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And in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevskya late-nineteenth-century Russian émigré and mathematicianon a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and, Denmark, where she has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician.

Too Much Happiness: Summary and book reviews of Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro. 2009

Compare the plot of the modern blockbuster film to the plot of late-nineteenth-century Italian grand opera.

Avatar deliasherman 2010

Note 40: During the late-nineteenth-century period of routinized Anglo-Afghan relations in Peshawar, brawls and resulting court cases were not uncommon between Durrani officials and their entourages, on the one hand, and groups of ordinary Afghan merchants and their local supports and business associates in the city, on the other.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Foucault borrows from Nietzsche are in fact quite typical of a certain late-nineteenth-century discourse about history.

Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault) 2008

In addition to the British Indian rupee that was known locally as a kaldar rupee, and the Russian ruble called surs, other silver currencies circulating in late-nineteenth-century Afghanistan include Chinese yamus and Tabrizi tomans.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Like late-nineteenth-century writers, Russian artists had struggled to redefine their national identity.

The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

The late-nineteenth-century cases discussed in chapter two would have been resolved far more fairly with the application of an alternative model of privacy.

'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008

Since late-nineteenth-century English departments were no longer limited to one or two instructors, they could pursue a period-centered approach without entirely sacrificing the idea of development.

Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault) 2008

Often deliberately vague, such laws were nonetheless generally understood to refer to anal intercourse, and did not apply to sexual acts between two women. 27 Eskridge cites late-nineteenth-century American society's preoccupation with the enforcement of strict gender roles as the basis for the increasing societal focus on the moral implications of homosexuality.

'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008

Though the fetus motif never became widespread, its occurrence in the graphic art of several late-nineteenth-century artists, most of them belonging to the Symbolist movement, nonetheless raises many questions.

The Fetus in 19th Century Symbolist Art Suzanne 2010