gender & sexuality
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Recchio, Thomas. The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett: In “the World of Actual Literature.” New York: Anthem Press, 2020.
Upon closing the final pages of The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett In ‘the World of Actual Literature,” I am spellbound. As a reader of Burnett’s children’s works, Recchio brings…
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Roundtable Review: Queer/ing Book History. SHARP: Moving Texts. 2021.
Poring over card catalogues? Check. Feeling oddly compelled by titles, cover copy or illustrations? Check. Scrutinising author photographs and biographies, publishers’ colophons and blurbs? – I’m just going to come…
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Pamela’s Letterbox
At first, the move from in-person instruction to an online Zoom classroom seemed like it would hit us particularly hard in Dr. Matt Kirschenbaum’s “BookLab: How to Do Things with…
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CFP: Wonder Women & Rebel Girls (deadline 6/15)
4th September 2020 Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin Online Workshop Keynote: Dr Emma Butcher (University of Leicester) ‘War Girls: Youthful Soldiers and Writers in the Age of Modern…
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John Markert. Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present; William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger, eds. Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom
John Markert. Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2016. 334p. ISBN 9780786494903. US$ 40.00. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy…
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Ardis Cameron. Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place
Ardis Cameron. Unbuttoning America: A Biography of “Peyton Place.” Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xiv, 223p., ill. ISBN 080145364X. US $24.95. In this comprehensive analysis of Grace Metalious’s 1956 novel,…
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Rachel Potter. Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment 1900-1940
Rachel Potter. Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment 1900-1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 231p. ISBN 9780199680986. £55.00 (hardback). Why was Ulysses deemed obscene? Why was The Rainbow banned? What…