Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores
Common Law and Common Folk in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans...
Mere Equals
The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Mere Equals, Lucia McMahon narrates a story about how a generation of young women who enjoyed access to new educational opportunities made sense of their individual and social identities in an American nation marked by stark political inequality between the sexes. McMahon's archival research into...
by Dominick LaCapra
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In 1857, following the publication of Madame Bovary, Flaubert was charged with having committed an "outrage to public morality and religion." Dominick LaCapra, an intellectual historian with wide-ranging literary interests, here examines this remarkable trial. LaCapra draws on material from Flaubert’s...
Under the Black Umbrella
Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence of those who endured under the "black umbrella"...
Scenes of Sympathy
Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettle Victorian ideologies of identity. Situating these representations within the context of Victorian visual culture, and offering new readings of key works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth...
Fleas, Flies, and Friars
Children's Poetry from the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at meals,...
Staging Harmony
Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
In Staging Harmony, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change across England's long sixteenth century moved religious discourse to more moderate positions. It did so by reproducing the complex personal attachments, nostalgic overtones, and bodily...
The Theban Plays
"Oedipus the Tyrant"; "Oedipus at Colonus"; "Antigone"
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The timeless Theban tragedies of Sophocles—Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone—have fascinated and moved audiences and readers across the ages with their haunting plots and their unforgettable heroes and heroines. Now, following the best texts faithfully, and translating the key...
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv
A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and fundamental transformation ethnically, linguistically,...
In Search of Paradise
Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated...
White Flight/Black Flight
The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Urban residential integration is often fleeting—a brief snapshot that belies a complex process of racial turnover in many U.S. cities. White Flight/Black Flight takes readers inside a neighborhood that has shifted rapidly and dramatically in race composition over the last two decades. The book presents...
The Vanished Imam
Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
In the summer of 1978, Musa al Sadr, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Shia sect in Lebanon, disappeared mysteriously while on a visit to Libya. As in the Shia myth of the "Hidden Imam," this modern-day Imam left his followers upholding his legacy and awaiting his return. Considered an outsider when...
by Teresa Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The idea that one can soak up someone else's depression or anxiety or sense the tension in a room is familiar. Indeed, phrases that capture this notion abound in the popular vernacular: "negative energy," "dumping," "you could cut the tension with a knife." The Transmission of Affect deals with the...
In the Museum of Man
Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into...