University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
Ideas to Live For
Toward a Global Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence. He asks whether such...
The Poetics of Poesis
The Making of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Examining novels written in nineteenth-century England and throughout most of the West, as well as philosophical essays on the conception of fictional form, Felicia Bonaparte sees the novel in this period not as the continuation of eighteenth-century "realism," as has commonly been assumed,...
The Eighteenth Centuries
Global Networks of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately connected...
Sucking Up
A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Suck-up. Ass-kisser. Brownnoser. Bootlicker. Lickspittle. Toadeater... Found in every walk of life, both real and imagined, sycophants surround us. But whether we grumble about sycophancy or grudgingly tolerate it as a price of getting along in a complex society, we rarely examine it closely. This...
Characters of Blood
Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six iconic men and women—Toussaint Louverture, Nathaniel...
Close Kin and Distant Relatives
The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The "black family" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called...
The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives
Exploring the Self and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Drawing on narratives from Martinique by Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Ina Césaire, and Patrick Chamoiseau, among others, Christina Kullberg shows how these writers turn to ethnography—even as they critique it—as an exploration and expression of the self. They acknowledge its tradition as...
Plotting Terror
Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2001
Is literature dangerous? In the romantic view, writers were rebels--Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of mankind"--poised to change the world. In relation to twentieth-century literature, however, such a view becomes suspect. By looking at a range of novels about terrorism, Plotting...
The Dynamics of Genre
Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books as much as one hundred to one. But although scholars have long known that writing for the vast periodical marketplace provided...
Flights of Imagination
Aviation, Landscape, Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In much the same way that views of the earth from the Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s led indirectly to the inauguration of Earth Day and the modern environmental movement, the dawn of aviation ushered in a radically new way for architects, landscape designers, urban planners, geographers,...
by Lyndal Roper
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies on trials, beliefs, and communal dynamics and instead...
Handcuffs and Chain Link
Criminalizing the Undocumented in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Handcuffs and Chain Link enters the immigration debate by addressing one of its most controversial aspects: the criminalization both of extralegal immigration to the United States and of immigrants themselves in popular and political discourse. Looking at the factors that led up to criminalization,...
Vigilant Faith
Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
In Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World, Daniel Boscaljon takes up the contemporary challenges to faith by skepticism and secularism. He proposes a model of faith for believers and unbelievers alike—a passionate agnosticism—that is rooted in a skeptical consciousness. Skepticism...
Personal Business
Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In recent years the analysis of the intersection of literature and economics has generated a vibrant conversation in literary and cultural studies of the Victorian period. But Aeron Hunt argues that an emphasis on abstraction and impersonality as the crucial features of the Victorian economic experience...