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Love's Argument
Gender Relations in Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Novy demonstrates how the plays are theatrical transformations of tensions in both ideals and practices in Renaissance society. Analyzing the dramatic images of lover and beloved, of husband and wife, of parent and child, Novy examines the ways in which the conflicts are resolved in the comedies and...
by Shawn C. Smallman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
For more than half a century, the Brazilian army used fear and censorship to erase aspects of its history from public memory and to create its own political myths. Although the military had remarkable success in promoting its version of events, recent democratization has allowed scholars access to...
Serpent in Eden
H. L. Mencken and the South
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The appearance in 1920 of H. L. Mencken's scathing essay about the intellectual and cultural impoverishment of the South, "The Sahara of the Bozart", set off a firestorm of reaction in the region that continued unabated for much of the next decade. In Serpent in Eden, Mencken scholar Fred...
The Search for Form
Studies in the Structure of James's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This volume is a study of the structure of certain of James's works, as well as a search for the structural principles that inform James's fiction and lie behind the technical dicta of his essays and prefaces. It also develops the thesis that most of James's structures are determined by logical and...
Written/Unwritten
Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color around the country make clear that departments and administrators discriminate in ways that range from unintentional to malignant. Stories abound of scholars--despite impressive records of publication,...
by Henry Samuel Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In this first detailed examination of Varieties of Religious Experience, Levinson locates James securely in the academic study of religion, demonstrates James's debts to Darwin, and reconstructs the case for the supernatural that James thought so critical to his work. The author discusses the contribution...
The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry
War and Politics, 1910-1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin. When World War I disrupted the supply of German chemicals to the United States, American entrepreneurs responded to the shortages and high prices by trying to manufacture chemicals...
Chasing Phantoms
Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Although a report by the congressionally mandated Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism concluded that biological or nuclear weapons were very likely to be unleashed in the years soon after 2001, what Americans actually have experienced are relatively...
The Cursillo Movement in America
Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or "short course in Christianity," founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasizing...
The German Influence in France after 1870
The Formation of the French Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Mitchell believes that the history of the French Third Republic remains incomplete until one understands the German impact on France after the Franco-Prossian War. As the French groped unsteadily toward a redefinition of their national identity, they were constantly under the influence of the victorious...
Black Votes Count
Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black Mississippians' battle for...
Mapping Diaspora
African American Roots Tourism in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Brazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research as well as textual, visual, and archival sources, Patricia de Santana Pinho investigates...
Searching for Subversives
The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions. Several thousand aliens and a few U.S. citizens were arrested and underwent flawed hearings, and hundreds were interned. Shedding new light on an injustice...
Search for Security
Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Miller shows how the American stake in Saudi Arabian oil challenged the United States to create closer ties with the Saudi kingdom, compelling the move from isolation to involvement with the Middle East. He describes the growing awareness of the stratehic importance of Saudi Arabia, U.S. shrinking...