‘I should like to see a woman smoking while she was nursing her baby’: The New Woman, Crossdressing, and Humour in Horace William Bleackley’s Une Culotte (1894) by Mariam Zarif

“…A case in point is the non-canonical New Woman novel, Une Culotte; or a New Woman, An Impossible Story of Modern Oxford (1894), by Horace William Bleackley. This essay explores the fundamental contradictions of humour in Une Culotte by looking at how Bleackley situates his New Women heroines within the context of nineteenth-century British feminism. …”
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Global language geography and language history: challenges and opportunities [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] by Matthias Urban

“…Linguists are thus in the embarassing situation that they do not understand significant regularities in the way the objects of their study –languages– pattern. In this essay, I explore three interrelated strands of thought to create a perspective on the question that is different from those explored so far: first, I suggest that instead of looking at present-day levels of diversity statically, we should take an approach that looks into how these distributions were generated. …”
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„...a proto odměněn byl stipendiem seminarním.“ Příspěvek ke studiu studentské kapsy na přelomu 19. a 20. století by Dagmar Blümlová, Josef Blüml

“… Authors of the text have been engaged in the study of inventive figures from men- tioned historical period for a long time already. The essay is anchored in their rich experi- ence with different kinds of ego-documents from that time, especially correspondence, daybooks, memoirs, small glosses and imaginative literature. …”
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Ambivalent and Contradictory: Victorian Architects’ Responses to Technology by Richard W. Hayes

“…How did individual Victorian architects square such critiques with the need to build for real-world clients in the here and now of the nineteenth century? This essay unpacks the contradictions in Victorian architecture by focusing on the ways in which George Gilbert Scott and E. …”
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Rhetorical and literary aspects of poets’ work and evaluate validity and originality of manuscripts relying on it (in khaqani’s poems). by Yagub Noruzi

“…This reason, led to the correctors replace the choices of other invalid manuscripts and made a mistake. In this essay, will be try based on a measures as rhetoric and imagery originality, khaqani’s poems to be evaluated. …”
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Explication of the metaphysical foundations of the modern age in Heidegger's secondary literature by Grbić Safer

“…In this context, this essay explores the main phenomena of modernity emphasized by Heidegger in his secondary works to demonstrate the Metaphysical Foundations of the Modern Age and thereby prove the Metaphysical Foundation of the Modern Age's essence of Modern Age science, the essence of action in the Modern Age, and the essence of technic in the Modern Age. …”
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Cross-Border Printing Privileges in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries by Nina Lamal

“…I examine both the foreign printers requesting a privilege in the Low Countries and local printers requesting a privilege from a foreign authority. In doing so, this essay analyses why printers were requesting privileges for their books from more than one authority across political borders. …”
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Organisational resilience: a proposal of an integrated model and research agenda by Cristina Chaves Goldschmidt, Kely César Martins de Paiva, Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray

“…This theoretical essay seeks to shed light on and synthesise the concept of resilience in relation to employees and organisations and to propose an integrated analysis model. …”
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Without Pictorial Detour: Benjamin, Mies and the Architectural Image by Lutz Robbers

“…In the second part of this essay, I will attempt to elaborate such a designation for the specificity of the architectural image by analysing a number of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s drawings and collages from the 1920s as architectural images in the Benjaminian sense.…”
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An Artist among the Puritans:Challenging a Cultural Image in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter by Michèle BONNET

“…This essay about The Scarlet Letter explores from a textual and cultural perspective the place of the artist in New England culture, both that of Puritan seventeenth-century Boston and of the nineteenth-century Salem satirized in « The Custom-House ». …”
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Questioning Agency Through Intergenerational Dialogue: The Adult Ghosts and the Forgetting Children in Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill by Hera Kim

“…With the same issue in mind, I aim to complicate Kipling’s imperialism in Puck by revealing the ‘overlaid tints and textures’ embedded in the intergenerational dialogue between the adult heroes and the children. Specifically, this essay argues that Kipling does not simply represent the adult voice within the imperial discourse, but rather renders ambiguity in uniting the anxieties of the Empire’s previous generation and the hopes for the Empire’s future generation. …”
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Ortega on liberalism and democracy: revisiting an old discussion by Carlos Morujão

“…Finaly, I discuss the hypotheses of the existence of a third phase in Ortega’s liberalism, more pessimistic and conservative, of which evidence can be found in his essay On the Romam Empire. …”
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Presentism, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century Music by Brian C. Thompson

“…As scholars and music historians, will the influence of presentism cause us to avoid topics that do not relate in positive ways to the dominant political concerns of the moment, or, at least deter us from asking questions that might lead to difficult conclusions? In this essay, I explore some of these questions with reference to an ongoing project which focuses on the De Angelis family, Sicilian musicians and educators who found their way to North America in the mid-nineteenth century by way of the British Army.…”
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Barrès contre Ruskin by Jessica Desclaux

“…To respond to Ruskin, he didn’t write a theoretical essay on art, but he inserted in novel or travel writing short polemical meditations. …”
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Some reflections on the concept application of essence over form in leasing operations in the lessee and lessor before and after IFRS 16 by Jorge Katsumi Niyama, Paulo César de Melo Mendes

“… Purpose: The present theoretical essay aims to assess the impacts of normative changes on the topic through a comparative study of the standards, emphasizing the approach related to “substance over form”. …”
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Hesitation on Fifth Book of Comprehensive Description of Mathnavi Manavi by Ali Soleimani, Mohammad reza Movahedi

“…This essay is devoted to the review of the fifth book entitled “Comprehensive Description of Mathnavi Manavi”. …”
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A Review and Critique of the Description of Odes of Khaqani by Mohammad Reza Barzegar Khaleqi (Volume II) by Seyed Mohsen Hosseini Vardanjani

“…However, the purpose of this essay is not to undermine the validity of this work; instead, it seeks to take a positive step in upholding this work with due diligence and ethics so that we can see more relevant text in the future.…”
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Reading and (not) seeing? by Sandra Saayman

“…Breyten Breytenbach, who is a poet, novelist, essay-writer and painter, very rarely evokes his own pictorial oeuvre in his texts. …”
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A Critique on the Book “Kelileh and Demneh” Edited by Ayatollah Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli by Hadi Akbarzadeh

“…Although Ayatollah Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli prepared this work from several manuscripts and with Arabic “Kelileh va Demneh”, and he also reminded me of the misreading, distortions, and other defects in the printed documents, the author has found errors and slips in the correction, research, and annotations of Ayatollah Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli of “Kelileh va Demneh”, which he criticizes and evaluates some of them by comparing the printings of Minawi and Gharib as well as some other manuscripts in this essay.…”
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The moral problem is a Hume problem by Green Karen

“…It argues that the seeds of a more adequate, naturalistic account of the metaphysics and epistemology of morals than that developed by either Locke or Hume can already be found in aspects of Locke's Essay and in the defence of his views published by Catharine Trotter Cockburn. …”
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