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“molly farrell”

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  • New World Calculation

    The Making of Numbers in Colonial America

    by Molly Farrell ...
    Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of racial capitalism incited a struggle about what exactly a number is and what it can do.When English settlers began colonizing Indigenous lands, they confronted groups of people with very different ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Best Contemporary Women's Fiction

    Six Novels

    by Elizabeth Benedict, Jenna Blum, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Maggie O'Farrell, Ann Patchett ...
    Six novels in one volume by today's most outstanding female writers—includes The Magician's Assistant, Those Who Save Us, and more.From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto, to the multiple award-winning author of This Must Be the Place, this collection gathers a half-dozen top-notch literary talents in a treasure trove for fiction lovers. Included:Almost</st... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Counting Bodies

    Population in Colonial American Writing

    by Molly Farrell ...
    Quantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that today it appears ahistorical. Yet before the modern colonial era, there was neither a word for "population" in the sense of numbers of people, nor agreement that monarchs should count their subjects. Much of the work of naturalizing the view that people can be represented as ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    by Simon Gikandi ...
    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Settler Common Sense

    Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed.In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne ... Read more

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  • Disaffected

    The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Xine Yao ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
    In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Rhetorical Drag

    Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History

    by Carroll ...
    An innovative discussion of this unique genre of American literatureIn this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, author Lorrayne Carroll argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of these documents. This “gender impersonation” significantly shaped the authorial voice and complicated the use ... Read more

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  • Engendering Blackness

    Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence

    by Patrice D. Douglass ...
    Series series Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics
    In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to the structural predicaments facing Blackness in the present. Douglass contends that the sexual violability of slaves is often misappropriated by frameworks on sexual violence that privilege its occurrence as a ... Read more

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  • Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature

    by Matthias Klestil ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s ... Read more

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  • Impossible Witnesses

    Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

    by Dwight McBride ...
    Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Reading Children

    Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Patricia Crain ...
    Series series Material Texts
    What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in ... Read more

    $40.49 USD