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Explores the uses of Shakespeare in Manhattan’s Lower East Side from the 1890s to 1920s, as part of a cultural exchange among non-Anglo and Anglo-identified groups, intermingling different communities’ ideas about what Shakespeare, race, and national belonging should and could mean for Americans.
In this book, Jeffery Merrick brings together a rich array of primary-source documents—many of which are published or translated here for the first time—that depict in detail the policing of same-sex populations in eighteenth-century France and the ways in which Parisians regarded what they called sodomy or pederasty and tribadism. ......
Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue.
Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater and performative poetry ......
Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines
Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde.
Questions such as How do you imagine Latin America? and What should ......
Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America
A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn’s Treaty Tree. ......
Lois Pritchard, a general practitioner at the Welsh Llangandida Health Centre and part-time staff at her local Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) clinic, is a forty-year-old, divorced, sarcastic smoker who by her own admission is “not very good with relationships.” But when her estranged mother makes a dramatic reappearance demanding a ......
ou l'art de forger les « mythes » dans l'« aire culturelle » syro-mésopotamienne, méditerranéenne et indo-européenne (State Archives of Assyria
A study of religious and historical myths, analyzing several interrelated mythical themes (storm god, young hero, chaos, combat with monsters, kingship, final judgment, organization of the cosmos, and foundation of kingship) encountered in the ancient oikumene extending from the Eastern Mediterranean to India.
In this magnum opus, N. J. C. Kouwenberg presents a thoroughgoing, modern analysis of the Akkadian verbal system, taking into account all of the currently available evidence for the language during the course of the long period of its attestation. The book achieves this goal through two strategies: (1) to describe the Akkadian verbal ......
At the Intersection of Philology and Hermeneutics in Deuteronomy and the Temple Scroll
The historical-critical method that characterizes academic biblical studies too often remains separate from approaches that stress the history of interpretation, which are employed more frequently in the area of Second Temple or Dead Sea Scrolls research. Inaugurating the new series, Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible, A More Perfect ......
