Bloody Women combines irreverence, an encyclopedic knowledge of film and the filmmaker’s craft, scholarly acuity, and a sense of humor. The contributors have buried the misogynistic stereotype of the horror genre. More than just another academic reading of pop culture, Clarke and McCollum have offered a gift to fans and a love letter to the women who shaped the genre.
— W. Scott Poole, Department of History, College of Charleston
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The vastly outsized role of Christians in Chinese political and social activism has presented a persistent puzzle. This timely volume provides the most revealing and wide-ranging answer to date. Highly recommended.
— Xi Lian, David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity, Duke Divinity School
Although she aspired to be a citizen of the world, Charlotte Smith spent her entire literary career as a displaced person constantly on the move and fixated on the anomalies of her status. In Placing Charlotte Smith, a set of uniformly insightful and incisive essays concentrate on the acute sense of place Smith cultivated as a marker across her disparate productions in poetry and prose. In its large compass and its refined erudition, this important volume reminds...
Bird Box was more than just a popular Netflix film, it was a global phenomenon. Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to shed light on the ways the film connected with social anxieties around disability, community, technology, and other issues. This volume provides invaluable insights into not only Bird Box but also the broader trend of apocalyptic horror in the 21st century.
— Kendall R. Phillips,...
An important contribution to our understanding of the writer, the era, and, most significantly, the place: the Osage hills of Oklahoma. Michael Snyder has uncovered lost gems of John Joseph Mathew’s work and offers them in extraordinary bites, accompanied by his own interstitial essays that illuminate backstory and sociohistorical context. Coupled with his biography John Joseph Mathews: Life of an Osage Writer, this book affirms Snyder’s place as a significant...
In this scrupulously edited and carefully annotated collection of over 150 letters, Harriet Kramer Linkin brings to life the world of Irish author Mary Tighe. These letters reveal an intimate and often playful network of family, friends, and fellow writers in the two decades before the Regency. Tighe could be frank in her letters about difficult topics, from managing a dangerously intoxicated friend to fending off sexual harassment or describing the grisly details...
Scott offers a comprehensive and objective look at the Wesley Mission. His emphasis on personal relationships and professional interactions captures the complex nuances of this endeavor, and his close examination of this event in its time and place makes this book an important contribution to the literature of colonial Georgia.
— Julie Anne Sweet, professor of History, Baylor University
Brad Baumgartner’s Weird Mysticism moves with freedom through three modern heretics: the irreal hell of Thomas Ligotti, the impossible purgatory of Georges Bataille, and the pessimal paradise of E. M. Cioran. The music that emerges is a quiet friendly imperative to laugh in the face of the void and an indelible new vision of the inevitable impossibility of writing itself.
— Nicola Masciandaro, Professor of English at Brooklyn College (CUNY)
This is a brilliant book, whose scope ranges beyond literary criticism, even as it excels at it. Coffman combines luminous close-reading with well-digested, comprehensive theoretical background to analyze the way very different writers address the colonial past and pre-conquest history, questioning the often unacknowledged preconceptions that still underlie our contemporary views. . . . This critical reprise of how writers revise their mythologized, national,...
John William Knapp's study of Addison and hymnic verse is lucid, learned, and important. It reminds us of the great value of a wrongly neglected author's achievements in a wrongly neglected genre.
— Howard D. Weinbrot, University of Wisconsin, Madison
In this volume, illuminating essays by both preeminent authorities and up-and-coming scholars persuasively challenge prevailing concepts of cultural exchange, its conditions, and results, applying a broad spectrum of methods from German and British literary studies, comparative and translation studies, biography, and computational text analysis.
— Waltraud Maierhofer, professor of German, University of Iowa
The collection brings together a brilliant series of interrelated essays by international scholars on the most pressing questions to be asked about The Seasons today: What kind of work is it, georgic, loco-descriptive, or a novel hybrid amalgam of poetic kinds? How should it be compared to the other long poems that come before and after it? How does the poem reconfigure the animal and vegetable world into an expression of plenitude at once religious and erotic?...
Case Method and the Arabic Teacher provides an outstanding research-based resource for methodology classes and other Arabic teacher training programs.
— Wafa Hassan, Director of the STARTALK Arabic Teachers' Program, Director of the Arabic Language and Culture Program at Global Educational Excellence, and Director of the Michigan Arabic Teachers' Council
[The Civil War] period is understudied in women’s suffrage history, being explained away as the time women suspended their women’s rights work to further the war effort – but only if it was fought to end slavery. This manuscript gives a face to that analysis, it fleshes it out and personalizes it. It is as though we are sitting beside Matilda Joslyn Gage as she reads the newspapers, pointing out and reading aloud to us the articles that she sees as most important...
For those already beguiled by the “footnote world,” Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry will deepen that enchantment. At the same time, Edson’s collection represents an interesting challenge to literary historians; partly in its conceptual and methodological familiarity and partly for the draw of its “quirky particularism,” it offers a model of literary history that not only opens onto a network of eclectic nodes, but one that might be well-positioned in a...
A landmark treatment of eighteenth-century Scottish print and literature, introducing the micro-history of book-illustration to the area.
— Gerard Carruthers, Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow
This is a well-done volume . . . . The contextual information is both detailed and useful because the author is interested in Howell as both a Civil War officer and as young man coming of age . . . . Researchers will find some gems, and general readers will appreciate how Scythes has managed to effectively tell the story of this young man and his comrades.
—George C. Rable, Professor Emeritus, the University of Alabama
James Plath is one of the premier authorities on John Updike's work and days. Professor Plath's earlier book, Conversations with John Updike, is the most quoted book in Updike studies. I have no doubt that Native Son: John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews will be equally invaluable to our understanding of the great and complex writer.
— Donald J. Greiner, Carolina Distinguished Professr of English, Emeritus, University of South Carolina
Davis's highly readable, well-researched book offers a fresh view of Austen's final complete novel by placing the work's discussion of liberty and personal freedom within the context of Enlightenment philosophical debates and religious traditions deeply rooted in the past. Literary scholars and laypeople alike will find much to admire in Davis's careful reading of Persuasion.
— Roger Moore, Vanderbilt University
Lucas Murrey has produced a visionary adaptation of the Nietzschean Dionysiac to illuminate the dysfunctionality of twenty-first century capitalism.
--Richard Seaford, University of Exeter
Published as the inaugural volume in the author’s series Studies in Text and Print Culture at Lehigh University Press, this interdisciplinary and profusely illustrated monograph sheds light on an iconographic corpus that is as broad as it is complex: visual representations of James Thomson’s poem The Seasons. . . . Steeped in literary and book-historical theories, the refined prose of this monograph is surprisingly readable, and the wealth of illustrations...
[T]his books paints a vivid picture of the musical world of nineteenth-century Russia and shows how profoundly the domestic-built piano influenced that world. English-speakers can be grateful that Swartz, fluent in Russian, has brought us closer to understanding a world hitherto unknown to Westerners. I hope this book will be a springboard for further research on many fronts.
--American Musical Instrument Society
The editors have done a terrific job commissioning essays from a wide range of international scholars who combine expertise on the works of Edgar Allan Poe with intelligent thinking about translation and reception in their own cultural and literary contexts. This book is a model for what can be done when translation studies and comparative and world literature studies come together productively so that the shaping power of translation in individual literatures is...
Supported by an exhaustive list of sources, the author persuasively shows that the Klan was extremely active in the area. Relying heavily on newspaper accounts and trial records, he explains that the Klan’s early emphasis on almost theatrical gestures (going masked to churches or civic meetings to present checks, burning crosses on hills, holding large parades) allowed it to rapidly attract members, especially a surprisingly high percentage of young men. . . ....
[This book] provides new perspectives on how esoteric religion moved internationally in the nineteenth century. In particular, it sheds new light on the exchange of the philosophies of Britain with both Germany and France. . . . It belongs on the bookshelves of anyone interested in Western Esotericism.
--Lori Lee Oates, University of Exeter
Marvin Lewis makes a determined case for including Adalberto Ortiz in the literary canon of Latin American and diasporan studies. His study encompasses the major genres in Ortiz’s literary production, with detailed analysis of individual works in each genre. . . .[R]eaders come away with a very good grasp of the major outlines, thematic content, and trajectory of Ortiz’s work.
--Arthur Hughes, Ohio University, Research in African Literatures
Melville scholars have long been fascinated and challenged by just how deeply the author of Moby-Dick pondered and drew on the traditions of Buddhism. Certainly none have worked that vein with the knowledge and alert commitment Daniel Herman now brings to the question. Zen and the White Whale compellingly, deftly, and wittily argues Buddhism close to the center of Melville's imaginative span.
--Vincent O'Sullivan, Victoria University of Wellington
Poe’s Pervasive Influence is the long-awaited collection that grew out of the Third International Poe Conference in 2009, sponsored by the Poe Studies Association to celebrate the bicentennial of Poe’s birth. [Its] essays have a freshness that warrants the careful attention of those drawn to the international scope of Poe’s work—as well as to Poe’s potential to influence more generally. . . . The volume coheres in a way that is rare for published proceedings,...
Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America offers a brilliant reading of a crucial, if largely overlooked, event in early American law and medicine. Myrsiades’s deft handling of sources and her trenchant analysis of the 1799 Rush-Cobbett trial offer new insight into freedom of the press, the medical marketplace, the legal system, and the politics of the early republic.
--Marcia D. Nichols, University of Minnesota Rochester
Rousseau's study of Sir John Hill is a once-in-a-lifetime treasure; beautifully told, splendidly illustrated, and painstakingly researched. John Hill comes alive in Rousseau's hands. Every page is invigorated with the kind of richness and depth only a true scholar musters. One of the true pleasures of the book is our ability to join Rousseau on the quest to find the answer to the question that began as 'Who was Sir John Hill?'
--Beverly Schneller, University...
This extraordinary volume is a magnificent addition to the new scholarship on Harriet Martineau....This work is strongly recommended, without reservation, for all college, university, and research libraries. Logan’s wide interdisciplinary scholarship, her obvious devotion to Harriet Martineau and the Victorian world in which she lived, and her uncompromising attention to accuracy are marvels to behold.
--Sociological Origins
Clarke's work is important research, in that hither to little know or largely forgotten histories have now been gathered together for the perusal, and benefit, of all. The work will be of interest to teachers and students of religious studies, Asian and Chinese history and cultural studies, amount others.
--Fr. Jeremy Clarke S.J., The Chinese Historical Review
Myers' exploration of Thomas Barton's life demonstrates the important and challenging work of Anglican missionaries on the colonial American frontier. Combining political intrigue, ecumenical outreach, and an intellectual pragmatism born from the marriage of Enlightenment ideals and frontier exigencies, James P. Myers' biography of Thomas Barton will undoubtedly prove both useful and entertaining to students of colonial Anglicanism and early American religious...
This is an excellent, comprehensive work….Out of Steam is a valuable reference work on the steam to diesel transition period, and students of motive power will want to own it.
--Railfan and Railroad
Each of the essays in Self, Community, World explores the fascinating paradoxes of a dynamic religious organization that both reflected and resisted the culture of the Enlightenment. It is a welcome contribution to the growing body of literature on the Moravians of the eighteenth century.
--Craig D. Atwood, Moravian Theological Seminary
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Music, Women, and Pianos is a thoughtful, thoroughly researched study of the Moravian Young Ladies’ Seminary and its status as a site for the musical education of young women in the early and mid-nineteenth century. Smith provides interesting analyses of the types of music that young women performed, the kinds of instruments that they had at their disposal, and the motivations, ideals, hopes, and anxieties of the schools’ founders, managers, teachers, and students...
