The Center of the Web

The Center of the WebThe Center of the Web examines the complexities of how solitude is perceived by women. Each contributor describes how solitude is a dimension of her personal and public life: how she defines it, if and how she seeks it, where she finds it, and how it influences her life. The voices in the book come from varied vantage points, illuminating women's perspectives of solitude with regard to class, culture, race, and sexual identity. Some essays are

Sara Teasdale captures the many emotions at work in the hearts of lovers

college faculty care only about their research and have little connection to the students sitting passively in front of them

taking in the poverty and destitution of a great city’s slums and forgetting his former ambitions

Sondra Perl

from understanding tree physiology to improvements in planting

whose editor had previously made the mistake of turning down “The Raven

crafting an accessible experience for contemporary readers

Miller comments on both the erotic nature of the state of exception and colonial or postcolonial manifestations of it

are a growing segment of the biocontrol market

the analysis of necessity and its roots in convention

the authors of this book – all experts in economics

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