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- The Action-Adventure Heroine: Rediscovering an American Literary Character, 1697–1895 by Sandra Wilson SmithReed, Ashley (Project Muse, 2019)
- Black MagicVollmer, Matthew (2020)
- Failures of ImaginationVollmer, Matthew (2016-03-09)
- "Out of the Blue"Vollmer, Matthew (2020-03-16)
- Trick-or-TreatVollmer, Matthew (2020-04)
- Turning Tricks in AthensPasswater, Thomas (2022)This paper examines Aeschines’s speech Against Timarchus to offer frameworks for rhetoric to examine the historical particularities of sex work. Drawing on feminist and queer rhetorics, this paper rereads Against Timarchus as well as scholarly receptions of the speech to discuss how Timarchus has been positioned outside definitions of rhetoric in ways that highlight the instability of definitions of rhetoric and state power. This paper argues that kakos and atimia are useful concepts for rhetorical historiographers for examining sex work in classical Athens, as well as interrogating the power structures upon which a given definition of rhetoric is derived from.