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Mary Shelley, Romantic-Era Women, And Frankenstein's Genesis, Jan Wellington
Mary Shelley, Romantic-Era Women, And Frankenstein's Genesis, Jan Wellington
Jan Wellington
No abstract provided.
Introduction To Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley
Introduction To Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley
Steven Bruhm
No abstract provided.
Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley
Curiouser: On The Queerness Of Children, Steven Bruhm, Natasha Hurley
Steven Bruhm
Our culture has a dominant narrative about children: they are (and should stay) innocent of sexual desires and intentions. At the same time, children are officially, tacitly, assumed to be heterosexual. Curiouser is a book about this narrative and what happens when it takes an unexpected, or queer, turn—when the stories of childhood must confront a child whose play does not conform to the ideal of child (a)sexuality.
The contributors to Curiouser examine the ostensibly simple representations of children that circulate through visual images, life narrative, children’s literature, film, and novels. At issue in these essays are the stories we …
Engineering Womanhood: The Politics Of Rejuvenation In Gertrude Atherton's Black Oxen, Julie Prebel
Engineering Womanhood: The Politics Of Rejuvenation In Gertrude Atherton's Black Oxen, Julie Prebel
Julie Prebel
Delves into the use of the rejuvenation therapy as an anti-aging treatment in the 1920's which is illustrated in the novel of Gertrude Atherton "Black Oxen." Representation of the novel of a collaboration between literature and science that both registered and shaped American attitudes toward science as a means of restoring the individual and the nation to health; Rejuvenation narrative of Atherton that depicts an evolutionary shift in the literature of science; Excerpts from the novel.
Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy And The Supernatural In English And German Romanticism. (Book Review), Steven Bruhm
Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy And The Supernatural In English And German Romanticism. (Book Review), Steven Bruhm
Steven Bruhm
No abstract provided.
Viewing In Discretion, Steven Bruhm
Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Benito Cereno And El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde
Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Benito Cereno And El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde
Cesar Valverde
No abstract provided.
Pasado Soterrado Y Ánima Reprimida En La Muñeca Reina Y Chac Mool, Cesar Valverde
Pasado Soterrado Y Ánima Reprimida En La Muñeca Reina Y Chac Mool, Cesar Valverde
Cesar Valverde
No abstract provided.
Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Herman Melville's Benito Cereno And Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom Of This World, Cesar Valverde
Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Herman Melville's Benito Cereno And Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom Of This World, Cesar Valverde
Cesar Valverde
No abstract provided.