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  • A Laughable Empire

    The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840–1890

    by Todd Nathan Thompson ...
    Series series Humor in America
    In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., “other”) to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this substantial archival corpus, attempting to make sense of nineteenth-century American humor about Hawai‘i and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The National Joker

    Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire

    by Todd Nathan Thompson ...
    Abraham Lincoln’s sense of humor proved legendary during his own time and remains a celebrated facet of his personality to this day. Indeed, his love of jokes—hearing them, telling them, drawing morals from them—prompted critics to dub Lincoln “the National Joker.” The political cartoons and print satires that mocked Lincoln often trafficked in precisely the same images and terms Lincoln ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Delectable Negro

    Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

    by Vincent Woodard, Dwight McBride, Justin A Joyce, E. Patrick Johnson ...
    Series Book 34 - Sexual Cultures
    A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (Updated Edition)

    A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

    by Steven Biel ...
    “Brimming over with wit and insight. . . . Fresh and fascinating.”—Dan RatherEveryone from suffragists to their opponents; radicals, reformers, and capitalists; critics of technology and modern life; racists and xenophobes and champions of racial and ethnic equality; editorial writers and folk singers, preachers and poets found moral and cultural lessons in the sinking of the Titanic.In a new ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Colonizer Abroad

    Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London

    by Christopher McBride ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer Abroad" claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of America's ... Read more

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  • Inseparable

    The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

    by Yunte Huang ...
    “An astonishing story, by turns ghastly, hilarious, unnerving, and moving.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and EveIn this “excellent” portrait of America’s famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in the conjoined lives of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874) a trenchant “comment on the times in which we live” (Wall Street Journal). ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Trying Leviathan

    The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

    by D. Graham Burnett ...
    In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Humboldt Current

    Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism

    by Aaron Sachs ...
    A masterly and beautifully written account of the impact of Alexander von Humboldt on nineteenth-century American history and cultureThe naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he and his enormous legacy to American thought are virtually unknown. In The Humboldt Current, Aaron Sachs traces Humboldt's pervasive influence ... Read more

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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

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  • Up from the Depths

    Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

    by Aaron Sachs ...
    **Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis**Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • A Political Companion to Herman Melville

    Edited by Jason Frank ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist ... Read more

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  • The Lives of Chang and Eng

    Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Joseph Andrew Orser ...
    Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as “freaks of nature” and “Oriental curiosities.” More famously known as the Siamese twins, they eventually settled in rural North Carolina, married two white sisters, became slave owners, and fathered ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD