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  • Situation Critical

    Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies

    Edición de Max Cavitch, Brian Connolly ...
    The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique. Bringing together essays by a diverse group of historians and literary scholars, editors Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly demonstrate that critique is about acknowledging that we are never simply writing ... Leer más

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  • Domestic Intimacies

    Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America

    Series series Early American Studies
    Although it is commonly thought that incest has been taboo throughout history, nineteenth-century Americans evinced a great cultural anxiety that the prohibition was failing. Theologians debated the meaning and limits of biblical proscription, while jurists abandoned such injunctions and invented a new prohibition organized around the nuclear family. Novelists crafted fictional tales of accidental ... Leer más

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  • Domestic Intimacies

    Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America

    Series series Early American Studies
    Although it is commonly thought that incest has been taboo throughout history, nineteenth-century Americans evinced a great cultural anxiety that the prohibition was failing. Theologians debated the meaning and limits of biblical proscription, while jurists abandoned such injunctions and invented a new prohibition organized around the nuclear family. Novelists crafted fictional tales of accidental ... Leer más

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  • First Dance: Venturing Deeper Into a Relationship with God

    First Dance is a true love story about God. Beyond “religious knowledge” about God, you will explore the depths of that first love, that first dance when you hold your partner so close that your hearts beat as one. No matter what you’ve been through—or are going through right now—you can get beyond your fear of intimacy and dive into the deep love relationship that God desires to have with you. ... Leer más

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    de 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, ... Leer más

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  • Writing Deafness

    The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American society. Krentz demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their ... Leer más

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  • Women's Irony

    Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories

    Series series Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
    In Women’s Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories,author Tarez Samra Graban synthesizes three decades of feminist scholarship in rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy to present irony as a critical paradigm for feminist rhetorical historiography that is not linked to humor, lying, or intention. Using irony as a form of ideological disruption, this innovative approach allows scholars to ... Leer más

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  • Impossible Witnesses

    Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing

    The American Example

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    During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay, and Charles Brockden Brown developed a set of formal tropes that countered, move for move, those ... Leer más

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  • Legal Rights

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    Edición de Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns ...
    Series series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood. The purpose of this volume is to clarify the subject of legal rights by drawing on both historical and philosophical legal scholarship to bridge the gap between these two genres--a gap that has divorced abstract and normative treatments of rights from an ... Leer más

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  • What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?

    The American Revolution in Education

    Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one day, the professor asked him, “Mr. Ramirez, what do you think?” The question, said Ramirez, changed ... Leer más

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  • Founded in Fiction

    The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States

    An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republic—one that challenges the “rise of the novel” narrativeWhat is the use of fiction? This question preoccupied writers in the early United States, where many cultural authorities insisted that fiction-reading would mislead readers about reality. Founded in Fiction argues that this suspicion made early ... Leer más

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