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Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism

By Lee Clark Mitchell (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands … Continued

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Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

By Nicolaas A. Rupke (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) Richard Owen (1804-92) was, after Darwin, the leading naturalist of nineteenth-century Britain. A distinguished anatomist and paleontologist, he was influential in Victorian scientific reform and in the debate over natural selection. Leader of the nineteenth-century museum movement, he founded London's monumental Natural History Museum, wrote and published copiously, … Continued