“... the ghoulish procedure of Jodie Foster’s autopsy scene in The Silence of the Lambs. In fact, it may be that the Mary Rogers case is where scenes like that originated; Srebnick writes that the Mary Rogers mystery marked ‘the point at which the saga of violent female death became a critical, even defining, aspect of modern urban culture’. The queasy ...”

“... cultural meanings the Queen could not have consciously foretold’. However impatient the public may eventually have become with the Queen’s seclusion, her insistence on keeping Albert figuratively alive had, among other effects, the unintended one of reassuring her subjects that she was not about to play the amorous widow. As Munich wittily observes of ...”

“... as well as to indicate the difficulties in the way of what remains to be done, and how these may best be tackled. ‘The task in fairness discourse is not to achieve quick, temporary relief ... but a grander objective. Step by step, slowly, we want to bring to the global agenda a heightened interest in making the expanding universe of international law ...”

“... work), was ‘on the brink of a new and potentially more violent revolution’. The 1914 war may initially have postponed such a revolution, but thereafter accelerated it. The idea that tsarist Russia was on the road to a flourishing liberal capitalism, and was diverted only by the war, is a fantasy; as is the post-1991 idealisation of tsarism and its ...”

“... can’t avoid technical questions, and readers new to the complex problems of Shakespearean texts may find some parts hard going, but Jones avoids all temptation to be impressively professional and bejargoned; and his book is indeed so courteously written, so curiously intimate in manner and so engagingly clear and resourceful in argument, that anybody with a ...”

“... no record of what Stevenson felt as he tested this theory, but given his environmentalist views he may have been dismayed when he saw that the linkage predicted by the eugenicists in fact held. But he also saw an alternative line of argument, which accepted the linkage but trumped the hereditarian explanation with an impeccably environmentalist ...”

“... to cohabit in every sense. Against this background, a passage from ‘What is Love?’ which may seem to be just an unabashed hedonistic plea for temporary liaisons, enlivened by the Blakean term ‘shackles’, takes on an uncomfortably autobiographical and literal colouring. Setting out ‘the principle or definition of love’, he writes: ‘the ...”

“... if they are made everywhere equal: that is to say that there will be no part in them where armies may not easily march.’ Scott’s collection of case studies forms a rich and learned compendium of Modernist hubris, but he wants to create more than a commonplace book: the studies are meant to illustrate a general case. After all, the particular case has been ...”

“... strictly Darwinian account of terrestrial evolution they can assert that however alien life-forms may turn out to look, there is virtually no possibility that they will resemble Homo sapiens. We can forget humanoids such as Mr Spock and the Klingons because Homo evolved under a uniquely changing series of terran conditions. What is more, even if evolution ...”

“... what I am feeling is love only because I have language in the first place – the romantic view may need to be modified. In the beginning, then, was the repetition. My signature is authentic only if it is a reproduction of its previous versions. Postmodernism is entranced by imitation but sets itself sternly against mimesis, or the notion of realist ...”

“... Center. Even the American Medical Association’s ethics institute draws on industry funds. This may not be all that remarkable in an era when academic medical centres increasingly depend on corporate ‘partnerships’. But many individual bioethicists are embarking on private, for-profit consulting ventures with industry to supplement their university pay ...”

“... other hand never to have met a biology undergraduate who has read The Origin of Species, and it may be that Almost like a Whale is his attempt to deal with the fact that the book is widely cited but largely unread. It’s no paean to Darwin, however, and is unlikely to inspire students to rush to the original; one ‘one long argument’ in a lifetime is ...”

“... trauma, but with the psychic and ideological function that remembering the event still fulfils. I may well be a bad judge of what that function is; but my sense is that the narrative was not only a useful way of understanding my own post-adolescent sexual experience at the time (what exactly was I doing?), but has been an important focus for rethinking that ...”

“... Orbach – though she is not straightforward about this. The therapist whose narrative this is may look like Orbach, sound like Orbach, and in most obvious ways be indistinguishable from Orbach, but Orbach says she is not, strictly speaking, Orbach, but someone she has invented: her ‘therapist-on-the-page’. She has to be invented, because the six ...”

“... of the radicals, in order to demonstrate that as a result of those activities the King “may” have been killed, and “must” have been put in danger of his life’. These arguments were first unveiled in September 1794 in the indictments against Thomas Hardy, shoemaker and secretary of the LCS, John Horne Tooke, philologist and radical man of ...”