Sociology

This re-reading of Vittorio Alfieri’s tragedies challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character. It argues that Alfieri undermines traditional gender roles, portraying his heroines as determined, active, and intelligent women.

Nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing reveals how they found freedom abroad. Far from strict Victorian codes, they participated in men’s sports, improving their health and confidence. This shaped feminism and the revolutionary image of the New Woman.

This collection of critical essays by international scholars and novelists like Tony Hillerman celebrates Arthur Upfield, creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. The essays assess his place in the annals of crime fiction and Australian cultural history.

These essays explore European censorship of English literature, revealing why authors like Joyce and Orwell were targeted by opposing ideologies, from conservative Catholic morality to communism. This study uncovers the complex relationship between the state and culture.

These essays explore childhood, otherness, and the postcolonial in Australia and New Zealand. They examine how adults configure children’s spaces through art, literature, and history, focusing on the cultural specificity of Antipodean childhoods.

This collection explores women’s identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

The essays in Women and Work explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—encompassing not only paid labor but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity.