Recent Faculty Publications
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Recent Faculty Publications |
Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches reflects the diversity of Anglo-American modernism, with essays on avant-garde, literary, political, regional, and African American little magazines. It also presents a diversity of approaches to these magazines: discussions of material practices and relations; analyses of the relationship between little magazines and popular or elite audiences; examinations of correspondences between texts and images; feminist modifications of the traditional canon or histories; and reflections on the emerging field of periodical studies. All emphasize the primacy and materiality of little magazines. With a preface by Mark Morrisson, an afterword by Robert Scholes, and an extensive bibliography of little magazine resources, the collection serves both as an introduction to little magazines and a reconsideration of their integral role in the development of modernism. |
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"This is a real little gem of a book—concise and yet remarkable in its breadth. Caroline Reitz makes a compelling, original argument for the imperial origins of detective fiction through readings of a range of texts written throughout the long nineteenth century. Setting out to show how the detective narrative "turned national concerns about the abuses of authority into a popular story about British authority in the contact zone of Victorian culture" (xiii), Reitz ... gives us not merely a new context for reading Doyle and detective fiction, but also a new way of reading and thinking about empire and identity in the nineteenth century. The argument makes a significant contribution to ongoing discussions about Victorian imperialism. The book, overall, is written with exemplary clarity and great argumentative verve." -- Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Victorian Studies
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"The revelations that Matteson provides us with, of souls alive in a time superficially quite unlike ours, never flag in interest. The story moves briskly from just before the century's beginning, in November 1799, when Bronson Alcott was born in a Connecticut hilltop farmhouse, all the way to 1888, near century's end, with Bronson's death in Boston in a home in Louisburg Square. The father's death was followed two days later by that of his famous daughter, Louisa May Alcott, beloved author of Little Women.....Matteson, a professor of English at John Jay College in New York City, tells his story so clearly and attractively that no previous acquaintance with the remarkable Alcott clan and their various, equally remarkable friends is needed to relish their world as he re-creates it." -- The Boston Globe |
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On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages “Allen has written the secret history of waste from the Ancient to the early modern world, and--dare I say it?--the hidden history of humankind’s relation to the anus. On Farting, in the line of Norbert Elias’s Civilizing Process or Erik Erikson’s Young Man Luther, begins small and spreads like wind to almost every area of personal, social, and even spiritual life in what is a truly original and significant work of cultural analysis. This is a book with a huge sweep--from the folklore of the fart, to popular and canonical literary works, to the upper reaches of Aristotle and Dante. Allen writes with such a combination of wit, imagination, and erudition that scholars will wonder, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ and the more general reader will be drawn towards a vision of the past that is lively, courageous, and profound.” -- R. Howard Bloch, Sterling Professor of French, Yale University |
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Erotic Coleridge "Erotic Coleridge charts Coleridge's prolific creation of love poems from early flirtatious verse to poems about marital incompatibility, the blank faces of young women fearing for their reputations, the exaltation of falling in love, the spoken and sung voices of women, the pain of jealousy, and late meditations on how to live with the waning of love. In his prose he responds to Parliamentary debates about punishing adulteresses and gives advice about how marriage can warp the soul. In his sensual exuberance and his ethics of reverencing the individuality of other persons, Coleridge attends closely to the lives of women." -- publisher's description
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Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Narratives "This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how contemporary American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States....For the first time, this book puts various subgenres of prison narratives into a dialogue, in order to demonstrate a polar dichotomy in the institutional and public discourses of criminality. On the one hand, these narratives tend to perpetuate stereotypic constructions of raced and gendered criminal identities. This tendency, however, is counteracted by additional aspects of the narratives that critique the racial, sexual, and class prejudice that has dominated authoritative representations of prison culture. Such critique offers a way of resisting the marginalization of prisoner subjectivity perpetuated by dominant representations inmate life." -- publisher's description
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The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History "In the most important work on the Brooklyn Bridge in "Absorbing and provocative. Richard Haw sells you the
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Belmondo Style WINNER OF PUBLISHING TRIANGLE'S 2005 AWARD FOR BEST GAY-THEMED NOVEL "You'll be dazzled by this tough, elegant, touching love story about a criminal father and his outcast son. Belmondo Style is a very rare thing indeed: a dark and violent novel punctuated by flashes of unexpected, incredible joy." -- Paul Russell, author of Boys of Life and Against the Animals "With its macho staccato language and riveting characters, this novel is all about mood and motion" -- Booklist |
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Teacher Training at Cambridge by Professor Mark McBeth and Pam Hirsch Although [Teacher Training at Cambridge] deals specifically with two important pioneers of the study of education--the first principals of the men's and women's teacher training colleges in Cambridge in the late 19th century--it also offers a broad acount of the history of education in Britain . . . Pulling off the rare trick of being scholarly and very readable, the book is ever mindful of the late Victorian context--a world dominated by social class, where the very word "education" had a wide variety of meanings, depending on which social stratum was being educated. Against this background the authors conclude: "Both their colleges opened opportunities for people, namely women and working-class men, who had been previously disenfranchised form higher education and professional employment." -- Gerald Haigh, The LondonTimes Educational Supplement, 30 April, 2004 |
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When Washington Was In Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams Introduction and Discovery by Professor Adam McKible "This lost epistolary novel of the Harlem Renaissance, originally serialized in The Messenger in 1925-1926, is slight in plot but deep in detail, an invaluable addition to period scholarship. Williams, the country's first professionally trained black librarian, aptly portrays the 1920s African-American high society of which he was a part....As a light-skinned man who refused to 'pass,' Williams had an abiding interest in intraracial tension, and the absence of white characters further dramatizes the issue....McKible's discovery is sure to provoke scholarship and discussion, and attract well-deserved attention." -- Publisher's Weekly
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Destiny's Daughters: 9 Voices of P. J. Gibson "When this new anthology by P.J. Gibson arrives in bookstores, black theatres, black studies departments, and community theatres across America will rejoice. I know I will! Gibson is a major voice in black theatre in particular and American theatre in general." -- Woodie King J., Producing Director, New Federal Theatre "P.J. Gibson writes of women with a passion and clarity that mesmerizes." -- Gloria Naylor, Author |
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Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women Edited by Margaret Mikesell Tabb and Adele Seeff This is the fourth in the series of proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland. This volume reflects the commitment of scholars to the exploration of early modern women's culture as recovered through images, literature, music, and archives of the period. In essays on "Stories," "Goods," "Faiths," and "Pedagogues," scholars from a wide variety of fields discuss the contributions that reveal early modern women's influence on the societal and cultural transformations in which they participated. Nearly thirty workshops from the conference are summarized, and these offer a detailed overview of current research in early modern women's studies. An introduction by Margaret Mikesell traces the development of the Attending to Early Modern Women symposia (1990-2000). -- publisher description
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Homoeroticism and Chivalry by Professor Richard Zeikowitz "[T]his is a very clever and enlightening study, the implications |
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Mainstreaming Edited by Professor Effie Papatzikou Cochran "Mainstreaming takes many forms in schools and programs around the world, but all mainstreaming efforts share a commitment to bringing language minority students into regular content classes with their native English-speaking peers. Mainstreaming entails teaching through and about a host culture while recognizing the heritage cultures and languages that learners bring with them. A key objective of mainstreaming is supporting the students as well as their mainstream teachers whose classes these international students eventually reach. Multiculturalism is an asset not a liability that makes classes richer and more complex, albeit more demanding, a challenge to be sure, but most assuredly not a negative one." -- from the editor |
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The Instruction of a Christen Woman by Juan Luis Vives Edited by Professor Margaret Mikesell (Tabb), Elizabeth Hageman, and Virginia Walcott Beauchamp "This edition of The Instruction of a Christen Woman is the first to provide the modern reader with the complete text of the single most influential book in Tudor England concerning women and how they should live their lives." -- publisher's description "With its thorough introductory materials and intelligently edited text, this work will be an important resource for scholars and students of religion and culture, as well as early modern England, gender history, and the history of education." -- review, Church History |
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Space and Place of Modernism: Little Magazines in New York
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Issues in Gender, Language and Learning, and Classroom Pedagogy |
Issues in Gender, Language and Learning, and Classroom Pedagogy Edited by Professor Effie Papatzikou Cochran and Mary Yepez "The intriguing articles in this volume explore the intricacies and intersections of language, multiculturalism, and gender in schools, offering the reader potent insights into how language (mis)shapes reality. Teachers who are intentional about their language are the same instructors who will likely be intentional about their teaching behaviors as well. Thoughtful teachers seek out female students who need this teacher initiative. This book speaks to the importance of teachers investing time and attention to insure that all students, including these quiet ones, participate in class." --David Sadker, American University |
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World Enough Boating down Nepali rivers, tracking rhinos on foot and on elephant back, seeing the "Buddha light" at dawn in Peru's Machu Picchu and from a sacred mountain peak in China, worshipping in the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa just after Tibet was opened to Westerners, and having a pistol pulled on him in Kabul just before Afghanistan and Iran were closed to Westerners by revolutions and wars. By camel in Rajahstan and Morocco, by elephant in Thailand and Nepal, by bike in Sri Lanka, paddleboat in Kashmir, yacht in Panama, motorcycle in Japan, jammed minivan in Java, rickshaw in Jaipur, by thumb in the US, horse in Mexico, water buffalo in India, and on foot everywhere and often, Dr. Charles Stickney invites you along on his travels--country-by-country--many of them several times over the years. -- from the book jacket |
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Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgeman, the Original Deaf-Blind
Girl WINNER OF THE MASSACHUSETTES BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION "This is an exciting, profound, highly readable narrative of the lives of a once-famous disabled child and her physician-mentor. Gitter's account illuminates the drama and tragedy of their relationship while brilliantly mirroring the social history of their times--and providing cautionary insights for our own." --Albert J. Solnit, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, and former Director of the Yale Child Study Center "Stimulating…a challenging mix of American history and unique biography that at times can wring the heart." --Kirkus Reviews |
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Building an Active College Vocabulary by Professor Patricia Licklider "Building an Active Vocabulary helps students develop their reading and writing vocabularies by showing new words in memorable contexts. Exercises ask students to use these new words in their writing and speaking. The text shows how to figure out the meaning of new words from contexts; how to use word parts; how to use a dictionary and a thesaurus efficiently and profitably; and how to improve writing through expanded vocabulary. The exercises in Building an Active Vocabulary are taken from college-level texts as well as “real-world” sources such as magazines and newspapers." -- publisher's description |
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Modernism, Mass Culture and the Aesthetics of Obscenity "This is an impressive book—elegantly conceived and suffused with intelligence. It looks at the history of pornographic and aesthetic discourses in Britain since the eighteenth century and seeks to explain why early-twentieth-century canonical writers were able to represent sexuality explicitly when only a few years earlier the Victorians considered such lusty representations patently pornographic....The book is meticulously researched and exceptionally well-documented, with clear, eloquently chiseled argumentation unusually strong in its logic and relatively free of obfuscating jargon." -- English Literature in Transition "Pease has produced a provocative book likely to stir some controversy in academic circles." -- Choice |
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Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life by Professor Jon-Christian Suggs "In Whispered Consolations, Jon-Christian Suggs examines the tradition of American law as it appears in African American literary life, from pre-Revolutionary murder trials to gangsta rap. This exciting approach changes our pictures of both American law and African American literature." -- from the book jacket "an important and creative study of a distinctively African-American legal consciousness" -- Law & Politics Book Review
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Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink, 1780-1830 "Anya Taylor opens Bacchus in Romantic England, her study of drinking in the literature of the Romantics, by demonstrating that alcohol was every bit as much of a problem during this period as in those immediately before and after. . . . As well as being a professor of English, Anya Taylor teaches in an alcohol and substance abuse programme, and she has put her knowledge and experience to good use in examining the careers of Romantic drunks. . . .extremely readable. . .fascinating." -- Times Literary Supplement "Judiciously argued and free from post-modern jargon, Taylor's study adds an important dimension to the understanding of British Romanticism." -- Choice
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Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa Edited by Professor Marie Umeh "I warmly commend Marie Umeh and Africa World Press... for putting out the most comprehensive and informative study every published so far on Flora Nwapa... [T]he international literary discourse on Flora [Nwapa] is opening up, not closing....[T]he ideas in her writing are universal and timeless...." -- Chukwuemeka Ike "This rich volume...suggests the wide ranging appeal and possibilities for study across many disciplines and cultures. The women...speak across physical boundaries to the realities of women's experiences around the world." --Flora Edouwaye S.Kaplan |
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"Black-Jewish Relations: A Social and Mythic Alliance" in Blacks and Jews on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Black-Jewish Conflict "The Black-Jewish conflict is constantly taking on new dimensions, and without effective strategies for intervention, a dismal state of relations between the two groups can only be expected to worsen. This contributed volume suggests a psychoanalytic approach to conceptualizing and resolving the complex emotional issues causing the conflict." -- from the book jacket |
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Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in a Violent Age "Letters for the Living takes up issues of violence in the lives of urban and rural college students and looks for possibilities of teaching composition as an act of peace making. In a semester-long project that linked Hurlbert's research writing class at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Blitz¹s freshman composition II class at John Jay College, these two groups of students researched and wrote about their neighborhoods and the neighborhoods of their interstate partners, and in many cases, what each learned about the other was shocking." --Refiguring English Studies |
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