Dartmouth College Press: 74 books
Transcendental Resistance
The New Americanists and Emerson's Challenge
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...