Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 249 books
Ernst Toller and German Society
Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics, 1914–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
During the years of Weimar and the Third Reich, Toller was one of the more active of the "other Germany's" left-wing intellectuals. A leader of the Bavarian Soviet of 1919, he had in addition won the Kleist prize and was recognized as one of Germany's best playwrights. Indeed, during the...
by Anderson D. Araujo, Hazel Atkins, William Blissett
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris, he became involved with a group of Catholic writers and subsequently went through a gradual conversion...
Double Shakespeares
Emotional-Realist Acting and Contemporary Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the “emotional realist” traditions of acting that were codified by Stanislavski over a century ago. These performances recognize the inescapable doubleness of realism: that the actor may aspire to be the character...
The Next Thing
Art in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-first Century is a highly visual collection of essays about the future of art and the art of the future. This anthology brings together writings by world-renown theorists, artists, critics, novelists and philosophers, all of them engaged in current discussions about...
The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets
'A Satire to Decay'
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets: "A Satire to Decay" is a work of detective scholarship. Unable to believe that England's great dramatist would publish a sequence of sonnets without a plot, Mark Jay Mirsky, novelist, playwright, and professor of English, proposes a solution to a riddle that has...
Dacia Maraini’s Narratives of Survival
(Re)Constructed
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Dacia Maraini’s Narratives of Survival: (Re)Constructed focuses on Dacia Maraini’s narrative from about 1984 to 2004 and makes substantive use of her interviews and essays. While acknowledging the importance and ongoing validity of feminist scholarship of Maraini’s work, this book seeks to take...
The Legacy of the Grand Tour
New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident in works of travel and literature. From its...
Avenging Lincoln’s Death
The Trial of John Wilkes Booth’s Accomplices
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Avenging Lincoln’s Death: The Trial of John Wilkes Booth’s Accomplices is an examination of the 1865 military commission trial of eight alleged accomplices of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin who murdered President Abraham Lincoln. The book analyzes the trial transcript and other relevant evidence...
The Annotated Works of Henry George
Progress and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent...
The American Constitutional Tradition
Colonial Charters, Covenants, and Revolutionary State Constitutions, 1578–1780
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
The book is a work of non-fiction. The book is a historical analysis of the evolution of a uniquely American constitutionalism that began with the original English royal charters for the exploration and exploitation of North America. When the U.S. Constitution was written in 1787, the accepted conception...
People's Warrior
John Moss and the Fight for Freedom of Information and Consumer Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
It is hard to believe that there was a time, not long ago, when there was no right to obtain government information, no protection against hazards in children's toys and other consumer products, no federal safety standards for motor vehicles, and no insurance to protect an investors' money and securities...
The Spanish-American War
A Documentary History with Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
This documentary history is intended for specialist and non-specialist alike. The introductions to the book’s sections, together with introductions to each document, provide a general history of the war. The contents cover the pre-war, war, and post-war periods in Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico,...
The First Great Awakening
Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and...
Charles H. Thompson
Policy Entrepreneur of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
During a period when African-American education was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement, Thompson’s Journal documented the rapid growth of educational discrimination in the South despite significant increases in public school funding, providing irrefutable evidence that racially segregated...