The Aesthetics of Senescence
(January 2020)
Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel Andrea Charise - Author
Argentine Intimacies
(November 2019)
Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 Joseph M. Pierce - Author
Reconciling Nature
(November 2019)
Literary Representations of the Natural, 1876-1945 Robert M. Myers - Author
Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.
Reconciling Nature maps the complex views of the environment that are evident in celebrated American novels written between the Centennial Celebration of 1876 and the end of the Second World War. During this period, which includes the Progressive era and the N...(Read More)
Authorized Agents
(October 2019)
Publication and Diplomacy in the Era of Indian Removal Frank Kelderman - Author
An Ethic of Innocence
(September 2019)
Pragmatism, Modernity, and Women's Choice Not to Know Kristen L. Renzi - Author
Forms of Disappointment
(September 2019)
Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War Lanie Millar - Author
Analyzes parallel developments in post-Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.
In Forms of Disappointment, Lanie Millar traces the legacies of anti-imperial solidarity in Cuban and Angolan novels and films after 1989. Cuba’s intervention in Angola’s post-independence civil war from 1976 to 1991 was its longest and...(Read More)
Cub Reporters
(August 2019)
American Children's Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age Paige Gray - Author
Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.
Cub Reporters considers the intersections between children’s literature and journalism in the United States during the period between the Civil War and World War I. American children’s literature of this time, including works from suc...(Read More)
Romantic Vacancy
(August 2019)
The Poetics of Gender, Affect, and Radical Speculation Kate Singer - Author
Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.
Romantic Vacancy argues that, at the cult of sensibility’s height, Romantic writers found alternative tropes of affect to express movement beyond sensation and the body. Grappling with sensibility’s claims that sensation could be translated into ideas and emotions, poets of vacancy rewrote core empiricist philosophies that trapped women ...(Read More)
Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.
The first major social revolution of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase (1910–21) and the subsequent years of reconstruction (1921–40). Offering a sweeping and compelling new account ...(Read More)
