Search Results - Civilization

Anatomizing Civil War : Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique / by Dinter, Martin T.

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Introduction -- Aide-MÃmoire: The Plot of Lucanâ’s Bellum Civile -- 1. Lucanâ’s Epic Body: Anatomizing Civil War -- 2. …”
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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction / by Gellrich, Jesse M., 1942-

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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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The Jazz Republic : Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany / by Wipplinger, Jonathan O.

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Legal Tender : Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination / by Urang, John Griffith, 1975-

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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

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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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