Writing the Land
John Burroughs and his Legacy; Essays from the John Burroughs Nature Writing Conference
John Burroughs, America’s most beloved nature writer, explored his home landscape to examine the universal theme of our relation with nature. This collection of essays explores his legacy and what writing the land means from urban, suburban, and rural perspectives.
John Burroughs, America’s most beloved nature writer, explored his home landscape to examine the universal theme of our relation with nature. This collection of essays explores his legacy and what writing the land means from urban, suburban, and rural perspectives.
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Gender and Sexual Identities in Transition
International Perspectives
This volume offers an international panorama of how gendered and sexualized identities are created, challenged, and refused across the globe. As unstable constructions in permanent transition, gender and sexual identities are never at rest.
This volume offers an international panorama of how gendered and sexualized identities are created, challenged, and refused across the globe. As unstable constructions in permanent transition, gender and sexual identities are never at rest.
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This collection of essays marks a different approach to Mark Twain. It explores how geography—from the Mississippi River to Europe and beyond—influenced his work. These essays use Twain’s concepts of space to help us understand his greatest masterpieces.
This collection of essays marks a different approach to Mark Twain. It explores how geography—from the Mississippi River to Europe and beyond—influenced his work. These essays use Twain’s concepts of space to help us understand his greatest masterpieces.
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Sex in Public
Women, Outdoor Advertising and Public Policy
Sexist outdoor advertising is a form of public sexual harassment. Images that would be outlawed in a workplace are readily displayed in public space. This book offers a new framework to understand, critique and condemn these harmful portrayals of women.
Sexist outdoor advertising is a form of public sexual harassment. Images that would be outlawed in a workplace are readily displayed in public space. This book offers a new framework to understand, critique and condemn these harmful portrayals of women.
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The Management of Intercultural Academic Interaction
Student Exchanges between Japanese and Australian Universities
This book examines how six Japanese exchange students manage intercultural academic interaction at an Australian university. It analyzes the impact of program structures and provides insights on how universities can better support students' transition between cultures.
This book examines how six Japanese exchange students manage intercultural academic interaction at an Australian university. It analyzes the impact of program structures and provides insights on how universities can better support students’ transition between cultures.
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Friends and Foes Volume I
Friendship and Conflict in Philosophy and the Arts
What constitutes friendship? What challenges, duties and pleasures does it entail? This volume of philosophical and cultural essays offers an illuminating investigation of the relationship between friendship and conflict, exploring its compelling ambiguities.
What constitutes friendship? What challenges, duties and pleasures does it entail? This volume of philosophical and cultural essays offers an illuminating investigation of the relationship between friendship and conflict, exploring its compelling ambiguities.
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Masquerade and Femininity
Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers
These essays on Russian and Polish women writers explore femininity through the lens of masquerade. They scrutinize the gap between lived female experience and the culturally constructed masks women wear, combining East European literary and gender studies.
These essays on Russian and Polish women writers explore femininity through the lens of masquerade. They scrutinize the gap between lived female experience and the culturally constructed masks women wear, combining East European literary and gender studies.
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John Wayne’s iconic status was forged in post-WWII anxieties over civil rights. This book uncovers his political legacy: a model of white masculinity that continues from Reagan to today’s superheroes.
John Wayne’s iconic status was forged in post-WWII anxieties over civil rights. This book uncovers his political legacy: a model of white masculinity that continues from Reagan to today’s superheroes.
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The Right Sort of Woman
Victorian Travel Writers and the Fitness of an Empire
Nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing reveals how they found freedom abroad. Far from strict Victorian codes, they participated in men’s sports, improving their health and confidence. This shaped feminism and the revolutionary image of the New Woman.
Nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing reveals how they found freedom abroad. Far from strict Victorian codes, they participated in men’s sports, improving their health and confidence. This shaped feminism and the revolutionary image of the New Woman.
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This book examines how laissez-faire economics influenced Britain’s relationship with America after the Revolution. Informed by Adam Smith, Lord Shelburne envisioned a new commercial empire based on trade instead of territorial conquest.
This book examines how laissez-faire economics influenced Britain’s relationship with America after the Revolution. Informed by Adam Smith, Lord Shelburne envisioned a new commercial empire based on trade instead of territorial conquest.
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Stories from across cultures deal with shamanic soul loss—the detachment of the psyche from trauma. This book argues for a new genre, the shamanic story, and its sub-genre of soul-loss tales, analysing examples to support this hypothesis.
Stories from across cultures deal with shamanic soul loss—the detachment of the psyche from trauma. This book argues for a new genre, the shamanic story, and its sub-genre of soul-loss tales, analysing examples to support this hypothesis.
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Gujaratis in the West
Evolving Identities in Contemporary Society
This compilation of scholarly works investigates how Gujaratis, a successful and integrated community, construct and express their complex religious, linguistic, and ethnic identities in the West, offering a unique insight into a community often overlooked.
This compilation of scholarly works investigates how Gujaratis, a successful and integrated community, construct and express their complex religious, linguistic, and ethnic identities in the West, offering a unique insight into a community often overlooked.
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To Inspire and Instruct
A History of Medieval Art in Midwestern Museums
This collection of essays tells the story of how medieval art was collected by individuals and institutions in the American Midwest, considering the motives of donors, the formation of major collections, and evolving curatorial practices.
This collection of essays tells the story of how medieval art was collected by individuals and institutions in the American Midwest, considering the motives of donors, the formation of major collections, and evolving curatorial practices.
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This collection explores women's struggle for education from the fourth to the twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. It demonstrates not only the great strides women have made but also the challenges that have yet to be overcome.
This collection explores women’s struggle for education from the fourth to the twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. It demonstrates not only the great strides women have made but also the challenges that have yet to be overcome.
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The Cycle of Troy in Geoffrey Chaucer
Tradition and “Moralitee”
In the Middle Ages, Trojan myths were transformed into models of human behaviour. This book explores how Geoffrey Chaucer recreates those myths, manipulating his material and integrating them into the contexts of his own works.
In the Middle Ages, Trojan myths were transformed into models of human behaviour. This book explores how Geoffrey Chaucer recreates those myths, manipulating his material and integrating them into the contexts of his own works.
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Crossroads of the Southwest
Culture, Identity, and Migration in Arizona’s Safford Basin
In southeastern Arizona, Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi cultures intersected. Crossroads of the Southwest presents new archaeological research examining culture, identity, and migration. Top scholars use new data to study this long-overlooked region.
In southeastern Arizona, Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi cultures intersected. Crossroads of the Southwest presents new archaeological research examining culture, identity, and migration. Top scholars use new data to study this long-overlooked region.
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Scholars remain sharply divided on nationalism. This volume offers new empirical research, examining a variety of contexts within the English-speaking world, including Australia, Canada, India, the UK, and the US, through interdisciplinary studies.
Scholars remain sharply divided on nationalism. This volume offers new empirical research, examining a variety of contexts within the English-speaking world, including Australia, Canada, India, the UK, and the US, through interdisciplinary studies.
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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Haydée
Auber and Scribe’s masterful opéra-comique Haydée is one of the composer’s richest scores. A Venetian admiral is haunted by guilt after cheating a friend who then killed himself. Blackmail, love, and Venetian pomp drive this psychological drama.
Auber and Scribe’s masterful opéra-comique Haydée is one of the composer’s richest scores. A Venetian admiral is haunted by guilt after cheating a friend who then killed himself. Blackmail, love, and Venetian pomp drive this psychological drama.
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Ruskin’s Struggle for Coherence
Self-Representation through Art, Place and Society
The ten essays collected here address the coherence in Ruskin’s multi-disciplinary works. Using interdisciplinary approaches, they explore the “polygon” of his thought and what he called “The Mystery of Life and Its Arts.”
The ten essays collected here address the coherence in Ruskin’s multi-disciplinary works. Using interdisciplinary approaches, they explore the “polygon” of his thought and what he called “The Mystery of Life and Its Arts.”
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This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.
This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.
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