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Literary analysis of the book of Judges examining it as an interconnected narrative, analyzing the purpose of each unit to the overall historiographical narrative and identifying other major themes.
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A biography of Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813–1884), a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper and life companion of the state’s abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
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English translations of Nahuatl and Maya religious texts, including sermons, catechisms, and confessional manuals. Includes commentary... Læs mere
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Examines the history of national identity in Ecuador from 1857 to 1946. Brings together recent work in rhetoric, visual culture, transnationalism, and Latin American studies to explore the different visions of indigenous people that circulated in speeches, periodicals, and art.
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Explores the place of friendship in helping French society and the political system recover from the upheaval of the Revolution. Examines the interdependence of public and private in post-revolutionary France, as well as the central role of women in political reconstruction.
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A collection of essays exploring the social, economic, and environmental elements of the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania.
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Studies the mythic hero Kluskap of the Mi'kmaw people of eastern Canada, along with a series of eighteenth-century treaties and an annual Mi'kmaw mission to... Læs mere
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Offers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through... Læs mere
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Examines the lives and religious commitments of the Philadelphia elite during the period of industrial prosperity that extended from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s.
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Examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, when literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes in England.
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Explores prayer as a rhetorical art, examining situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to the divine.
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Explores the life and work of Lydia Bailey, a leading printer in the book trade in Philadelphia from 1808 to 1861. Includes a list of almost nine hundred of her known imprints.