Christopher D Johnson: 14 books

Book cover of Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images
by Christopher D. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the...
Book cover of Reconsidering Biography

Reconsidering Biography

Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson

by Martine Watson Brownley, Martine W. Brownley, Greg Clingham
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over...
Book cover of Beyond Sense and Sensibility

Beyond Sense and Sensibility

Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth

by Leslie A. Chilton, Timothy Erwin, Evan Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014

Drawing on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, the essays in Beyond Sense and Sensibility examine moral formation as represented in or implicitly produced by literary works of later eighteenth-century British authors...
Book cover of A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding
by Christopher D Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding provides the most complete discussion of Fielding’s works and career currently available. Tracing the development of Fielding’s artistic and instructive agendas from her earliest publications forward, Johnson presents a compelling portrait of a deeply read...
Book cover of Editing Lives

Editing Lives

Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.

by Matthew Brack, Leslie A. Chilton, Loren Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013

Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
Book cover of New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction

New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction

'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'

by Christopher D. Johnson, Paula R. Backscheider, Leslie A. Chilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011

New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor...
Book cover of Dark and Far

Dark and Far

The Quest for the Seed of Life

by Christopher D. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013

A young boy is plunged into a world of magic and wonder as he attempts to cope with the loss of his father. With his friends at his side and a two sided teacher, Anubus must traverse the galaxy to find the legendary seed of life. If he and his friends fail, they face the ultimate price, death. Explore...
Book cover of The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast
by Michael F. Johnson, Lisa D. O'Steen, Dena F. Dincauze
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data....
Book cover of The Conservative Revolution of Antonin Scalia
by Howard Schweber, David A Schultz, Henry L. Chambers Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018

Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though...
Book cover of Transnational Protest and Global Activism
by W Lance Bennett, Donatella Della Porta, Mario Diani
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004

In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice movement into action at the grass roots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European...
Book cover of Intelligence and the National Security Strategist

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist

Enduring Issues and Challenges

by Matthew M. Aid, Christopher M. Andrew, Michael R. Bromwich
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
Book cover of A Journey of Words

A Journey of Words

35 Short Stories

by Brian Paone, S.M., Marlon S Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

From Scout Media comes A Journey of Words—the second volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world. In this installation, the authors will lead the reader to destinations unknown; from the heartbreak of driving to visit a loved one for the last...
Book cover of The Who and Philosophy
by Scott Calef, Dan Dinello, Don Fallis
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016

The Who were one of the most memorable and influential of the 1960s British Invasion bands—memorable because of their loudness and because they destroyed instruments during performances, and influential because of their success in crafting “Power Pop” singles like “My Generation” and “I...
Book cover of Mindfulness and Critical Friendship

Mindfulness and Critical Friendship

A New Perspective on Professional Development for Educators

by John-Tyler Binfet, Shawn Michael Bullock, Déirdre Ní Chróinín
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016

Mindfulness and Critical Friendship: A New Perspective on Professional Development for Educators assembles an international community of scholar-practitioners from multiple disciplines who utilize different methodologies and ideological perspectives to reflect on and interrogate contexts that situate...
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