Eileen Gray and the design of Sapphic modernity

The first comprehensive work on the subject, this volume covers all the legal and economic issues raised by gray market goods--genuine trademarked goods manufactured with the autho...

For women, the conundrum of modernity and tradition is an on-going puzzle of what aspects of modernity to appropriate and what aspects of tradition to retain in their everyday live...

Abstract The concept of bliss, in its connotations of beatitude and salvation, may seem of little relevance to so-called secular modernity. This book argues otherwis...

Chapter 5 concentrates on four epigrams by Julia Balbilla, comprising fifty-four lines of Greek elegiac verse—the largest corpus on the colossus by any single author. While most vi...

Mystic Moderns examines the responses of three British authors—Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), May Sinclair (1863–1946), and Mary Webb (1881–1927)—to the emerging modernity of the lo...

A study of Hispanic planetary modernism’s use of prophetic discourse as an attempt to counter modern nihilism and provide modernity with poetry as its new Scripture. Trad...

In Chapter 7, Eileen John uses Coetzee’s exploration of sexual desire to pose questions about the normative claims of moral philosophy. She argues that Coetzee’s fiction complicate...