Laurent Beatrice Laurent 
Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain [PDF ebook] 
Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth

Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women”s material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-cent …

From Elizabeth Keckly”s designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln”s wife to flamboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, Black designers have made major contributions to American fashi …

This study compares text/image interaction as manifested in emblem books (and related forms) and the modern bande dessinée, or French-language comic strip. It moves beyond the issue of defining the e …

”I imagine its being rediscovered with delight in some dusty book case a century hence and hailed as a classic” Spectator ”A wonderful book, a hymn to the pleasurable process of making things” Th …

This volume explores the earliest appearances and functions of the five major Egyptian goddesses Neith, Hathor, Nut, Isis and Nephthys. Although their importance endured throughout more than three mi …

This is without question the best book ever written on O”Keeffe” New Yorker Born on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia O”Keeffe had her eyes wide open to the …

Joinery, Joists and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century is the first publication of its kind to survey the long and rich histories of women and gender non-conforming persons who wor …

This title explores the controversy surrounding the design of the new Foreign Office in London during Britain”s Imperial heyday. In 1855 it was decided to build a new block of government offices in …

What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration – part dialogue, part voyage – with the video installations of Finnish ar …

Clothing appears in all forms of figurative painting, often taking up two thirds of a frame; yet it can often go unnoticed. Far more than a simple means of identifying the status or occupation of a f …