Nyu Press: 1737 books
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem
Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
In this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and immortalized in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notorious...
The Beginning of Terror
A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
The insights here are of such depth, and contain such beauty in them, that time and again the reader must pause for breath. At last Rilke has met a critic whose insight, courage, and humanity are worthy of his life and work."
-Leslie Epstein Director, Graduate Creative Writing Program, Boston...
Modernism, Inc.
Body, Memory, Capital
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies and contemporary theory, Modernism, Inc. provides a new look at the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the critical frame of twentieth-century American culture.
Organized around the idea of "incorporation"--embodiment,...
Christian Theologies of Salvation
A Comparative Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The ways in which pivotal spiritual figures have attempted to address the complex and various theories of salvation
Salvation – redemption or deliverance from sin – has been a key focus of Christian theology since the first days of the church. Theologians from St. Augustine to Karl Barth...
by Michel Beaujour
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
A serious and independent contribution to the literature of autobiography.
-- John SturrockFrench StudiesClearly a landmark study. It seems certain to provoke a great deal of productive debate among those concerned with any of the many issues it raises.
-- Comparative Literature
The literary self-portrait,...
Deafening Modernism
Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a critical Deaf theory independent of identity-based discourse, Rebecca Sanchez excavates the intersections between Deaf and modernist studies. She traces the ways that Deaf culture,...
The Art of Confession
The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The story of a new style of art—and a new way of life—in postwar America: confessionalism.
What do midcentury “confessional” poets have in common with today’s reality TV stars? They share an inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a sense that this book can never...
Gun Women
Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Women, we are told, should not own guns. Women, we are told, are more likely to be injured by their own guns than to fend off an attack themselves. This "fact" is rooted in a fundamental assumption of female weakness and vulnerability. Why should a woman not be every bit as capable as a...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Civil War is a much plumbed area of scholarship, so much so that at times it seems there is no further work to be done in the field. However, the experience of children and youth during that tumultuous time remains a relatively unexplored facet of the conflict. Children and Youth during the Civil...
Stray Wives
Marital Conflict in Early National New England
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Whereas my husband, Enoch Darling, has at sundry times used me in so improper and cruel a manner, as to destroy my happiness and endanger my life, and whereas he has not provided for me as a husband ought, but expended his time and money unadvisedly, at taverns . . . . I hereby notify the public that...
"Fire From the Midst of You"
A Religious Life of John Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2002
John Brown is usually remembered as a terrorist whose unbridled hatred of slavery drove him to the ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. Tried and executed for seizing the arsenal and attempting to spur a liberation movement among the slaves, Brown was the ultimate cause celebre for...
by Ellen Carol DuBois
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
In recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. Ellen Carol DuBois has been a central figure in spurring renewed interest in woman suffrage and in realigning the debates which surround it.
This volume gathers DuBois' most influential articles on woman...
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace
American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Women's Studies
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace explores the social and
political activism of American Jewish women from approximately
1890 to the beginnings of World War II.
Written in an engaging style, the book demonstrates that...
When Sorry Isn't Enough
The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
"How much compensation ought to be paid to a woman who was raped 7,500 times? What would the members of the Commission want for their daughters if their daughters had been raped even once?"
—Karen Parker, speaking before the U.N. Commission on Human Rights
Seemingly every week, a new question...