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Lies of the Past is the story of Simone Unger, an archaeologist who is so driven to uncover the buried past that she loses sight of what is really important. The first three chapters, reproduced here, set up the mystery that will be unraveled by the end of the completed novel. C…
This study of gender and genre addresses how British Romantic poets feminized the epic form. Romantic epics deserve study because of their unusual focus on feminine heroism as a source of liberation from tyranny, a focus on gender that reflects the influence of Edmund Spenser an…
Depictions of bodies deviating from the norm due to disease or fantastic abilities can look back on a long-standing tradition in the literature of German-speaking countries. Nonetheless, the abundance of particularly female characters who transgress norms in post-1945 novels, an…
This dissertation calls attention to a set of late-Victorian novels that refashioned the industrial novels of the mid-nineteenth century to fit the pressing issues of the 1880s and 1890s. Instead of being concerned with the new patterns of life in Northern England as induced by …
Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories
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Women warriors and national heroes: global histories
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"This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexi…
Mythology, interpreted by Joseph Campbell and others, has excited a generation of readers. But from Greek and Hebrew legends to Hollywood movies, women have mostly lived in the shadow of male adventure. Now, for the first time, a psychologist unearths the female face of heroism …
Mythology, interpreted by Joseph Campbell and others, has excited a generation of readers. But from Greek and Hebrew legends to Hollywood movies, women have mostly lived in the shadow of male adventure. Now, for the first time, a psychologist unearths the female face of heroism …
With her golden lasso and her bullet-deflecting bracelets, Wonder Woman is a beloved icon of female strength in a world of male superheroes. But this close look at her history portrays a complicated heroine who is more than just a female Superman. The original Wonder Woman was a…
"With her golden lasso and her bullet-deflecting bracelets, Wonder Woman is a beloved icon of female strength in a world of male superheroes. But this close look at her history portrays a complicated heroine who is more than just a female Superman. The original Wonder Woman was …
"Women have been led to believe that superheroes and heroism are not for them, and that they are little more than love interests, or sidekicks who stand by their supermen. This is a false proposition argues Jennifer K. Stuller, as she uncovers the true history of how superwomen …