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Feminist Phenomenology And First-Person Narrative: Understanding Gender And Social Conflict In Anna Burns’ Milkman, Sushree Routray, Rashmi Gaur Professor Jan 2024

Feminist Phenomenology And First-Person Narrative: Understanding Gender And Social Conflict In Anna Burns’ Milkman, Sushree Routray, Rashmi Gaur Professor

Comparative Woman

In her magnum opus Milkman (2018), Anna Burns employs a subversive and artfully crafted first-person narrative, deftly exposing the arduous and tumultuous struggles encountered by individuals who dare to defy the confines of traditional gender roles. Through a relentless and unflinching narrative, the novel fearlessly confronts the harrowing manifestations of psychological torment, the insidious spectre of relentless stalking, and the manipulative machinations of gaslighting, all the while fervently interrogating the notion of a fixed and immutable gender identity. In a relentless odyssey toward self-realization, the protagonist's journey unfurls against a backdrop of traumatic events and the unyielding pressures imposed by …


Civil War Treasures: "Louis Kossuth And The Unwinnable Dilemma Of Slavery", Hans Rasmussen Jan 2023

Civil War Treasures: "Louis Kossuth And The Unwinnable Dilemma Of Slavery", Hans Rasmussen

Civil War Book Review

Hans Rasmussen uses archival material from LSU Library's special collections to examine how and why nineteenth-century-Americans celebrated Louis Kossuth, an anti-Russian-imperialism activist, and how their behavior resembles pro-Volodymyr Zelensky sentiment today.


Fighting For Citizenship: Black Northerners And The Debate Over Military Service In The Civil War, Jonathan Lande Jan 2021

Fighting For Citizenship: Black Northerners And The Debate Over Military Service In The Civil War, Jonathan Lande

Civil War Book Review

"Taylor broadens the focus of scholarship on Black Northerners during the war from the most prominent leaders to newspaper editors and other local trailblazers, showing that not all Black Northerners trusted military service would garner citizenship," and in doing so, “Taylor’s Fighting for Citizenship hits its mark.”


Don Draper,Teacher-As-Artist: A Diffractive Reading Of Mad Men, Gabriel Huddleston, Sam Rocha Aug 2018

Don Draper,Teacher-As-Artist: A Diffractive Reading Of Mad Men, Gabriel Huddleston, Sam Rocha

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

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The Education Of Pauline Carey, Jon Judy Sep 2017

The Education Of Pauline Carey, Jon Judy

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

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Did We Miss The Joke Again? The Cultural Learnings Of Two Middle East Professors For Make Benefit Insights On The Glorious West, Christopher D. Stonebanks, Özlem Sensoy Sep 2017

Did We Miss The Joke Again? The Cultural Learnings Of Two Middle East Professors For Make Benefit Insights On The Glorious West, Christopher D. Stonebanks, Özlem Sensoy

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

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Cwbr Author Interview: Thunder At The Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America, Douglas R. Egerton Jan 2017

Cwbr Author Interview: Thunder At The Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America, Douglas R. Egerton

Civil War Book Review

Interview with Douglas Egerton, author of Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America Interviewed by Tom Barber Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today the Civil War Book Review is pleased to speak with Douglas Egerton, Professor of History at Le Moyne College and....


Cwbr Author Interview: Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, And White Supremacy In Civil War-Era Charleston, Jeff Strickland Jan 2016

Cwbr Author Interview: Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, And White Supremacy In Civil War-Era Charleston, Jeff Strickland

Civil War Book Review

Interview with Jeff Strickland, Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University

Interviewed by Zach Isenhower

Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today the Civil War Book Review is pleased to speak with Jeff Strickland, Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University. Today we get to talk about his most recent book, Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, and White Supremacy in Civil War-Era Charleston. Professor Strickland, thank you for joining us today. Jeff Strickland (JS): Hi Zach, it's an honor to speak with you.


Civil War Treasures: English Satire On The American Civil War From The Pages Of Punch, Hans Rasmussen Micael Jan 2016

Civil War Treasures: English Satire On The American Civil War From The Pages Of Punch, Hans Rasmussen Micael

Civil War Book Review

Punch, or the London Charivari, a justly famous British weekly satirical magazine established in 1841, had become a national institution by the time the American Civil War began. Its brilliant writers and cartoonists naturally made sport of the politics of the war, casting their witty and di....


Women, Work, And Worship In Lincoln\'S Country: The Dumville Family Letters, Bao Bui Jan 2016

Women, Work, And Worship In Lincoln\'S Country: The Dumville Family Letters, Bao Bui

Civil War Book Review

Four Women's Stories In 1840 the Dumville family left England and settled in the American Midwest. They joined the millions of European, chiefly German and Irish, who immigrated to United States in the 1840s and 1850s. Thanks to the meticulous research by the editors of Women, Work, and Worshi....


Book Reviews Jan 2015

Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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A Massacre In Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook The Nation One Year After The Civil War, Fred Johnson Jan 2014

A Massacre In Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook The Nation One Year After The Civil War, Fred Johnson

Civil War Book Review

Class, Race, and Riot in Reconstruction Memphis

In May 1866, as the United States struggled to heal from the trauma of its bloody Civil War (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865), millions of Americans, for the first time, found themselves living in a land unburdened by slavery. For most whites ....


Book Reviews Jan 2014

Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Empirical Testing And Novelistic Becoming Joseph Glanvill's Evidence Concerning Witches And Their Familiars, Dawn Morgan Jan 2014

Empirical Testing And Novelistic Becoming Joseph Glanvill's Evidence Concerning Witches And Their Familiars, Dawn Morgan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Problem Of Cultural Reproduction In Gulliver's Travels, Keely Mccarthy Jan 2012

The Problem Of Cultural Reproduction In Gulliver's Travels, Keely Mccarthy

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Civil War Sesquicentennial : Union Soldiers' Motivations, Chandra Manning Jan 2012

Civil War Sesquicentennial : Union Soldiers' Motivations, Chandra Manning

Civil War Book Review

State of the Field: Where are Union Soldiers Now, and Where in the World Should they Go Next?

“Who wouldn’t be a soldier?" joked many new Union Army recruits when they wrote home to complain about the bad food and boring drill exercises that characterized their first weeks of service. So....


Annotations, Cwbr Editor Jan 2012

Annotations, Cwbr Editor

Civil War Book Review

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Eliza Haywood At The Sign Of Fame, Patrick Spedding Jan 2011

Eliza Haywood At The Sign Of Fame, Patrick Spedding

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, And Survival In Early Baltimore, Cynthia M. Kennedy Jun 2009

Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, And Survival In Early Baltimore, Cynthia M. Kennedy

Civil War Book Review

Slavery in an American City

Women and men who eked out an existence—the laboring poor whose work was short term, menial, and hard and whose lives often remain hidden from the historical record—come into sharp relief in the aptly named Scraping By. In his new work, Seth Rockman imm....


Burke's Reflections On The Revolution In France Cross-Channel Representations, Norbert Col Jan 2009

Burke's Reflections On The Revolution In France Cross-Channel Representations, Norbert Col

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Horace Walpole And Horace Mann Parties And Politics, George E. Haggerty Jan 2009

Horace Walpole And Horace Mann Parties And Politics, George E. Haggerty

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Annotations, Cwbr_Editor Jun 2008

Annotations, Cwbr_Editor

Civil War Book Review

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"The Bottom Of All Things" Christopher Smart's Old Crone Of Criticism, Min Wild Jan 2008

"The Bottom Of All Things" Christopher Smart's Old Crone Of Criticism, Min Wild

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Book Reviews Jan 2008

Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Away Down South: A History Of Southern Identity, David Gleeson Mar 2007

Away Down South: A History Of Southern Identity, David Gleeson

Civil War Book Review

Regional Identities

Understanding the South

James C. Cobb has set for himself the monumental task of writing the history of identity in the South from the American Revolution to 2005, the year of publication of this work. Without getting bogged down in too much theory, Cobb defi....


Some Further Thoughts On "Organic Georgics," Or, The Politics And Poetics Of Johnson's Manure, Michael Rotenbetg-Schwartz Jan 2007

Some Further Thoughts On "Organic Georgics," Or, The Politics And Poetics Of Johnson's Manure, Michael Rotenbetg-Schwartz

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"A Polish Lady" The Art Of The Jacobite Print, Neil Guthrie Jan 2007

"A Polish Lady" The Art Of The Jacobite Print, Neil Guthrie

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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A New Latitude In The Culture Wars, Scott P. Gordon Jan 2006

A New Latitude In The Culture Wars, Scott P. Gordon

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Of That Rank That Is Meanest And Most Despised Of All" Victorian Romany Studies And The Recovery Of John Bunyan's "Gypsy' Origins, Mary Burke Jan 2006

"Of That Rank That Is Meanest And Most Despised Of All" Victorian Romany Studies And The Recovery Of John Bunyan's "Gypsy' Origins, Mary Burke

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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From Constitution-Builders To Radical Democrats Neo-Harringtonians In Eighteenth-Century America And France, Rachel Hammersley Jan 2005

From Constitution-Builders To Radical Democrats Neo-Harringtonians In Eighteenth-Century America And France, Rachel Hammersley

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.