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This discussion focuses on the unique role of language--particularly slang--within the formation of the eighteenth-century molly subculture.  In particular, I analyze the ways in which molly speakers were able to refashion slang that was circulating in the criminal world, using it to their own purpose while crafting a singular language to describe their own specific culture.  I go on to discuss how terms specific to molly culture also appeared in print, and suggest that we treat a group of popular texts as forming a "molly canon" which reveals how their communication occurred at the intersection between oral tradition and print production.  I conclude by examining the terms from this eighteenth-century vernacular which still circulate in contemporary queer dialect, and add to critical discussion of the mollies by focusing on the importance of their linguistic contributions to queer subcultures, in response to critics who have focused primarily on their role as legal subjects or ironic performers.

The Middle Ages loom large within our fantasies: a world full of castles and courtly intrigue, knights and clever queens. But how did medieval writers reflect this era? How did they balance reason, faith, and magic in their work? Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" will provide us with answers. His work deals with gender and sexuality, religion, warfare, and imperialism. He exposes the fantasies that drive the medieval world, and challenges us to question our own fantasies about medieval culture. We'll trace the journey from medieval literature to "Game of Thrones" and other adaptations.

This book chapter examines queer performance within the work of Golden Age Spanish actor Cosme Pérez (better known as Juan Rana), who coyly performed his own sexuality within the comedic entremés tradition.  Rana positioned himself as a "frog, neither fish nor fowl," exploring queer in-between spaces on stage while narrowly avoiding prosecution for sodomy in his public life.  By reading his performance alongside other examples of dramatic queerness, including the work of María de Zayas, this chapter illuminates Golden Age attitudes towards sexual diversity.

Argues that though the series is incomplete at present, J.R.R. Tolkien's concept of eucatastrophe and its dark twin, dyscatastrophe, can illuminate what Martin may be trying to accomplish in this bleak and bloody series and provide the reader with a way to understand its value and potential.

The masculinities of HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–2019) are marked not just by violence and exploitation, but by contingency, fragility, and abjection. This article draws on theories of abjection to read the abject masculinity of Sandor Clegane, Samwell Tarly, and Theon Greyjoy in the context of theories of hegemonic and hypermasculinity, and, through Greyjoy in particular, tracks his movement from hypermasculinity, through abjection and torture, to a custodial and sacrificial and thus life-giving masculinity, which stands in profound opposition to the hegemonic masculinity of power and domination.

LIS as Applied PI: A Critical Analysis of Luciano Floridi's Attempt to Integrate Library and Information Science Into His Philosophy of Information Across two short pieces published in the early 2000s, Luciano Floridi attempts to bridge between his Philosophy of Information (PI) and the discipline of Library and Information Science (LIS), ultimately arguing, " [LIS] should develop its foundation in terms of a philosophy of information" ("LIS as Applied Philosophy of Information: A Reappraisal" 658) and that "LIS should be understood as applied PI" ("On Defining Library and Information Science as Applied Philosophy of Information" 38). This paper is intended to engage Floridian ideas -specifically as presented in the two aforementioned articles -along with the ensuing discussion of them within the LIS literature concerning whether LIS can, and perhaps more importantly, should, be productively brought into Floridi's PI. In an attempt to add a new perspective to this dialogue, however, I draw upon Ronald E. Day's work in The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power, using the text as another lens through which we can analyze Floridi's desire to locate LIS within PI. I argue that, though well-intentioned, Floridi's aim to provide LIS with a theoretical foundation in PI could do the discipline more harm than good, particularly due to his invocation of the "fourth revolution," a futurological discursive trope that has the potential to disempower LIS scholars and practitioners because of its reified technological determinism.

Renaissance et Réforme / 59 developed so well because an economy of scale permitted not only the continuing construction of patrician palaces but also furniture, cassone, and the terra cottas, the principal decorative arts of the Florentine Renaissance, In other words, Goldthwaite shows convincingly that the Florentine decorative arts became not only beautiful but relatively cheap. Not the least among Goldthwaite's many achievements is that he has written the first study of the Florentine economy that will be, for the foreseeable future, indispensible reading for all art historians of the Italian Renaissance.

Review by jeanne shami, university of regina. In a series of articles, book chapters, and review essays over the past decade, Mary Morrissey has established herself as the pre-eminent scholar of the Paul's Cross sermons. Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons, 1558-1642 brings to fruition her reading of hundreds of sermons and her examination of important new primary sources not consulted by earlier scholars (most notably, by Millar MacLure, whose Th e Paul's Cross Sermons, 1534-1642 [Toronto, 1958] is the only other monograph on the subject). Since MacLure's study, the study of sermons as cultural historical artefacts of the early modern period has developed in many directions, most signifi cantly in literary studies of particular authors (e.g. John Donne and Lancelot Andrewes) and in literary and historical studies of post-Reformation religious and ecclesiastical politics. Th e greatest strength of Morrissey's book is its strong commitment to two areas of "disciplinary" focus-historical and literary. Th e fi rst-the historical-elucidates over time the material conditions associated with the Cross, changes to the Cross and the sermons preached there, and the Cross's place not simply as an institution of the Church of England, but, more particularly, as an institution of the City of London, and a site where the competing claims of the authorities (royal, ecclesiastical, and civic) jostled for pre-eminence. Th e second-the literary-builds on this profoundly historical foundation and analysis (the monograph's concern with politics, controversy, censorship, and authority), so much so that while attention to language, rhetoric, and texts understood as literary documents is not its primary mode of analysis, the study will be read eagerly by literary scholars, as well as by historians (of religion, of London, of the book, of culture, of politics), and will be useful to them precisely because it is so thoroughly grounded in and shaped by the tools of the historical discipline, while maintaining a strong generic focus that links the historical and literary thrusts of the project. Th e fi rst two chapters are excellent examples of sophisticated historical analysis of these materials. Of special importance is the monograph's understanding of the Paul's Cross sermons as occasional

BACKGROUND Needlestick Injury (NSI) is a major occupational health and safety issue among Healthcare Workers (HCWs). In India, incidence of NSI is high, but surveillance is poor with scarce authentic data. The aim of the study is to determine the occurrence of NSI, its associated factors and assessment of knowledge and practice of preventive measures and post exposure prophylaxis among HCWs in a tertiary care hospital in Kerala. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 515 HCWs who included doctors, house surgeons, final year medical students, nurses, student nurses and lab technicians of a government sector tertiary care hospital in Kerala. All HCWs of the institution present during the study time were included and only those unwilling to participate excluded. Ethical clearance and administrative permission was obtained along with informed consent from subjects after ensuring confidentiality. Content validated, structured questionnaire consisting of questions regarding demographic data, incidence and prevalence of needlestick injury, circumstances leading to it, response of subjects to NSI and knowledge of study subjects on post exposure prophylaxis was administered to the study subjects. The technique of data collection was self-reporting by the study subjects. Data collected was analysed using statistical software Epi Info 7. RESULTS Overall, 55.7% HCWs had sustained at least one NSI in this hospital, while 35% of them had a NSI during the current year. NSIs were sustained during blood withdrawal (34%), injections (20.5%), suturing (20.2%) and cannula insertion (12%). Recapping the needle (26%) was the most frequent cause followed by collision with others (24%), manipulation of needle in patient (23%) and during/in transit to disposal (10%). Majority (84%) did not report the incident, 8.4% underwent post exposure follow up, 82% of the HCWs were fully hepatitis B vaccinated, 44% had received training, 62% used gloves, 49% recapped needles and 55% followed proper sharp disposal. Significant association was found between NSI and male gender (p <0.001), designation (p <0.001) and years of experience (p <0.05) with interns and those with less than one year's experience at greater risk.

This paper is part of a Literature Compass panel cluster arising from the The Texas A&M John Donne Collection: A Symposium and Exhibition. Comprising an introduction by Gary Stringer and three of the papers presented at the symposium, this cluster seeks to examine the current state of Donne Studies and aims to provide a snapshot of the field. The symposium was held April 6-7, 2006.

Renaissance et Réforme / 331 James Anthony Froude, except those who have recently begun to study "the social foundations of the Reformation." There are two peculiarities here. First, the close O'Day comes to the present, the less she concerns herself with historians' contexts and their politics, and two, political history fades from view.

The Rhetoric of the Conscience in Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan offers an engaging intellectual descant on studies of the conscience in early modern England. Not satisfied with the deliberating conscience of most literary scholarly studies with a more logical, theological bent, Sullivan focuses instead on the strategies of resistance the conscience employs and expresses rhetorically in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan. Sullivan proposes a clever, but arbitrary, schema for examining the three poets' works. The book promises to look at just five recurring images of the conscience in action (comprising five subgenres of Stuart religious poetry), paired with five corresponding rhetorical tropes: ''the tortured self'' (4), paired with the trope subjectio, a ''monologue that presents itself as a dialogue but where, in fact, the speaker answers himself'' (5); ''the heart as a page'' (4), paired with the trope enigma, or speaking by way of indecipherable riddle; ''the collector of texts'' (5), paired with the trope antanaclasis, ''a repetition of words with a subtle shift in meaning'' (7); ''the soul in bits'' (5), paired with the trope aposiopesis, ''breaking off from discussion'' (157); and ''the exchange of glances'' (5), paired with the chiasmus, a ''scheme where a first element is repeated but inverted by a second, in a crossing of parts'' (193). I describe the scheme in such detail because it is important to keep it in my mind while digesting the book's arguments and its contributions to our understanding of the workings of conscience in these poets. Although it is not really a work of historical contextualism or grounded in any discernible literary theory, the author nonetheless manages to import a great deal of fascinating historical material into the study across fields as diverse as early modern casuistry, rhetoric, and law; interrogation and practices of torture;