Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Remembering Defeat
Civil War and Civic Memory in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 404 b.c. the Peloponnesian War finally came to an end, when the Athenians, starved into submission, were forced to accept Sparta's terms of surrender. Shortly afterwards a group of thirty conspirators, with Spartan backing ("the Thirty"), overthrew the democracy and established a narrow...
by Robley Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
A federal agent quits his job after his warning about a terrorist attack goes unheeded. A woman fleeing her abusive lover realizes her safety will forever be cruelly out of reach. An American visitor to Ireland learns that he will always be too much of an outsider to understand the country's politics...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
In 2001, the WHO recognized depressive disorders as the leading cause of disability worldwide. But most Americans who meet diagnostic criteria for major depression are untreated or undertreated. Luckily, recent advances have finally made it possible for the field of public health to address mental...
The Empire of the Self
Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In The Empire of the Self, Christopher Star studies the question of how political reality affects the concepts of body, soul, and self. Star argues that during the early Roman Empire the establishment of autocracy and the development of a universal ideal of individual autonomy were mutually enhancing...
My Silver Planet
A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Taking its title from John Keats, My Silver Planet contends that the problem of elite poetry’s relation to popular culture bears the indelible mark of its turbulent incorporation of vernacular poetry—a legacy shaped by nostalgia, contempt, and fraudulence. Daniel Tiffany reactivates and fundamentally...
Deleuze, The Dark Precursor
Dialectic, Structure, Being
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, and she engages the provocative readings...
Narrative as Virtual Reality 2
Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive "game" dimension? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates...
Bad Logic
Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
"Reader, I married him," Jane Eyre famously says of her beloved Mr. Rochester near the end of Charlotte Brontë’s novel. But why does she do it, we might logically ask, after all he’s put her through? The Victorian realist novel privileges the marriage plot, in which love and desire...
The Shattering of the Self
Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts, Cynthia Marshall reconceptualizes the place and function of violence in Renaissance literature. During the Renaissance an emerging concept of the autonomous self within art, politics, religion, commerce, and other areas...
by Adam Potkay
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Why read Wordsworth’s poetry—indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William Wordsworth’s thoughts. He responded in rich and varied ways, in verse and in prose, in both well-known...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term "new medievalism" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal aspects of language, this new approach was historicist...
by Devoney Looser
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we...
by Virginia Cox
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance is the first modern anthology of verse by Italian women of this period to give a full representation of the richness and diversity of their output. Although familiar authors such as Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, and Veronica Gambara are well represented,...
Over the River and Through the Wood
An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Over the River and Through the Wood is the first and only collection of its kind, offering readers an unequaled view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Most American poets wrote for children—from famous names such as Ralph Waldo Emerson to less familiar...