American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney LanierLeonard Unger |
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... sexual instinct when uncontrolled, and also show that, when directed and spiritualized, it has become an inspiration to the loftiest devotions and sacrifices." So also must the community provide opportunities for constructive and ...
... sexual instinct when uncontrolled, and also show that, when directed and spiritualized, it has become an inspiration to the loftiest devotions and sacrifices." So also must the community provide opportunities for constructive and ...
Page 62
... sexual rancor. In the Britten store Richard flirts mildly and mockingly with Lyle's wife, Jo, Lyle joins the issue, and Richard impugns Lyle's potency. The sexual insult is repeated just before Lyle fires his first shot during their ...
... sexual rancor. In the Britten store Richard flirts mildly and mockingly with Lyle's wife, Jo, Lyle joins the issue, and Richard impugns Lyle's potency. The sexual insult is repeated just before Lyle fires his first shot during their ...
Page 218
... sexual awakening. Now even more confidently than before, she creates fiction without a constricting, moralizing framework; hence, her treatment of sexuality is superbly distanced. For Chopin, sexual passion was best defined as a force ...
... sexual awakening. Now even more confidently than before, she creates fiction without a constricting, moralizing framework; hence, her treatment of sexuality is superbly distanced. For Chopin, sexual passion was best defined as a force ...
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