Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 249 books
Italian Women at War
Sisters in Arms from the Unification to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women’s participation in war and conflict throughout Italy’s modern history, contributing to the ongoing scholarly conversation on this topic. Part one of the book focuses on...
The Johnson Circle
A Group Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Samuel Johnson, from early boyhood, lived with the knowledge that his homely face, large and ungainly body, loud voice, and odd mannerisms put people off. He later confessed that he had never made an effort to please others until past thirty, “considering the matter as hopeless.” Yet he managed...
Global Dilemmas
Imperial Bolton-le-Moors from the Hungry Forties to the Death of Leverhulme
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
No more than there can be time without space can there be history without locality. This book takes a road less traveled into a locality that provides fresh insights into our global dilemmas.
Bolton-le-Moors was a global center of cotton, coal, and engineering, whose factory engines were the...
by Shadia B. Drury, Jon Fennell, Tim McDonough
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss' work is the first devoted to Strauss' thought regarding education. It seeks to address his conception of education as it applies to a range of his most important concepts, such as his views on the importance of revelation, his critique of...
Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States
Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric. The chapters in this volume...
by William H. Katra
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
This is a history book that studies the thought and actions of José Gervasio Artigas throughout the decade of his prominence (1810 –1820) as leader of the Federal League, which united his native territory of Uruguay to four neighboring provinces in today’s Argentina.
This was the period when...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book presents a scholarly edition of five of the first adaptations of Shakespeare from the eighteenth century, the period when Shakespeare became “Shakespeare.” Written by men influential in early Augustan cultural spheres, these adaptations demonstrate how contemporary literary principles...
The Brave Men of Company A
The Forty-First Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
On August 26, 1861, one hundred volunteers met at Camp Wood and formed Company A. These men, for the most part, were well educated and left to us a series of letters to families and friends, diaries, letters to their local newspapers, official reports, and talks they gave after the war at reunions....
by David Aliano
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Mussolini’s National Project in Argentina offers new perspectives on the politics of identity formation while providing a transatlantic example of the dynamic interplay between the Italian state and its emigrant communities. It is in short, a transnational perspective on what it means to belong to a nation.
Davide Rondoni
Art in the Movement of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
In this monograph, Gregory M. Pell provides a full-length study on the poetry of Davide Rondoni, one of Italy’s most active contemporary writers and thinkers. This book includes comparative studies of Jorie Graham, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Charles Wright, John Ashbery, Patrizia Fazzi, and Mario Luzi....
Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions
Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Noted as a ‘civil poet’ by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations of Western Europeans and Americans to reconsider not only issues regarding the self, but also various social concerns. Pasolini’s works touched and continues...
Giovanni Pascoli, Gabriele D’Annunzio, and the Ethics of Desire
Between Action and Contemplation
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book focuses on the notion of desire in late-nineteenth-century Italy, and how this notion shapes the life and works of two of Italy’s most prominent authors at that time, Giovanni Pascoli and Gabriele D’Annunzio. In the fin de siècle, the philosophical speculation on desire, inspired by...
The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890
Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy. During the long process towards and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of writing and performing – the novel, the self-help...
Annie Chartres Vivanti
Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866–1942), who
brought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel by
addressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality on personal and international
levels, and by creating work that distanced itself...