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Alice in Space
The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. Few consider, however, that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a moment of intense intellectual upheaval, as...
Camera Orientalis
Reflections on Photography of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light—making...
by David Ikard
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression. Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs investigates the tenacity and cultural capital of white redemption narratives in literature...
Ambiguities of Domination
Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen’s groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. During the thirty-year rule of President...
The Mosaic Constitution
Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in The Mosaic Constitution, arguing that Moses’s constitution of Israel, which created people bound by the rule of law, was central to early modern writings about government and state.
Hammill...
Imaginary Cities
A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
For as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining—or shadowy—counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city itself, its inescapable gritty reality and elbow-to-elbow nature, demands we call into being some...
by Reginald Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways—guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry’s stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining...
Poetic Relations
Intimacy and Faith in the English Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a solitary search for God.
As Furey demonstrates,...
Themes out of School
Effects and Causes
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
In the first essay of this book, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a "willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think about, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ordinary human beings cannot help thinking about, or anyway...
by Michelle Karnes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
In Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period’s meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imagination in its technical, philosophical sense, taking...
Synthetic
How Life Got Made
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques,...
How We See the Sky
A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars—if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today’s casual observer knows far less about the sky than did our ancestors, who depended on the sun and...
Doña Barbara
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Rómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela’s first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela’s literary treasures, the novel Doña Barbara. Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers, Doña...
by Philip Hamburger
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Is administrative law unlawful? This provocative question has become all the more significant with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of Congress and the courts, the executive branch has increasingly...