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Frontier Cities
Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century...
by Theodore Winthrop
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
"Heterosexuality, this novel forthrightly claims, is a poor substitute for passionate love between men—and heterosexuality's historical emergence in the nineteenth century is consequently, Cecil Dreeme laments, a grave misfortune."—Christopher Looby, from the Introduction
Freshly...
The Queen's Dumbshows
John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
No medieval writer reveals more about early English drama than John Lydgate, Claire Sponsler contends. Best known for his enormously long narrative poems The Fall of Princes and The Troy Book, Lydgate also wrote numerous verses related to theatrical performances and ceremonies. This rich yet understudied...
Of Gardens
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Paula Deitz has delighted readers for more than thirty years with her vivid descriptions of both famous and hidden landscapes. Her writings allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive travels, from the waterways of Britain's Castle Howard to the Japanese gardens of Kyoto, and home again...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
"Would there have been a Renaissance without translation?" Karen Newman and Jane Tylus ask in their Introduction to this wide-ranging group of essays on the uses of translation in an era formative for the modern age. The early modern period saw cross-cultural translation on a massive scale....
Parrot Culture
Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
After completing his conquest of the Persian empire, Alexander the Great maneuvered his army across the Hindu Kush and into India. During his two years there, he traveled from dry frigid mountains to humid tropical lowlands and then back across one of the most punishing deserts on the planet. He fought...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High-...
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians
Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.
At the...
Abraham in Arms
War and Gender in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which he urged his listeners to remember that "Hence it is no wayes unbecoming a Christian to learn to be a Souldier." The title of Nowell's sermon was well chosen. Abraham of the Old...
Mall Maker
Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are routinely criticized for representing much that is wrong in America—sprawl, conspicuous consumption, the loss of regional character, and the decline of Mom and...
Deans and Truants
Race and Realism in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the...
After Augustine
The Meditative Reader and the Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical...
Sea-Brothers
The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with...
Fairy Godfather
Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another...