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  • Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-century American Literature

    Crash and Burn

    by Jennifer Travis ...
    Nineteenth-Century Americans saw danger lurking everywhere: in railway cars and trolleys, fireplaces and floods, and amid social and political movements, from the abolition of slavery to suffrage. After the Civil War, Americans were shaken by financial panic and a volatile post-slave economy. They were awe-struck and progressively alarmed by technological innovations that promised speed and ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Wounded Hearts

    Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture

    by Jennifer Travis ...
    The literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century. Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, Jennifer Travis suggests a new approach to reading emotionalism among men. She argues that the vocabulary of injury, with its evaluations of victimhood and its ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Boys Don't Cry?

    Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.

    Edited by Milette Shamir, Jennifer Travis ...
    We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This collection of essays by prominent literary and cultural critics rethinks such commonly held views by ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Gender in American Literature and Culture

    Edited by Jennifer Travis, Jean M. Lutes ...
    Series series Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
    Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Teaching with Digital Humanities

    Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Jennifer Travis, Jessica DeSpain, Nicole N Aljoe, Elizabeth Argentieri, Blair Best, Tisha M Brooks, Madeleine (Maddie) G Cella, Benjamin J Doyle, Amy E Earhart0, Duncan Faherty1, Eric Gardner2, Ella L Gill3, Clayton Grimm4, Cynthia L Hallen5, Molly O'Hagan Hardy6, Elizabeth Hopwood7, Teagan Rabuano8, Ashley Reed9, Lawrence G Richardson0, Augusta Rohrbach1, Victoria K Sprowls2, Catherine Waitinas3, Ed White4 ...
    Series series Topics in the Digital Humanities
    Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain present a long-overdue collection of theoretical perspectives and case studies aimed at teaching nineteenth-century American literature using digital humanities tools and methods. Scholars foundational to the development of digital humanities join educators who have made digital methods central to their practices. Together they discuss and illustrate how digital ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Teaching through the Archives

    Text, Collaboration, and Activism

    by Katherine E. Tirabassi, James P. Beasley, Jennifer Enoch, Travis Maynard, Ellen Cecil-Lemkin, Megan Keaton, Shirley K Rose, Robert Spindler, Glenn Newman, Jenna Morton-Aiken, Robert A. Schwegler, Erin Brock Carlson, Michelle McMullin, Jonathan Buehl, Tamar Chute, Laura Kissel, Laura Proszak, Ellen Cushman, Michael-John DePalma, Janice W. Fernheimer, Sarah M. Dorpinghaus, Beth L. Goldstein, Douglas A. Boyd, Courtney Rivard, Jeanne Law Bohannon, Shiloh Gill Garcia, Michelle S. Hite, Tiffany Atwater, Holly A. Smith, Andrea Jackson Gavin, Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Katherine H. Adams, Lisa Mastrangelo, Lisa Shaver, Associate Professor Jane Greer, BA, MA, PhD, Associate Professor Patricia A. Sullivan ...
    Disruptive pedagogies for archival researchIn a cultural moment when institutional repositories carry valuable secrets to the present and past, this collection argues for the critical, intellectual, and social value of archival instruction. Graban and Hayden and 37 other contributors examine how undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, history, community literacy, and professional writing ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Beer Culture in Theory and Practice

    Understanding Craft Beer Culture in the United States

    by Adam W. Tyma, Michelle Calka, Robert Andrew Dunn, Charley Reed, Emory S. Daniel, Jr., Travis R. Bell, Jennifer C. Dunn ...
    Series series Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
    Beer culture has grown exponentially in the United States, from the days of Prohibition to the signing of HR 1337 by then-President Jimmy Carter, which legalized homebrewing for personal and household use, to the potential hop shortage that all brewers are facing today. This expansion of the culture, both socially and commercially, has created a linguistic and cultural turn that is just now ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • I Am Beautiful

    by Travis Ruso Milton ...
    I Am Beautiful is a cool uplifting book that puts a lot of emphasis on discrimination in all shapes and forms to let the world know that everyone is beautiful in spite of their differences. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    An Introduction to Research Methods

    by Joyce Kinkead ...
    Researching Writing is an accessible, informative textbook that teaches undergraduates how to conduct ethical, authentic research in writing studies. The book introduces students to the research approaches used most often and offers a course framework for professors creating or teaching research courses themselves.Author Joyce Kinkead lays out the research process, including finding and defining ... Read more

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  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

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  • Covering

    The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

    by Kenji Yoshino ...
    A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have covered our true selves. . . . We really do feel ... Read more

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  • Black Looks

    Race and Representation

    by bell hooks ...
    In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk ... Read more

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