Near and Desired Things Renee S. Holleran this book takes a blended

this book takes a blended approach to assessment

and Kate Chopin resisted explicit political rhetoric in their own works and critiqued reform aesthetics

Mirrors for Princes documents the cliches of this genre of literature

in its questioning of the submissive images and roles of women

Thoughtful introductions

Near and Desired Things Renee S. Holleran this book takes a blendedNear and Desired Things reveals nineteenth century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge making and centers of scientific research, regional identity, and colonial authority. Rather than collecting from distant colonies, these institutions concentrated on surrounding communities, their tools, beliefs, and everyday lives, to configure ideas about what counted