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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stacey margolis”
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  • The Future Is Fiction

    A Cultural History of Intergenerational Justice

    by Stacey Margolis ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
    The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational justice as an important field of study since the 1970s, the history of modern forms of obligation to the future has received almost no attention. This book traces the evolution of the Anglo-American ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Stacey Margolis, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Stacey Margolis rethinks a key chapter in American literary history, challenging the idea that nineteenth-century American culture was dominated by an ideology of privacy that defined subjects in terms of their intentions and desires. She reveals how writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Henry James depicted a world in which characters could only be understood—and, more importantly, could only ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Stacey Margolis ...
    Series Book 173 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls. It argues that fiction, in its freedom to represent what resists representation, develops the most groundbreaking theories of the democratic public. These literary accounts of democracy focus less on overt pubic action than the profound effects of ... Read more

    $119.79 USD

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    The legendary folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are widely credited with preserving and documenting Europe's oral fairy tale tradition. On several extended trips collecting stories in and around Germany, the pair transcribed more than 200 classic folk tales. This volume compiles some of the most popular and well-known fairy tales from the Grimms' body of work. ... Read more

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  • Twelve Angry Men

    by Reginald Rose ...
    A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David MametA blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Mark My Words

    Native Women Mapping Our Nations

    by Mishuana Goeman ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, immigrants.In Mark My Words, Mishuana Goeman traces settler colonialism as an enduring form of gendered spatial ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Directorate S

    The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    by Steve Coll ...
    **Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book Award for NonfictionFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11**Prior to 9/11, the United States had ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Everybody Behaves Badly

    The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

    by Lesley M. M. Blume ...
    The New York Times bestseller. " Fiendishly readable . . . a deeply, almost obsessively researched biography of a book."— The Washington PostIn the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Empire’s Proxy

    American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines

    by Meg Wesling ...
    Series Book 1 - American Literatures Initiative
    Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesIn the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley’s project of “benevolent assimilation,” they established a school system that centered on English language and American literature to advance the ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Science and Government

    by C. P. Snow ...
    Series Book 31 - The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen
    Science and Government is a gripping account of one of the great scientific rivalries of the twentieth century. The antagonists are Sir Henry Tizard, a chemist from Imperial College, and Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), a physicist from the University of Oxford. The scientist-turned-novelist Charles Percy Snow tells a story of hatred and ambition at the top of British science, exposing how ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945

    Edited by Jennifer Ashton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores how American poetry has documented and, at times, helped propel the literary and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Power Trip

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    by Damian McBride ...
    "Explosive" – Daily Telegraph"Utterly gripping" – The Scotsman"Racy, lucid and very well-informed" – Evening Standard"Achingly vivid and horribly revealing" – BookTalk"Devastatingly forthright" – Sunday Times"Tremendous" – Sunday Times***From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at ... ... Read more

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