This book uncovers the forgotten battle over eugenic sterilization in New Jersey. Between 1910 and 1942, reform-minded feminists clashed with a powerful Catholic bloc that skillfully rendered the controversial legislation political suicide for any who dared to support it.
The Feral Piers
Rosanne Gasse offers an innovative approach to the plethora of questions that surround the various Piers Plowman manuscripts. It is a micro-study of one particular historic version of Piers Plowman, its scribe, and its fifteenth and sixteenth-century readers.
The Fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah
This insightful work on Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction explores themes of oppression, agency, memory, and race. Approaching his work from multiple angles, it takes his fiction beyond the postcolonial perspective into vast new arenas of literary theory.
The Fictional North
The North is not one place but an imaginative frontier defined by storytelling. The Fictional North examines stereotypes and iconic images of “Northerness,” offering interdisciplinary insights into the circumpolar world’s past and present.
This book explores patterns in Jewish history, diagnosing a national neurosis as the cause for four previous fiascos. It explains what must be done in the twenty-first century to prevent past tragedies from recurring and secure the future of the Jewish nation.
This study locates five contemporary British poets in a counter-cultural tradition responding to state power. From Celtic druids to Thatcherism, these shamanic poets use ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy’ to wrest spirituality from religion and politics.
This engaging and extensively researched book details Eva Green’s film career from 2001 to the present. With critical commentary and biographical context, it covers her roles, the making of her films, and their reception.
This collection of peer-reviewed studies offers deep insight into the financial and banking sectors of new EU-member countries. Through original research, it compares their development to established countries and explores their prospective integration into the EMU.
The Fire Within
Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.
Miyoshi deals with monolingual English dictionaries from 1604 to 1702, and his unique approach allows various facts, which have been unnoticed for centuries, to be revealed, including an array of historically significant methods for the lexical treatment of words and phrases.
A legacy of the Napoleonic era, the Baccalauréat exam has long mirrored French society. This book hones on its first century, tracing its evolution from a single oral exam into a complex, standardized test battery designed to channel the nation’s academic elite.
Who really wrote the Letters of Paul? Anonymous editors saved him from oblivion but distorted his message, adding anti-Jewish and misogynistic texts alongside the beautiful praise of love. This book reconstructs the first edition, removing 2000 years of changes.
The First World War
The result of an international conference held in Rome 2014 to mark one hundred years since the beginning of the Great War, this volume uses archival documents from various countries to examine ideological debates and contemporary narratives of the war, and the use of propaganda.
The First World War
The result of an international conference held in Rome 2014 to mark one hundred years since the beginning of the Great War, this volume uses archival documents from various countries to examine ideological debates and contemporary narratives of the war, and the use of propaganda.
This book examines the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies and the ongoing debate surrounding it. Uniquely, it studies the issue from the perspective of developing countries, with a special focus on India. It acts as an essential primer for students and researchers.
The Flâneur Abroad
This volume offers new perspectives on the flâneur, mapping the figure’s travels beyond Paris. It explores the flâneur in international cities and across visual media, revising stereotypes and reconsidering the nature of this cultural icon.
The Flaneur in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Vila-Cabanes explores a great array of texts, making an essential contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the prehistory and history of the British flaneur from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a special focus on the nineteenth century.
The Flesh of Being
This text is a conversation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It is not about Nietzsche, but what it is for someone to read his text, a book for everyone and no one. The text is what the reader has to write through the reading.
The Fluid Frame in Cinema
A passionate rendezvous with cinema. These essays offer a close reading of film that looks beyond the frame to its cultural and historical roots, reappraising Indian cinema, classic adaptations, and directors like Hitchcock and Kubrick through a contemporary critical gaze.
A wealthy philanderer attempts to buy the favors of his three beautiful married cousins. He succeeds with two, but it is the wild and impetuous Camila who resists his temptations and holds our attention. A major work from Spain’s greatest novelist.
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