Boydell Brewer: 336 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
With a colorful history that spans 450 years, the violin has proven to be one of the world's most important and versatile instruments. Addressed to performing musicians, serious concertgoers, and collectors of recordings, The Violin offers insightful, up-to-date essays on a wide range of topics. Essays...
Manhood Enslaved
Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries. The book contributes...
The Antivaccine Heresy
Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in fact that states had to make vaccination compulsory. In response, antivaccination societies formed all over the United States, lobbying state legislatures and bringing lawsuits...
Sex Ed, Segregated
The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Against the backdrop of the Progressive Era, World War I, and the 1920s, sex education burgeoned in the United States through institutions like the YMCA, the popular press, girls' schools, and the US military. As access to sexual knowledge increased, reformers debated what the messages of a sex-education...
Out in Africa
Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same-sex desire in a pan-African context from the nineteenth century to the present. Reaching back to early...
Jane Austen
Two Centuries of Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from her works enjoy strong box-office success. The trajectory of Austen criticism is intriguing, especially...
by Sabine Köllmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This companion to the work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication to literature goes hand in hand with his commitment as a public intellectual,...
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man
Learning a New Master Narrative for America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience. The book begins with an autobiographical narrative of the events leading...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we discover that these problems have found universal expression in the works of...
Magnetic North
Conversations with Tomas Venclova
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat's classic My Century. Taking the form of an extended interview with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, the book interweaves Eastern European postwar...
American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice
Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Wittgenstein wrote that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry." American poetry has long engaged questions about subject and object, self and environment, reality and imagination, real and ideal that have dominated the Western philosophical tradition since the Enlightenment....
The Blue Stain
A Novel of a Racial Outcast
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Hugo Bettauer's The Blue Stain, a novel of racial mixing and "passing," starts and ends in Georgia but also takes the reader to Vienna and New York. First published in 1922, the novel tells the story of Carletto, son of a white European academic and an African American daughter of former slaves, who,...
by Scott Peeples
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Controversies abound in studies of Edgar Allan Poe. From the time of his death well into the twentieth century, partisans debated the issue of his character: was he an alcoholic? drug addict? pathological liar? necrophile? In the 1920s and 30s, psychoanalytic critics sought to divorce the study of...
The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema
Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such...