Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture – serie
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Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture
From Conviviality to Cursed Thirst
Av Pam Lock
Inbunden, 2026
1349 kr
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This book explores the fictional figure of the drunkard and why it was so important to Victorian thinking about what it meant to be human. From Jos’s life-changing hangover in Vanity Fair to Henchard’s twenty-one-year pledge of sobriety in The Mayor of Casterbridge, habitual drunkards were defining …
Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture
From Conviviality to Cursed Thirst
Av Pam Lock
E-bok, 2026
1687 kr
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This book explores the fictional figure of the drunkard and why it was so important to Victorian thinking about what it meant to be human. From Jos’s life-changing hangover in Vanity Fair to Henchard’s twenty-one-year pledge of sobriety in The Mayor of Casterbridge, habitual drunkards were defining …
Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture
From Conviviality to Cursed Thirst
Av Pam Lock
E-bok, 2026
1687 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the fictional figure of the drunkard and why it was so important to Victorian thinking about what it meant to be human. From Jos’s life-changing hangover in Vanity Fair to Henchard’s twenty-one-year pledge of sobriety in The Mayor of Casterbridge, habitual drunkards were defining …
Medicine and Women’s Fiction
Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives, 1850s to 1930s
Inbunden, 2026
1339 kr
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This book looks afresh at the history of hysteria to nuance and complicate existing understandings of the relationship between medicine and women’s writing. Through in-depth analyses of both medical texts and women’s fiction published between the 1850s and 1930s, it documents the prevalence of …
Trans Narrators
First-Person Form and the Gendered Body in Contemporary Literature
Inbunden, 2025
1378 kr
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Trans Narrators examines a range of trans-authored novels, short stories and autobiographical narratives published after 2015 and develops a new methodology at the intersection of trans studies and narrative studies. The book identifies temporality, embodiment and reliability as key areas of …
Trans Narrators
First-Person Form and the Gendered Body in Contemporary Literature
Häftad, 2026
289 kr
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Trans Narrators examines a range of trans-authored novels, short stories and autobiographical narratives published after 2015 and develops a new methodology at the intersection of trans studies and narrative studies. The book identifies temporality, embodiment and reliability as key areas of …
Dissident Gut
Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt
Av Jean Walton
Inbunden, 2024
1531 kr
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Explores the biopolitics of modern metabolism, of how humans manage the world through their peristaltic systems, as they ingest food and produce waste. Set against a backdrop of Marx's theory of how we mediate, regulate, and control our metabolic relation to nature, of the rise of a bourgeois …
Dissident Gut
Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt
Av Jean Walton
Häftad, 2026
359 kr
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Set against a backdrop of Marx's theory of how we mediate, regulate, and control our metabolic relation to nature, of the rise of a bourgeois faecal habitus, of the relegation of domestic waste management to female meta-industrial workers, of depleted agricultural fields and polluted urban centres, …
Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction
Receptivity and Gender
Inbunden, 2025
1378 kr
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Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender examines the depictions of men, women and masculinities in Nigerian novels by Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jude Dibia and Chinelo Okparanta. It shows how these writers contest cultural models of manhood and womanhood by …
Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction
Receptivity and Gender
Häftad, 2027
289 kr
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Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender examines the depictions of men, women and masculinities in Nigerian novels by Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jude Dibia and Chinelo Okparanta. It shows how these writers contest cultural models of manhood and womanhood by …
Consuming Female Beauty
British Literature and Periodicals, 1840–1914
Inbunden, 2022
2270 kr
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Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study documents the movement from traditional views about beauty in relation to nature, God, morality and character to a modern conception of beauty as produced in and through …
Consuming Female Beauty
British Literature and Periodicals, 1840–1914
Häftad, 2024
561 kr
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Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study documents the movement from traditional views about beauty in relation to nature, God, morality and character to a modern conception of beauty as produced in and through …
