Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Prescribed
Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
America has had a long love affair with the prescription. It is much more than the written "script" or a manufactured medicine, professionally dispensed and taken, and worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As an object, it is uniquely illustrative of the complex relations among the...
The Breast Reconstruction Guidebook
Issues and Answers from Research to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Since 2002, The Breast Reconstruction Guidebook has been the best resource on this topic for women who have had a mastectomy. Equal parts science and support, it is filled with stories that illustrate the emotional and physical components of breast reconstruction. Kathy Steligo, a gifted writer and...
Lagomorphs
Pikas, Rabbits, and Hares of the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Numbering 92 species worldwide, members of the order Lagomorpha are familiar to people throughout the world, and yet their remarkable diversity and ecological importance are often underappreciated. In this book, Andrew T. Smith and his colleagues bring together the world’s lagomorph experts to produce...
Writing Back
American Expatriates' Narratives of Return
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholars have examined the aftermath of their return home. Writing Back focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with their...
Weapons of Democracy
Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Following World War I, political commentator Walter Lippmann worried that citizens increasingly held inaccurate and misinformed beliefs because of the way information was produced, circulated, and received in a mass-mediated society. Lippmann dubbed this manipulative opinion-making process "the...
by Ashley Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice
In The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770, Ashley Marshall explores how satire was conceived and understood by writers and readers of the period. Her account is based on a reading of some 3,000 works, ranging from one-page squibs to novels. The objective...
Romantic Sobriety
Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.
Orrin N. C. Wang explains how themes of sensation and sobriety, along with...
The Challenges of Orpheus
Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely. While the term has conventionally been applied to brief, songlike poems expressing the speaker's interior thoughts critics have questioned many of the assumptions underlying this definition, calling into doubt the very possibility...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Public Health and Aging was published to critical acclaim almost fifteen years ago. Much has changed in public health since then. Thomas R. Prohaska, Lynda A. Anderson, and Robert H. Binstock now offer a completely new and updated overview of the field in Public Health for an Aging Society.
This...
Whitman Possessed
Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Whitman has long been more than a celebrated American author. He has become a kind of hero, whose poetry vindicates beliefs not only about poetry but also about sexuality and power. In Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority, Mark Maslan presents a challenging theory of Whitman's...
Word of Mouth
Gossip and American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Can the art of gossip help us to better understand modern and contemporary poetry? Gossip’s ostensible frivolity may seem at odds with common conceptions of poetry as serious, solitary expression. But in Word of Mouth, Chad Bennett explores the dynamic relationship between gossip and American poetry,...
Zones of Instability
Literature, Postcolonialism, and the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Attempts by writers and intellectuals in former colonies to create unique national cultures are often thwarted by a context of global modernity, which discourages particularity and uniqueness. In describing unstable social and political cultures, such "third-world intellectuals" often find...
Cultivation and Catastrophe
The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Catastrophe,...
Audacious Kids
The Classic American Children's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Outstanding Book of the Year Award, Children’s Literature Association
Often called the Golden Age of Children’s Books, the years stretching from the Civil War to World War I were a remarkable epoch in juvenile literature, an era when the best authors on both sides of the Atlantic wrote...