166 títulos para "University Of Virginia"
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Erotic Citizens
Dill, Elizabeth
978-0-8139-4339-8What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? Despite the sober republican ideals of the Enlightenment, the literature of America's early years speaks of unruly, carnal longings. Elizabeth Dill argues that the era's proliferation of texts about extramarital erotic intimacy man...
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New Continent of Liberty
Hamilton, Geoff
978-0-8139-4245-2The first book to chart autonomy's conceptual growth in Native American literature from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century, A New Continent of Liberty examines, against the backdrop of Euro-American literature, how Native American authors have sought to reclaim and redefine di...
33.05€ (31.78€ sin IVA) -
Citizenship Revolution
Bradburn, Douglas
978-0-8139-3576-8Most Americans believe that the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 marked the settlement of post-Revolutionary disputes over the meanings of rights, democracy, and sovereignty in the new nation. In The Citizenship Revolution, Douglas Bradburn undercuts this view by showing that the Union, not...
32.86€ (31.60€ sin IVA) -
Lynching of Emmett Till
978-0-8139-2122-8At 2:00 A.M. on August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Money, Mississippi, and never seen alive again. When his battered and bloated corpse floated to the surface of the Tallahatchie River three days later and two local...
34.39€ (33.07€ sin IVA) -
Reading Trauma Narratives
Vickroy, Laurie
978-0-8139-3738-0As part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the context of psychological, literary, and cultural criticism. Focusing on novels by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, and Chuck Palahn...
33.06€ (31.79€ sin IVA) -
Virginia Folk Legends
Barden, Thomas E
978-0-8139-1335-3What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, "Justice John" Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included in the vast collection of legends gathered between 1937 and 1942 by the field workers of the Virginia Writers Proj...
20.63€ (19.84€ sin IVA) -
Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama
Curran Jr., John E
978-1-64453-052-8Precio desconocido -
Liberty Without Anarchy
Myers, Minor
978-0-8139-2311-6Founded in May 1783 at Steuben's headquarters near Newburg, N.Y., by officers of the Continental army and navy, the Society of the Cincinnati was at one time one of America's most controversial organizations. In Liberty without Anarchy, Minor Myers relates how the officers, who had not been...
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Pulpit and Nation
McBride, Spencer W
978-0-8139-3956-8In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the actual role of religion in the founding era. Beginning with colonial precedents for clerical involvement in politics and concluding with false rumors of Thoma...
52.23€ (50.22€ sin IVA) -
Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain
978-1-64453-015-3Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many...
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Pragmatist Turn
Gunn, Giles
978-0-8139-4080-9In The Pragmatist Turn, renowned scholar of American literature and thought Giles Gunn offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of subsequent American writing. This shaping was dependent on their pragmatic...
87.73€ (84.36€ sin IVA) -
Dézafi
Franketienne
978-0-8139-4138-7Dézafi is no ordinary zombie novel. In the hands of the great Haitian author known simply as Frankétienne, zombification takes on a symbolic dimension that stands as a potent commentary on a country haunted by a history of slavery. Now this dynamic new translation brings this touchston...
80.02€ (76.94€ sin IVA)