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Conceiving Identities
(November 2013)
Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice
Kathryn M. Kueny - Author
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Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.
Conceiving Identities explores how medieval Muslim theologians appropriate a woman’s reproductive power to construct a female gender identity in which maternity is a central component. Through a close analysis of seventh- through fourteenth-century exegetical works, medical treati...(Read More) |
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Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls
(October 2009)
Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age
Sherrie Lynne Lyons - Author
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Explores the distinctions between science and pseudoscience.
Science permeates nearly every aspect of our lives, and yet, as current debates over intelligent design, the causes of global warming, and alternative health practices indicate, the question of how to distinguish science from pseudoscience remains a difficult one. To address this question, Sherrie Lynne Lyons draws on four examples from the nineteenth century—sea s...(Read More) |
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The Passionate Empiricist
(January 2009)
The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science
Marlana Portolano - Author
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Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science.
This book introduces readers to the role that classical oratory played in changing early American attitudes about pure scientific research. Marlana Portolano investigates the impact of John Quincy Adams’s oratorical campaigns on the origins of government-funded science in America, with a special focus on his classical theory of rhe...(Read More) |
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Victorian Fetishism
(January 2009)
Intellectuals and Primitives
Peter Melville Logan - Author
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Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.
Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals identified all “primitive” cultures with “Primitive Fetishism,” a psychological form of self-projection in ...(Read More) |
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Anxious Anatomy
(August 2008)
The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse
Stefani Engelstein - Author
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Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.
In Anxious Anatomy, Stefani Engelstein reconstructs the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century human body to offer startling new readings of major works by Goethe, Blake, Heinrich von Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. Engelstein links research on reproduction both to the ability of organisms such...(Read More) |
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Rachel Carson
(May 2008)
Legacy and Challenge
Lisa H. Sideris - Editor
Kathleen Dean Moore - Editor
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Leading scholars explore the full range and current significance of Carson’s work.
Long before Rachel Carson would become synonymous with environmental activism, she was a nature and science writer, penning The Sense of Wonder for children, and three books about the ocean and its inhabitants—including the bestselling The Sea around Us. Based solidly on science and written in beautiful prose, Carson&rs...(Read More) |
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Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine
(January 2008)
Peter L. Rudnytsky - Editor
Rita Charon - Editor
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Contributors explore the significance of literature and psychoanalysis for medical education and practice.
In this pioneering volume, Peter L. Rudnytsky and Rita Charon bring together distinguished contributors from medicine, psychoanalysis, and literature to explore the multiple intersections between their respective fields and the emerging discipline of narrative medicine, which seeks to introduce the values and methods of literary s...(Read More) |
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Cholera and Nation
(January 2008)
Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England
Pamela K. Gilbert - Author
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How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.
Drawing from sermons, novels, newspaper editorials, poetry, medical texts, and the writings of social activists, Cholera and Nation explores how the coming of the cholera epidemics during a period of intense political reform in Britain set the terms by which the social body would be defined. In part by historical accident, epidemic disease a...(Read More) |
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The Intelligence of Flowers
(November 2007)
Maurice Maeterlinck - Author
Philip Mosley - Translation and introduction by
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Winner of the 2008 Prix de la Traduction Littéraire presented by French Community of Belgium
A new translation of one of Maeterlinck’s four great nature essays.
“The republication of Maurice Maeterlinck’s ‘The Intelligence of Flowers,’ regrettably forgotten in our time, is long overdue. The introduction by Mosley is itself a gem, and contains one of the best overviews in print of writings abou...(Read More) |
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Excavating Victorians
(November 2007)
Virginia Zimmerman - Author
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How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.
Excavating Victorians examines nineteenth-century Britain’s reaction to the revelations about time and natural history provided by the new sciences of geology and archaeology. The Victorians faced one of the greatest paradigm shifts in history: the bottom dropped out of time, and they had to reinvent their relationship to the earth and to time ...(Read More) |
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