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Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen
The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinema. The fourteen essays collected …
Decisions on Western Waters
The long-running Decisions Series tackles the Brown Water Navy.At the outset of the Civil War, General Winfield Scott drafted the Anaconda Plan, an ambitious strategy to blockade …
On Poetry and Craft
"e;One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre."e;Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this …
Bridges to Independence
A rising median age at which PhD's receive their first research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is among the factors forcing academic biomedical researchers to …
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
William Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is a classic work of the scientific revolution and of modern medicine, for in it he famously argued, with extensive …
Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature
The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in …
Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the …
South Asians on the U.S. Screen
How does the media influence society? How do media representations of South Asians, as racial and ethnic minorities, perpetuate stereotypes about this group? How do advancements in …
A New Take on Cake
Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television
This book draws on a multi-method study of film and television narratives of global criminal networks to explore the links between audiovisual media, criminal networks and global …
Conflicting Memories on the ""River of Death
How veterans of two wars constructed contrasting meanings for one sacred landscape On September 19 and 20, 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland and the Confederate Army of …
On the Wings of la Noche
Noche is a Lechuza by night, an ethereal jet-black owl who guides the dead to the after. Except now, Noche cannot bring herself to escort her dead girlfriend, whose soul is fading …