Childbirth is a quintessential family event that simultaneously holds great promise and runs the risk of danger. By the late nineteenth century, the birthing room had become a place where the goals of the new scientific professional could be demonstrated, but where traditional f…
"Asymptote: An Approach to Decadent Fiction offers a radically new approach to the psychology of Decadent creation. Rejecting traditional arguments that Decadence is a celebration of deviance and exhaustion, this study presents the fin-de-siècle novel as a transformative process…
In this history of the pieds-noirs and Algerians in colonial Bone, renamed Annaba in 1962, the author uses the history of Bone as a lens to look at the nature of French colonialism in Algeria. He concentrates on the formative decades of settler society and culture between 1870 a…