Fordham University Press imprint: 480 books

Hungary in World War II

Caught in the Cauldron

by Deborah S. Cornelius
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

The story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a much larger narrative—one that has never before been fully recounted for a non-Hungarian readership. As told by Deborah Cornelius, it is a fascinating tale of rise and fall, of hopes dashed and dreams in tatters. Using previously...

An American Heroine in the French Resistance

The Diary and Memoir of Virginia D'Albert-Lake

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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman’s heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe d’Albert-Lake during a visit to France in 1936; they married soon after. In 1943, they both joined the Resistance, where Virginia put her...

Voices of Italian America

A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology

by Martino Marazzi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

Voices of Italian America presents a top-rate authoritative study and anthology of the italian-language literature written and published in the United States from the heydays of the Great Migration (1880–1920) to the almost definitive demise of the cultural world of the first generation soon before...

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 are among the most important statements in American political history, dramatic struggles over the issues that would tear apart the nation in the Civil War: the virtues of a republic and...

Reading Descartes Otherwise

Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad

by Kyoo Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

Focusing on the first four images of the Other mobilized in Descartes’ Meditations—namely, the blind, the mad, the dreamy, and the bad—Reading Descartes Otherwise casts light on what have heretofore been the phenomenological shadows of “Cartesian rationality.” In doing so, it discovers dynamic...

Regard for the Other

Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde

by E.S. Burt
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2009

Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity...

The Rhetoric of Terror

Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror

by Marc Redfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom “9/11”: a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the unspeakable happened then) and a claim on our knowledge. In the first of the two interlinked essays...

Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh

A Secular Theology for the Global City

by Sharon V. Betcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013

Drawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidance for moving amidst the affective dynamics that animate the streets of the global cities now amassing around our planet. Here theology turns decidedly...

For Strasbourg

Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy

by Jacques Derrida, Pascale-Anne Brault, Michael Naas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

For Strasbourg consists of a series of essays and interviews about the city of Strasbourg and the philosophical friendships Jacques Derrida developed there over a period of some forty years. Written just months before his death, the opening essay, “The Place Name(s): Strasbourg,” recounts...

Ending and Unending Agony

On Maurice Blanchot

by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Published posthumously, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s only book entirely devoted to the French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003). The place of Blanchot in Lacoue-Labarthe’s thought was both discreet and profound, involving difficult, agonizing questions...

This Distracted Globe

Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature

by Karen Newman, Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach. The essays in this collection investigate the material stuff of the world in Spenser, Cary, and Marlowe; the sociable bonds of authorship, sexuality, and sovereignty in Shakespeare and others;...

The People's Right to the Novel

War Fiction in the Postcolony

by Eleni Coundouriotis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa. Coundouriotis argues that this genre, aimed more specifically at African readers than the continent’s better-known bildungsroman tradition, nevertheless makes an important intervention in global understandings of human rights. The...

Brooklyn Is

Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes

by James Agee, Jonathan Lethem
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012

For the first time in book form—a great writer’s classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn. In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished...

Human Rights, Inc.

The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law

by Joseph R. Slaughter
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of “world literature” and international human rights law are related phenomena. Slaughter argues that international...
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