Sealy Gilles
Biographic Data
| ID | 5988341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sealy Gilles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sealy |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilles |
| SIGNATURE | GILLES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Long Island University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An Irishwoman in China
In 1916, Emily de Burgh Daly, a Protestant from Roscommon, published An Irishwoman in China, an account of her twenty-four years as an expatriate. Daly sets out to provide a ‘simple record’ of expatriate life, and that account conforms at first to our expectations of travel writing as a narrative presentation of difference—of foreign others and exotic landscapes. However, in Daly's case, the narrative evolves to include complex and conflicted acc…
Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus . Gretchen Mieszkowski
Text and Territory
Twelve literary scholars and historians investigate the ways in which space and place are politically, religiously, and culturally inflected. Exploring medieval texts as diverse as Icelandic sagas, Ptolemy's Geography , and Mandeville's Travels , the contributors illustrate the intimate connection between geographical conceptions and the mastery of land, the assertion of doctrine, and the performance of sexuality.
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Text and Territory
Twelve literary scholars and historians investigate the ways in which space and place are politically, religiously, and culturally inflected. Exploring medieval texts as diverse as Icelandic sagas, Ptolemy's Geography , and Mandeville's Travels , the contributors illustrate the intimate connection between geographical conceptions and the mastery of land, the assertion of doctrine, and the performance of sexuality.
An Irishwoman in China
In 1916, Emily de Burgh Daly, a Protestant from Roscommon, published An Irishwoman in China, an account of her twenty-four years as an expatriate. Daly sets out to provide a ‘simple record’ of expatriate life, and that account conforms at first to our expectations of travel writing as a narrative presentation of difference—of foreign others and exotic landscapes. However, in Daly's case, the narrative evolves to include complex and conflicted acc…
Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus . Gretchen Mieszkowski
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philippine History and Culture (2 works) · Political science (2 works)