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Beauvoir In Time, Meryl Altman
Beauvoir In Time, Meryl Altman
English Faculty publications
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and …
Never Dead: Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein, Nicole Lobdell
Never Dead: Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein, Nicole Lobdell
English Faculty publications
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Daniel Defoe's Protestant Roman Catholics. Global Religion, Colonialism, And The Limits Of Toleration In The Farther Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, David Alvarez
English Faculty publications
In Daniel Defoe's The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), the Protestant protagonist treats Roman Catholics with a friendly tolerance, which seems at odds with his violence towards idolaters. Placing the novel within the history of secularity reveals that Crusoe can tolerate Roman Catholics because their religion is represented in Protestant terms. In his global travels, an implicit Protestantism shapes his understanding of "religion," which cannot accommodate idolaters. To promote a proper form of religion that he can tolerate, Crusoe turns to violence.
An Evening With Emily Dickinson, Meryl Altman
An Evening With Emily Dickinson, Meryl Altman
English Faculty publications
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