Based on the authors PageBarbour lectures, delivered at the University of Virginia in 2005, The Conversation of Humanity critically examines the idea that the nature...
This ninth volume of a projected twelve continues the series of William James's correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues that was begun in Volume 4....
The chief event of the period is the publication of the longawaited Principles of Psychology, which produced congratulatory and critical letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes,...
Consisting of some 572 letters, with another 460 calendared, this tenth volume in a projected series of twelve offers a complete accounting of William Jamess...
This eleventh volume of a projected twelve continues the series of William Jamess correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues that began with volume 4. Consisting...
Through its critical examination of novels by Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Sherley Anne Williams, Octavia Butler, John Edgar Wideman, Phyllis Perry, Ishmael Reed, Caryl Phillips,...
In The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson, James Axtell brings together essays by eight leading historians and one historically minded political scientist to examine the...
Today, when 'globalization' is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its...
What constitutes reading? This is the question William McKelvy asks in The English Cult of Literature. Is it a theory of interpretation or a physical...
A fundamental component of Britains early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloatit helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed...
In this groundbreaking book, Barbara Leah Harman convincingly establishes a new category in Victorian fiction: the feminine political novel. By studying Victorian female protagonists who...
In The Flirtation Plots Of Novels By Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront, And W. M. Thackeray, Heroines Learn Sociability Through Competition With Naughty Coquettedoubles. In The...
In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront, and W. M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquettedoubles. In the...
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In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twentyfirst century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the 'selfconscious Anthropocene,' a...
For many common people, the American Revolution offered an opportunity to radically reimagine the wealth and power structures in the nascent United States. Yet in...
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature. In Refiguring the Map of Sorrow, Mark Allister brings these two...
Reflections of Loko Miwa is th first novel for Lilas Desquiron, one of few Haitian women writers to gain international recognition. The country's complex social...
ReviewThis is a brilliant and original book. I am impressed with the depth and seriousness of Taylor's work and the clarity by which he accomplishes...
Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia provides a new interpretation of the rise of evangelical Christianity in the early American South by reconstructing...
For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of our understanding of religious liberty...
This stunning collaboration between the noted garden writer Nancy Ross Hugo and the photographer Robert Llewellyn showcases the fruits of an effort begun in 2004...
Nineteenthcentury periodicals frequently compared themselves to the imperial powers then dissecting the globe, and this interest in imperialism can be seen in the exotic motifs...
Rome Reborn on Western Shores examines the literature of the Revolutionary era to explore the ways in which American patriots employed the classics and to...
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repatriation of human...
Philip Rieff earned recognition as one of the most profound social theorists of culture and authority of the twentieth century. Through such works as Freud:...
Savage Systems examines the emergence of the concepts of 'religion'and 'religions' on colonial frontiers. The book offers a detailed analysis of the ways in which...
Savage Systems examines the emergence of the concepts of 'religion'and 'religions' on colonial frontiers. The book offers a detailed analysis of the ways in which...