The Greek House: The Story of a Painter's Love Affair with the Island of Sifnos
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When Christian Brechneff first set foot on the Greek island of Sifnos, it was the spring of 1972 and...
Active Bodies: A History of Women's Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America
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During the twentieth century, opportunities for exercise and sports grew significantly for girls and...
In Dante's Wake: Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition
John Freccero, Danielle Callegari and Melissa Swain
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Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine...
Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle
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Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of...
Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s
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Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as...
The Rilke Alphabet
Ulrich Baer and Andrew Hamilton
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The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better...
Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women
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Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian. Widely represented in literature and art, they rarely...
The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria
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This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary...
Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror
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Women occupy a privileged place in horror film. Horror is a space of entertainment and excitement,...
Mrs. Fletcher
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Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved...