Search Results - War

Queering Cold War Poetry Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States / by Keenaghan, Eric

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Chaucer and the Poets An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde / by Wetherbee, Winthrop, 1938-

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Insurgent Testimonies Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature / by Rizzuto, Nicole M.

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The Edge of Modernism American Poetry and the Traumatic Past / by Kalaidjian, Walter B., 1952-

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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

“…Cultural expressions of World War II.…”
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Redrawing French Empire Comics by McKinney, Mark, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…An introduction -- Redrawing colonial Algeria -- The fall of French Indochina -- The Algerian war and its aftermath -- The voyage out and the voyage in.…”
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Proofs of Genius Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age / by Gailey, Amanda A.

Table of Contents: “…America collecting itself : national identity and intellectual property in the Early Republic -- Dickinson's remains -- Whitman's shrines -- Cold War editing and the rise of the "American literature industry" -- The death of the author has been greatly exaggerated.…”
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Translating Troy Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance / by Mueller, Alex, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Translating destruction into alliterative romance -- Genealogy : Trojan historiography in England -- War : reviving Troy -- Violence : the corporeal terror of the Roman Empire -- Heraldry : Arthur's Roman dragon -- Territory : the Trojan provinces of Britain -- Conclusion. …”
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Shock and Awe American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…American exceptionalism: a genealogy -- A Connecticut Yankee as American Jeremiad: the historical context -- Americanist criticism of A Connecticut Yankee: a critical history -- Staging the spectacle: a contrapuntal reading of A Connecticut Yankee -- A Connecticut Yankee and America's "war on terror": thinking the spectacle.…”
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Career Stories Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development / by Rogers, Juliette M., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Innovation and education : historical contexts from the Belle Epoque -- Literary contexts : Bildungsroman, Erziehungsroman, Berufsroman -- Dreams and disappointments : women's education novels -- Cervelines : women scientists in novels of professional development -- Independantes : professional women writers -- The composite : women lawyers in Les dames du palais -- After the war.…”
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Dreaming America Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Raising up an educated audience : Federal Children's Theatre -- The Revolt of the beavers : "we should have called it Rumplestiltskin" -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : the story of Little Black Sambo in the Federal Theatre Project -- Shadows of war and homefront patriotism : anti-fascism and the innocent child in the Federal A letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The little princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world.…”
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Recoding World Literature Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books / by Mani, B. Venkat

Table of Contents: “…The shadow of empty shelves : two world wars and the rise and fall of world literature -- 4. …”
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Uncommon Women Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / by Laffrado, Laura

Table of Contents: “…: gender and self-representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital sketches -- "I am other than my appearance indicates" : sex-gender representation in women's nineteenth-century Civil War reminiscences -- "I found it hard to preserve my self-control" : race, women, representation.…”
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Order in Disorder Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne’s “Essais” / by Runyon, Randolph, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : marginal symmetry -- Of means and ends: I: 1 and I: 57 -- The less said: I: 1 and I: 56 -- Something to hide: I: 3 and I: 55 -- Frivolous and vain: I: 4 and I: 54 -- In or out: I: 5 and I: 53 -- Trouble back home: I: 6 and I: 52 -- Words, in effect: I: 7 and I: 51 -- Of idleness and horses: I: 8 and I: 50 -- Lying, after a fashion: I: 9 and I: 49 -- Excess baggage: I: 10 and I: 48 -- Enough already: I: 11 and I: 47 -- Anagrams: I: 12 and I: 46 -- A waiting game: I: 13 and I: 45 -- More than one port in a storm: I: 14 and I: 44 -- Custom and princely grandeur: I: 15 and I: 43 -- Judging Julian judging: I: 16 and I: 42 -- Glory, given and taken: I: 17 and I: 41 -- Empty signs: I: 18 and I: 40 -- Prolonging life: I: 19 and I: 39 -- Unmasking masks: I: 20 and I: 38 -- Powers of attraction: I: 21 and I: 37 -- Complementarities and buried allusions: I: 22 and I: 36 -- Here and there: I: 23 and I: 35 -- How to paint a dog: I: 24 and I: 34 -- Well-nourished daughters: I: 25 and I: 33 -- God's wrath and the weather: I: 26 and I: 32 -- Things to come: I: 27 and I: 31 -- Of immoderation: I: 28 and I: 30 -- Sorting out the pieces: II: 1 and II: 37 -- Slipping it in: II: 2 and II: 36 -- Suicide is painless: II: 3 and II: 35 -- Caesar the procrastinator: II: 4 and II: 34 -- Suffering innocence: II: 5 and II: 33 -- Parallel deaths: II: 6 and II: 32 -- Rewards and punishments: II: 7 and II: 31 -- Hidden monsters: II: 8 and II: 30 -- Only when you need it: II: 9 and II: 29 -- Act your age: II: 10 and II: 28 -- Doubly cruel: II: 11 and II: 27 -- Opposable thumbs: II: 12 and II: 26 -- Eyes wide shut: II: 13 and II: 25 -- Equivalent equivalents: II: 14 and II: 24 -- Civil war vs. civil war: II: 15 and II: 23 -- Spreading the news: II: 16 and II: 22 -- Spitting images: II: 17 and II: 21 -- Consubstantial consubstantiality: II: 18 and II: 20 -- Distant harmonies: III: 1 and III: 13 -- Distant theft: III: 2 and III: 12 -- Intercourse with the lame: III: 3 and III: 11 -- The little things: III: 4 and III: 10 -- Sexual vanity, vain sex: III: 5 and III: 9 -- Borrowed wealth: III: 5 and III: 8 -- Journey to the center of the book: I: 29, II: 19, and III: 7 -- Epilogue: the playful text.…”
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Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century by Kairoff, Claudia Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. …”
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What Goes Around Comes Around

Table of Contents: “…Winick -- "Cheaters never prosper" and other lies adults tell kids : proverbs and the culture wars over character / Jay Mechling -- The proverb and fetishism in American advertisements / Anand Prahlad -- "The early bird is worth two in the bush" : Captain Jack Aubrey's fractured proverbs / Jan Harold Brunvand -- As the crow flies : a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech / Alan Dundes.…”
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Economic Women Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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