Acadian Teacher Identity in Early Twentieth-Century New Brunswick

The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

Jin Feng, in her paper "The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction," proposes that the representation of the "new woman" in Chinese fiction was paradoxically one of the ways in which male writers of the era explored, negotiated, and laid claim to their own emerging identity as "modern" intellectuals. Previous scholarship on fiction of the period probed occasionally the thematic im...

Drawing blood: technology and disease identity in twentieth-century America

Is the play the thing? The answer, it seems, would depend upon the nature of the conscience one sought to catch-and, relatedly, on the nature of the play itself. Wailoo's provocatively entitled Drawing blood presents the history of anaemias in twentieth-century America; one can argue, much in the style of a traditional five-act play. Though the author himself never uses the term, an overview of...

Global Warming? The Early Twentieth Century

As man is now changing the composition of the atmosphere at a rate which must be very exceptional on the geological time scale, it is natural to seek for the probable effects of such a change. From the best laboratory observations it appears that the principal result of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide would be a gradual increase in the mean temperature of the colder regions of the earth. ...

Field Experiments in Class Size from the Early Twentieth Century

Remembering and forgetting Freud in early twentieth-century dreams.

The paper explores the use of Freud's methods of dream interpretation by four English writers of the early twentieth century: T. H. Pear, W. H. R. Rivers, Ernest Jones, and Alix Strachey. Each employed their own dreams in rather different ways: as part of an assessment of Freud's work as a psychological theory, as illustrative of the cogency of Freud's method and theories as part of the psychoa...