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The female voice in medieval Romance lyric. P. Lang, 1988.

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The beginnings of modern gendered discourse in late eighteenth-century Germany: Literary, philosophical, and popular portrayals of female orality. Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.

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Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

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Coly, Ayo A. Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

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Coly, Ayo A. Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

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Kumojima, Tomoe. Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871439.001.0001.

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Victorian Women’s Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable Friendship explores real-life instances and literary manifestations of cross-cultural friendship between Victorian female travellers and Meiji Japanese, examining its ethico-political significance against the backdrop of British ‘New Imperialism’. Shifting critical focus from the individualist model of subjectivity to affective relationality, Tomoe Kumojima conceptualizes the female travellers’ open subjectivity as hospitable friendship and argues that femininity proves to be an asset in their praxis of more equitable cross-cultural c

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Wasdin, Katherine. Cultivating Romance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190869090.003.0004.

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This chapter demonstrates the nuances of plant metaphors in wedding and love poetry. Plant metaphors in love poetry praise beautiful youths by equating them with flowers threatened by the passage of time. Such threats are meant to be warnings to recalcitrant lovers. In the wedding discourse, flowers risk being violently destroyed and symbolize peaceful independence for female speakers. While floral metaphors do not permit safe interaction beyond aesthetic appreciation, vine metaphors emphasize physical entanglement and fruitful productivity. Accounts of nuptial productivity use imagery and ter

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Juárez-Almendros, Encarnación. Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781786940780.001.0001.

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The book examines, from the perspective of feminist disability theories, the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. It explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses in order to show how these inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of the female embodiment. The book also examines concrete representations of deviant female characters, with a focus in the figure of the syphilitic prostitute and the physically decayed aged women, in a variety of l

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Beeston, Alix. Torn, Burned, and Yet Dancing. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190690168.003.0005.

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This chapter discusses the collaborative and institutionalized mode of production in studio-era Hollywood through the lens of the two major projects that comprised the work of the final year of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life: the screenplay “Cosmopolitan” and the unfinished novel The Last Tycoon. These texts modify the modernist literary trope of the woman-in-series in concert with classical Hollywood’s defining logic of substitution and repetition. Ultimately derived from the basic seriality of the photogrammatic track, this logic is incarnated by female characters in “Cosmopolitan” and The Last

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Cook, Kate. Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350410527.

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Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that the distribution of praise and blame, a significant social function of archaic and classical poetry, also plays a key role in Greek tragedy. Both concepts are a central part of the discourse surrounding the identity of male heroic figures in tragedy, and thus are essential for understanding a range of tragedies in their literary and social contexts. In the tragic genre, the destructive or dangerous aspects of the process of kleos (glory) are explored, and the distribution of prais

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Gillespie, Caitlin C. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190609078.003.0001.

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The introduction outlines the aims of the book and justifies the thematic approach. It discusses the complications in establishing the details of Boudica’s life and revolt due to the lack of contemporary literary accounts, and the need to juxtapose written narratives against material evidence of late Iron Age and early Roman Britain in order to gain a more comprehensive picture. This study analyzes literary and material evidence alongside comparative figures of female leadership and rebellion, from the seer Veleda to Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes. The interpretation of Tacitus’s and Cass

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Wimbush, Antonia. Autofiction. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859913.001.0001.

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Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile explores the multiple aspects of exile, displacement, mobility, and identity as expressed in contemporary autofictional work written in French by women writers from across the francophone world. Drawing on postcolonial theory, gender theory, and autobiographical theory, the book analyses narratives of exile by six authors who are shaped by their multiple locales of attachment: Kim Lefèvre (Vietnam/France), Gisèle Pineau (Guadeloupe/mainland France), Nina Bouraoui (Algeria/France), Michèle Rakotoson (Madagascar/France), Véronique Tadjo (Côte

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Spiers, Emily. Pop-Feminist Narratives. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820871.001.0001.

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Emily Spiers explores the recent phenomenon of ‘pop-feminism’ and pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany. Pop-feminism is characterized by its engagement with popular culture and consumerism; its preoccupation with sexuality and transgression in relation to female agency; and its thematization of intergenerational feminist discord, portrayed either as a damaging discursive construct or as a verifiable phenomenon requiring remediation. Central to this study is the question of theorizing the female subject in a postfeminist neoliberal climate and the role played by genre

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Borris, Kenneth. The Calender’s Visions of Beauty. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807070.003.0004.

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By reconsidering the main female exemplars of beauty in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender, this chapter shows that the admiration of beauty is central there, as it is also in early modern Platonic poetics. As in the Phaedrus, beauty for Spenser inspires visionary apprehension; yet unlike Plato the poet links this stimulus to literary pursuit of the sublime. Platonism associated genuine beauty with truth and goodness, and Spenser likewise assumes that his Calender’s esthetic disclosures foster wisdom and virtue in at least some readers, and hence in the nation. However, whereas Plato valorizes phi

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Stavrakopoulou, Francesca. The Ancient Goddess, the Biblical Scholar, and the Religious Past. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722618.003.0028.

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This discussion interrogates the ways in which the confessional, cultural, and ideological heritages of biblical studies have shaped and disfigured the scholarly analysis of ancient West Asian goddesses. Once dismissed as ‘deviant’ or ‘demoralizing’ elements of ‘nature religions’, goddesses have been (relatively) rehabilitated within biblical scholarship. But this article argues that problematic ideologies continue to underlie and frame scholarly discourse. In particular, the essay critiques the freighted interpretations of literary and iconographic portrayals of deities including Asherah and

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Lucey, Colleen. Love for Sale. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.001.0001.

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This book is the first study to examine the ubiquity of commercial sex in Russian literary and artistic production from the nineteenth century through the fin de siècle. The book offers a compelling account of how the figure of the sex worker captivated the public's imagination through depictions in fiction and fine art, bringing to light how imperial Russians grappled with the issue of sexual commerce. Studying a wide range of media — from little-known engravings that circulated in newspapers to works of canonical fiction — the book shows how writers and artists used the topic of prostitution

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Singleton, Jermaine. The Melancholy That Is Not Her Own. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039621.003.0002.

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This chapter elaborates on the mutually constitutive nature of the blueswoman's grievances and those of a burgeoning normative social body rife with social loss. It argues that if the discourse of racial difference is underpinned by nationalist gender and sexual anxieties, then it makes sense to examine culturally sanctioned figurations of black female sexuality to better understand the psychic legacies of our unacknowledged past of racial segregation and its link to the persistence of racial inequality in our “postracial” moment. Through a close reading of literary and cultural representation

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Mendelman, Lisa. Modern Sentimentalism. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849872.001.0001.

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Modern Sentimentalism examines how American female novelists reinvented sentimentalism in the modernist period. Just as the birth of the modern woman has long been imagined as the death of sentimental feeling, modernist literary innovation has been understood to reject sentimental aesthetics. Modern Sentimentalism reframes these perceptions of cultural evolution. Taking up icons such as the New Woman, the flapper, the free lover, the New Negro woman, and the divorcée, this book argues that these figures embody aspects of a traditional sentimentality while also recognizing sentiment as incompat

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Al-Hassan, Hawraa. Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441759.001.0001.

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The book examines the trajectory of the state sponsored novel in Iraq and considers the ways in which explicitly political and/or ideological texts functioned as resistive counter narratives. It argues that both the novel and ‘progressive’ discourses on women were used as markers of Iraq’s cultural revival under the Ba‘th and were a key element in the state’s propaganda campaign within Iraq and abroad. In an effort to expand its readership and increase support for its pan-Arab project, the Iraqi Ba‘th almost completely eradicated illiteracy among women. As Iraq was metaphorically transformed i

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Milbank, Alison. God & the Gothic. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824466.001.0001.

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God and the Gothic undertakes a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, now seen as usurpation of power by the authorities. A double gesture of repudiation and regret is evident in the consequent search for political, aesthetic, and religious mediation, which characterizes the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and Whig Providential discourse. Part I interprets eighteenth-century Gothic novels in terms of thi

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