University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
Primates in the Real World
Escaping Primate Folklore and Creating Primate Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
The opening of this vital new book centers on a series of graves memorializing baboons killed near Amboseli National Park in Kenya in 2009--a stark image that emphasizes both the close emotional connection between primate researchers and their subjects and the intensely human qualities of the animals....
by Geoff Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature, Geoff Hamilton charts the evolution of the fundamental concept of autonomy in the American imaginary across the span of the nation’s literary history. Whereas America’s ideological roots are typically examined in relation to Enlightenment...
Democracy's Muse
How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All the While Being Dead
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
In political speech, Thomas Jefferson is the eternal flame. No other member of the founding generation has served the agendas of both Left and Right with greater vigor. When Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the iconic Jefferson Memorial on the founder’s two hundredth birthday, in 1943, he declared the...
Jefferson's Body
A Corporeal Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
What did Thomas Jefferson look like? How did he carry himself? Such questions, reasonable to ask as we look back on a person who lived in an era before photography, are the starting point for this boldly original new work. Maurizio Valsania considers all aspects of Jefferson’s complex conception...
The Way of the Stars
Journeys on the Camino de Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Since medieval times, pilgrimages have been a popular religious or spiritual undertaking. Even today, between seventy and one hundred million people a year make pilgrimages, if not for expressly religious reasons, then for an alternative to secular goals and the preoccupation with consumption and...
Male Armor
The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
There is no shortage of iconic masculine imagery of the soldier in American film and literature—one only has to think of George C. Scott as Patton in front of a giant American flag, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, or Burt Lancaster rolling around in the surf in From Here to Eternity. In Male Armor,...
Radicals on the Road
The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
In the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered widely divergent and conflicting ideologies—socialist, conservative, male chauvinist, and feminist—and the major travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts. Evelyn Waugh was a declared conservative and fascist sympathizer; George...
Amelioration and Empire
Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Christa Dierksheide argues that "enlightened" slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as modern, cosmopolitan men with a powerful alternative vision of progress in the Atlantic world. Instead of...
Pathologies of Paradise
Caribbean Detours
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Pathologies of Paradise presents the rich complexity of anglophone Caribbean literature from pluralistic perspectives that contest the reduction of the region to Edenic or infernal stereotypes. But rather than reiterate the familiar critiques of these stereotypes, Supriya Nair draws on the trope of...
Sounding the Break
African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The idea of "world literature" has served as a crucial though underappreciated interlocutor for African diasporic writers, informing their involvement in processes of circulation, translation, and revision that have been identified as the hallmarks of the contemporary era of world literature. Yet...
Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature
From Alexis to the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean literature, Jeannine Murray-Román shows how a shared regional aesthetic emerges from the descriptions of music, dance, and oral storytelling events. Because the historical circumstances...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Over the course of the past decade, the behavioral analysis of decisions by the Supreme Court has turned to game theory to gain new insights into this important institution in American politics. Game theory highlights the role of strategic interactions between the Court and other institutions in the...
Composing Cultures
Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of culture...
Cities of Affluence and Anger
A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Providing a compact literary history of the twentieth century in England, Cities of Affluence and Anger studies the problematic terms of national identity during England's transition from an imperial power to its integration in the global cultural marketplace. While the countryside had been the dominant...