Fordham University Press: 585 books
Neighborhood Success Stories
Creating and Sustaining Affordable Housing in New York
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Illustrates examples of successful community development on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and in the Bronx, using seven different methods of finance, only one of which is still available today.
by Adam Frank
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Transferential Poetics presents a method for bringing theories of affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein,...
Teach Me to Be Generous
The First Century of Regis High School in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Teach Me to Be Generous tells the remarkable story of Regis High School, the Jesuit school on New York’s Upper East Side that was founded in 1914 by an anonymous donor as a school for Catholic boys whose families could not otherwise afford a Catholic education. Enabled by the philanthropy of the...
Common Things
Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
What are the relationships between the books we read and the communities we share? Common Things explores how transatlantic romance revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century influenced—and were influenced by—emerging modern systems of community.
Drawing on the work of Washington...
The Body of Property
Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
What does it mean to own something? How does a thing become mine? Liberal philosophy since John Locke has championed the salutary effects of private property but has avoided the more difficult questions of property’s ontology. Chad Luck argues that antebellum American literature is obsessed with...
The Death of the Book
Modernist Novels and the Time of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
An examination of the ways major novels by Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf draw attention to their embodiment in the object of the book, The Death of the Book considers how bookish format plays a role in some of the twentieth century’s most famous literary experiments. Tracking the...
Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life
Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 1940 and 1941 a group of ruthless gangsters from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood became the focus of media frenzy when they—dubbed “Murder Inc.,” by New York World-Telegram reporter Harry Feeney—were tried for murder. It is estimated that collectively they killed hundreds of people...
Bilingual Brokers
Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Reading Asian American and Latino literature, Bilingual Brokers traces the shift in attitudes toward bilingualism in postwar America from the focus on cultural assimilation to that of resource management. Interweaving the social significance of language as human capital and the literary significance...
An Ethics of Betrayal
The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, Parikh...
The Work of Difference
Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new...
The Transcontinental Maghreb
Francophone Literature across the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The writer Gabriel Audisio once called the Mediterranean a “liquid continent.” Taking up the challenge issued by Audisio’s phrase, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev insists that we understand the region on both sides of the Mediterranean through a “transcontinental” heuristic. Rather than merely read...
Imperial Babel
Translation, Exoticism, and the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Once dismissed as a derivative process, the new cultural turn in translation studies has opened the field to dynamic considerations of the contexts that shape translations and that, in turn, reveal translation’s truer function...
Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism
An Archive
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Interrogating how Alexandria became enshrined as the exemplary cosmopolitan space in the Middle East, this book mounts a radical critique of Eurocentric conceptions of cosmopolitanism. The dominant account of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism elevates things European in the city’s culture and simultaneously...
Untouchable Fictions
Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism- progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental- in order to derive a literary genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit (“untouchable” caste) fiction. Drawing on a wide array of fiction from Premchand and Renu in Hindi to Mulk Raj...