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  • Connubial Fictions

    The Evolution of Marriage in American Law and Literature

    Edited by Jonathan S. Masur, Richard H. McAdams, Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Connubial Fictions explores law and marriage in the United States, seen through the lens of American literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In this edited volume, scholars of law and the humanities combine legal scholarship with literary analysis to explore how American literature has portrayed marriage's complex legal dimensions over time. They cover diverse fictional works ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

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  • Happiness and the Law

    by John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur ...
    Happiness and the law. At first glance, these two concepts seem to have little to do with each other. To some, they may even seem diametrically opposed. Yet one of the things the law strives for is to improve people’s quality of life. To do this, it must first predict what will make people happy. Yet happiness research shows that, time and time again, people err in predicting what will make them ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Cannons and Codes

    Law, Literature, and America's Wars

    Edited by Alison L. LaCroix, Jonathan S. Masur, Martha C. Nussbaum, Laura Weinrib ...
    It can be said that western literature begins with a war story, the Iliad; and that this is true too of many non-Western literary traditions, such as the Mahabharata. And yet, though a profoundly human subject, war often appears to be by definition outside the realm of structures such as law and literature. When we speak of war, we often understand it as incapable of being rendered into rules or ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

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    The Sum of Our Dreams

    A Concise History of America

    by Louis P. Masur ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 26 min

    In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment. Evoking Barack Obama's belief that America remains the "sum of its dreams," Masur locates the origin of those dreams—of freedom, equality, and opportunity—and traces their progress chronologically, illuminating the nation's struggle over time to articulate and ... Read more

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  • When Memory Speaks

    Exploring the Art of Autobiography

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    Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense

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  • Postcolonial Melancholia

    by Paul Gilroy ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
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  • Honor

    A History

    by James Bowman ...
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  • The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

    Reflections on a Multicultural Society

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