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The Pestilence Of London: Women, Hygiene, Prostitution And Pollution, Sophie Freestone
The Pestilence Of London: Women, Hygiene, Prostitution And Pollution, Sophie Freestone
Northeast Popular Culture Association
Depictions of women and water during the Great Stink of London were bound up with moral and medical fears of the mid to late nineteenth century. Specifically, I will look at a paint by each of the following artists: Sir John Everett Millais, John Rodham Spencer Stanhope, and J.W. Waterhouse. The movement of respectable women into the public sphere meant that they became less controllable and also less distinguishable from disreputable women, specifically prostitutes. As a result there was a rising anxiety about the actions of women, which became shackled to fears of health and hygiene in relation to communicable …
Goo Goo Goo Joob!:The John Lennon/James Joyce Connection Through Lewis Carroll’S “Looking-Glass”, Richard J. Gerber
Goo Goo Goo Joob!:The John Lennon/James Joyce Connection Through Lewis Carroll’S “Looking-Glass”, Richard J. Gerber
Northeast Popular Culture Association
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Transforming Womanhood In Louisa Ermelino’S The Sisters Mallone, Rosa De Angelis
Transforming Womanhood In Louisa Ermelino’S The Sisters Mallone, Rosa De Angelis
Northeast Popular Culture Association
Most Italians thought of themselves, and some still do, in terms of provincial identities. In America, they tended to settle in large Italian colonies, duplicating the customs and traditions of their particular Italian town or village (Mangione and Morreale 130). So it was not unusual for people from one particular town or village to be housed in one tenement or on one block. Family and their village of origin were very important. Everything in their lives was based on one or the other, for those were the things that provided safety and security. Home and family were the only respites …