Dartmouth College Press imprint: 71 books

Transcendental Resistance

The New Americanists and Emerson's Challenge

by Johannes Voelz
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010

Johannes Voelz offers a critique of the New Americanists through a stimulating and original reexamination of the iconic figure of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Voelz argues against the prevailing tendency among Americanists to see Emerson as the product of an “all-pervasive scope of cultural power.” Instead...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015

The hidden curriculum (HC) in health professional education comprises the organizational and institutional contexts and cultural subtexts that shape how and what students learn outside the formal and intended curriculum. HC includes informal social processes such as role modeling, informal conversations...

Small

Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery

by Catherine Musemeche
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014

As a pediatric surgeon, Catherine Musemeche operates on the smallest of human beings, manipulates organs the size of walnuts, and uses sutures as thin as hairs to resolve matters of life or death. Working in the small space of a premature infant’s chest or abdomen allows no margin for error. It...

The Dancing Universe

From Creation Myths to the Big Bang

by Marcelo Gleiser
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012

Marcelo Gleiser refutes the notion that science and spirituality are irreconcilable. In The Dancing Universe, he traces mystical, philosophical, and scientific ideas about the cosmos through the past twenty-five centuries, from the ancient creation myths of numerous cultures to contemporary theories...

Fire Muse

Poems from the Salt House

by Cynthia Huntington
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

In Fire Muse, Cynthia Huntington returns to the back shore of Provincetown and the beach and dunes that inspired her 1999 memoir, The Salt House. Reflecting on place, time, and memory, Huntington’s poems display a kind of ecstasy born of love for her surroundings and a keen awareness of their sweep...

World Beats

Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature

by Jimmy Fazzino
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016

This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best naïve tourists...
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013

These abridgements of The Plan for Perpetual Peace (published 1761), On the Government of Poland (1771–1772), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s other writings on history and politics represent his considerations of the practical applications of key principles developed in his best-known theoretical...

Afterlives of Modernism

Liberalism, Transnationalism, and Political Critique

by John Carlos Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015

In times of liberal despair it helps to have someone like John Carlos Rowe put things into perspective, in this case, with a collection of essays that asks the question, “Must we throw out liberalism’s successes with the neoliberal bathwater?” Rowe first lays out a genealogy of early twentieth-century...

Hijacked Brains

The Experience and Science of Chronic Addiction

by Henrietta Robin Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015

This book, written from the perspective of a practicing primary care physician, interweaves patients’ stories with fascinating new brain research to show how addictive drugs overtake basic brain functions and transform them to create a chronic illness that is very difficult to treat. The idea that...

Hemispheric Imaginations

North American Fictions of Latin America

by Helmbrecht Breinig
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this...

A Power to Translate the World

New Essays on Emerson and International Culture

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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016

This thought-provoking collection gathers a roster of seasoned Emerson scholars to address anew the way non-American writers and texts influenced Emerson, while also discussing the manner in which Emerson’s writings influenced a diverse array of non-American authors. This volume includes new, original,...

Enemies of All Humankind

Fictions of Legitimate Violence

by Sonja Schillings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

Hostis humani generis, meaning “enemy of humankind,” is the legal basis by which Western societies have defined such criminals as pirates, torturers, or terrorists as beyond the pale of civilization. Sonja Schillings argues that the legal fiction designating certain persons or classes of persons...

No Innocent Bystanders

Performance Art and Audience

by Frazer Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012

At a moment when performance art and performance generally are at the center of the international art world, Frazer Ward offers us insightful readings of major performance pieces by the likes of Acconci, Burden, Abramovic, and Hsieh, and confronts the twisting and troubled relationship that performance...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017

This collection reconsiders the life and work of Emile Jean-Horace Vernet (1789–1863), presenting him as a crucial figure for understanding the visual culture of modernity. The book includes work by senior and emerging scholars, showing that Vernet was a multifaceted artist who moved with ease across...
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