Fairleigh Press: 250 books
Evelyn Waugh’s Satire
Texts and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) is one of the twentieth century’s great prose stylists and the author of a suite of devastating satires on modern English life, from his first unforgettably funny novel Decline and Fall, to his last work of fiction, “Basil Seal Rides Again.” Evelyn Waugh’s Satire:...
The Annotated Works of Henry George
Social Problems and The Condition of Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
This is the first fully annotated edition of Social Problems (1883) and The Condition of Labor (1891), two important works by one of America’s most popular social economists. Social Problems grew out of a series of articles Henry George (1839-1897) published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper...
The Annotated Works of Henry George
Our Land and Land Policy and Other Works
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent...
Social Networking
Redefining Communication in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Social Networking: Redefining Communication in the Digital Age fulfills a pressing demand in social network literature by bringing together international experts from the fields of communication, new media technologies, marketing and advertising, public relations and journalism, business, and education.
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Engaging Strangers
Civil Rites, Civic Capitalism, and Public Order in Boston
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Partisans on both the left and right wings of America’s theory class and political spectrum believe we’re in trouble, big trouble. The economy is limping along. Inequality has reached unprecedented levels. And we seem to be on the verge of being overwhelmed by immigrants who don’t look and act...
Worlds of Hungarian Writing
National Literature as Intercultural Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Worlds of Hungarian Writing responds to the rapidly growing interest in Hungarian authors throughout the English-speaking world. Addressing an international audience, the essays in the collection highlight the intercultural contexts that have molded the conventions, genres and institutions of Hungarian...
Hitler in the Movies
Finding Der Führer on Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In Hitler in the Movies: Finding Der Führer on Film, a Shakespearean and a sociologist explore the fascination our popular culture has with Adolf Hitler. What made him … Hitler? Do our explanations tell us more about the perceiver than the actual historical figure? We ask such question by viewing...
by Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Many popular French films of the 1930s captured the world and brought it into neighborhood cinemas for filmgoers who craved adventure. These films often served as visual postcards from the French empire, which enjoyed an unprecedented visibility in domestic popular culture between the world wars....
Mormon Women’s History
Beyond Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography demonstrates that the history and experience of Mormon women is central to the history of Mormonism and to histories of American religion, politics, and culture. Yet the study of Mormon women has mostly been confined to biographies, family histories, and...
by Adam J. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy seeks both to demonstrate the salience of “heresy” as a tool for analyzing instances of religious conflict far beyond the borders of traditional historical theology and to illuminate the apparent affinity for deification exhibited by some persecuted...
The Wayward Woman
Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888–1917
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The Wayward Woman takes a fresh look at the Progressive Era, recasting the turn-of-the-century debate on gender roles and prostitution. Recapitulating and transcending extant studies of female delinquency, prostitution literature, and Progressive womanhood, this work understands “female waywardness”...
Dictatorships in the Hispanic World
Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This book provides a transatlantic and interdisciplinary perspective of dictatorships in the Hispanic World, focusing on the common strategies used to represent and/or protest these regimes in narrative, film, poetry, essays, theater, and visual arts. By looking at the similarities and differences...
Victorian Literary Cultures
Studies in Textual Subversion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing clear cultural contexts for the works under review—including such canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre,...
Close Reading without Readings
Essays on Shakespeare and Others
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Dealing mainly with the works of William Shakespeare, the essays in Close Readings without Readings reflect Stephen Booth’s lifelong interest in uncovering the ways great literature works upon readers. As the book’s title suggests, the author does not aim to create new or novel interpretations...