Jessica Murphy: 5 books
Virtuous Necessity
Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
While many scholars find the early modern triad of virtues for women—silence, chastity, and obedience—to be straightforward and nonnegotiable, Jessica C. Murphy demonstrates that these virtues were by no means as direct and inflexible as they might seem. Drawing on the literature of the period—from...
by Jessica Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
College guides written by students for students.
West Virginia University Students Tell It Like It Is
This insider guide to West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV, features more than 160 pages of in-depth information, including student reviews, rankings across 20 campus life topics,...
by Jessica Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Mackellan Kirby, professor of Ancient Religious Studies, with some ongoing connection to the British SAS, is enjoying retirement in Ireland, when he discovers an anomaly in the Dead Sea Scroll he has been entrusted with translating. Always ready to solve any mystery, he enlists the aid of his American...
Reading the Difficulties
Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association...
The Supernatural Revamped
From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend...