Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home
Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor. Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home. The Modern Jewish Experience. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018.
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Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier
John Caruana and Mark Cauchi, eds. Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier. New York, SUNY Press, 2018.
The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880): Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian England
Bernard Lightman, The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880): Intellectual Life in Mid-Victorian England (Oxford UP, 2019) was co-edited with Richard England and Catherine Marshall. The contributors to the collection aim to shed light on many of the colorful figures that joined the Society...
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon, Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines (Routledge, 2019) was co-edited with the historian of music Bennett Zon. The volume asks how Victorians defined a discipline ...
Understanding Death as Life’s Paradox
Brayton Polka, Understanding Death as Life’s Paradox. This book focuses on death as life’s paradox in order to test, to put on trial, what it means for us human beings to exist.
Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada
Scott McLaren, Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada. When American Methodist preachers first arrived in Upper Canada in the 1790s, they brought with them more than a contagious religious faith.
Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life: Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800
Joan Steigerwald, Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life: Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800. A provocative counter history to vitalist and organicist theories and the absolute idealism of Schelling and Novalis ...
Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women’s Writing
Andrea Katherine Medovarski, Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women’s Writing. Comparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women’s writing...
Virginia Woolf: Music, Sound, Language
Elicia Clements, Virginia Woolf: Music, Sound, Language. Arguing that sound is integral to Virginia Woolf's understanding of literature, Elicia Clements highlights how the sonorous enables Woolf to examine issues of meaning in language and art...
Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures
Jody Berland, Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures. From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. Examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications.