Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Unclaimed Experience
Trauma, Narrative and History
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
"If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic...
Monstrous Motherhood
Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Although credited with the rise of domesticity, eighteenth-century British culture singularly lacked narratives of good mothers, ostensibly the most domestic of females. With startling frequency, the best mother was absent, disembodied, voiceless, or dead. British culture told tales almost exclusively...
Mexico's Evolving Democracy
A Comparative Study of the 2012 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
In 2012, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)—which had governed Mexico with an iron grip for 71 years before being ousted in 2000—was surprisingly returned to power. In Mexico's Evolving Democracy, a team of distinguished political scientists delivers an exceptional analysis of the remarkable...
The Intentional Brain
Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Neuropsychiatry has a distinguished history, yet its ideals and principles fell out of fashion in the early twentieth century as neurology and psychiatry diverged into separate disciplines. Later, neuropsychiatry reemerged as the two disciplines moved closer again, accelerated by advances in neuroanatomy,...
The Fairy Way of Writing
Shakespeare to Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In The Fairy Way of Writing, Kevin Pask seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeare’s plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase "fairy way of writing" to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis...
Common Core
National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most controversial pieces of education policy to emerge in decades. Detailing what and when K–12 students should be taught, it has led to expensive reforms and displaced other valuable ways to educate children. In this nuanced and provocative...
Democracy in East Asia
A New Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In their introduction to the 1998 edition of Democracy in East Asia, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner predicted that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of political regimes, economies, and religions, would likely be the most critical arena in the global struggle for democracy, a prediction...
Lure of the Arcane
The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations—drama, romance, epic, novel, opera—down to the thrillers...
The Age of Analogy
Science and Literature between the Darwins
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed several epic poems and scientific treatises, while...
by Bartholomew Brinkman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print, Bartholomew Brinkman argues that an emerging mass print culture conditioned the production, reception, and institutionalization of poetic modernism from the latter part of the nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century—with lasting...
Reductive Reading
A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
What is to be gained by reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch from an Excel spreadsheet, or the novels of Charles Dickens through a few hundred dialogue tags—those he said/she saids that bring his characters to life? Sarah Danielle Allison’s Reductive Reading argues that the greatest gift the computational...
Wild Equids
Ecology, Management, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Wild horses, zebras, asses, and feral equines exhibit intriguing and complex social structures that captivate the human imagination and elicit a wide range of emotions that influence conservation and management efforts. This book, spearheaded by Jason I. Ransom and Petra Kaczensky, brings together...
Let There Be Enlightenment
The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin, Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphasizing...
Constituting Federal Sovereignty
The European Union in Comparative Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Starting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F. Goldstein examines the...