Recent books and exhibitions have shown that Victorians were not so straitlaced about sexual matters as has been popularly assumed. Ellen Bayuk Rosenman's engrossing and enlightening book proves that the Victorians were extraordinarily articulate and resourceful when it came to expressing their sexual desires. Narratives of erotic experience were written, justified to the conservative culture, and circulated for the pleasure of readers. Rosenman's exploration of masculinity and femininity in Victorian sexual storytelling includes an account of the "spermatorrhea panic" that terrified the men of Britain, tells of Theresa Longworth's erotic revisions of the romance plot, and takes up the exhaustive, even exhausting, pornographic epic My Secret Life. Drawing on social history, court cases, medical literature, popular novels, and the diaries and letters of everyday life, Rosenman looks beyond the usual sexual suspects--homosexuals and prostitutes, for example--to address a range of pleasures that emerged from the ideological structures meant to contain them. She asserts that, however powerful ideology is, it does not script erotic repertoires in definitive or predictable ways, and that individuals can find ways of evading or easing its constraints.

An illuminating guide to finding one's most powerful writing tool, Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to hear the voices that are uniquely their own. Mixing creative inspiration with practical advice about craft, the book includes chapters on: Accessing raw voice Listening to voices of childhood, public and private voices, and colloquial voices Working in first and third person: discovering a narrative persona Using voice to create characters Shaping one's voice into the form of a story Reigniting the energy of voice during revision

Una hermosa novela escrita con el corazon y un depurado estilo. A la vez comica, triste y nostalgica, la historia se centra en un viaje hecho al norte del Peru mientras el terrorismo convulsiona los Andes y la capital. El debate politico entre el escritor Mario Vargas Llosa y el futuro presidente Alberto Fujimori sirve de trasfondo a los tragicomicos traspies del narrador, que debe conquistar a su excentrica novia en lo que le tomo a Israel conquistar Jerusalen durante el conflicto de 1967. Acerca del autor SIU KAM WEN (Xiao Jin-Rong) nacio en Zhongshan, provincia de Guangdong, China. Vivio desde los nueve anos en Lima, Peru, donde aprendio a hablar y escribir en espanol. Ha publicado dos colecciones de cuentos: El Tramo Final (1986) y La Primera Espada del Imperio (1988). Vive hoy en Hawai.