A product of the 'spiritual hothouse' of the Second Great Awakening, Spiritualism became the fastest growing religion in the nation during the 1850s, and one of the principal responses to the wi...więcej »
'The brain contains ten thousand cells,' wrote the poet Matthew Prior in 1718, 'in each some active fancy dwells.' In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, just as scientists began to better...więcej »
A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends that Robinson Crusoe c...więcej »
William James has long been recognized as a central figure in the American philosophic tradition, and his ideas continue to play a significant role in contemporary thinking. Yet there has never ...więcej »
While Jamestown and colonial settlements dominate narratives of Virginia's earliest days, the land's oldest history belongs to its native people. Monacan Millennium tells the story of the...więcej »
In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the 'self-conscious Anthropocene,' a period in which there is w...więcej »
Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men's clothing--from actresses on stage who showed their shapely legs to adv...więcej »
How do we understand memory in the early novel? Departing from traditional empiricist conceptualizations of remembering, Mind over Matter uncovers a social model of memory in Enlightenmen...więcej »
Despite their peaceful, bucolic appearance, the tree-lined streets of South African suburbia were no refuge from the racial tensions and indignities of apartheid's most repressive years. In A...więcej »
Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not ...więcej »
In Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies, John M. Belohlavek tells the story of women on both sides of the Mexican-American War (1846-48) as they were propelled by the bloody conflict to adop...więcej »
From Homer to Tim O'Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are carried by men. But women and children dispropo...więcej »
What is the impact of design on the forces that shape our contemporary reality?To what extent do contingencies of time and place shape our response?How does the discursive character of ...więcej »