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Vous rêvez d'écrire la prochaine grande saga de romantasy ? De créer des mondes enchanteurs où la magie côtoie la passion, où des héros inoubliables tombent amoureux tout en sauvant le monde ? Ce ma……続きを見る

What if change isn't just a word, but a possibility? What if a voice could join others? What if a kid could dream of a better future one day? "Beyond the Frown" is an inspiring short story about fin……続きを見る

Born Elsie Dunn in 1893 Clarksville, Tennessee, Evelyn Scott lived a tumultuous life that took her to New York, Brazil, western Europe, and the Caribbean. She published twelve novels during her life……続きを見る

Tolkien’s enchanted worldview as literary form and as psychological struggle Focusing on the themes of enchantment and loss in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, this unique study incorporates element……続きを見る

In 1956, J. R. R. Tolkien famously stated that the real theme of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." The deaths that underscore so much of the subject matter of Tolkien's masterpiece ……続きを見る

'Nuestra Negra, o esbozos de la vida de una negra libre en una mansión blanca de dos plantas en el Norte' (1859), de Harriet E. Wilson, es considerada la primera novela escrita y publicada por una a……続きを見る

Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he ca……続きを見る

From Peter Rabbit to Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, The Tailor of Gloucester to The Fairy Caravan, the works and characters of Beatrix Potter have bewitched children the world over for more than a century – and……続きを見る

With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby produced a groundbreaking cultural history of nineteenth-century African America……続きを見る

"Nous vous aimons, Madame", déclarait l’écrivain Jean d’Ormesson dans son discours de réception à l’Académie française, tant il est vrai que Simone Veil bénéficie d’une place bien particulière dans ……続きを見る

What were women reading in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s? This book presents a major study of the “bonkbuster,” an incredibly popular genre of women's fiction in the late 20th century. The bonkbuster w……続きを見る

Marguerite de Navarre was one of the most educated and powerful women of Renaissance Europe. The Heptaméron, her celebrated collection of tales and debates, offers readers invaluable insights into d……続きを見る

George Eliot is a myth rather than a pseudonym. The writer Marian Evans invented the Victorian novelist as a character with a personality, a political view and a style that was received enthusiastic……続きを見る

La littérature écrite haïtienne est la plus ancienne des littératures francophones. Elle s’étend sur trois siècles, du XIXe au XXIe, avec une production croissante caractérisée par une inventivité r……続きを見る

A new path for exploring the culture and values of Tolkien’s Middle-earth “Rather than inventing an alien world into which human and familiar characters are introduced, as in science fiction, Tolkie……続きを見る

Hélène Cixous is well-known as a reader of 'modernist' writers: Joyce, Beckett, Kafka, Faulkner, Bachmann and others, while her own fiction writing forges many new directions in literature. Foremost……続きを見る

Una guida originale e divertente al mondo di Jane Austen, sul filo dell’alfabeto: dalla A di amico alla Z di zig-zag, passando per la N di no e la S di servitù. Per celebrare i 250 anni della Divina……続きを見る

Using the example of Marcel Proust's character Albertine, this book argues that the trope of the disappeared woman stems from the male narrator's inability see beyond his own projections; women's na……続きを見る

Dans leurs longs périples, des ecclésiastiques, contraints de quitter la France au moment de la Révolution française, ont emporté comme viatiques quelques biens, leur foi commune et leur volonté de ……続きを見る

The book provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. Stretching from early figures (such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Cathy Cohe……続きを見る

The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing Paper Heroines, Mollie Barnes studies the ways women represented their own and one another's lives in their person……続きを見る

Demonstrating the unity of Tolkien’s created world across Middle-earth’s Ages An in-depth examination of the role of divine beings in Tolkien’s work, Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-ea……続きを見る

One young woman's quiet strength becomes her greatest rebellion. Agnes Grey accepts a position as a governess hoping to support her struggling familyーbut instead enters a world of cruelty, privileg……続きを見る

Eu ainda estou aqui é um mergulho profundo nas dores, silêncios e recomeços de Yasmin Duarte. Em páginas escritas com a delicadeza de quem já sangrou por dentro, a autora transforma cicatrizes em po……続きを見る

Seja bem-vinda a uma jornada que, tenho certeza, vai tocar seu coração e, quem sabe, até trazer à tona algumas reflexões que você não sabia que estavam guardadas. Neste livro, Mulheres Mal-Humoradas……続きを見る

Este livro é o diário de uma alma que aprendeu a falar através do silêncio. Escrito em uma época de profunda fragilidade, onde as palavras não encontravam voz, mas transbordavam em versos, cada pági……続きを見る

Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetryーboth her process and her philosophyーwith all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last c……続きを見る

The intersection of trauma, memory, and literature is a complex area of exploration. In conflict zones, the transgenerational transmission of trauma reflects ongoing struggles. The narratives from N……続きを見る

'Broken: Illness and Disability in Antônio Francisco Lisboa, Camilo Castelo Branco, Clarice Lispector, Victor Willing, Paula Rego and Ana Palma' traces the lives and works of six major artists and w……続きを見る

Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long eighteenth century, this book amplifies their presence in history, finding new way……続きを見る