Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of
its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book …

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations—whether literary or
photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected …

Modernism on Stage restores the Ballets Russes to its central role in the Parisian art world of
the 1910s and 1920s, and includes close readings of ballets designed by Picasso …

Facially wounded servicemen were perhaps the ultimate victims of the First World War. They
became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war …

Discussions of the relatively recent notion of 'activist-art'have two common art-historical
frames. The first is formal: the post-modern move towards collective or participatory art …

Incorporating recent theories of feminism and diaspora, Women Artists in Interwar France:
Framing Femininities returns the Société des Femmes Artists Modernes, known as FAM, to …

A vivid, engaging account of the artists and artworks that sought to make sense of America's
first total war, Grand Illusions takes readers on a compelling journey through the major …

More than a decade after its initial censoring, Mikhail Sholokhov's short story “The Fate of a
Man” was printed for the first time in the pages of the newspaper Pravda in two installments …

When we have broken with the old world and are not yet able to form the new world, satire,
the grotesque, caricature, the clown and the doll appear; and the profound meaning of these …

Jeremy F. Lane's Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism is a bold challenge to the existing
homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-war era France. Lane's book …