Unmaking Sex. The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France, Hardback - ***

Unmaking Sex is the first history of intersex in both medicine and literature. It opens up new lines of inquiry in both literary and gender studies...

Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Bridget AlsdorfIllustration(s): 140 color + 17 b/w illus.Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-si cle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Simon (Saint Louis Art Museum, USA) KellyIllustration(s): 8 colour & 64 bw illusNumber of pages: 272...

Reducere. While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social ...

Reducere. Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Ranci re's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Re...

Based on the authors' thesis (doctoral--University of Exeter, 2012) presented under the title: Arranging the past, reconsidering the present: the e...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Nicola Minott-AhlNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 235 x 18Cover type: Hardbac...

This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproductio...

This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and soci...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elizabeth (Montclair State University, USA) EmeryIllustration(s): 13 colour and 48 bw illusNumber of...

The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity ...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Caroline ChapmanIllustration(s): 60 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about t...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Patrick DeveneyThis is the fascinating story of Paschal Beverly Randolph, an African American who carved his own eccen...

A history of nineteenth-century photography as told through one hundred works from one of the most significant collections in the USA.Publisher: D ...

The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular account...

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both ...

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of disper...

Reducere. Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appear...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Alan R. H. (University of Cambridge, UK) BakerIllustration(s): 13 MapsNumber of pages: 248Publica...

Situated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, Novel Cultivations recognises plants as...

Expands the literary canon on Polynesia and Melanesia beyond the giants, such as Herman Melville and Jack London, to include travel narratives by B...

A study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the cour...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteent...

Investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common sch...

An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth century

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Edward J. GillinIllustration(s): 33 halftones, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2...

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this collection of stories has been selected by English teachers for its appeal to Key Stage 4 ...

This innovative book will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural, musical and scientific history of the nineteenth century - from undergraduat...

Begins with a study of important early figures in the life of the Catholic Apostolic Church, including Edward Irving, Henry Drummond, and John Bate...