Washington Irving's Critique of American Culture argues that Irving offers not only a critique of a culture losing rootedness, but also positive multi-cultural vision of world citizenship in the new Republic. American Romantic art contemporary to Irving sheds light on his critique and positive vision of what America could be.
Contains essays that focus on how Woolf's public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels. This book includes personal narratives that trace the experience of reading Woolf through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. It provides lesbian interpretations of novels, including Orlando, The Waves, and The Years.
Deals with Virginia Woolf's lesbianism. This title focuses on how Woolf's private and public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels.
"I wish to cause no pain, except where it is deserved." -- Peter Ustinov The legendary Peter Ustinov was one of the world's most versatile and talented contributors to the arts. Ustinov's talents were widely demonstrated both in print and on television. It has been said that reading Ustinov is like listening to a good story told by an old ......
Gathers almost twenty years of New York City's smartest and most explosive-as well as hard to find- writing, providing an indispensable archive of one of the most exciting artistic scenes in U.S. History.
Gathers almost twenty years of New York City's smartest and most explosive-as well as hard to find- writing, providing an indispensable archive of one of the most exciting artistic scenes in U.S. History.
Presents some of the emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the long nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, this book responds to critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field.
Presents some of the emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the long nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, this book responds to critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field.
Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be "made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested and controlled. Examining scientific and literary ......
