John Updike wrote about his home town of Reading in Berks County, Pennsylvania for much of his adult life, setting most of his early fiction and all of his award-winning novels in his home state. In N
In this book Ethel Waxham Love and her son, geologist David Love, tell the fascinating story of their family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early twentieth-century Wyoming. The interwea
Dolls and puppets can be viewed as the Freudian Uncanny, the Lacanian Other, the Kristevan Abject,and The Miniature and The Gigantic of Susan Stewart. The psychological implications of their creation
This is the first biography of the first American consul to serve the United States abroad and the first representative to successfully negotiate for America in North Africa.
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe’s Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts. Topics include the authority of t
As a young Democratic lawyer, Franklin L. Kury defeated the senior Republican in the House, and the patronage machine that supported him, to go on to be a leader in the enactment of significant reform
"Harriet Martineau is one of the most prolific and well-connected Victorian writers to have fallen off the literary map in the century following her death. This eclectic collection of letters ranges f
Out of Steam: Dieselization and American Railroads, 1920–1960 examines how and why American railroads embraced the diesel locomotive and abandoned steam. Highly regulated railroads were facing difficu
This book redefines identity within contemporary Judeo-Argentinean fiction through the transforming notion of Jewishness and national identity in Argentina. Abandoning traditional definitions, it anal
The book extends the development of probability logic—a logic using probability, not verity (true, false) as the basic semantic notion. The basic connectives "not," "and," and "or" are described in de
This study focuses on two critical figures in late eighteenth-century America—the physician Benjamin Rush and the journalist William Cobbett— as they clashed in one of the most important trials of pos
Queer Retrosexuality: The Politics of Reparative Return analyzes the cultural, theoretical, and political value of thinking about retrospection in conjunction with queerness. It historically grounds a
This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan
This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan
Harriet Martineau and the Irish Question features periodical articles that chart the course of economic and social progress in post-famine Ireland in terms of industry, public works, economy, and agri
