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Gournay’s Gift: A Special Presentation Copy of the 1595 Essais of Montaigne (2014)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2014). Gournay’s Gift: A Special Presentation Copy of the 1595 Essais of Montaigne. The Seventeenth Century, 29(4), 317-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2014.974068

A remarkable copy of the 1595 Essais of Montaigne at Maynooth offers a particularly full set of corrigenda in the hand of Marie de Gournay. Her many textual improvements are tabulated and their significance discussed. At the same time, this copy also... Read More about Gournay’s Gift: A Special Presentation Copy of the 1595 Essais of Montaigne.

Mal d'archive: On the Growth of Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein-Project (2014)
Journal Article
Osborne, D. (2014). Mal d'archive: On the Growth of Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein-Project. Paragraph, 37(3), 372-386. https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2014.0135

In Archive Fever, Derrida opens a critical perspective on the status of the trace as that which remains with his reading of Gradiva, the Pompeian fantasy woman who is supposed to have left her singular toe-print in the ash of Vesuvius. This article r... Read More about Mal d'archive: On the Growth of Gunter Demnig's Stolperstein-Project.

‘…Das normale Weib gehört der Zukunft.’ Evolutionism and the New Woman in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Frieda von Bülow and Lou Andreas-Salomé (2014)
Journal Article
Saul, N. (2014). ‘…Das normale Weib gehört der Zukunft.’ Evolutionism and the New Woman in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Frieda von Bülow and Lou Andreas-Salomé. German Life and Letters, 67(4), 555-573. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12060

Whilst the treatment of Darwinian and other concepts of evolution in literary theory and writing by men around 1900 has recently received attention, little has been written on their influence over women writers and their theorisation of gender at thi... Read More about ‘…Das normale Weib gehört der Zukunft.’ Evolutionism and the New Woman in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Frieda von Bülow and Lou Andreas-Salomé.