Mccauley's Sally's rape -- Uncanny spaces: trauma, cultural memory, and female body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- "I have never seen a movie like that": traumatic memory and the "acceleration of history" in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.…”
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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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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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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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Dreams, visions, and realities

Table of Contents: “…The mandrake Venus / George Egerton -- A white night / Charlotte Mew -- The city of blood / Anna Kingsford -- Dream life and real life / Olive Schreiner -- An engagement / Ella D'Arcy -- The hour of her life / Mabel E. …”
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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid / by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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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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Enchanted evenings the Broadway musical from Show boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber / by Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Show boat : in the beginning ; Anything goes : songs ten, book three ; Porgy and Bess : Broadway opera ; On your toes and Pal Joey : dance gets into the act and "sweet water from a foul well" ; The cradle will rock : a labor musical for art's sake ; Lady in the dark and One touch of Venus : the Broadway stranger and his American dreams ; Stage versus screen (1) : before Rodgers and Hammerstein -- Act II : the Broadway musical after Oklahoma!. …”
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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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Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction / by Pak, Chris

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