The essays in this book focus on various social, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings ascribed to Gothic cathedrals in Europe in the post-medieval period. Central to many medieval ritual traditions both sacred and secular, the Gothic cathedral holds a privileged place wit…
Saul was anointed the first king of Israel, but it was a failed kingship, and it is a wonder that God's first anointed could fail. Apparently, the unforgivable sin of disobedience was the cause of Saul's disgrace; he did not exterminate the tribe of Amalakites and destroy all th…
The secret history in literature, 1660-1820
"Literature has always been concerned with questions of kinship, love, marriage, desire, family relationships. The central and privileged stories have tended to assume that desire will be desire between girl and boy. Obstacles are thrown in the way of desire. In Shakespeare's Ro…
In this book the author steers black sexual politics toward a more sex-positive trajectory. Introducing feminist analysis to a conceptual ménage à trois of scripting theory, media representation, and black sexual politics, Lee considers the ways in which the feminist quest for s…
