University Of Chicago Press imprint: 2653 books
by Jeffrey Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind? On one side of the debate are the Shakespeare lovers, the bardolatrists, who insist on Shakespeare’s timeless preeminence as an author. On the other side are the theater historians...
The Legal Epic
"Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England’s history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, The Legal Epic is the first book to situate the great poet and polemicist John Milton...
by Jonathan Ned Katz
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
“Heterosexuality,” assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building...
Seeking the Straight and Narrow
Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ideals—and that God will provide reliable paths toward them for those who fall short. Seeking the Straight...
by Todd Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
The aftermath of Algeria’s revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked.
Sex, France, and Arab Men is a history of how and why—from the upheavals of French Algeria...
Living in the Stone Age
Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
In 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as “living, as it were, in the Stone Age.” For the most part, politicians and scholars have since learned not to call people “primitive,” but when it comes to the Papuans, the Stone-Age stain persists and for decades has been used to justify...
Singing in the Age of Anxiety
Lieder Performances in New York and London between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder—German art songs—was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s, so too did the songs of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf,...
The Danger of Romance
Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular romance and fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings,...
The Tango Machine
Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
In Argentina, tango isn’t just the national music—it’s a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn’t been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James Luker explores that odd paradox by...
Warhol's Working Class
Pop Art and Egalitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book explores Andy Warhol’s creative engagement with social class. During the 1960s, as neoliberalism perpetuated the idea that fixed classes were a mirage and status an individual achievement, Warhol’s work appropriated images, techniques, and technologies that have long been described as...
by Michael Taussig
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
“It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist’s dream.” So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the contemporary moment. But to what elixir does he refer?
Palm oil. Saturating...
Flavor and Soul
Italian America at Its African American Edge
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers—“The Colored Mario”—all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur Puff Daddy dubbing himself “the Black Sinatra,”...
Gogo Breeze
Zambia’s Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy over the airwaves and dispenses advice on a wide variety...
Death Be Not Proud
The Art of Holy Attention
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche thought that philosophy could learn a valuable lesson from prayer, which teaches us how to attend, wait, and be open for what might happen next. Death Be Not Proud explores the precedents of Malebranche’s advice by reading John Donne’s...