Painful pleasures HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)

Painful pleasures HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture.

Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain

Presents a performance history of a controversial play

rather than the technology for handling it

The first published translation of Hincmar’s treatise – a key source for studying ninth-century political history and the ideology of kingship

It decentres the conventional Western loci of this critical historical moment by instead foregrounding transnational solidarity with

betrayal and love

are essential reading for all those who wish to keep abreast of the 'state-of-the-art' and who seek ideas for new avenues of research

Through a study of the British Empire's largest women's patriotic organization

philosophers and politicians for centuries

sensationalism and the Gothic

This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain

her racial identity can be forsaken so long as she leaves Philadelphia—and her sister—behind