(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009296731)
This book offers a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in the field of nineteenth-century American literary studies. It presents a wide range of new approaches to key topics such as Black studies, Latinx studies, disability, gender and sex...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009296731)
This book offers a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in the field of nineteenth-century American literary studies. It presents a wide range of new approaches to key topics such as Black studies, Latinx studies, disability, gender and sex...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Sep-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691249841)
An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacyFor more than three centuries, Americans have pursued strategies of security that routinely make them fe...Lasīt vairāk
In this book, American literature scholar Russ Castronovo investigates the concept of security through its origins in American culture, focusing on how security provides an organizing principle for collective life in ways that both enhance freedom a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Sep-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198824039)
An essential and field-defining resource, this volume brings fresh approaches to major US novels, poetry, and performance literature of the twentieth century. With sections on structures, movements, attachments, and imaginaries, this handbook...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Apr-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520358461)
Russ Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between Americas founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than b...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Apr-2022, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520307131)
Russ Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between Americas founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than b...Lasīt vairāk
1776 symbolizes a moment, both historical and mythic, of democracy in action. That year witnessed the release of a document, which Edward Bernays, the so-called father of public relations and spin, would later label as a masterstroke of propaganda....Lasīt vairāk
Rejected by nineteenth-century publishers for its sordid and shocking subject matter,Vandover and the Brute is a powerful novel of turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Written circa 1894-95 but published posthumously in 1914, Fr...Lasīt vairāk
Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda. Truth, clarity, and honesty were declared virtues of the period-but rumors, falsehoods, forgeries, and...Lasīt vairāk
How do we approach the rich field of nineteenth-century American literature? How might we recalibrate the coordinates of critical vision and open up new areas of investigation? To answer such questions, this volume brings together 23 original essays...Lasīt vairāk
Derived from the word to propagate, the idea and practice of propaganda concerns nothing less than the ways in which human beings communicate, particularly with respect to the creation and widespread dissemination of attitudes, images, and beliefs....Lasīt vairāk
How do we approach the rich field of nineteenth-century American literature? How might we recalibrate the coordinates of critical vision and open up new areas of investigation? To answer such questions, this volume brings together 23 original essays...Lasīt vairāk
A searing novel of social realism, Upton Sinclairs The Jungle follows the fortunes of Jurgis Rudkus, an immigrant who finds in the stockyards of turn-of-the-century Chicago a ruthless system that degrades and impoverishes him, and an indust...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2007, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226096285)
The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club. Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthe...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2007, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226096292)
The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club. Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthe...Lasīt vairāk
Russ Castronovo, Victor Strandberg, Barbara Ryan, Scott Andrews, David Bergman, Blake Allmendinger
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Mar-2005, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822366447)
This special issue of American Literature testifies that enactments of race, gender, class, sexuality, and region cannot be separated and considers the new questions that emerge when the commas between these constructs are erased and their intersec...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Jun-2002, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822329107)
For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy. They aim t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Jun-2002, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822329381)
For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy. They aim t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Sep-2001, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9780822327721)
Argues that the category of death was a central part of the concept of citizenship in the nineteenth-century U.S., and that the particular form of that construction functioned to naturalize white males as ideal citizens....Lasīt vairāk
