Listen to the interview with Anita Wohlmann about Metaphor in Illness Writing in New Books
Network here. Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor appears …

This book brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history
of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. A new language to express possibilities …

We often hear that literature's ability to elicit empathy validates its ethical value in society
and in education; in this context, the moral philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum, whose …

Defends conventional and even problematic illness metaphors by emphasizing their varied
usabilityOffers a more capacious understanding of metaphors by considering the varied …

Introduction Recent research data suggest that theory of mind (ToM) skills may improve after
reading literary fiction. However, beside this short term favorable effect, regular long-term …

This is the second instalment of a two-part thematic review of nineteenth-century French
research in the Anglophone sphere. The review sets aside the standard sub-disciplinary …

This article focuses on the topic of minor intimacies or attachments in the work of Berthe
Morisot (1841–95). By analysing three inter-connected areas in Morisot, namely the …

The strong creative effervescence from minority cultures in Québec often occurs in
testimonial or autobiographical accounts marked by migration or by culturally mixed identity …

The Victorian Gothic is renowned for its representations of madness and mental instability.
Yet despite the centrality of these Gothic motifs, scholars have yet paid little attention to how …