Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Telling Stories
The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples...
Germany's War and the Holocaust
Disputed Histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
"While attempts to come to terms with past catastrophe... can help prevent its recurrence, they may also provide arguments for... actions against the real or imagined perpetrators of previous disasters. The confrontation with... catastrophe can help us understand the roots and nature of this century's...
The Devil
A New Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
"Although the Devil still 'lives' in modern popular culture, for the past 250 years he has become marginal to the dominant concerns of Western intellectual thought. That life could not be thought or imagined without him, that he was a part of the everyday, continually present in nature and history,...
The Political Unconscious
Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Fredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context. He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a supplement...
History and Its Limits
Human, Animal, Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme...
by Robert B. Westbrook
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction that "democracy is freedom" but also to realize his democratic ideals through political activism. Widely considered modern America's most important philosopher,...
Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores
Common Law and Common Folk in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans...
Mere Equals
The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Mere Equals, Lucia McMahon narrates a story about how a generation of young women who enjoyed access to new educational opportunities made sense of their individual and social identities in an American nation marked by stark political inequality between the sexes. McMahon's archival research into...
by Dominick LaCapra
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In 1857, following the publication of Madame Bovary, Flaubert was charged with having committed an "outrage to public morality and religion." Dominick LaCapra, an intellectual historian with wide-ranging literary interests, here examines this remarkable trial. LaCapra draws on material from Flaubert’s...
Under the Black Umbrella
Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence of those who endured under the "black umbrella"...
Scenes of Sympathy
Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettle Victorian ideologies of identity. Situating these representations within the context of Victorian visual culture, and offering new readings of key works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth...
Fleas, Flies, and Friars
Children's Poetry from the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at meals,...
Staging Harmony
Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
In Staging Harmony, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change across England's long sixteenth century moved religious discourse to more moderate positions. It did so by reproducing the complex personal attachments, nostalgic overtones, and bodily...
The Theban Plays
"Oedipus the Tyrant"; "Oedipus at Colonus"; "Antigone"
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The timeless Theban tragedies of Sophocles—Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone—have fascinated and moved audiences and readers across the ages with their haunting plots and their unforgettable heroes and heroines. Now, following the best texts faithfully, and translating the key...