Stanford University Press imprint: 981 books
by Andrew Elfenbein
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but...
by Robert A. Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
For the past 150 years, critics have referred to 'the Gogol problem', by which they mean their inability to account for a life and work that are puzzling, often opaque, yet have proved consistently fascinating to generations of readers. This book proceeds on the assumption that Gogol's life and work,...
by Selina Lai-Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese...
Figuring Korean Futures
Children’s Literature in Modern Korea
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. This child audience was perceived as unique because of a new concept: the child-heart, the perception that the child's...
Accident Society
Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design. Automobile collisions and occupational injuries became "car accidents" and "industrial accidents."...
A River Flows from Eden
The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse "A river flows from Eden to water the garden" (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the river of divine plenty that unceasingly flows from the depths of divinity into the garden of reality. Hellner-Eshed's book investigates...
The Emotional Politics of Racism
How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens...
Modern China’s Network Revolution
Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Chambers of commerce developed in China as a key part of its sociopolitical changes. In 1902, the first Chinese chamber of commerce appeared in Shanghai. By the time the Qing dynasty ended, over 1,000 general chambers, affiliated chambers, and branch chambers had been established throughout China....
Barrios to Burbs
The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the...
Risen from Ruins
The Cultural Politics of Rebuilding East Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Berliners grappled with how to rebuild their devastated city. In East Berlin, where the historic core of the city lay, decisions made by the socialist leadership about what should be restored, reconstructed, or entirely reimagined would have a tremendous and...
Ordinary Egyptians
Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The popular culture of pre-revolution Egypt did more than entertain—it created a nation. Songs, jokes, and satire, comedic sketches, plays, and poetry, all provided an opportunity for discussion and debate about national identity and an outlet for resistance to British and elite authority. This...
Contention in Context
Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model,...
Sephardism
Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor. Since the nineteenth century, this metaphor has occurred with extraordinary frequency in works by authors from a variety of ethnicities, religions, and nationalities in Europe, the...
Science for the Empire
Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the advancement of science and technology? Using what...