... chapter 4 writing the self: the romance of the personal Chinese medicine is a great treasury; this is an objectively existing reality. We seek to cherish and research this treasury with all the proud daring of our people...

... Postmodern Romance ust when it seemed about to keel over from the weight of its own Jirrelevance, the academic world has sprung to life again. Both left• wing and right-wing critics are raging about which subjects are fit to teach in colleges...

... Eight Mescalero Apache: The Romance and Politics of Fieldwork RH: Tell me how you got involved with the Mescalero Apache. DMS: I got involved with Mescalero Apache in the following simple• minded way. I came back from England, got a job at Harvard; second son...

... Tasso's Armida and the Victory of Romance JO ANN CAVALLO The first person to offer an interpretation of Armida is Torquato Tasso himself, who in the "Allegoria" published with the Ferrarese edition of 1581 places her squarely within a traditional...

... Romance as Role Model: Early Female Performances of Orlando jilrioso and Gerusalemme liberata ERIC NICHOLSON The streets of Mantua, July 1566: a fight breaks out between retainers of...

... π Sanda Mayzaw Lwin Romance with a Message W.E.B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess and the Problem of the Color Line hen W.E.B. Du Bois famously predicted, ‘‘The prob- Wlem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line he described it as ‘‘the relation of the darker to the...

...). Preface and Excerpt from The Queen’s Desire: A Romance of the Indian Mutiny hume nisbet preface To Sir William Wilson Hunter, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., M.A. (Oxford), LL.D. (Cambridge). Dear Sir, When I first thought about tackling this...

...Laura Frost The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction n October 15, 1927, the debut issue of My Story Weekly appeared in London with a cover image calculated to draw an audience: a Osleek flapper, glamorous and dreamy, against a background...

... if we do not believe. And we must obey it, because the pride and happiness of everyone surrounding us depends upon our obedience. —Ethne Burroughs, The Four Feathers (1939) five * ROMANCE AND EMPIRE Imperial romance films of the 1930s are Scheherazadian tales told in the face of an abyss...

...3 A Fine Romance idal’s American Chronicles series coordinates the politi- cal shift from American Republic to American Empire Vwith the media shift from print to screen cultures. It thus maps a westward relocation of power from NewYork and Washington to Los Angeles...

...8 Nichemarketing the Family Homestead Rearticulating Mainstream Silences in the Romance of Privatism Studying Focus on the Family’s memory-work reveals how the Christian right uses the Bible-based family as a disciplined mobility. This family works less by issuing prohibitions than by...

... Chapter Five ace, Reproduction, and Family Romance in Saint-Domingue By the end of the eighteenth century, the Caribbean had become the seat of the most brutal regime of slavery in human history. The French island of Saint-Domingue was, in the language of the day...

... 3  tom BoeLLstorFF Zines and Zones of desire mass- mediated Love, national romance, and sexual citizenship in Gay indonesia It is night; in the back of a house in the city of Surabaya, at the eastern end of Java, is a room where two gay men complete a new edition of the zine...

...7 ‘‘i want my happiness alienated affections, queer sociality, and the marvelous interiors of the american romance The history of antebellum interiority is, in important ways, the genealogy of a phantasm. Spaces of bodily ‘‘depth as the previous chapters demonstrate, were imagined...

... CHAPTER 1 ‘‘HOW DEEP MIGHT BE THE ROMANCE’’ Representing Work and the Working Class in Elizabeth Gaskell’s ary...

...part one Discipline and Punish chapter one The Blithedale Romance and Other Tales of Association The opening chapter of The Blithedale Romance (1852) begins with a descrip- tion of a veiled woman and ends with a description of a masked one. Reflect- ing on ‘‘the...

... 6 FROM ROMANCE TO RAPE SEX, VIOLENCE, AND SOAP OPERAS The difference between rape and romance is a very thin line. —NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLYMAN JOSEPH F. LISA, 1972 Rape is not a crime of...

... one . . . Tragic Romance The Chinese Going-In Story Over ten years ago, Bret Hinsch concluded his argument on the decline of premodern Chinese conceptualizations of same-sex...

... two . . . Voluble Ellipsis Second-Wave Schoolgirl Romance in Taiwan and Hong Kong I’m not interested in narratives that end in...