Stories
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.
Catalogue
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Desire in the Renaissance : psychoanalysis and literature / edited by Valeria Finucci and Regina Schwartz.
Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
Disease, desire, and the body in Victorian women's popular novels / Pamela K. Gilbert.
Gilbert, Pamela K.Date: 1997- Books
Language, madness, and desire : on literature / Michel Foucault ; edited by Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, and Judith Revel ; translated by Robert Bononno.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984Date: [2015]- Books
The image of manhood in early modern literature : viewing the male / edited by Andrew P. Williams.
Date: 1999- Books
Bad logic : reasoning about desire in the Victorian novel / Daniel Wright.
Wright, Daniel, 1983-Date: [2018]