CA Jenkins - 《Journal of Youth Services in Libraries》 被引量: 16发表: 1993年 The study of imperial and commonwealth history at Cambridge, 1881–1981: Founding fathers and pioneer research students A chronological examination of the portrayals of gay/lesbian characters and their contexts in 60 ...
In terms of more recent research, a survey study by Deller and Smith (2013) has focused exclusively on readers ofFifty Shades of Grey. The study is limited by a fairly small data set (N = 83); moreover, analyses do not go beyond percentage descriptions and anecdotal comments from in...
Though it was the fifth biggest city in the world in the years following the Second World War, there aren't nearly as many novels set in Shanghai as there are in Paris, Berlin and other international cities. Author and expert on modern Chinese history Paul French takes a look at the ...
But he set about travelling not because he wanted to write novels in these places which is what comes to mind from the double-barrelled term “novelist-traveller”. Initially, he was offered a teaching job in Germany which he turned down; then he had pursued a German woman who was already...
Racism in NovelsUses Novels Published In Brazil And South Africa Between 1912 And 1953 As A Window From Were One Could See How Cultural Perceptions, And Policies Of Racial Differentiation Were Reflected In The Everyday Life.Elaine Pereira Rocha...
bagatelle board- a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over. ...
to impress Doña Ana with a gesture of “galantería,” he poses as an experienced horseman. Yet a risky move causes the horse to “set a-running full speed” so that Pablos comes “clear over his head into a puddle” (Quevedo 1892, p. 202)[5](“da conmigo por las orejas en un...
Susan Tan lived in many places in her life, but she called Concord, Massachusetts, home. After studying at Williams College, she received a doctorate from Cambridge University, where she studied children's literature. She currently lives in Somerville, likes to eat dumplings in Chinatown, and te...
41. The moment one learns English, complications set in. Felipe Alfau Chromos 1990 42. Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature. Anita Brookner The Debut 1981 43. I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane; Vladimir Nabo...
To SirPhillip, With Loveis set in 1824, and postage stamps weren't introduced in the UK until 1840. First world postal stamp ever issued : the Penny Black, Great Britain, 1840.Public Domain as per Wikimedia Commons. Bonus Features