Lehigh University Press: 75 books
Zen and the White Whale
A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In Moby-Dick’s wide philosophical musings and central narrative arch, Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism. In exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered influence, Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Updike remains both a critical and popular success; however, because Updike asked that his personal letters not be published the only way that Updike scholars and fans can read more of the author’s candid and insightful remarks is to revisit some of the many interviews he granted—most of which...
by Kathryn E. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion is a meditation on Persuasion as a text in which Jane Austen, writing in the Age of Revolution, enters the conversation of her epoch. Poets, philosophers, theologians and political thinkers of the long eighteenth century, including William Cowper, George Gordon...
Jane Austen and the Arts
Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, Harmony presents Jane Austen as a self-conscious artist, a woman keenly aware that literature and aesthetics were to play an important role in the education and development of British society. The scope of the book is interdisciplinary and international,...
The Indian Ladies' Magazine, 1901–1938
From Raj to Swaraj
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book examines the varied influences and accomplishments of the Indian Ladies’ Magazine, the first Indian magazine established and edited by an Indian woman—Kamala Satthianadhan—in English, written by women, for women. Influences include Victorian, Edwardian, and Modern literature and culture...
Poe and the Idea of Music
Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Edgar Allan Poe often set the scenes of his stories and poems with music: angels have the heartstrings of lutes, spirits dance, and women speak with melodic voices. These musical ideas appear to mimic the ways other authors, particularly Romanticists, used music in their works to represent a spiritual...
Creative Habitat Restoration
Comprehensive Planning, Implementation, and Long-Term Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This electronic-book provides a comprehensive examination of the systems approach to habitat restoration. The approach includes methods for the thorough planning necessary to restore, implement, and maintain both structural and functional aspects of natural habitats on previously disturbed sites....
The Life of Pennsylvania Governor George M. Leader
Challenging Complacency
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The Life of Pennsylvania Governor George M. Leader tells the story of George Michael Leader who, at 36, was the second youngest governor ever elected to the office and served from 1955 to 1959. His chances of being elected were tenuous at best: Democrats never fared well in pursuit of the Governor's...
The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System
A Worker-based Model for Community Investment
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System: A Worker-based Model for Community Investment articulates a new model for economic security based upon steelworkers’ pension provisions and labor politics after World War II. Labor’s collective bargaining agreements created interdependent commitments...
War and Occupation in China
The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937–1938
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in 1937-1938, these letters by an American missionary in Hangzhou provide a vividly detailed, first-hand account of the spread of war from Shanghai across the Yangzi valley and the subsequent ordeals of military occupation seen against...
Making African Christianity
Africans Reimagining Their Faith in Colonial South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Making African Christianity argues that Africans successfully naturalized Christianity. It examines the long history of the faith among colonial Zulu Christians (known as amaKholwa) in what would become South Africa. As it has become clear that Africans are not discarding Christianity, a number of...
by Theodore Hailperin
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The present study is an extension of the topic introduced in Dr. Hailperin's Sentential Probability Logic, where the usual true-false semantics for logic is replaced with one based more on probability, and where values ranging from 0 to 1 are subject to probability axioms. Moreover, as the word 'sentential'...
Humanism and Style
Essays on Erasmus and More
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Clarence Miller's Humanism and Style: Essays on Erasmus and More provides an illuminating and circumstantial engagement with the important works of two great humanists, especially their masterpieces, The Praise of Folly and Utopia. He shows how they were deeply influenced by the very medieval world...
Nietzsche
The Meaning of Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
In this book, author Lucas Murrey argues that the thinking of the modern German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1944–1900) is not only more grounded in antiquity than previously understood, but is also based on the Dionysian spirit of Greece which scholars have still to confront. This book demonstrates...