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In Victorian Florence, women forbidden education or the vote used pens and scalpels. They educated themselves and each other with novels, poems and sculptures, fighting in solidarity for the liberation of slaves, children, and nations, whose oppression mirrored their own.
This book, playing with the themes of Corinne, Beatrice, Sibyl, Zenobia and other figures from the past, as well as the scarlet colour of poppies and pomegranates, concentrates on the women of the Victorian era, many of whom came together in Florence, Madame de Staël, Mary Shelley, Frances Trollope, Anna Jameson, the Brontës, George Sand, Elizabeth, Félicie de Fauvau, Harriet Hosmer, Margaret Fuller, Jessie White Mario, Cristina Belgioioso, Edmonia Lewis, Sarah Parker Remond, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alexandra Leighton, Isa Blagden and George Eliot; as well as men, Robert Browning, Hiram Powers, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Southwood Smith, Theodore Parker, Robert Lytton, Frederick Leighton, Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Frederick Douglass. These women, forbidden education or the vote, used pens and scalpels in auto-psychiatry, educating themselves and each other with novels, poems and sculptures, in solidarity for the liberation of slaves, children, and nations, whose oppression mirrored their own.
This book is required reading for humanistic disciplines. Too often, scholars present theories without knowing how to test them empirically. In an engaging way, the authors teach statistics, leading students through projects to analyze their own gathered data.
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain explores the philosophical dilemmas of the modern age. This comprehensive commentary explains all references and allusions in the seminal novel, enabling readers to understand and extract the maximum pleasure from it.
The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life. This title presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora.
This collection explores the superhero’s evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.
The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.
This book explores narrative as a way of working through trauma. It offers illuminating perspectives on “narrating our healing”: the re-creating of life narratives shattered by trauma and the search for meaning when all meaning seems to have been lost.
Discover the surprising dialogue between East and West. This uplifting book reveals a history of mutual influence, from the common ground of Confucius and Socrates to China’s unexpected impact on Western thinkers like Nietzsche and T.S. Eliot.
This anthology revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
This is the first book to explore color history in Asia. Color is a language of signals, associated with changes in society, economic development, and dynasties. A valuable resource for practitioners of art and design, it offers a new perspective on Chinese aesthetics.
The restoration of Florence’s English Cemetery reveals the stories of foreign non-Catholics buried there from 1827-1877. It is a democracy in death, where writers like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, artists, and former slaves lie alongside nobility and royalty.
This book explores the European background of Julian of Norwich’s manuscripts, arguing for ‘Holy Conversations’ where readers participate in her visions. It discusses her Benedictine context, links to other mystics, and preservation by exiled nuns who treasured her text.
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