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Conjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christine McKoy, African American twins born in 1851, and Daisy and Violet Hilton, English twins born in 1908, speak for themselves through memoirs that help us understand what it is like to live physically joined to someone else. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Conjoined Twins in Black and Whiteprovides contemporary readers with the twinsrsquo; autobiographies, the first two ldquo;show historiesrdquo; to be republished since their original appearance, a previously unpublished novella, and a nineteenth-century medical examination, each of which attempts to define these women and reveal the issues of race, gender, and the body prompted by the twins themselves. The McKoys, born slaves, were kidnapped and taken to Britain, where they worked as entertainers until they were reunited with their mother in an emotional chance encounter. The Hiltons, cast away by their horrified mother at birth, worked the carnival circuit as vaudeville performers until the WWII economy forced them to the burlesque stage. The hardships, along with the triumphs, experienced by these very different sister sets lend insight into our fascination with conjoined twins.

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"Evaluates Christine de Pizan's literary engagement with fifteenth-century French politics. Locates the writer's works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions"--Provided by publisher.

Politics and literature --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History --- Political aspects --- Christine, --- Political and social views. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- France --- Christine de Pisan --- Christine de Pizan --- De Pizan, Christine --- de Pisan, Christine --- De Pisan, Christine, --- De Pizan, Christine, --- Pisan, Christine de, --- Pisan du Castel, Christine de, --- Pizan, Christine de, --- Pizán, Cristina de, --- Pizan, Kristina de,

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Debate poetry, French --- Love poetry, French --- French Literature --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- French debate poetry --- French poetry --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Christine, --- Christine de Pisan --- Christine de Pizan --- De Pizan, Christine --- de Pisan, Christine --- De Pisan, Christine, --- De Pizan, Christine, --- Pisan, Christine de, --- Pisan du Castel, Christine de, --- Pizan, Christine de, --- Pizán, Cristina de, --- Pizan, Kristina de, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Love poetry [French ] --- Debate poetry [French ] --- Christine, - de Pisan, - ca. 1364-ca. 1431 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Debate poetry, French - History and criticism.

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In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read Romance of the Rose for its blatant and unwarranted misogynistic depictions of women. The debate that ensued, over not only the merits of the treatise but also of the place of women in society, started Europe on the long path to gender parity. Pizan's criticism sparked a continent-wide discussion of issues that is still alive today in disputes about art and morality, especially the civic responsibility of a writer or artist for the works he or she produces. In Debate of the "Romance of the Rose," David Hult collects, along with the debate documents themselves, letters, sermons, and excerpts from other works of Pizan, including one from City of Ladies-her major defense of women and their rights-that give context to this debate. Here, Pizan's supporters and detractors are heard alongside her own formidable, protofeminist voice. The resulting volume affords a rare look at the way people read and thought about literature in the period immediately preceding the era of print.

Romances --- Feminism and literature --- Courtly love in literature --- History and criticism --- Courtly love in literature. --- Chivalric romances --- Chivalry --- Courtly romances --- French romances --- Medieval romances --- Romances, French --- Romans courtois --- French literature --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- Guillaume, --- Christine, --- Jean, --- Christine de Pisan --- Christine de Pizan --- De Pizan, Christine --- de Pisan, Christine --- De Pisan, Christine, --- De Pizan, Christine, --- Pisan, Christine de, --- Pisan du Castel, Christine de, --- Pizan, Christine de, --- Pizán, Cristina de, --- Pizan, Kristina de, --- Charlin, Jean, --- De Monsterolio, Johannes, --- De Montreuil, Jean, --- Johannes, --- Monsterolio, Johannes de, --- Montreuil, Jean de, --- Charlin, Jehan, --- Jehan, --- Johannès, Jehan Charlin, --- Johannès, Jean, --- Monstereul, Jehan de, --- Monstereul, I. de, --- Romances - History and criticism --- Feminism and literature - France --- romance of the rose, gender, women, misogyny, social norms, equality, education, femininity, christine de pizan, art, morality, city ladies, womens rights, feminism, feminist theory, literature, society, letters, sermons, protofeminism, jean montreuil, guillaume lorris, courtly love, medieval, lovers, religion, female authors.

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“Through a synthesis of biographical research and textual analysis Joseph Darlington's monograph grounds Brooke-Rose’s fascinating novels in a new way, showing how they were responses to the circumstances of the author’s eventful life and concerns at the time of writing. In so doing, it links the array of disciplinary fields Brooke-Rose was significant in and allows the reader to see her contribution as a sum of its many parts.” —Glyn White, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, University of Salford, UK This book utilizes archive research, interviews and historical analysis to present a comprehensive overview of the works of Christine Brooke-Rose. A writer well-known for her idiosyncratic and experimental approaches to the novel form; this work traces her development from her early years as a social satirist, through her space-aged experimentalism in the 1960s, to her later poststructuralism and interest in digital computing and genetics. The book gives an overview of her writing and intellectual career with new archival research that places Brooke-Rose’s work in the context of the historically important events in which she was a participant: Bletchley Park codebreaking in the Second World War, the events in Paris during May 1968, the dawning of the internet and the rise of poststructuralism. Joseph Darlington begins with Brooke-Rose’s first novels written in the late 1950s of social satire, studies her experimental phase of writing and finally illuminates her unique approach to autobiography, arguing for reevaluating this interdisciplinary author and her contribution to poststructuralism, life writing and post-war literature. Joseph Darlington is a writer and academic from Manchester, UK. He is programme leader for the animation degree at Futureworks Media School, and is the author of British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and co-editor of the Manchester Review of Books. He was awarded a Harry Ransom Fellowship for his work on Brooke-Rose in 2012, and has published a number of research papers exploring her work.

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