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

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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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The Deer in the Mirror / by Holladay, Cary C., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The deer in the mirror -- The burning -- The runaway stagecoach -- Every high hill -- The flood -- Ice hands -- The days of the peppers -- Hitching post -- Heart on a wire, a novella.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

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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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The Imaginary and Its Worlds : American Studies after the Transnational Turn /

Table of Contents: “…William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. …”
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The Work of Poverty : Samuel Beckett’s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis / by Duerfahrd, Lance Alfred, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Begging context -- Godot behind bars -- Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo and New Orleans -- La pensee vagabonde : vagabond thought -- Textual indigence : the reader in an aesthetics of poverty -- Afterword. Staging Godot in Zuccotti Park.…”
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Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / by Punday, Daniel

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Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / by Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.…”
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The Problem Body : Projecting Disability in Film /

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Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing : The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theatre / by Seniors, Paula Marie

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I Made You to Find Me : The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / by Hedley, Jane

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The Roman Salute : Cinema, History, Ideology / by Winkler, Martin M.

Table of Contents: “…Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii -- Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on stage -- Early cinema : American and European epics -- Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics -- Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria -- Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol -- From D'Annunzio to Mussolini -- Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis -- Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen from Quo vadis to Rome -- Cinema : from Salome to Alexander -- Television : from Star trek to Rome -- Conclusion.…”
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Performing the Victorian : John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education / by Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Unstable as water -- "Mechanical sheep" and "monstrous powers" : John Ruskin's pantomime reality -- "Pretty Frou-Frou" goes demon dancing : performing species and gender in Ruskin's science -- Playground and playhouse : identity performance in Ruskin's education for girls -- Ruskin and the Wilde life : self and other on the millennial stage -- Conclusion : queering Ruskin.…”
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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Medea's Daughters : Forming and Performing the Woman Who Kills / by Jones, Jennifer, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Female offenders and offensive females -- Petty (t)reasons for killing her lord and master -- Absence of (m)alice on the Victorian stage -- A jury of her peers -- Totaled women: the battered wife defense -- Medea returns -- Narratives of resistance.…”
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Theater Figures : The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel / by Allen, Emily, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Theatrical reforms: Stage fright and the scene of reading -- Staging a comeback: The remasculinization of the novel -- Heimlich maneuvers: Domesticity, theatricality, and the abject -- Mesdames Bovary: Performative reading, cultural capital, and high art -- Performing distinction: Elevating the literary sphere.…”
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Pastplay : Teaching and Learning History with Technology /

Table of Contents: “…: learning Canadian history with the Virtual Historian / Stephane Levesque -- Interactive worlds as educational tools for understanding Arctic life / Richard Levy and Peter Dawson -- Tecumseh lies here : goals and challenges for a pervasive history game in progress / Timothy Compeau and Robert MacDougall -- The hermeneutics of screwing around; or what you do with a million books / Stephen Ramsay -- Abort, retry, pass, fail : games as teaching tools / Sean Gouglas, Mihaela Ilovan, Shannon Lucky, and Silvia Russell -- Ludic algorithms / Bethany Nowviskie -- Making and playing with models : using rapid prototyping to explore the history and technology of stage magic / William J. Turkel and Devon Elliott -- Contests for meaning : playing King Philip's War in the twenty-first century / Matthew Kirscenbaum -- Rolling your own : on modding commercial games for educational goals / Shawn Graham -- Simulation games and the study of the past : classroom guidelines / Jeremiah McCall -- Playing into the past : reconsidering the educational promise of public history exhibits / Brenda Trofanenko -- Teaching history in an age of pervasive computing : the case for games in the high school and undergraduate classroom / Kevin Kee and Shawn Graham -- Victorian SimCities : playful technology on Google Earth / Patrick Dunae and John Sutton Lutz -- True facts or false facts--which are more authentic / T. …”
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Reading Death in Ancient Rome / by Erasmo, Mario

Table of Contents: “…Playing dead -- Staging death -- Disposing the dead -- Disposing the dead? …”
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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy /

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /

by Kefeli, Agnes

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