The Reading Figure in Irish Art in the Long Nineteenth Century Sex and sexuality

The Reading Figure in Irish Art in the Long Nineteenth Century Sex and sexualityThis book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which figures read or hold a book. Reading fiction was cast as unmanly, while silent reading allowed women of means to read widely and privately. Portraits of such women helped construct the idea of the New Woman in Ireland.

The book also includes an introduction contextualizing the works and the translation and adaptation process

and fluid condition

Masterfully crafted

It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-colour film stills

This volume of research papers provides a scientific and critical assessment of the impact of the modern digital media era on our societies

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Victoria Thoms explores the cult of Graham and her dancing through a feminist lens that exposes the gendered meaning behind much of her work

A play influenced by Brecht is

a particularly rich yet critically neglected cinematic category

This edited anthology brings together scholars in education to seriously reflect upon portrayals of teachers and teaching in theatre and film

communicated and transformed in the theatre

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