This book investigates the critical importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of the period. April London argues that contemporary novels offered several, often conflicting, interpretations of the relation of women to property, ranging from straightforward assertions of equivalence between women and things to subtle explorations of the forms of possession open to those denied a full civic identity. Her wide-ranging study discusses the work of a variety of writers, from Samuel Richardson and Henry Mackenzie to Clara Reeve and Jane West.
This book investigates the critical importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of the period.
This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes – religious, social, political, and psychological – of the lingering identity crisis that has afflicted Arab culture for at least two centuries.
This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt.
Examines novels and short stories by Muslim authors who write in English.
Frantz Fanon READERS MAY BE SURPRISED TO FIND SALMAN RUSHDIE'S
THE Satanic Verses included in a book about Muslim narratives in English, when
the author has unequivocally declared "to put it as simply as possible: I am not a
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Spanning her entire life, the fully annotated selections in this volume include well known recollections of the great Victorian novelist plus a large assortment not found in her biographies. Altogether they provide a fresh, vivid, and sometimes startling portrait of a controversial genius.
1891 NOTES For Joseph Jacobs, see 'Sunday Gatherings at the Priory' in Part IV.
1. 'The God of Israel: A History' (Sept. 1879), repr. in Jewish Ideals and Other
Essays (London: Nutt, 1896), pp. 24–60. In it Jacobs argues that Judaism is not ...
Presents a historical overview of African American literature along with selections of fiction, poetry, drama, speeches, and songs.
Presents a historical overview of African American literature along with selections of fiction, poetry, drama, speeches, and songs.
