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Married Women and the Law in Print
This entry summarizes the most consequential laws pertaining to English married women in the early modern period. It introduces the main legal...
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Milton, John: The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
Die 1643 anonym erschienene, mehr als 130 Seiten umfassende Streitschrift eröffnete eine Reihe von vier Ehescheidungstraktakten, durch die der Autor...
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Barton, Elizabeth, the Holy Maid of Kent
This chapter introduces Elizabeth Barton’s tumultuous life and the books written about her revelations. Her life can be divided into two parts: The...
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Constance of France Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe
Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europeis a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of...
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Teaching Edith Wharton with Henry James in the Netherlands
Henry James and Edith Wharton, an MA-level seminar taught in Amsterdam in the context of a European Studies program, is based on the premise that...
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Chicana Visions: Ana Castillo and Cherríe Moraga ’s Friendship , Falling Out, and Forgiveness
Ana Castillo and Cherríe Moraga, foundational Chicana feminists, locate significant aspects of their own growth and ability to be compassionate in...
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At Fault: Catholic Doctrine and Social Issues
This chapter extends earlier arguments about the use of the Catholic aesthetic in her fiction, but it also emphasizes how she employs Catholicism as...
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Introduction: Hysteria and the Plot of Pathology
The Introduction examines how hysteria was constructed in the nineteenth century, both as a medical condition and a cultural phenomenon. I argue that...
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Melancholy Across the Multiverse: The Everything Bagel and the Loss of Self in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) has received critical acclaim for its imaginative presentation of existential anxiety as well as the various...
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Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels
As an almost exclusively female-dominated medium, the popular romance novel has, throughout its history, allowed women writers to “amplify their...
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The Transatlantic Experience in the Construction of Flora Tristan’s Authorial Posture: From Pariah to Female Messiah
Flora Tristan is best known for her book of travels to Peru (Perigrinations of a Pariah). In this chapter, we aim to study the essay On the necessity...
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The Twenty-Year Journey: Flavia Steno’s La Chiosa and the French Daily Newspaper La Fronde
The first issue of the Genoese weekly La Chiosa (Annotations) was published on November 20, 1919. The magazine was presented by its director Flavia...
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The End … but not Game Over
This chapter concludes the book. The author reiterates their central argument, reflects on how it unfolds in each chapter, and considers their own...
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The Married Woman and Hysteria in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
This chapter discusses how George Eliot’s Middlemarch relates to the persistence of an outdated medical belief in the preventative and curative power...
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Social and Religious Critique and Transformation through the Short Fiction
Following the portrait of Chopin’s cultural and historic context, the second chapter explores selected short stories that feature Chopin’s depiction...
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With literary-historical considerations (‘Novel and Marriage’), a metaphorological interim conclusion (‘Marriage and Nation’) as well as...
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Tracing ecophobia through bios/zoё dichotomy in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
This article analyzes Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing (1972) in light of Simon Estok’s ecophobia hypothesis. Based on Estok’s compelling argument that...