The French Renaissance poet Louise Labe is one of the most striking and influential women writers of early modern Europe. In her broad-ranging volume of prose and poetic works (1555), Labe transforms the position of woman in Renaissance discourse from an object to a subject of e…
The French Renaissance poet Louise Labe is one of the most striking and influential women writers of early modern Europe. In her broad-ranging volume of prose and poetic works (1555), Labe transforms the position of woman in Renaissance discourse from an object to a subject of e…
La théorie de l'amour et du désir de M. Onfray s'inscrit dans la philosophie hédoniste. Il récuse l'idée de l'amour comme signe de manque, de vide, que le sentiment vient remplir, pour privilégier la tradition qui pense l'amour et le désir comme des surcroîts de plénitude. Cette…
Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and disease offer convincing evidence that reading was metaphorically allied with eating, contagion and sex. Anxious critics traced the i…
Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. This text discusses the work of three novelists - M.E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and 'Ouida' - within this historical context.
Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and disease offer convincing evidence that reading was metaphorically allied with eating, contagion and sex. Anxious critics traced the i…
At the time of its first appearance in 1985 Between Men was viewed as an important intervention into Feminist as well as Gay and Lesbian studies. It was an important book because it argued that "sexuality" and "desire" were not a historical phenomenon but carefully managed socia…