The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
John McLeod, Nick Hubble and Philip Tew
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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British...
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...
Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
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It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive...
History Politics Gender Studies
Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing
Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid
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This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from...
Marriage and the Nineteenth-Century British Women's Novel
Carolyn Lambert, Marion Shaw and Frances Twinn
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This interdisciplinary volume explores the fictional portrayal of marriage by women novelists...
Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960
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One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property...
Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women
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The Therigatha, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language...
Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease
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During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions...
Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women, with a New Preface
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Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American...
Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754): Learning and Literature in the Nordic Enlightenment
Knud Haakonssen and Sebastian Olden-Jorgensen
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Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) was the foremost representative of the Danish-Norwegian Enlightenment and...