Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century American Literature
When critics of poet Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as derivative, they fail to see her writing as part of a new creative pantheon, sitting alongside other works that, like the popular copybooks in antebellum America, are structured as a conversation between artistic allies. ......
Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century American Literature
When critics of poet Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as derivative, they fail to see her writing as part of a new creative pantheon, sitting alongside other works that, like the popular copybooks in antebellum America, are structured as a conversation between artistic allies. ......
Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading
In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called "Tasting and Testing Books." The column's author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one reading advice columns for the magazine between 1926 and 1934. During this period, Good Housekeeping became the most ......
Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading
In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called "Tasting and Testing Books." The column's author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one reading advice columns for the magazine between 1926 and 1934. During this period, Good Housekeeping became the most ......
Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth
On Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where, in the 1860s, sixteen boys played what was then called the "Boston game"-an early version of football?in the?United States. The boys were largely the sons of upper-class Boston Brahmins, and they lived through the transformative periods of the Civil ......
Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth
On Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where, in the 1860s, sixteen boys played what was then called the "Boston game"-an early version of football?in the?United States. The boys were largely the sons of upper-class Boston Brahmins, and they lived through the transformative periods of the Civil ......
Out there in the Atlantic between Europe and America, in the midst of often rough seas, the nine islands of the Azores rise above the surface, constantly transformed by overactive volcanoes and shaken by earthquakes. As John Updike observed, the islands of the archipelago resemble "Great green ships themselves," as "they ride at anchor forever; ......
Making an obvious reference to Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America, this volume proves that the veins of the postcolonial remain open, having prolonged and reproduced themselves over the course of decades. The Open Veins of the Postcolonial traces the emergence of epistemological categories and offers thematic analyses of racial and ......
An undisputed giant of twentieth-century Portuguese letters, writer and literary critic Jorge de Sena (1919--1978) spent the most Productive decades of his life away from Portugal, teaching at the University of Wisconsin--Madison and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In the essays gathered in this collection, George Monteiro deftly ......
