A Study Guide for E.L. Doctorow's the Writer in the Family - Prijzen

Webster's New World Companion to English and American Literature

Renaissance Clothing & The Materials

During the late sixteenth century 'fashion' first took on the sense of restless change in contrast to the older sense of fashioning or making. As fashionings, clothes were perceived as material forms...

Operation Freak: Narrative, Identity, and the Spectrum of Bodily Abilities

In Operation Freak, Christian Flaugh embarks upon an exploration of the intricate connection between the physical bodies and narratives that, subjected to all manner of operations, generate identity....

James Joyce's Ireland

Describes the social, intellectual, and physical background in which Joyce wrote, and describes how he used Dublin and Ireland in his writings