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 | A Great Effusion of Blood''?: Interpreting Medieval Violence ISBN: 9781442670334 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Violence -- Europe -- History; Violence in literature -- History; Civilization Medieval; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | An Intellectual History of Terror: War, Violence and the State ISBN: 9780203848210 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Language & Literature; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Language & Linguistics; Political Philosophy; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Military & Strategic Studies; Sociology & Social Policy; Security Studies - Military & Strategic; Terrorism; War & Conflict Studies; Historical Sociology; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Armed Ambiguity: Women Warriors in German Literature and Culture in the Age of Goethe ISBN: 9780810132337 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Northwestern University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Women in literature -- History -- 18th century; Women in literature -- History -- 19th century; German literature -- History and criticism -- 18th century; German literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century; Violence in literature; Femininity in l; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial India ISBN: 9780252096815 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Violence -- India -- History; Women -- Violence against -- India -- History; Violence in literature; Violence in art; India -- Social conditions -- 1947-; India -- History -- 1947–; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction ISBN: 9780821441992 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Ohio University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Marriage in literature; Domestic fiction English -- History and criticism; Family violence in literature; Abused women in literature; Child abuse in literature; Violence in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England ISBN: 9781003319177 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Arts; Language & Literature; Theatre & Performance Studies; Performance Theory - Practice and Practitioners; Literature; Drama; History of Performance; Performance Theory; Practice & Practitioners; Theatre History; Shakespeare; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Captain America, Masculinity, and Violence: The Evolution of a National Icon ISBN: 9780815653202 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Syracuse University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: America Captain (Fictitious character); Superheroes in literature; Masculinity in literature; Violence in literature; Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Colonialism and Violence in Zimbabwe: A History of Suffering ISBN: 9781782041191 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Language & Literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Coping with Violence in the New Testament ISBN: 9789004221055 Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: European literature; Literature and history; Arts European; Arts European.; European literature.; Literature and history.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory ISBN: 9780813590998 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Graphic novels -- History and criticism; War in literature; Violence in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; Collective memory in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Deadly Musings: Violence and Verbal Form in American Fiction ISBN: 9781400821174 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American fiction -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; Style Literary; Literary form; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dreams of Speech and Violence ISBN: 9781487583118 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Short stories Canadian (English) -- History and criticism; Short stories New Zealand -- History and criticism; Literature Comparative -- Canadian (English) and New Zealand; Literature Comparative -- New Zealand and Canadian (English); ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World ISBN: 9781003001775 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Environment and Sustainability; Language & Literature; Environmental Humanities; Literature; Feminist Literature & Theory; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Literary/ Critical Theory; Literary History; Literature by Geographic Area; Literature by Period; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction ISBN: 9780857285492 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Anthem Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Adventure stories English -- History and criticism; Animals in literature; Ecocriticism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Ecology in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Gendering Walter Scott: Sex, Violence and Romantic Period Writing ISBN: 9781315584256 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Genre; Culture; Modern Critical Approaches; History and Politics; Critical Concepts; Language & Literature; The Novel; Gender and Sexuality; Gender Criticism; Canon Formation; The Gothic; Theatre; Religion and Atheism; Industry and Economics; Material Culture; Colonialism; Reviews and Magazines; Poetry; Literature; Gender Criticism; Queer Studies; Women Writers; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Literature by Period; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Literature ISBN: 9789004484177 Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Epic poetry Bambara.; Heroes in literature.; Bambara (African people); Mandingo (African people); ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | History, Literature, Critical Theory ISBN: 9780801467776 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Literature and history; Literature Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory etc; Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory etc; Violence in literature; Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) in literature; Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) -- Historiography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | History, Violence, and the Hyperreal ISBN: 9781612491264 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Purdue University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: History in literature.; Literature and history; Spanish fiction; ■ Detailed Information | |
| History, Violence, and the Hyperreal: Representing Culture in the Contemporary spa Novel ISBN: 9781612491264 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Purdue University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- Spain -- History; History in literature; Spain -- In literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish ISBN: 9780823264971 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Psychic trauma in literature; Violence in literature; Arab-Israeli conflict -- Literature and the conflict; Arabic literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Hebrew literature -- 20th c; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | John Brown Still Lives!: America’s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change ISBN: 9781469602608 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Brown John 1800–1859 -- Influence; Brown John 1800–1859 -- In literature; Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown’s Raid 1859; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; Violence -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Equality -- Un; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Killing Hercules: Deianira and the Politics of Domestic Violence, from Sophocles to the War on Terror ISBN: 9781315591087 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Arts; Humanities; Language & Literature; Theatre & Performance Studies; Classical Studies; History; Literature; Social & Cultural History; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Local Acts of Violence: Global Issues ISBN: 9781848881952 Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: History of political discourse.; Literature and knowledge.; The political of literature.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Love''s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination ISBN: 9781469603346 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; Empathy in literature; Sentimentalism in literature; National characteristics American in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Love''s Wounds: Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe ISBN: 9781501708268 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: European poetry -- Renaissance 1450–1600 -- History and criticism; Love poetry European -- History and criticism; Petrarca Francesco 1304–1374 -- Influence; Violence in literature; Literature and state -- Europe -- History -- 16th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Memories of Violence in Peru and the Congo: Writing on the Brink ISBN: 9781003158202 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Area Studies; Language & Literature; African Studies; Latin American & Hispanic Studies; Literature; African Culture and Society; African Literature & Language; African History; Post-Colonial Studies; Literature by Geographic Area; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Mothering, Public Leadership, and Women’s Life Writing ISBN: 9789004350670 Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: English literature; History in literature.; Literature and history; Violence in literature.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras ISBN: 9781315248455 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Arts; Humanities; Language & Literature; Theatre & Performance Studies; Art & Visual Culture; History; Literature; Imperial & Colonial History; Social & Cultural History; Modern Art; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Literature by Period; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Narrating Narcos: Culiacán and Medellín ISBN: 9780822979098 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pittsburgh Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mexican fiction -- Mexico -- Culiacán (Sinaloa) -- History and criticism; Drug traffic in literature; Violence in literature; Colombian fiction -- Colombia -- Medellín -- History and criticism; Culiacán (Sinaloa Mexico) -- In literature; Medellín (Colomb; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World ISBN: 9781003110231 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Humanities; Language & Literature; Politics & International Relations; History; Media & Film Studies; Literature; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Women''s & Gender History; Film Studies; Feminist Literature & Theory; Post-Colonial Studies; Postmodernism Literature; War & Conflict Studies; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Ovid''s Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence ISBN: 9781501727061 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Literature Medieval -- Roman influences; Literature Medieval -- History and criticism; Sadomasochism in literature; Ovid 43 B.C.–17 or 18 A.D. -- Influence; Ovid 43 B.C.–17 or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria; Chaucer Geoffrey d. 1400. Wife of Bath’s tale; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Polemic: Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse ISBN: 9781315601014 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Communication Studies; Humanities; Language & Literature; Rhetoric; History; Literature; Medieval History 400-1500; Early Modern History 1500-1750; Religious History; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Literature by Period; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Portraits of Violence: War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement ISBN: 9780472122691 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Art & Art History ; History ; Language & Literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990 ISBN: 9781400824946 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American fiction -- History and criticism; Rape in literature; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History; Women and literature -- United States -- History; Rape -- United States -- History; Rape victims in literature; Sex crimes in literature; V; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism ISBN: 9780816678624 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Racism -- History -- 20th century; Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Multiculturalism -- History -- 20th century; Multiculturalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Racism in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Representing War and Violence, 1250-1600 ISBN: 9781782048367 Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Humanities Social Sciences; History Literature; Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature British History Before 1066; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
| Representing War and Violence, 1250-1600 ISBN: 9781782048367 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Language & Literature ; History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance ISBN: 9780820342115 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Social change in literature; Political violence in literature; United States -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Roads, Mobility, and Violence in Indigenous Literature and Art from North America ISBN: 9780429054266 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Arts; Environment and Sustainability; Language & Literature; Environmental Studies; Art & Visual Culture; Literature; History of Art; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Literary History; Literary Genres; Literature by Geographic Area; Literature by Period; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance ISBN: 9780268101206 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Notre Dame Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Romances English -- History and criticism; English literature -- Middle English 1100–1500 -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East ISBN: 9780814705445 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Arabic fiction -- Lebanon -- History and criticism; Arabic fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Lebanese fiction (French) -- History and criticism; Sex in literature; Feminism in literature; Violence in literature; Lebanon -- History -- Civil; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor ISBN: 9780674061194 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism; American literature -- History and criticism; Ecology in literature; Environmentalism in literature; Human ecology in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Ecocritici; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s ISBN: 9780804797184 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Stanford University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Israeli poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; Nationalism in literature; Symbolism in literature; War in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature ISBN: 9780813942360 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Literature Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; Literature -- aesthetics; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism ISBN: 9780253046000 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Film Studies ; History ; American Studies ; Language & Literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence ISBN: 9781501720857 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Drama Medieval -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; Violence in the theater; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China ISBN: 9780520937246 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Chinese fiction -- Taiwan -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Oedipus Casebook: Reading Sophocles'' Oedipus the King ISBN: 9781609176150 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Michigan State University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Sophocles. Oedipus Rex; Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; Murder in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Other India : Narratives of Terror, Communalism and Violence ISBN: 9781443845014 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Literature; History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Other Reconstruction : Where Violence and Womanhood Meet in the Writings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Nella Larsen ISBN: 9781317733737 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Taylor & Francis Group Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: History; Literature; ■ Detailed Information |