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Bram Dijkstra


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Bram Dijkstra is a professor of English literature. He joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego in 1966, and taught there until he retired and became an emeritus in 2000.

He is the author of seven books on literary and artistic subjects. These include:
Cubism, Stieglitz and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams (1969);
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Eros of Place (1998);
Expressionism in America (2001),
but he is probably best known for two books that have escaped the academic world into the world of popular culture:
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-siècle Culture (1986); and
Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality and the Cult of Manhood (1996):
books which discuss vamp imagery, femmes fatales, an
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Idols of Perversity: Fantas...

4.30 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions
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Evil Sisters: The Threat of...

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Cubism, Stieglitz, and the ...

3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1969 — 4 editions
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Naked: The Nude in America

4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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American Expressionism

4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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Georgia O'Keeffe and the Er...

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Defoe and Economics: The Fo...

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Masterpieces of San Diego P...

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Palaces of Prague

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