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  • Glove Affair

    My Lifelong Journey in the World of Professional Boxing

    by Randy Gordon ...
    Randy Gordon has spent over 40 years in the world of professional boxing, as a broadcaster, ring announcer, New York State’s athletic commissioner, editor of TheRing magazine, and host of SiriusXM Radio’s At the Fights. No one else has ever seen the sport from so many different angles and from such lofty seats.In Glove Affair: My Lifelong Journey in the World of Professional Boxing, Gordon ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Performance of Law

    Everyday Lawyering at the Intersection of Advocacy and Imagination

    by Randy Gordon ...
    This book considers how law is always enacted, or performed, in ways that can be analyzed in relation to fiction, theatre, and other dramatic forms.Of necessity, lawyers and judges need to devise techniques to make rules respond situationally. The performance of law supplements, or it extends the reach of, the law-as-written. And, in this respect, the act of lawyering is in many ways an ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Rehumanizing Law

    A Theory of Law and Democracy

    by Randy Gordon ...
    In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules. Although laws are created and interpreted in legislatures and courtrooms by individuals with very specialized knowledge, the practice and making of law is closely tied to other systems of knowledge. To emphasize this often downplayed connection, Rehumanizing Law examines the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin

    Edited by Janet Beer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and ... Read more

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  • The Body of Property

    Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession

    by Chad Luck ...
    What does it mean to own something? How does a thing become mine? Liberal philosophy since John Locke has championed the salutary effects of private property but has avoided the more difficult questions of property’s ontology. Chad Luck argues that antebellum American literature is obsessed with precisely these questions.Reading slave narratives, gothic romances, city-mystery novels, and a range ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens

    Edited by John N. Serio ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. The Introduction explains why Stevens is among the world's great poets and offers specific guidance on how to read and ... Read more

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  • Stephen Crane

    A Life of Fire

    by Paul Sorrentino ...
    With the exception of Poe, no American writer has proven as challenging to biographers as the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane’s short, compact life—“a life of fire,” he called it—continues to be surrounded by myths and half-truths, distortions and outright fabrications. Mindful of the pitfalls that have marred previous biographies, Paul Sorrentino has sifted through garbled ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Oracle and the Curse

    A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War

    by Caleb Smith ...
    Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown’s shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War.In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Family Money

    Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

    by Jeffory Clymer ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
    Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws. Authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnutt, to Lydia Maria Child ... Read more

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  • Slavery on Trial

    Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture

    by Jeannine Marie DeLombard ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    America’s legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal language to “try” the case for slavery ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law

    Edited by Michael A. McCann ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law takes the reader through the most important controversies and critical developments in law and U.S. sports. Over the course of 30 chapters, leading scholars explore this expanding and captivating area of law. The Handbook is the first book to gather dozens of perspectives on sports law controversies in the United States, and will be of interest to those ... Read more

    $143.99 USD