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Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing
The American Example
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay,...
Witchcraft and Magic
Contemporary North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
Magic, always part of the occult underground in North America, has experienced a resurgence since the 1960s. Although most contemporary magical religions have come from abroad, they have found fertile ground in which to develop in North America. Who are today's believers in Witchcraft and how do they...
by Theodore Dreiser
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Boni and Liveright, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book...
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell
Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse was expected to manifest matronly modesty and due submission, hobbling virginity's ancient...
Between Christian and Jew
Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious interrogation. His confession was as astonishing to his inquisitors as his brush with mortality is to us: the condemned man described a Jewish conspiracy...
Evening News
Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics, and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous emergence...
by Lisa Lampert
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, and identity as "the Jew." Medieval Christian authors created complex notions of...
Morality's Muddy Waters
Ethical Quandaries in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
In the face of an uncertain and dangerous world, Americans yearn for a firm moral compass, a clear set of ethical guidelines. But as history shows, by reducing complex situations to simple cases of right or wrong we often go astray.
In Morality's Muddy Waters, historian George Cotkin offers...
Improvised Continent
Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
How does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In Improvised Continent, Richard Cándida Smith answers this question by illuminating the forgotten story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, cultural exchange...
by Jane K. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored the paradoxes of an interior self separate from a conscious self. Though long acknowledged by the developers of depth psychology and by its historians,...
Behind the Killing Fields
A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In recent history, atrocities have often been committed in the name of lofty ideals. One of the most disturbing examples took place in Cambodia's Killing Fields, where tens of thousands of victims were executed and hastily disposed of by Khmer Rouge cadres. Nearly thirty years after these bloody purges,...
Fighting for the Farm
Rural America Transformed
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In North America industrial agriculture has now virtually displaced diversified family farming. The prevailing system depends heavily on labor supplied by migrants and immigrants, and its reliance on monoculture raises environmental concerns. In this book Jane Adams and contributors—anthropologists...
Homeless
Poverty and Place in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers...
Jeremiah's Scribes
Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
New England Puritan sermon culture was primarily an oral phenomenon, and yet its literary production has been understood mainly through a print legacy. In Jeremiah's Scribes, Meredith Marie Neuman turns to the notes taken by Puritan auditors in the meetinghouse in order to fill out our sense of the...