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Seasons of Misery
Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The stories we tell of American beginnings typically emphasize colonial triumph in the face of adversity. But the early years of English settlement in America were characterized by catastrophe: starvation, disease, extreme violence, ruinous ignorance, and serial abandonment. Seasons of Misery offers...
In the Shadow of the Gallows
Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods,...
Voice in Motion
Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern ideas...
Chechnya
From Nationalism to Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The sheer scale and brutality of the hostilities between Russia and Chechnya stand out as an exception in the mostly peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union. Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad provides a fascinating analysis of the transformation of secular nationalist resistance in a nominally Islamic...
Before Orientalism
Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes...
Between Cultures
Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Richard Burton. T. E. Lawrence. Louis Massignon. Chinua Achebe. Orhan Pamuk. The remarkable quintet whose stories make up Jerrold Seigel's Between Cultures are all people who, without ever seeking to exit from the ways of life into which they had been born, devoted themselves to exploring a second...
Body and Emotion
The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise. In order to investigate this relationship, Robert R. Desjarlais served as an apprentice healer among the Yolmo Sherpa, a Tibetan Buddhist people who reside in the Helambu region of north-central Nepal.
Red Matters
Native American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Arnold Krupat, one of the most original and respected critics working in Native American studies today, offers a clear and compelling set of reasons why red—Native American culture, history, and literature—should matter to Americans more than it has to date. Although there exists a growing body...
The Decadent Republic of Letters
Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
While scholars have long associated the group of nineteenth-century French and English writers and artists known as the decadents with alienation, escapism, and withdrawal from the social and political world, Matthew Potolsky offers an alternative reading of the movement. In The Decadent Republic...
In Light of Another's Word
European Ethnography in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced with the far-flung peoples and cultures they meant...
Conduct Becoming
Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Conduct Becoming examines a new genre of late medieval writing that focuses on a wife's virtuous conduct and ability of such conduct to alter marital and social relations in the world. Considering a range of texts written for women—the journées chrétiennes or daily guides for Christian living,...
Writing and Holiness
The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Drawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art. Exploring the emergence of new and distinctly Christian ideas about authorship...
Measuring Up
How Advertising Affects Self-Image
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The mute gestures of advertising images are frozen for posterity by photographers and illustrators, gestures that, for better or worse, perpetuate a certain aesthetic and eventually become emblematic of a period. The images of today display the values of a society that has more interest in the body...