Julia Simon Book order

Explores the work of professional blues musician Lonnie Johnson, demonstrating how his recorded works reveal lyrical and musical themes that call into question critical assumptions about the genre.

The body has become a highly contested, political site in (post) modern literature and literary theory. In Angela Carter's work the image of the body is constructed around the tension between a post-structuralist notion of gender fluidity and a feminist reclaiming of the female body as a source of pleasure and power. This study examines the body politics in the last four novels Carter wrote between the seventies and the The Infernal Desire Machines, The Passion of New Eve, Nights at the Circus and Wise Children. Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist theory, it traces a development in Carter's fiction that moves from the pessimistic negation of a self-determined female corporeality to the assertion of the female body as a powerful site of alterity.

Exploring the foundations of liberalism, this book delves into eighteenth-century texts that reveal the complex interplay between political, legal, and moral issues within social contract theory. It examines the contributions of influential thinkers like Rousseau, Voltaire, Sade, and Montesquieu, highlighting how their ideas shaped contemporary debates. The work emphasizes the relevance of historical perspectives in understanding modern challenges related to morality and governance in both public and private spheres.