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Genetics’ Perilous Analogies: Metaphors of Life in A. S. Byatt’s Quartet
Byatt’s substantial contribution to the novel’s investigation of the twentieth-century molecular understanding of life unfolds across her quartet of...
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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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Introduction: Silences that Speak
This chapter provides a critical overview and a theoretical introduction to Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Silences that...
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Separation in Marriage
This chapter tells the story of her sudden separation from the Count of Toulouse in 1165 and its aftermath. Letters between Constance and her brother...
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Female Role Models
Constance had guidance on how to suitably fulfil her role as countess and queen by following the examples of the women who surrounded her in their...
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Culture and Conservatism
For most of this account so far I have been trying to explore the tensions between Kipling’s political outlook and the ambiguities and conflicts that...
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Representations of Socialist Mobility in Post-WWII China-Italy Cultural Exchange
In the mid 1950s, members of the Chinese and Italian cultural worlds participated in a series of delegations and exchanges. These points of...
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Mourning Does not Become Beiju: Forging a Tragic Spirit of Heroic Resistance in 1920s Chinese Intellectual Discourse and Dramaturgy
The concepts of tragedy and the tragic reached the shores of China’s intellectual arena at the turn of the twentieth century within the context of...
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From Mexico to Madrid: Thirdspace in Concha Méndez’s Poemas: Sombras y sueños
Concha Méndez (1898–1986) was a leading figure of the vanguard art movement in Spain before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. With the...
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The Fourth Mrs. Hemingway
For all Hemingway’s self-definition as writer (“I loved to write very much and was never happier than when doing it,” he told Perkins), after 1940,...
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Austerity and Kenneth Darrell Waters
During the war Enid Blyton had become very successful but her personal life had become troubled. Blyton’s marriage to Hugh Pollock did not survive...
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Saussurean Linguistics and Bakhtin’s Critique
This chapter briefly reviews the important contributions to the study of linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, followed by a critique of these...
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Underlying Tone Contrast in Ogbia
This Chapter examines the underlying tonal contrast in Ogbia (Niger-Congo) by investigating tonal alternations in phonological and grammatical...
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Slouching Toward the Posthuman: Teaching Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep
Although it is one of Edith Wharton’s later and often neglected novels, Twilight Sleep is arguably more relevant than ever. Brisk, mysterious, and...
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Collace, Katherine
Katherine Collace (c. 1635–1697), better known as Mistress Ross, was a memoirist, schoolmistress, and devout Calvinist who became heavily involved...
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Money and Divorce
While Bloom retains and at various times revives happy memories of his life with Molly, it is Molly’s thoughts about their finances and about her...
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“The Title Role of ‘Mother’”: Silent-Film Stardom and Celebrity Maternity in Photoplay Magazine
As we recall from Chap. 4 , in her letter to the editor of The Freewoman Rachel Graham insists, “The fallacy that...