Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
The Rise of Birds
225 Million Years of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their place in our understanding of the history of life. They were clearly the bones of something unusual, a bird-like creature that lived long, long ago in the...
by Mark Canuel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In the past ten years, theorists from Elaine Scarry to Roger Scruton have devoted renewed attention to the aesthetic of beauty. Part of their discussions claim that beauty—because it arises from a sense of proportion, symmetry, or reciprocity—provides a model for justice. Justice, Dissent, and...
Hart Crane's Poetry
"Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio"
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
In one of his letters Hart Crane wrote, "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio," comparing—misspelling and all—the great French poet’s cosmopolitan roots to his own more modest ones in the midwestern United States. Rebelling against the notion that his work should...
The Vulgar Question of Money
Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains...
Why They Can't Write
Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
There seems to be widespread agreement that—when it comes to the writing skills of college students—we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones,...
by Nicholas Mason
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism investigates the entwined histories of the advertising industry and the gradual commodification of literature over the course of the Romantic Century (1750–1850). In this engaging and detailed study, Nicholas Mason argues that the seemingly...
The Poetics of Consent
Collective Decision Making and the Iliad
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The Poetics of Consent breaks new ground in Homeric studies by interpreting the Iliad’s depictions of political action in terms of the poetic forces that shaped the Iliad itself. Arguing that consensus is a central theme of the epic, David Elmer analyzes in detail scenes in which the poem’s three...
The Siddhāntasundara of Jñānarāja
An English Translation with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
A treasure for anyone interested in early modern India and the history of mathematics, this first English translation of the Siddhāntasundara reveals the fascinating work of the scholar-astronomer Jñānarāja (circa 1500 C.E.). Toke Lindegaard Knudsen begins with an introduction to the traditions...
Comic Democracies
From Ancient Athens to the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
For two thousand years, democratic authors treated comedy as a toolkit of rhetorical practices for encouraging problem-solving, pluralism, risk-taking, and other civic behaviors that increased minority participation in government. Over the past two centuries, this pragmatic approach to extending the...
Blake's Agitation
Criticism and the Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Blake’s Agitation is a thorough and engaging reflection on the dynamic, forward-moving, and active nature of critical thought. Steven Goldsmith investigates the modern notion that there’s a fiery feeling in critical thought, a form of emotion that gives authentic criticism the potential to go...
by Daniel P. Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In this first critical study of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s major work, Daniel P. Watkins reveals the singular purpose of Barbauld’s visionary poems: to recreate the world based on the values of liberty and justice.
Watkins examines in close detail both the form and content of Barbauld’s...
by Leonid Livak
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
The writing and teaching of Russian literary and cultural history have changed little since the 1980s. In Search of Russian Modernism challenges the basic premises of Russian modernist studies, removing the aura of certainty surrounding the analytical tools at our disposal and suggesting audacious...
by Anthony Domestico
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Following the religious turn in other disciplines, literary critics have emphasized how modernists like Woolf and Joyce were haunted by Christianity’s cultural traces despite their own lack of belief. In Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period, Anthony Domestico takes a different tack, arguing...
From Madman to Crime Fighter
The Scientist in Western Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove—the scientists of film and fiction,...