University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
Quirks of the Quantum
Postmodernism and Contemporary American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Episodic and disconnected, much of postmodern fiction mirrors the world as quantum theorists describe it, according to Samuel Chase Coale. In Quirks of the Quantum, Coale shows how the doubts, misgivings, and ambiguities reflected in the postmodern American novel have been influenced by the metaphors...
Detached America
Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Detached America is the first book with a national scope to explore the design and marketing of postwar houses and shows how these homes physically document the presence of national trends in domestic space and record a remarkably uniform spatial evolution that can be traced throughout the country.
by Lois G. Schwoerer
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
This first book on England’s domestic gun culture uncovers the enormous effect the gun had on the social, economic, cultural and political lives of men, women, and children across the social spectrum from 1500 to 1740. Schwoerer explains how subjects responded to guns and how the government reacted...
The View from the Bench and Chambers
Examining Judicial Process and Decision Making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Combining in-depth interviews with U.S. courts of appeals judges with quantitative analyses of judicial decisions, the authors achieve a uniquely full and complex picture of the distinctive manner in which these politically important courts operate.
Skyscraper Gothic
Medieval Style and Modernist Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Of all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not only of height but also of boldness, scale, ingenuity, and daring. As a phenomenon born in late nineteenth-century America, it quickly became emblematic of New York, Chicago, and other major cities. Previous studies...
A Literary Guide to Washington, DC
Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation’s most acclaimed writers. From the city’s founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminaries including Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Henry Adams, Langston Hughes,...
Trump
The First Two Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
On the first anniversary of Donald Trump’s presidency, Michael Nelson, one of our finest and most objective presidential scholars, published Trump’s First Year, a nonpartisan assessment that was widely hailed as the best account of one of the most unusual years in presidential history. At the...
Structural Intuitions
Seeing Shapes in Art and Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
"All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge," wrote Albert Einstein. In Structural Intuitions, a fascinating exploration of the commonalities between two seemingly disparate realms, renowned art historian Martin Kemp applies Einstein's notion both to science and...
A Small Boy and Others
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Henry James was the final survivor of a remarkable family, and his memoir, written at the end of a long and tireless career, was prompted initially by the death of his "ideal Elder Brother," the psychologist and philosopher William James. A Small Boy and Others recounts the novelist’s...
Richard Potter
America's First Black Celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and...
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934) was one of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn of the twentieth century, a moment when the amateur pursuit of gardening and the increasingly professionalized landscape design field were beginning to diverge. This intellectual...
Foreign Trends in American Gardens
A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern...
The Cowboy Capitalist
John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For more than a century, the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid...
The Best Read Naturalist"
Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. "The Best Read Naturalist" fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson’s lesser-known pieces of nature writing in conversation...