Bachelors, manhood, and the novel, 1850-1925 / by Snyder, Katherine V.

Table of Contents: “…Trouble in paradise: bachelors and bourgeois domesticity -- Susceptibility and the single man: the constitution of the bachelor invalid -- Artist and a bachelor: Henry James, mastery and the life of art -- Way of looking on: bachelor narration in Joseph Conrad's.…”
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Reproductive citizens : gender, immigration, and the state in modern France, 1880-1945 / by Barton, Nimisha

Table of Contents: “…The Forces that Push and Pull -- Bachelors, Bureaucrats, and Marrying Into the Nation -- Wives, Wages, and Regulating Breadwinners -- Mothers, Welfare Organizations, and Reproducing for the Nation -- Neighborhood, Street Culture, and Melting-Pot Mixité -- Motherhood, Neighborhood, and Nationhood -- Neighborly Networks and Welfare Work Under Vichy.…”
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Reproductive citizens : gender, immigration, and the state in modern France, 1880-1945 / by Barton, Nimisha

Table of Contents: “…The Forces that Push and Pull -- Bachelors, Bureaucrats, and Marrying Into the Nation -- Wives, Wages, and Regulating Breadwinners -- Mothers, Welfare Organizations, and Reproducing for the Nation -- Neighborhood, Street Culture, and Melting-Pot Mixité -- Motherhood, Neighborhood, and Nationhood -- Neighborly Networks and Welfare Work Under Vichy.…”
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The Victorian novel of adulthood : plot and purgatory in fictions of maturity / by Rainof, Rebecca Elise, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the belly of Sheol -- "Strange introversions": Newman, mature conversion, and the poetics of purgatory -- George Eliot's Winter tales -- The bachelor's purgatory: arrested development and the progress of shades -- Odd women and eccentric plotting: maturity, modernism, and Woolf's Victorian retrospection -- Coda: descent and tradition.…”
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Russian narrative & visual art : varieties of seeing /

Table of Contents: “…The Romantic landscape in early nineteenth-century Russian art and literature / James West -- The Country house as setting and symbol in nineteenth-century literature and art / Priscilla Reynolds Roosevelt -- "Montage" in Gogol's Dead souls : the view from the bachelor's carriage / Gary Cox -- The Optics of narration : visual composition in Crime and punishment / Roger Anderson -- Chekhov's use of impressionism in "The House with the mansard" / Paul Debreczeny -- The Composed vision of Valentin Serov / Alison Hilton -- The Modernist poetics of grief in the wartime works of Tsvetaeva, Filonov, and Kollwitz / Antonina Filonov Gove -- Ironic "vision" as an aesthetics of displaced truth in M. …”
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Truth in serial form : serial formats and the form of the series, 1850-1930 /

Table of Contents: “…Serial Formats -- Trying on the drawing room : realness and truth in and out of photographs / Eva Ehninger -- The bachelor : Gottfried Keller's "Der Landvogt von Greifensee" and serial erotics / Malika Maskarinec -- Max Klinger's Ein Handschuh as cycle and series / Ralph Ubl -- DIN A : the basics of all thought / Markus Krajewski -- Serial untruth : the feuilleton and the ornamental image / Patricia McBride.…”

Animal fables after Darwin : literature, speciesism, and metaphor / by Danta, Chris

Table of Contents: “…Ant TheologyFrog Perspective; Ape Perspective; Chapter 4 ''An Animal among the Animals'': Wells and the Thought of the Future; The Discovery of the Future; Animalizing the Present; The Island of Doctor Moreau; A Topological Fable; Chapter 5 Animal Bachelors and Animal Brides: Kafka, Carter, Garnett; Perforating the Human; Animal Masquerades; ''Animals Are Closer to Us Than Human Beings''; Chapter 6 Scapegoats and Scapegraces: Becoming Sacrificial Animal in Kafka and Coetzee; Scapegoat: The Narrative Animal; What Is It Like to Be a Scapegoat? …”
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Heredity explored : between public domain and experimental science, 1850-1930 /

Table of Contents: “…From heredity to genetics : political, medical, and agro-industrial contexts / by Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt -- The bachelor : a case of failed generativity in nineteenth-century literature and science / by Ulrike Vedder -- Eugenics without eugenists? …”
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Dispatches from the drownings : reporting the fiction of nonfiction / by Hollars, B. J.

Table of Contents: “…New Mother Sacrifices Child to the River -- December 13, 1896Speculators Meet Fate in the Eau Claire River -- May 7, 1897; Family Loses Two to River -- September 13, 1897; A Sad Affair -- June 18, 1898; Attempted Suicide -- April 1, 1899; Boat Regatta Claims Life -- July 10, 1899; Changed His Mind -- July 22, 1899; Part Two. 1900-1906; The Camel Can't Swim -- June 19, 1900; Six Rivermen Drown -- September 17, 1900; Bachelor Party Takes Chilly Turn -- October 11, 1900; Two More Slip Beneath the Ice, Drown -- February 1, 1901; Miraculous Rescue on the Chippewa -- June 29, 1901.…”
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