Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 249 books
The City Since 9/11
Literature, Film, Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for reassessing theoretical concerns related to narrative, identity, home, and personal precarity. In the years...
Sister Souls
The Power of Personal Narrative in the Poetic Works of Antonia Pozzi and Vittorio Serini
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
This book focuses on the autobiographical poetry of early twentieth century author Antonia Pozzi and her lifelong friend and fellow poet, Vittorio Sereni. Antonia Pozzi, an author whose popularity in Italy has increased dramatically in the past few years, was a young girl during the First World War....
Something Complete and Great
The Centennial Study of My Ántonia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This volume situates My Ántonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual, and stylistic issues. The volume provides an analysis and assessment of complexities in the novel...
A Handful of Mischief
New Essays on Evelyn Waugh
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom,...
by Claude Cernuschi
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
As a major member of the New York School, Barnett Newman is celebrated for his radical explorations of color and scale and, as a precursor to the Minimalist movement, for his significant contribution to the development of twentieth-century American art. But if his reputation and place in history have...
The Great Chinese Art Transfer
How So Much of China's Art Came to America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China’s last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China’s internal...
Metatheater and Modernity
Baroque and Neobaroque
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque is the first work to link the study of metatheater with the concepts of baroque and neobaroque. Arguing that the onset of European modernity in the early seventeenth century and both the modernist and the postmodernist periods of the twentieth century...
by Thomas J. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Alan Nolan's 1961 Iron Brigade, the classic study of Brigadier General John Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade composed of the 19th Indiana, the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin and the 24th Michigan, drew public attention to the superior unit during the Civil War Centennial. Since then, much has been written...
Alonzo's War
Letters from a Young Civil War Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Alonzo Bryant Searing, a high school graduate aged 18, enlisted in the 11th New Jersey Volunteer Regiment in Dover, New Jersey in 1862 and served two years and ten months as a Private in the Union Army. His unit served in 27 engagements and he was slightly wounded twice. During that time he wrote...
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830–1860
Reading the Stranger
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing. Both literary and historical in its approach, this study shows how, in a period marked by extensive immigration, heated debates on national and...
by Carla Mulford, Simon P. Newman, Jurgen Overhoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific...
John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring
From Thug to Grant's Inner Circle
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
The most flamboyant, consistently dishonest racketeer was Supervisor of Internal Revenue John McDonald, whose organization defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars. When President Grant was asked why he appointed McDonald supervisor of internal revenue he responded, “I was aware that...
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies
The Arts and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Following the more theoretical first installment of New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies devoted to Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices, the second volume of New Perspectives deals with practicing cultural studies by offering articles that are valuable for both scholars of Italian...
The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
A Bloody Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. While the relation between detective fiction and its setting has been extensively analysed in the Anglo-American...