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Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved GeorgiansWINNER: 2022 Award for Excellence in Documenting Georgia's History, Georgia Archives HONORABLE MENTION: Georgia Author of the Year, Georgia Writers AssociationSeen/Unseen is a vivid portrait of the complex network that created, held, and sustained a community of the enslaved. The hundreds of men and...
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An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest AfricaAt the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements catered to the erotic gaze of imperial enthusiasts with images of Ovaherero girls, and youth magazines allowed children to escape into "exotic domains" where...
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Philanthropy in Children's Periodicals, 1840-1930: The Charitable ChildDrawing on a wealth of material from children's periodicals from the Victorian era to the early twentieth century, Kristine Moruzi examines how the concept of the charitable child has been defined through the press. Charitable ideals became increasingly prevalent at a time of burgeoning...
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The Korean War Novel: Rewriting History from the Civil War to the Post-Cold WarThe Korean War Novel examines the ways that novels written by Korean and Asian American writers have represented the Korean War. By studying the ideological contours of works by Richard E. Kim, Ahn Junghyo, Susan Choi, Ha Jin, Choi In-hun and Hwang Sok-yong, it...
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Queer Books of Late Victorian Print CultureQueer books, like LGBTQ+ people, adapt heteronormative structures and institutions to introduce space for discourses of queer desire. Queer Books of Late-Victorian Print Culture explores print culture adaptations of the material book, examining the works of Aubrey Beardsley, Michael Field, John Gray, Charles Ricketts,...
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Futures of Enlightenment PoetryThis book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new...
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Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, GenresMakiko Minow coined the phrase 'lesbian modernism' in 1989. Since then, scholars of lesbian modernism have produced crucial work to critique and expand the modernist canon. At the same time, there has been ongoing critical debate about what constitutes a lesbian modernist text, who...
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Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of MotionSince the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on class, race, gender, nations, and mobility. But, beyond depicting migration, is it possible for migrant literature to be a force of movement itself?...
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Cinematically Transmitted Disease: Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi GermanyPropaganda played an essential role in influencing the attitudes and policies of German National Socialism on racial purity and euthanasia, but little has been said on the impact of medical hygiene films. Cinematically Transmitted Disease explores these films for the first time, from their...
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Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban ModernityBen Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of a single system he calls 'invisible architecture'. Resisting narratives of the nineteenth-century as progressing from concealment to...
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The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional TruthIs emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenized self, encouraged to comply only with accepted moral beliefs. Similarly, when emotional truth is made the primary value of literature, literary texts...
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Hemingway and Agamben: Finding Religion Without GodMarcos Antonio Norris implements Giorgio Agamben's notion of 'secularized theism' to resolve a critical disagreement among Hemingway scholars who have portrayed the writer as either a Roman Catholic or a secular existentialist. He argues that Hemingway is, properly speaking, neither a secularist nor a...
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The Provincial Fiction of Mitford, Gaskell and EliotAlthough Elizabeth Gaskell was influenced by Mary Russell Mitford, and George Eliot by Gaskell, only a small number of scholars have considered the affinities and resemblances among all three writers of provincial fiction, and none have done so in depth. Establishing a chain of...
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The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in History and Theory, Second EditionAn updated edition of this accessible critical reader, with additional chapters including an introduction that contextualises the rise of each theoretical perspective and draw links between them.Author: Anna Green, Kathleen TroupPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 08/31/2016Pages: 472Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dISBN:...
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After Liberation: Toward a Sociology of the Shoahselected EssaysH.G. Adler (1910-1988) was one of the founding figures of Holocaust scholarship whose monumental monograph Theresienstadt 1941-1945. The Face of a Coerced Community (1955; 1960) was the first study to present a fully documented account of the Final Solution. This collection gathers together, for...
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John F. Kennedy's Hidden Diary, Europe 1937: The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk Lemoyne BillingsPresenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy's tour of Europe, this volume offers insights into his early experiences on a continent under the shadow of Nazism. In 1937, while still a student, John F. Kennedy undertook a grand tour of Europe with his...
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German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Beyond TestimonyShows how Adler, Wander, Hilsenrath, and Klüger intertwine transgressive political criticism with the shadow of trauma, revealing new perspectives on canon formation and exclusion in postwar German literature. How did German-speaking Holocaust survivors pursue literary careers in an often-indifferent postwar society? How did their...
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Resistance and Its Discontents in South Asian Women's FictionResistance and its discontents in South Asian women's fiction examines the literary representation of a fascinating range of resistances enacted in response to various forms of oppression, and addresses the expectations, contradictions, anxieties and even inaction that resistance can generate, particularly for women.Author: Maryam...
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Preaching to Nazi Germany: The Pulpit and the Confessing ChurchPreaching to Nazi Germany explores the history of Confessing Church preachers' engagement with the Nazi regime through an analysis of their sermons. William Skiles argues that clergy expressed various messages that aimed to limit Nazi interference in church affairs and at times even to...
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Confiscating the Common Good: Small Towns and Religious Politics in the French RevolutionComprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolution's religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to such an extent that it precluded political democracy. It details two revolutionary dynamics that damaged the civic life of small towns: social polarisation and the...
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