Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers by Marie Carter
The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them.
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The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them.
Before Lawrence v. Texas tells the story of the long, troubled, and ultimately hopeful road to constitutional change.
In dear elia, Mimi Khúc revolutionizes how we understand mental health. Khúc traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the university into the maw of the COVID-19 pandemic, reenvisioning mental health through a pedagogy of unwellness—the recognition that we are all differentially unwell.
CFP: Feminist Modernist Studies Special Issue (Summer 2025) Modernist Legacies / Contemporary Women Co-editors: Ella Ophir and Beth Rosenberg How are contemporary women writers reconstituting the meanings of modernism? From Ali Smith, Alison Bechdel, and Rachel Cusk to Natasha Brown and Raven Leilani, women are significant contributors to the body of twenty-first century writing that is reinterpreting the aesthetics, texts, and figures of the modernist era. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2024.
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