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- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and During the antebellum period, slave owners weaponized southern Black joy to argue for enslavement, propagating images of “happy darkies.” In contrast, abolitionists wielded sorrow by emphasizing racial oppression. Both arguments were so effective that a political uneasiness on the subject still lingers. In The Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart...
- Keyword:
- Frederick Douglass, racial violence, Zora Neale Hurston, southern mythmaking, emancipatory politics, Black joy, segregation, public sphere, and W. E. B. Du Bois
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Stewart, Lindsey
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/16/2023
- Date Modified:
- 03/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4411-8, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4412-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4413-2
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Kai Evers’s Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature develops a new understanding of German modernism that moves beyond the oversimplified dichotomy of an avant-garde prone to aggression on the one hand and a modernism opposed to violence on the other. Analyzing works by Robert Musil, Franz...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Evers, Kai
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2930-6, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2962-7, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6727-8
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- Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first century—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- History and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Berger, Alan L. and Aarons, Victoria
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3410-2, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3411-9, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3409-6
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies examines the key role that the law and legal frameworks played in the ways Shakespeare explored character and selfhood.
- Keyword:
- English, law, philosophy, theater, Shakespeare, and performing arts
- Subject:
- History, Law, and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Curran, Kevin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3518-5, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3517-8, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3516-1
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to Islam in the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the tight embrace between Islam and politics that has rendered Islamic feminist discourse historically and thematically contextualized in regions where...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
- Subject:
- Social sciences, Literary criticism, Religion, and Islam
- Creator:
- Edwin, Shirin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3369-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3367-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3368-6
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map.
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Bray, Patrick M.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6638-7 and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2866-8
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- What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel explores this question through readings of major works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Working at the height of the Russian realist tradition, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky each discovered unprecedented techniques for intensifying the aesthetic...
- Keyword:
- The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Russian literature, Dostoevsky, realism, and Anna Karenina
- Subject:
- Literary criticism and Russia
- Creator:
- Kitzinger, Chloë
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4398-2, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4397-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4396-8
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and George Eliot's Religious Imagination addresses the much-discussed question of Eliot’s relation to Christianity in the wake of the sociocultural revolution triggered by the spread of theories of evolution. The standard view is that the author of Middlemarch and Silas Marner “lost her faith” at this time of religious crisis. Orr...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Orr, Marilyn
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3589-5, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3588-8, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3590-1
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- Deploying literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and an archival account of Tudor history, Emotion in the Tudor Court examines how literature both reflects and constructs the emotional dynamics of life in the Renaissance court. In it, Bradley J. Irish argues that emotionality is a foundational... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- Tudor, fiction, Great Britain, literary criticism, prose, literature, and England
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Irish, Bradley J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3639-7 , eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3641-0 , and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3640-3
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- In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Wetters, Kirk
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2976-4, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3253-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6764-3