The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage  is the first full-length study to examine representations of ...

Pastiche, Fashion and Galanterie in Chardin's Genre Subjects  seeks to understand how Chardin's genre subjects were composed and constructed to ...

Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France  constructs the first cultural history of porcelain making in France. It ...

Exquisite Materials  explores the connections between gay subjects, material objects, and the social and aesthetic landscapes in which they circulated. ...

The degree to which shopping, or, more broadly, consumerism, is both critiqued and defended in American society confirms the role that commercial goods ...

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama  examines a recurring figure that appears in French, British, and German drama between 1789 and 1830: the woman ...

Darwinian Politics is the first book to examine political behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. Here, Paul H. Rubin discusses group or ...

This book is about the intersection of two evolving dance-historical realms-theory and practice-during the first two decades of the eighteenth century. ...