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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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«New wine into old wineskins»: the other horizons of frontier studies and performative turn in fantasy between medievalism and traditional poetics

Журнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2017
The author of the article analyses the prospects for the development of frontier studies as an interdisciplinary trend in contemporary Humanities. It is assumed that there is not enough space for frontier studies in the contexts of traditional history ...
Максим Валерьевич Кирчанов
doaj  

John Ruskin and the Savage Gothic [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2015
John Ruskin’s provocative theories concerning Gothic art and architecture bear serious consideration in light of the formative debates concerning “primitive” art and its relation to modern European society.
Frances S. Connelly
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Review: Time and Space in American Literary History [PDF]

, 2004
In one of the 26 contributing essays to Finding Colonial Americas, Kevin Hayes reconstructs the reading experience of the early eighteenth-century historian Thomas Prince, who scrupulously read the Virginia texts of John Smith and consulted French ...
Burnham, Michelle
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Tolkien, Self and Other: This Queer Creature (2016) by Jane Chance [PDF]

, 2017
Book review, by Kristine Larsen, of Tolkien, Self and Other: This Queer Creature (2016), by Jane ...
Larsen, Kristine
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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J.R.R. Tolkien's New Legends of the North [PDF]

Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2014
This paper will address two of J. R. R. Tolkien’s works that explore important concerns of medievalism: the tension between medieval and post-medieval material and the separation of scholarly and creative reinterpretations.
Alana Bennett
doaj  

Innovation and Integration of Sexuality in Family Life Education. [PDF]

Fam Relat, 2020
Russell S, Mallory A, Bishop M, Dorri A.
europepmc   +1 more source