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Jewish Women in Medieval English Records
Muriel of Oxford, Mildegod of Oxford, Belaset of Lincoln, and Licoricia of Winchester were Jewish women who lived in Norman England between 1071 and...
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Women and Comparative Religion
Across geographic regions during the Middle Ages, religion offered pretexts for confining women to prescribed gender roles, but it also served as a...
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Situating Scenes
Student writers are often advised “show, don’t tell.” In other words, concentrate on scenes. Using Cheryl Strayed’s “The Love of My Life” as an...
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Jolanda, Angiolo Orvieto and Cosimo Giorgieri-Contri: Asymmetric Mentoring Relationships
This chapter analyzes the power dynamics that shaped the relationship of intellectual couples in late-nineteenth-century Italy by focusing on author...
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Birth of Auntie and the Story of a Marriage
In 1917, when she left St Elphin’s for the last time, Richmal was enveloped once again in family life and became the head of her family living in...
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Shakespeare’s Criminals, Criminal Shakespeare: A Renaissance Reading of Shakespeare and the Criminal Mind in Macbeth
This chapter analyses what lessons Shakespeare’s depiction of the criminal mind may be able to provide to participants of applied theatre projects...
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Gender Relations and Domestic Power Politics
Issues on gender have gained global significance since the mid nineteenth century largely because of the increasing efforts by women to correct the...
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Transnational Flows: Women Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
The role of women intellectuals across and beyond national borders expanded rapidly at the dawn of the nineteenth century, thus allowing for a...
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Introduction
Shorter fiction from the nineteenth century is the subject of increasing scholarly interest as a form that, far from being the inferior relation of...
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Leontes’s tale of winter
This chapter consists of a detailed analysis of Leontes’s path of “recreation” in the light of coeval alchemical topoi. It contends that the Sicilian...
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Irish Divorce / Joyce's Ulysses
This engrossing, ground-breaking book challenges the long-held conviction that prior to the second divorce referendum of 1995 Irish people could not...
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Incorporating One’s Own Literary Criticism into the Curriculum: The Teachable Essay via John Updike’s Short Stories
University students are approaching literary study at a time when social justice occupies centrality in public discourse, a time when racism,...
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Building a Kinship Society (Short Story)
The final chapter of this volume is an original science fiction short story that addresses the collection’s main themes. A mysterious young woman,...
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‘The Remains’ of Charlotte Brontë in the Early Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro
In this chapter, Hiromi Nagara, referring to the archives of the Ishiguro Papers, clarifies the process of the establishment of the narrative...