Archive: Publications
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Fort Necessity
by David Gewanter. Who are the lords of labor? The owners, or the working bodies? In this smart, ambitious, and powerful book, David Gewanter reads the body as creator and…
February 27, 2018
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Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text
by Sarah McNamer. The Meditations on the Life of Christ was the most popular and influential devotional work of the later Middle Ages. With its lively dialogue and narrative…
February 12, 2018
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Power and Probity in a DC Cooperative: The Life and Death of Sursum Corda
by John C. Hirsh. This book recounts in detail the negotiations, internal and external struggles, and the outcome of an attempt by HUD, the City of Washington, and several…
January 2, 2018
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The Good New: A Tuscan Villa, Shakespeare, and Death
by John Glavin. Shakespeare wrote more plays about Italy than any other place in his own world. In this memoir, author John Glavin returns to Italy after decades away to teach…
January 2, 2018
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The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece
by John Pfordresher. The surprising hidden history behind Charlotte Brontë’s Jane.…
June 27, 2017
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Brown Romantics: Poetry And Nationalism In The Global Nineteenth Century
by Manu Samriti Chander. Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and…
June 23, 2017
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Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States
by Lori Merish. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature—from autobiographies, pamphlet novels, and theatrical melodrama to seduction…
May 4, 2017
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Vygotsky’s Children: Georgetown and Oxford Students Meet Urban Youth
by John C. Hirsh. This book is concerned with the ways in which undergraduate students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Wadham College, Oxford, and Clare College,…
April 4, 2017
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How Did This Happen? Poems for the Not So Young Anymore
Edited by Elizabeth Ash Vélez & Mary D. Esselman. From the bestselling authors of The Hell with Love, a fierce, funny, touching collection that takes the sting out of “aging…
April 4, 2017
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Liffey & Lethe: Paramnesiac History in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Ireland
by Patrick R. O’Malley. Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand…
March 1, 2017