Ohio University Press: 522 books
Political Appetites
Food in Medieval English Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
*Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance *is the first book-length examination of the cultural and theoretical resonances of food and cooking in medieval English literature, offering a new assessment of the vexed and critically underappreciated genre of romance. Aaron Hostetter moves...
Challenging Communion
The Eucharist and Middle English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
In this book, Jennifer Garrison examines literary representations of the central symbol of later medieval religious culture: the Eucharist. In contrast to scholarship that depicts mainstream believers as enthusiastically and simplistically embracing the Eucharist, *Challenging Communion: The Eucharist...
by Kelly A. Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
In The Submerged Plot and the Mother’s Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy, Kelly A. Marsh examines the familiar, overt plot of the motherless daughter growing into maturity and argues that it is accompanied by a covert plot. Marsh’s insightful analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century...
by Raphaël Baroni, Françoise Revaz
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Since Aristotle, there has been an assumption that narrative is a representation of actions or sequences of events, that this representation aims to elicit emotions, and that well-formed narratives constitute a whole, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. The nature, role, and relative importance...
by Corey Van Landingham
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
In Corey Van Landingham’s Antidote, love equates with disease, valediction is a contact sport, the moon is a lunatic, and someone is always watching. Here the uncanny coexists with the personal, so that each poem undergoes making and unmaking, is birthed and bound in an acute strangeness. Elegy...
by Kathryn Nuernberger
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Could Marie Antoinette’s wigs get any higher? Could the anonymous women riding in hot air balloons alone with gentlemen be any more scandalous? Does an Ozark holler hold the mouth to a lost cave with the longest, thickest vein of gold in North America? Brief Interviews with the Romantic...
Disabled Upon Arrival
Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This premise...
Migrating Fictions
Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Migrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history and in narrative. Surveying the particular tactics employed by the United States during the Great Migration, the Dust Bowl, the Japanese American incarceration,...
by Bryce Traister
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism reconsiders the standard critical view that women’s religious experiences were either silent consent or hostile response to mainstream Puritan institutions. In this groundbreaking new approach to American Puritanism, Bryce Traister asks how gendered...
by Anne W. Gulick
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty-first century. In Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic, Anne W. Gulick uncovers a dynamic literary history of African...
Neoliberal Bonds
Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Fernando A. Blanco’s Neoliberal Bonds: Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature analyzes the sociocultural processes that have reshaped subjectivities in post-Pinochet Chile. By creatively exploring the intersections among memory, gender, post-trauma, sociology, psychoanalysis, and neoliberalism,...
by Richard Dutton, Steven Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
With the inaugural edition of the Early Modern Drama Texts series, Richard Dutton and Steven K. Galbraith illuminate the only surviving work of playwright and actor Thomas Drue. First performed by the Palsgrave’s Men at the Fortune Theater in 1624, The Duchess of Suffolk dramatizes the exile of...
Arms and the Woman
Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
*Arms and the Woman: Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance *by Francesca D’Alessandro Behr focuses on the classical reception in the works of female authors active in Venice during the Early Modern Age. Even in this relatively liberal city, women had restricted access...
Sponsored Migration
The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Meléndez seeks to rectify this oversight, serving as a comprehensive study of the factors affecting...