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Hace 3 días · Part II considers later non-fiction prose, examining the portrayal of the liberal ideal of leadership. Chapter 4 interrogates James’s 1898 essays on American letters, noting his depiction of the political agency of the cultivated elite. Chapters 5 and 6 examine Adams’s and Wharton’s post-1900 work.
Hace 5 días · The Archives of Sexuality and Gender program spans the sixteenth to twentieth centuries and is the largest digital collection of historical primary source publications relating to the history and study of sex, sexuality, and gender research and gender studies research.
Hace 3 días · Faith both restricted and empowered. Clare Midgley's contribution explores the ways in which religion encouraged women's engagement with reform and also set limits on the scope of their activism in, for example, anti-slavery, temperance and rescue work.
Hace 4 días · White men crossing the color line for sexual encounters with women of color frequently defended their behavior as a way to protect white female purity and deny nonwhite purity. 6 Historian Darlene Clark Hine discusses how African American women denied any evidence of recognized sexual expression as a form of “dissemblance,” a way of distancing themselves from pernicious stereotypes and ...
Hace 1 día · By the end of the six-year struggle with his adversary, Belloc claimed to have written over 100,000 words in refutation of the central arguments of Wells’ book. The year before the Belloc-Wells confrontation reached its climactic conclusion, G. K. Chesterton entered the fray with the publication of his book, The Everlasting Man.
Hace 5 días · We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations on the central theme of Sayers’ work, its interpretation, publication and reception in the 21st Century. Proposals might consider, but are not limited to:
Hace 2 días · After World War I, he and other modernists "lost faith in the central institutions of Western civilization" by reacting against the elaborate style of 19th-century writers and by creating a style "in which meaning is established through dialogue, through action, and silences—a fiction in which nothing crucial—or at least very little—is ...
