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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High-...
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians
Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.
At the...
Abraham in Arms
War and Gender in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which he urged his listeners to remember that "Hence it is no wayes unbecoming a Christian to learn to be a Souldier." The title of Nowell's sermon was well chosen. Abraham of the Old...
Mall Maker
Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are routinely criticized for representing much that is wrong in America—sprawl, conspicuous consumption, the loss of regional character, and the decline of Mom and...
Deans and Truants
Race and Realism in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the...
After Augustine
The Meditative Reader and the Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical...
Sea-Brothers
The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with...
Fairy Godfather
Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another...
Mad Tuscans and Their Families
A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn reconstructs the myriad ways families, communities, and civic and medical authorities met in the dynamic arena of Tuscan law courts to forge pragmatic solutions to the problems that madness brought to their households...
Bitterroot
The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
In America's early national period, Meriwether Lewis was a towering figure. Selected by Thomas Jefferson to lead the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase, he was later rewarded by Jefferson with the governorship of the entire Louisiana Territory. Yet within three years, plagued by controversy...
by Stanley Finger
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Among his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the...
Queer Philologies
Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history....
Fictions of Conversion
Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later the...
Periodization and Sovereignty
How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization...