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Of Bondage
Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
The late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical...
Looking Inward
Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
"You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the popular guides to spiritual self-improvement that were reaching an ever-growing readership...
Enchantment
On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We have long recognized the power of individuals to lead or enchant by the force of personal charisma—and...
by Daniel Cottom
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
It is widely acknowledged that the unhuman plays a significant role in the definition of humanity in contemporary thought. It appears in the thematization of "the Other" in philosophical, psychoanalytic, anthropological, and postcolonial studies, and shows up in the "antihumanism"...
Astounding Wonder
Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," while...
Radclyffe Hall
A Life in the Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The Well of Loneliness is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written, and certainly the most widely read. It contains no explicit sex scenes, yet in 1928, the year in which the novel was published, it was deemed obscene in a British court of law for its defense of sexual inversion and was...
The Poetics of Piracy
Emulating Spain in English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow,...
by Peter L. Laurence
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she uncovered the complex and intertwined physical and social fabric of the city and excoriated the urban renewal policies of the 1950s. As the legend goes,...
Inventing the New Negro
Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which...
Not in This Family
Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from disapproving families. Not in This Family challenges this myth and shows how kinship ties were an animating force in gay culture, politics, and consciousness throughout the latter half of...
Sarajevo Under Siege
Anthropology in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the...
Profound Science and Elegant Literature
Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In 1847, at the first meeting of the American Medical Association, the newly elected president reminded his brethren that the profession, "once venerated," no longer earned homage "spontaneously and universally." The medical marketplace was crowded and competitive; state laws regulating...
How We Elected Lincoln
Personal Recollections
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Abram J. Dittenhoefer was a young South Carolinian who embraced abolition and moved to New York in order to work for the newly formed Republican party and its antislavery platform. Even though he was in his early twenties, he quickly established himself as a savvy and creative campaigner, and when...
Poetical Dust
Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women, primarily writers, poets, and playwrights, are interred, with many more memorialized. From the time of the reburial of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1556, the space has become a sanctuary where some of the most...