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Freak Shows And The Modern American Imagination : Constructing The Damaged Body From Willa Cather To Truman Capote

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Thomas Fahy
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Book, 1st ed, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900 and 1950. The freak body in art not only reveals disturbing truths about early twentieth-century prejudices, but it also becomes a space for exploring the profound social impact of contemporary events such as the Great Migration, World War I, and the Great Depression. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · Body, Human, in literature · Abnormalities, Human, in literature · Abnormalities, Human, in art · Freak shows · United States · Fahy, Thomas Richard
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS374.B64 F34 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS374.B64 F34 2006	AVAILABLE

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Eating The Black Body : Miscegenation As Sexual Consumption In African American Literature And Culture

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Carlyle Van Thompson
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Book, Peter Lang, 2006
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In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · African American authors · History and criticism · African Americans · Intellectual life · Sexual abuse victims · United States · Crimes against · African Americans in literature · Miscegenation in literature · Body, Human in literature · Violence in literature · Race in literature · Sex in literature · Thompson, Carlyle Van
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS153.N5 T48 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS153.N5 T48 2006	AVAILABLE

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Reading The Brontë Body : Disease, Desire, And The Constraints Of Culture

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Beth Torgerson
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Book, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Bront (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Brontë, Charlotte, · 1816-1855 · Criticism and interpretation · Brontë, Emily, · 1818-1848 · Criticism and interpretation · Brontë, Anne, · 1820-1849 · Literature and medicine · England · History · 19th century · Women and literature · Body, Human, in literature · Diseases in literature · Desire in literature · Torgerson, Beth E
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR4169 .T67 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR4169 .T67 2005	AVAILABLE

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Gender, Desire, And Sexuality In T.S. Eliot

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co-edited by Cassandra Laity and Nancy K. Gish
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2004
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Bringing together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches, this collection studies T.S. The book will be essential reading for students of Eliot and Modernism, as well as of queer theory and gender studies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Eliot, T. S. · (Thomas Stearns), · 1888-1965 · Criticism and interpretation · Homosexuality and literature · United States · History · 20th century · England · 20th century · Feminism and literature · Erotic poetry, American · History and criticism · Sexual orientation in literature · Gender identity in literature · Body, Human, in literature · Desire in literature · Sex in literature · Laity, Cassandra · Gish, Nancy K., 1942-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3509.L43 Z6765 2004 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3509.L43 Z6765 2004	AVAILABLE

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Rhetoric Of Sensibility In Eighteenth-century Culture

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Paul Goring
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Book, Cambridge Univ Press, 2005
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Paul Goring demonstrates how eighteenth-century writers and performers, including Samuel Richardson, David Garrick and Laurence Sterne, were involved in the construction of innovative bourgeois ideals of sentimental eloquence in contrast to more patrician, classical bodily modes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Body, Human, in literature · History · 18th century · Sensitivity (Personality trait) · Body, Human · Social aspects · Great Britain · 18th century · Symbolic aspects · English literature · Eighteenth century · Goring, Paul, 1970-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR448.B63 G67 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR448.B63 G67 2005	AVAILABLE

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Humoring The Body : Emotions And The Shakespearean Stage

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Gail Kern Paster
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Book, University of Chicago Press, 2004
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Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism?blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm?early modern thought found in these bodily fluids key to explaining human emotions and behavior. In Humoring the Body, Gail Kern Paster proposes a new way to read the emotions of the early modern stage so that contemporary readers may recover some of the historical particularity in early modern expressions of emotional self-experience. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Shakespeare, William, · 1564-1616 · Knowledge · Psychology · Drama · Psychological aspects · Mind and body in literature · Body, Human, in literature · Emotions in literature · Paster, Gail Kern
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR3065 .P38 2004 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR3065 .P38 2004	AVAILABLE

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Strange Bodies : Gender And Identity In The Novels Of Carson McCullers

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Sarah Gleeson-White
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Book, University of Alabama Press, 2003
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McCullers, Carson, · 1917-1967 · Criticism and interpretation · Women and literature · Southern States · History · 20th century · Psychological fiction, American · History and criticism · Identity (Psychology) in literature · Gender identity in literature · Body, Human, in literature · Grotesque in literature · In literature · Gleeson-White, Sarah, 1965-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3525.A1772 Z635 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3525.A1772 Z635 2003	AVAILABLE

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Flesh In The Age Of Reason

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Roy Porter ; foreword by Simon Schama
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Book, 1st American ed, W.W. Norton & Co, 2004
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Starting with the revolutionary ideas of the Renaissance that challenged the sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter goes on to chart how?through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon?ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English literature · 18th century · History and criticism · Body, Human, in literature · Enlightenment · Great Britain · Mind and body in literature · Rationalism in literature · Intellectual life · Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR448.B63 P67 2004 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR448.B63 P67 2004	AVAILABLE

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Music, Body, And Desire In Medieval Culture : Hildegard Of Bingen To Chaucer

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Bruce W. Holsinger
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Book, Stanford University Press, 2001
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In its insistence on music as an integral part of the material cultures of the Middle Ages, the book presents a revisionist account of an important aspect of premodern European civilization that will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Music · 500-1400 · Philosophy and aesthetics · Body, Human, in music · Body, Human, in literature · Body, Human · Religious aspects · Christianity · History of doctrines · Middle Ages, 600-1500 · Holsinger, Bruce W
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(UPPER LEVEL) ML3845 .H64 2001 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	ML3845 .H64 2001	AVAILABLE

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Shakespeare’s Theories Of Blood, Character, And Class : A Festschrift In Honor Of Dr. David Shelley Berkeley

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edited by Peter C. Rollins and Alan Smith
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Book, P. Lang, 2001
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Shakespeare, William, · 1564-1616 · Knowledge · Anatomy · Psychology · Characters and characteristics in literature · Social classes in literature · Mind and body in literature · Body, Human, in literature · Eugenics in literature · Blood in literature · Rollins, Peter C · Smith, Alan · Berkeley, David Shelley
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR3069.B58 S48 2001 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR3069.B58 S48 2001	AVAILABLE

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Writing The Body In D.H. Lawrence : Essays On Language, Representation, And Sexuality

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edited by Paul Poplawski
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Book, Greenwood Press, 2001
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The contributors provide detailed discussions of specific major works by Lawrence and employ theoretical approaches which give special attention to language, representation, and sexuality, including postmodernism, Marxism, structuralism, the sociology of censorship, Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis, feminism and gender studies, and narrative theory. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Lawrence, D. H. · (David Herbert), · 1885-1930 · Criticism and interpretation · Views on sex · Language · Body, Human, in literature · Sex in literature · Poplawski, Paul
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR6023.A93 Z959 2001 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR6023.A93 Z959 2001	AVAILABLE

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Hysterical Fictions : The "woman’s Novel" In The Twentieth Century

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Clare Hanson
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Book, St. Martin’s Press, 2000
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Through six case studies, the representation of a “mind/body” problem is explored in the fiction of Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret Drabble, A.S. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · Women authors · History and criticism · Feminism and literature · Great Britain · History · 20th century · Women and literature · 20th century · Feminist fiction, English · Mind and body in literature · Body, Human, in literature · Women · Books and reading · Femininity in literature · Sex role in literature · Women in literature · Hanson, Clare
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR888.F45 H36 2000 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR888.F45 H36 2000	AVAILABLE

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Sexing The Text : The Rhetoric Of Sexual Difference In British Literature, 1700-1750

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Todd C. Parker
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Book, State University of New York Press, 2000
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Charts the emergence of a new kind of heterosexual rhetoric in eighteenth-century British literature, providing a nuanced reinterpretation of gender and its role in the major genres of the period. An important contribution to the study of the history of sexuality, this book examines the emergence of a new kind of heterosexual rhetoric in the early eighteenth century, a rhetoric that ultimately displaced earlier and more diverse expressions of sexuality and the body. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English literature · History and criticism · Sex differences (Psychology) in literature · English language · Rhetoric · Sex differences in literature · Body, Human, in literature · Masculinity in literature · Femininity in literature · Sex role in literature · Sex in literature · Parker, Todd C., 1965-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR448.S45 P37 2000 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR448.S45 P37 2000	AVAILABLE

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Eroticism On The Renaissance Stage : Transcendence, Desire, And The Limits Of The Visible

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Celia R. Daileader
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 1998
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Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism in early modern English drama, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Shakespeare, William, · 1564-1616 · Characters · Women · Middleton, Thomas, · d. 1627 · English drama · Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 · History and criticism · Women and literature · England · History · 16th century · 17th century · Erotic literature, English · Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature · Body, Human, in literature · Desire in literature · Renaissance · Sex in literature · Daileader, Celia R
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR658.W6 D35 1998 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR658.W6 D35 1998	AVAILABLE

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Inscrutable Houses : Metaphors Of The Body In The Poems Of Elizabeth Bishop

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Anne Colwell
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Book, University of Alabama Press, 1997
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Bishop, Elizabeth, · 1911-1979 · Criticism and interpretation · Women and literature · United States · History · 20th century · Body, Human, in literature · Metaphor · Colwell, Anne, 1964-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3503.I785 Z6 1997 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3503.I785 Z6 1997	AVAILABLE

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