Dartmouth College Press: 74 books
Forever New
The Speeches of James Wright, President of Dartmouth College, 1998–2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Jim Wright is an unabashed optimist. Reading his speeches, it doesn’t take long to see that he believes in the fundamental values that shaped the American republic: opportunity and accessibility, individuality and a shared sense of community. He carried this idealism into his presidency of Dartmouth...
The Power of Writing
Dartmouth '66 in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
At the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, scholars gathered to debate the direction of English Studies in the academy. This debate had far-reaching effects and arguably forever changed writing instruction in the United States. To commemorate the 45th anniversary of this gathering, Dartmouth College hosted an...
A Noble and Independent Course
The Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
In 1828 Edward Mitchell was the first student of African descent to graduate from Dartmouth College, more than thirty-five years before any other Ivy League school admitted a black student. This book tells Mitchell’s life story with the help of a recently rediscovered trove of his college essays,...
What Are the Arts and Sciences?
A Guide for the Curious
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
What constitutes the study of philosophy or physics? What exactly does an anthropologist do, or a geologist or historian? In short, what are the arts and sciences? While many of us have been to college and many aspire to go, we may still wonder just what the various disciplines represent and how they...
Barren Grounds
The Story of the Tragic Moffatt Canoe Trip
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In 1955 Arthur Moffatt led an expedition consisting of young college students and recent graduates to the Inuit lands of Nunavut, Canada, to follow the path of the 1893 Tyrrell expedition and to film and photograph the group’s progress. The expedition, a 900-mile epic journey across the Barren Lands...
Travels in Intermediality
ReBlurring the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
How do fiction, film, music, the Internet, and plastic, performative, and fine arts negotiate their shapes, formats, and contents in our contemporary world? More important, how does their interaction shape their techniques of representation, strategies of communication, and forms of reception? In...
Writing for Justice
Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
In Writing for Justice, Elèna Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor Séjour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. In addition...
A Violent Embrace
Art and Aesthetics after Representation
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Instead of asking questions about the symbolic meaning or underlying “truth” of a work of art, renée c. hoogland is concerned with the actual “work” that it does in the world (whether intentionally or not). Why do we find ourselves in tears in front of an abstract painting? Why do some cartoons...
A Blake Dictionary
The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
William Blake, poet, artist, and mystic, created a vast multidimensional universe through his verse and art. Spun from a fabric of symbolism and populated by a host of complex characters, Blake’s comprehensive world has provided endless inspiration to subsequent generations. For the reader of Blake,...
No Laughing Matter
Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection—which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor—seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark’s Muhammad cartoons controversy, the contributors inquire into the role that racial and ethnic stereotypes play in visual...
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
When Rousseau first read his Confessions to a 1770 gathering in Paris, reactions varied from admiration of his candor to doubts about his sanity to outrage. Indeed, Rousseau's intent and approach were revolutionary. As one of the first attempts at autobiography, the Confessions' novelty lay not in...
by Carla Gardina Pestana
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book was designed as a collaborative effort to satisfy a long-felt need to pull together many important but separate inquiries into the nature and impact of inequality in colonial and revolutionary America. It also honors the scholarship of Gary Nash, who has contributed much of the leading work...
Errands into the Metropolis
New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Errands into the Metropolis offers a dramatic new interpretation of the texts and contexts of early New England literature. Jonathan Beecher Field inverts the familiar paradigm of colonization as an errand into the wilderness to demonstrate, instead, that New England was shaped and re-shaped by a...
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Published between 1762 and 1765, these writings are the last works Rousseau wrote for publication during his lifetime. Responding in each to the censorship and burning of Emile and Social Contract, Rousseau airs his views on censorship, religion, and the relation between theory and practice in politics....