Formations of the Postsecular in British Romanticism
Religion is not merely a different way of thinking but is rather an alternative manner of being-it is both a way of attending to the world and a form of embodiment. Literature provides another key to legislating new ways of being in the world. Some of the best Romantic literature can be understood as experimental attempts to access and harness ......
The Debate Over Slavery and Black Exclusion in Nineteenth-Century America
The long history and lasting impact of the rhetoric of Black exclusion in American politics and culture In 1787, Thomas Jefferson declared that the United States was destined to become a nation free of slavery - and of its entire Black population. Following his cue, Henry Clay and other prominent politicians founded the American Colonization ......
The Debate Over Slavery and Black Exclusion in Nineteenth-Century America
The long history and lasting impact of the rhetoric of Black exclusion in American politics and culture In 1787, Thomas Jefferson declared that the United States was destined to become a nation free of slavery - and of its entire Black population. Following his cue, Henry Clay and other prominent politicians founded the American Colonization ......
America's War for Independence dramatically affected the speed and nature of broader social, cultural, and political changes including those shaping the place and roles of women in society. Women fought the American Revolution in many ways, in a literal no less than a figurative sense. Whether Loyalist or Patriot, Indigenous or immigrant enslaved ......
America's War for Independence dramatically affected the speed and nature of broader social, cultural, and political changes including those shaping the place and roles of women in society. Women fought the American Revolution in many ways, in a literal no less than a figurative sense. Whether Loyalist or Patriot, Indigenous or immigrant enslaved ......
George Washington lived in an age of revolutions, during which he faced political upheaval, war, economic change, and social shifts. These revolutions affected American women in profound ways, and the women Washington knew-personally, professionally, and politically-lived lives that reveal these multifaceted transformations. Although Washington ......
Reading Aloud and the Politics of Attention from Austen to Audiobooks
A cultural and literary history of domestic reading aloud "Listening," a recent Audible advertising campaign proclaimed, "is the new reading." But this is no new phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, reading aloud was one of the most popular evening entertainments and one of the primary ways people consumed fiction. In Willful Listeners, Kate ......
Reading Aloud and the Politics of Attention from Austen to Audiobooks
A cultural and literary history of domestic reading aloud "Listening," a recent Audible advertising campaign proclaimed, "is the new reading." But this is no new phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, reading aloud was one of the most popular evening entertainments and one of the primary ways people consumed fiction. In Willful Listeners, Kate ......
We are living in the midst of the Earth’s sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earth’s systems? Amidst ......
