Since the turn of the century, the opportunity to design a city nestled in a subtropical garden has attracted the nation's preeminent planners to St. Petersburg. The most ambitious plan was developed
New edition of a guide to the terminology and history of feminist theory. Succinct definitions of a wide range of terms and topics are presented, including accounts of key issues relating to the famil
From the rise of Nazism to the conflict in Kashmir in 2008, nationalism has been one of the most potent forces in modern history. Yet the motivational power of nationalism is still not well understood
In Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Jill Galvan and Elsie Michie bring together top Victorian scholars to scrutinize nineteenth-century marriage in incisive ways. The volu
Arij Ouweneel’s Resilient Memories: Amerindian Cognitive Schemas in Latin American Art takes a cognitive approach to the mediation of collective memory by works of art. In looking at cultural producti
In Somebody Telling Somebody Else, James Phelan proposes a paradigm shift for narrative theory, a turn from viewing narrative as a structure to viewing it as a rhetorical action in which a teller
Addressed to both classicists and students of modern culture, Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home traces theOdyssey’s central theme of homecoming in a wide range of narratives fro
Fatwas and Court Judgments: A Genre Analysis of Arabic Legal Opinion uses a genre analysis approach to investigate how Arabic legal opinion is linguistically and rhetorically constructed in two cultur
Chronicles the forty-year history of the gorilla program at the Columbus Zoo, a program dedicated to the preservation of the endangered western lowland gorilla, from the first birth of a captive goril
In Syphilis: Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France, Deborah Losse examines how images of syphilis became central to Renaissance writing and reflected more than just the rap
A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative offers a collection of foundational essays introducing the reader to the full scope of unnatural narrative theory: its meaning, its goals, its extent, its paradoxes. T
Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature establishes how the longing to recover a lost home or past drove some of the central conflicts of the nineteenth-ce
A well-researched exploration of feminism in the midwest illuminates the contributions of ordinary women in the movement from the 1970s to the present. (Social Science)
This collection of primary source documents traces the evolution of Ohio's Western Reserve from the early days of exploration to the eve of the Civil War. The documents, which come from the archives o
Set in 17th-century Puritan New England, this story of illicit passion, guilt and punishment revolves around the beautiful and mysterious Hester Prynne. She is condemned to wear a scarlet letter as a
Interspersed among the wide assortment of month-by-month recipes (the vodka penne is outstanding), are poems, memories, and thoughts to ponder while waiting for the water to boil. Young, author of eig
