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Takes a look at the ways that the twentieth century reacted to and reimagined its predecessor. This work considers how the Victorian inheritance has been... Læs mere
With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial... Læs mere
Despite international human rights decrees condemning it, marriage by force persists to this day. In this volume, the editors bring... Læs mere
Since the appearance in print of her early poems over seventy-five years ago, the poetry of Janet Lewis has grown in quiet acclaim and popularity. Although she is better known as a novelist of historical fiction, her first and last writings were poems.
Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the... Læs mere