Fordham University Press: 585 books
Critical Rhythm
The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Will be of interest to those following the recent turn to a politically, socially, and historically inflected approach to literary form, as well as to those in a range of fields thinking about affect, sound studies, and aesthetics.
Language, Eros, Being
Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the time-space...
Our Country
Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
“A welcome contribution to the growing literature on religion during the Civil War era.” —Civil War News
Northern evangelicals’ love of the Union arguably contributed to its preservation and the slaves’ emancipation—but in subsuming the ex-slaves to their vision for a Christian...
Let It Shine!
The Emergence of African American Catholic Worship
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Let It Shine! probes the distinctive contribution of black Catholics to the life of the American church, and to the unfolding of lived Christianity in the United States. This important book explores the powerful spiritual renaissance that has marked African American life and selfunderstanding over...
Insurgent Testimonies
Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain’s. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian-born Joseph Conrad, Anglo-Irish Rebecca West, Jamaicans H. G. de Lisser...
The Ploy of Instinct
Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox...
Cruising the Library
Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic...
by Kari Karppinen
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Access to a broad range of different political views and cultural expressions is often regarded as a self-evident value in both theoretical and political debates on media and democracy. Pluralism is commonly accepted as a guiding principle of media policy in addressing media concentration, the role...
Punishment and Inclusion
Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In all but two states, incarcerated felons cannot vote, and in three states felon disenfranchisement is for life. More than 5 million adult Americans cannot...
Practicing the City
Early Modern London on Stage
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
In late-sixteenth-century London, the commercial theaters undertook a novel experiment, fueling a fashion for plays that trafficked in the contemporary urban scene. But beyond the stage’s representing the everyday activities of the expanding metropolis, its unprecedented urban turn introduced a...
Secular Lyric
The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Relates the revolutionary trajectory inaugurated by Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson to the contemporary secular era and its relation to literature.
Northern Character
College-Educated New Englanders, Honor, Nationalism, and Leadership in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The elite young men who inhabited northern antebellum states—the New Brahmins—developed their leadership class identity based on the term “character”: an idealized internal standard of behavior consisting most importantly of educated, independent thought and selfless action. With its unique...
Imagine No Religion
How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
What do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad meanings of the Latin and Greek words religio and thrēskeia, frequently and reductively...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu Award
The collapse of communism in eastern Europe has forced traditionally Eastern Orthodox countries to consider the relationship between Christianity and liberal democracy. Contributors examine the influence of Constantinianism in both the post-communist...