Bucknell University Press: 205 books
Counterfeit Politics
Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to banish the “paranoid style” from the “proper” domain of politics. But if conspiracy theory lies outside the sphere of legitimate politics, why do...
The Self as Muse
Narcissism and Creativity in the German Imagination 1750-1830
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by examining various aspects of narcissism and their significance for the outpouring of creativity...
"Getting History Right"
East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? 'Getting History Right' examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. Eschewing a narrow focus on elites, this work draws extensively...
An American Teacher in Argentina
Mary Gorman’s Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
An American Teacher in Argentina tells the story of Mary E. Gorman who in 1869 was the first North American woman to accept President Domingo F. Sarmiento’s invitation to set up normal schools in Argentina, where she eventually settled. An ordinary historical actor whose life only sometimes enters...
John Eliot and the Praying Indians of Massachusetts Bay
Communities and Connections in Puritan New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This book traces the development of John Eliot’s mission to the Algonquian-speaking people of Massachusetts Bay, from his arrival in 1631 until his death in 1690. It explores John Eliot’s determination to use the Massachusett dialect of Algonquian, both in speech and in print, as a language of...
Lycoming College, 1812–2012
On the Frontiers of American Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Lycoming College, 1812-2012: On the Frontiers of American Education is the story of Lycoming College, a liberal arts and sciences college in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The College is one of the fifty oldest institutions of higher education in the nation and is the oldest that retains a relationship...
Anna Letitia Barbauld
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743*–*1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility...
by David J. Minderhout
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
This first volume in the new Stories of the Susquehanna Valley series describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay in northern Appalachia. Combining archaeology, history, cultural...
Postracial America?
An Interdisciplinary Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The concept of a “postracial” America —the dream of a nation beyond race — has attracted much attention over the course of the presidency of Barack Obama, suggesting that this idea is peculiar to the contemporary moment alone. Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study attempts to broaden...
by Jerónimo Arellano
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America rethinks the rise and fall of magical realism in Latin America in the light of the cultural history of the emotions, and in conversation with contemporary theories of the affects. It explores how twentieth-century magical realist narrative...
by Angèle Kingué
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Venus of Khala-Kanti is a tale of life-altering loss and mystical recovery. Set in an imaginary West African village that becomes a charming cul-de-sac, the unintended consequence of a national roadwork project gone awry, the story follows characters drawn with humor, irony, and empathy. The heart...
The Complicity of Friends
How George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson Encoded Herbert Spencer’s Secret
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
One of Victorian England’s most famous philosophers harbored a secret: Herbert Spencer suffered from an illness so laden with stigma that he feared its revelation would ruin him. He therefore went to extraordinary lengths to hide his malady from the public. Exceptionally, he drew two of his closest...
A Race Of Female Patriots
Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688–1745
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
A Race of Female Patriots argues that public-spirited women proliferated on the eighteenth-century British stage to catalyze an affective experience of political belonging, as dramatists imagined new forms of affiliation, allegiance, and loyalty suitable to the new British constitution established...
Global Romanticism
Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760–1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual...