This volume examines the literatures of the Caribbean from an ecocritical perspective. Written by international academics, poets, and novelists, the 18 essays consider the multifaceted relationship be
Language and silence have usually been understood as opposites and assigned different values, but which one is positive and which negative? When people equate silence with suppression or repression, t
Examines Auden's commentaries written for documentary films, photographs he published in his documentary travelogues, and his juxtapositions of poetry, prose, and photographs, in the context of the in
Perkins (philosophy, U. of Maryland-College Park) explores Jane Austen's revision and reversal of sexual stereotypes and argues that her first published novel embodies her most sustained effort at cor
In Performatively Speaking, Debra Rosenthal draws on speech act theory to open up the current critical conversation about antebellum American fiction and culture and to explore what happens when write
For the eight hundredth anniversary of the Magna Carta, the University of Virginia Press presents the first paperback edition of The Road from Runnymede by A. E. Dick Howard, originally published in
Four hundred years ago in the tidewater forests of Virginia, native and foreign peoples clashed, and the resulting alloy became an American Identity. This is the story of a few remarkable people whose
Examines commentary written in the margins of the text to show how the pages of the first printed books became the arena for struggled among authors, readers, and cultural authorities. Focuses on four
The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesth
Those who would increase and consolidate power in the presidency often invoke the wartime administration of Wilson. However, Tucker (American diplomacy emeritus, Johns Hopkins U.) points out that this
In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At
"In Death Lamented: The Tradition of Anglo-American Mourning Jewelry" illustrates and explains prime examples of rings, bracelets, brooches, and other pieces of mourning jewelry from the 17th, 18th, a
Focusing on the long poems written between the Restoration and the mid-18th century by Marvell, Dryden, Pope, Young, Glover, Dyer, and Thomson, Kaul (whose scholarly affiliations are not given) descri
Originally published in 1930, this biography of Lucy Stone presents a portrait of the woman, of the movements of which she was a part, and of her abolitionist and feminist ideology. It tells of her to
In Writing Home, Mary Suzanne Schriber offers the first comprehensive analysis of the large body of U.S. women's travel literature written between the pre-Civil War years and World War I.Examining alm
Nineteen political scientists, historians, lawyers, statisticians, and sociologists address the origins and evolution of the Civil Rights Act, its consequences in several different policy domains, and
This book brings together the work of pioneering scholars in the field- critics who are exploring the psychosexual tensions within Bishop's vision and the uncanny way her poetics of dislocation challe
Edited by Robert A. Rutland and Thomas A. MasonPresidential style is an important attribute for holders of the nation's highest office, but the first volume of James Madison's presidential papers indi
