This volume describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay in Northern Appalachia.
Secular Millenialism: The Train of Aesthetics from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler by... Læs mere
In Media Res is a collection of critical essays and creative works that wrestle with key issues in twenty-first-century popular... Læs mere
Sade’s Sensibilities examines a new and different Sade: one engaged with broader currents of Enlightenment feeling. In this volume, we recapture a historical Sade alongside a contemporary portrait of Sade as the consummate radical of the eighteenth century.
Drawing on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks... Læs mere
Macho Ethics: Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative makes a contribution to Latin American literary and cultural studies by scrutinizing heteronormative notions of authority and power in the narrative works of Latino-Caribbean authors.
This volume examines the philosophical, political, and personal convictions that informed Staël’s theory of the passions and... Læs mere
Toni Morrison’s wooded and verdant clearing, a central trope in her novel Beloved, is the model for this book. The collection is a distinctive review,... Læs mere
The book reviews the varied cultural accomplishments during the reign of Queen Anne (1702–1714), including scholarly essays on Anne, her patronage of the arts, coin collecting, poetry, poetical miscellanies, drama, hymns, music, and architecture.
Examining novels, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and collections of anatomical monstrosities, Origins Matter delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging notions of heredity for the conceptualization of selfhood.