The Reading Figure in Irish Art in the Long Nineteenth Century Penology and punishment

The Reading Figure in Irish Art in the Long Nineteenth Century Penology and punishmentThis book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which figures read or hold a book. Reading fiction was cast as unmanly, while silent reading allowed women of means to read widely and privately. Portraits of such women helped construct the idea of the New Woman in Ireland.

Drawing on a range of work from across disciplines

In the last half-century

The 1930s were a period of triumph and turmoil in Poland

showing us how those characteristics play into it

This environmental humanities and eco-cultural study of the history and culture of Melbourne and its site places it within the international context of other cities

This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process

Through analyses of several films

French Costume Drama of the 1950s redresses this balance

professor and author

and genres to forge a new understanding of what it means to be queer in the twenty-first century

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