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The Victorian Novel of Adulthood
Plot and Purgatory in Fictions of Maturity
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation building. The novel of maturity, she contends, is no less important to our understanding of narrative, Victorian...
by Antony H. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.
The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold investigates these constructions by situating...
Resistance on the National Stage
Theater and Politics in Late New Order Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater practitioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing New Order regime of President Suharto. It examines the work of an array of theater groups and...
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture
The Making of a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer’s reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas. Always renowned—if not notorious—for...
Doubtful Harbor
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
In Doubtful Harbor, Idris Anderson turns wandering into art. From large landscapes to the minutest details, she seeks with each poem to convey the world more clearly, acutely, and exquisitely. As she meditates on indelible moments with intimate others, friends, and strangers, she teases from these...
The African AIDS Epidemic
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed, accessibly written historical account of the most serious epidemiological catastrophe of modern times. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History answers President Thabo Mbeki’s provocative question as to why Africa has suffered this terrible...
The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia
Deposing the Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa’s most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All...
Invisible Agents
Spirits in a Central African History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conventional historiography concentrates on the secular, materialist, or moral sources of political agency. Instead, David M. Gordon argues, when people perceive spirits...
Football and Colonialism
Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist José Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive ends. Through gesture, footwork, and...
The Birth of Sense
Generative Passivity in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
In The Birth of Sense, Don Beith proposes a new concept of generative passivity, the idea that our organic, psychological, and social activities take time to develop into sense. More than being a limit, passivity marks out the way in which organisms, persons, and interbodily systems take time in order...
by Jennifer Esmail
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language of signs, played in Victorian culture. Drawing on a range of works, from fiction by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, to poetry by deaf poets and life writing by deaf memoirists Harriet...
Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa
Dialogues between Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience....
Reel Pleasures
Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Reel Pleasures brings the world of African moviehouses and the publics they engendered to life, revealing how local fans creatively reworked global media—from Indian melodrama to Italian westerns, kung fu, and blaxploitation films—to speak to local dreams and desires. In it, Laura Fair zeroes...
The Man Who Created Paradise
A Fable
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Gene Logsdon’s The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America—a raw and barren strip-mined landscape—and saw in...