List 63 of books by Claire

Romantic Comedy

by Claire Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010

Romantic comedy is an enduringly popular genre which has maintained its appeal by constantly evolving, from the screwball comedy to the recent emergence of the bromance. Romantic Comedy examines the history of the genre, considering the social and cultural context for key developments in new...

W Stands for Women

How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender

by R. Claire Snyder, Karen Zivi
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007

Taking seriously the “W Stands for Women” rhetoric of the 2004 Bush–Cheney campaign, the contributors to this collection investigate how “W” stands for women. They argue that George W. Bush has hijacked feminist language toward decidedly antifeminist ends; his use of feminist rhetoric is...

Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture

by Claire Valier
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005

Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Valier argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular cultural...

Politics and Genre in the Works of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1756–1816

by Claire Grogan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

In the first book-length study of the well-respected and popular British writer Elizabeth Hamilton, Claire Grogan addresses a significant gap in scholarship that enlarges and complicates critical understanding of the Romantic woman writer. From 1797 to 1818, Hamilton published in a wide range of genres,...

The Culture of Piracy, 1580–1630

English Literature and Seaborne Crime

by Claire Jowitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the sometimes hard-to-distinguish privateer)...

Modernist Short Fiction by Women

The Liminal in Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf

by Claire Drewery
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Taking on the neglected issue of the short story's relationship to literary Modernism, Claire Drewery examines works by Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf. Drewery argues that the short story as a genre is preoccupied with transgressing boundaries, and thus offers...

Curious Lessons in the Museum

The Pedagogic Potential of Artists' Interventions

by Claire Robins
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016

Amongst recent contemporary art and museological publications, there have been relatively few which direct attention to the distinct contributions that twentieth and twenty-first century artists have made to gallery and museum interpretation practices. There are fewer still that recognise the pedagogic...

Maunder

by Claire Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

Maundering is a both a physical and verbal process. One can walk in a maundering, aimless fashion and one can verbosely maunder on. Claire Kelly’s debut collection, Maunder, contains poems about the physical act of walking and the mental act, what is seen and what is reflected on. These poems allow...

Emily Brontë Reappraised

by Claire O'Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018

Emily Brontë occupies a special place in the English literary canon. And rightly so: the incomparable Wuthering Heights is a novel that has bewitched us for almost 200 years, and the character of Heathcliff is, perhaps, the ultimate romantic hero – and villain. But Emily herself remains an enigmatic...

Au Bonheur des dames

by Émile Zola, Claire Gauthier, Bertrand Louët
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2013

Le célèbre roman de Zola sur la naissance des grands magasins, dans une version abrégée et commentée. Un « petit classique numérique » pour les 4e. L'œuvre • Venue à Paris chercher du travail et immédiatement fascinée par le grand magasin « Au Bonheur des dames », Denise découvre...

A Woman of Valour

The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle

by Claire Trépanier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

A Woman of Valour is the biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle, a French-Canadian woman who found love with a priest thirty-three years her senior. Against all social convention, they lived, produced three children, and built a life together after fleeing their village.However, after several...

Gabriële

by Claire Berest, Anne Berest
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2017

Septembre 1908. Gabriële Buffet, femme de 27 ans, indépendante, musicienne, féministe avant l’heure, rencontre Francis Picabia, jeune peintre à succès et à la réputation sulfureuse. Il avait besoin d’un renouveau dans son œuvre, elle est prête à briser les carcans : insuffler, faire...

Snowbound Seductions

The Merry Widows, #1

by Claire Hadleigh
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017

The Duke of Huntington, handsome, wealthy and a confirmed bachelor, requires peace and quiet for the holidays at his ancestral estate, Huntington Ridge. But his sister and friends, all widows, are tired of peace and quiet. They're desperate for all the festivities and lusty frolics of the Christmas...

INTRODUCING Red Door Reads

First Chapters

by Ava Stone, Renee Bernard, Jane Charles
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016

This Red Door Reads First Chapter Sampler contains: CONTEMPORARY Devil to Pay ~ Renee Bernard Valentine Wishes ~ Jane Charles Simply Irresistible ~ Deborah Cooke Kick Start ~ Caren Crane Learing to Live ~ Jerrica Knight-Catania A Soldier's Promise ~...