166 títulos para "University Of Virginia"

"Those Who Labor for My Happiness"

Stanton, Lucia

Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view of Monticello as a working plantation, the success of which was made possible by the work of slaves....

What Time and Sadness Spared

Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar, Roma / Ben-Atar, Doran S

Not an ordinary memoir, this book is a joint project undertaken by a holocaust survivor and her historian son.  Its reluctant primary author, Roma Ben-Atar, resisted until late in life the urging of her daughter and son to revisit her memories of her past.  Finally only her granddaughter&#...

Idle Talk, Deadly Talk

Rodriguez Navas, Ana

Chaucer called it "spiritual manslaughter"' Barthes and Benjamin deemed it dangerous linguistic nihilism. But gossip-long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals-is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodríguez Navas reveals gossip to be an urgent, utilita...

After August

Maley, Patrick

Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that Wilson's work is direct blues expression. Patrick Maley argues that Wilson was not a dramatist im...

Sacred Act of Reading

Castro, Anne Margaret

From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The Sacred Act of Reading examines religion and sociopolitical power in modern and contemporary texts of a variety of genres from the bl...

Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain

Although 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...

Dialect Diversity in America

Labov, William

The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically loc...

Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson

Of Land, Bones, and Money

McGiffin, Emily

The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with change. Of Land, Bones, and Money examines the shifting role of these poets in South African society and the ways in which t...

Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama

Curran Jr., John E

Liberty Without Anarchy

Myers, Minor

Founded 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...

Pulpit and Nation

McBride, Spencer W

In 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...