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Biblical Sterne: Rhetoric and Religion in the ShandyverseIs Laurence Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Ryan Stark recommends him as such, perhaps to the detriment of the parson's roguish reputation. The book's aim, however, is not to dispel roguishness but rather to discern the theological motives behind Sterne's comic rhetoric,...
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Writing Remains: New Intersections of Archaeology, Literature and ScienceWriting Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary studies. Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present, the book offers new approaches to understanding...
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Legislative Foundations of American Consumer Society: Regulation, Deregulation and Their Impacts from the 1930s to TodayThe current literature on consumerism is diverse, scattered, and unsystematic. This book remedies this by identifying the beginning of mass consumer society in the United States, starting with the New Deal. The New Deal framework of guaranteeing new home purchases by means of low...
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Escaping Nazi Germany: One Woman's Emigration from Heilbronn to EnglandCarefully piecing together the personal letters of Alice 'Liesel' Schwab, Escaping Nazi Germany tells the important story of one woman's emigration from Heilbronn to England. From the decision to leave her family and emigrate alone, to gaining her independence as a shop worker and...
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Unhomely Empire: Whiteness and Belonging, C.1760-1830This book examines the role of Scottish Enlightenment ideas of belonging in the construction and circulation of white supremacist thought that sought to justify British imperial rule. During the 18th century, European imperial expansion radically increased population mobility through the forging of new trade...
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A Lost Colony Hoax: The Chowan River Dare StoneOn November 8, 1937, a tourist from California named L. E. Hammond walked onto the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, carrying a 21-pound rock he had accidentally stumbled upon in North Carolina. The barely-legible inscription on the rock appeared to be a...
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Language of Ruin and Consumption: On Lamenting and ComplainingLaments and complaints are among the most ancient poetical forms and ubiquitous in everyday speech. Understanding plaintive language, however, is often prevented by the resentment and fear it evokes. Lamenting and complaining seems pointless, irreconcilable, and destructive. Language of Ruin and Consumption examines Freud's...
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Modernist Wastes: Recovery, Re-Use and the Autobiographic in Elsa Von-Freytag-Lorighoven and Djuna BarnesModernist Wastes is a profound new critical reflection on the ways in which women writers and artists have been discarded and recovered in established definitions of modernism. Exploring the collaborative auto/biographical writings of Djuna Barnes and the artist, poetic and Dada performer Baroness Elsa...
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Circling the Canon, Volume II: The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1995-2017One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume II focuses on the second half of her prolific career, showcasing reviews from 1995...
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New York's War of 1812: Politics, Society, and Combat Volume 71Popular memory of the War of 1812 caroms from the beleaguered Fort McHenry to the burning White House to an embattled New Orleans. But the critical action was elsewhere, as Richard V. Barbuto tells us in this clarifying work that puts the state of...
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Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century NovelIn this book, Octavio R. Gonz lezrevisits the theme of alienation in the twentieth-century novel, identifying an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile, or marginalization from both majority and home culture. This misfit modernist aesthetic decenters the mainstream narrative of modernism--which...
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The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevolutionary France, 1814-1848This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Jimmy Carter and the Restoration of Presidential DignityThe office of the President of the United States was plagued by scandals in the early 1970s. When Jimmy Carter ran for office in 1976, the nation was still struggling to process the Vietnam War and Watergate. Questionable presidential decisions prolonged a quagmire in...
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The Vibrant House: Irish Writing and Domestic SpaceThis collection of short memoirs and critical essays explores the relation between home as metaphor and symbol, and home as a physical, material and spatial entity. In the first section, 'Our house, ' Colette Bryce, EilÃ? ?Ã? (c)an NÃ? ?Ã? - ChuilleanÃ? ?Ã? in,...
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Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East GermanyThis book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and...
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Super Bomb: Organizational Conflict and the Development of the Hydrogen BombSuper Bomb unveils the story of the events leading up to President Harry S. Truman's 1950 decision to develop a "super," or hydrogen, bomb. That fateful decision and its immediate consequences are detailed in a diverse and complete account built on newly released archives...
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Escape from Cuba: Personal Accounts of Those Who Fled Castro's Regime In 1959, Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba after overthrowing the government of Fulgencio Batista. In response, thousands of Cubans fled the island, mostly to the United States. This book tells the stories of these Cubans in exile, all of whom overcame great...
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The Mayor of Shantytown: The Life of Father James Renshaw CoxFather James R. Cox became the voice of Pittsburgh's poor and jobless during the worst years of the Great Depression. Long lines of needy people were showing up daily at St. Patrick's Church in the city's historic Strip District but Cox turned no one...
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The League That Didn't Exist: A History of the All-American Football Conference, 1946-1949The All-American Football Conference was the only challenger to the NFL (except for the American Football League of the 1960s) to survive more than two seasons in competition with the established league. It ultimately failed to achieve its goal of a peaceful coexistence with...
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Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet ThawUkrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. He argues that film-makers working at the...
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