Author: Jean BardouPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Histoire de Laurent Marcel, Ou L'observateur Sans Préjugés
Author: Jean BardouBiographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne
Author: Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004459391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book explores the significance of gender in shaping the Portuguese-speaking world from the Middle Ages to the present. Sixteen scholars from disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature and cultural studies analyse different configurations and literary representations of women's rights and patriarchal constraints. Unstable constructions of masculinity, femininity, queer, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender identities and behaviours are placed in historical context. The volume pioneers in gendering the Portuguese expansion in Africa, Asia, and the New World and pays particular attention to an inclusive account of indigenous agencies. Contributors are: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Dorothée Boulanger, Rosa Maria dos Santos Capelão, Maria Judite Mário Chipenembe, Gily Coene, Philip J. Havik, Ben James, Anna M. Klobucka, Chia Longman, Amélia Polónia, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Ana Cristina Santos, and João Paulo Silvestre.
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Author: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and JonesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Theodore BestermanPublisher:
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Category : Eighteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Fréron's Criticism of Prose Fiction
Author: Jean D. BundyPublisher:
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Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Anglomania in France, 1740-1789
Author: Josephine GriederPublisher:
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Category : British in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Anti-slavery Opinion in France During the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Edward Derbyshire SeeberPublisher: Greenwood
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Gambling
Author: John DunkleyPublisher:
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Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Preface Introduction 1. The extent of the problem 2. Gambling and the law 3. The early moralists and the emergence of agreement, 1685-1714 4. Two disputes: Natural Law and theology 5. The later moralists, 1715-1792 6. Moralising through dramatic literature 7. Gambling in the novel Conclusion Select bibliography Index
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