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Mad Travelers
Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses
Hacking, Ian"It all began one morning last July when we noticed a young man of twenty-six crying in his bed in Dr. Pitre's ward. He had just come from a long journey on foot and was...
Rivers in Russian Literature
Ziolkowski, Margaret Rivers in Russian Literature focuses on the Russian literary and folkloric treatment of five rivers—the Dnieper, Volga, Neva, Don, and Angara. Each chapter traces,...
Back from the Far Field
American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century
Quetchenbach, Bernard W.Many poets writing after World War II have found the individual focus of contemporary poetics poorly suited to making statements directed at public issues and public ethics....
Activism and the American Novel
Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color
Romero, ChannetteSince the 1980s, many activists and writers have turned from identity politics toward ethnic religious traditions to rediscover and reinvigorate their historic role in...
Unnatural Frenchmen
The Politics of Priestly Celibacy and Marriage, 1720-1815
Cage, E. ClaireIn Enlightenment and revolutionary France, new and pressing arguments emerged in the long debate over clerical celibacy. Appeals for the abolition of celibacy were couched...
Sites of Southern Memory
The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray
O'Dell, DarleneIn southern graveyards through the first decades of the twentieth century, the Confederate South was commemorated by tombstones and memorials, in Confederate flags, and in...
Form and Fable in American Fiction
Hoffman, DanielCombining the disciplines of folklore and literary criticism in his perceptive readings of works by Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, and Mark Twain, Daniel Hoffman demonstrates how...
The Correspondence of William James
William and Henry July 1899-1901
James, William, Skrupskelis, Ignas K., Berkeley, Elizabeth M.This ninth volume of a projected twelve continues the series of William James's correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues that was begun in Volume 4. Consisting of...
Male Armor
The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture
Adams, Jon RobertThere is no shortage of iconic masculine imagery of the soldier in American film and literature—one only has to think of George C. Scott as Patton in front of a giant American...
Best New Poets 2012
50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Dickman, MatthewEntering its seventh year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of...
Evangelical Gothic
The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula
Herbert, Christopher Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel....
Paradise Dislocated
Morris, Politics, Art
Skoblow, Jeffrey Paradise Dislocated offers a radical rereading of William Morris's neglected masterpiece, The Earthly Paradise. While most critics have seen this poem as the...
Be It Ever So Humble
Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class Home
MacKenzie, Scott R.Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty...
Women Fight, Women Write
Texts on the Algerian War
Mortimer, MildredToday, the "fight to write"—the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one’s own story—is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of...
Genre Theory and Historical Change
Theoretical Essays of Ralph Cohen
Cohen, Ralph, Rowlett, John L.Ralph Cohen was highly regarded as the visionary founding editor of New Literary History, but his own theoretical essays appeared in such a scattering of publications...
The Ladder of High Designs
Fenoaltea, Doranne, Rubin, David LeeThis collection of essays on the structure and interpretation of the French lyric squence marks a number of tentative signposts for future travlers along this relatively...
Story Line
Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail
Marshall, IanMany hikers on the Appalachian Trail take books as companions, in spite of the extra weight in their packs, but Ian Marshall carries the habit to new literary, ecological, and...
The Bourgeois Interior
Brown, Julia PrewittFrom Robinson Crusoe’s cave to Henry Selwyn’s hermitage, the domestic interior tells a story about "things" and their relation to character and identity. Beginning with a...
Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature
Solitary Adventures
Acquisto, Joseph[Book description not available]
The Alchemy of Conquest
Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World
Bauer, RalphThe Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical...
Written on the Water
British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture
Baker, SamuelThe very word "culture" has traditionally evoked the land. But when such writers as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and, later, Matthew Arnold...
Citoyennes
Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in EighteenthCentury France
Smart, Annie[Book description not available]
Best New Poets 2008
50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Strand, MarkThe only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems included in this...
The Correspondence of William James
William and Henry 1856-1877
James, William, Skrupskelis, Ignas K., Berkeley, Elizabeth M.This volume begins a new series: William James's correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues, starting when William James was fourteen and on his second trip abroad and...