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The Great Industrial War, a comprehensive assessment of how class has been interpreted by the media in American history, documents the rise and fall of a frightening concept: industrial war. Moving beyond the standard account of labor conflict as struggles between workers and management, Troy Rondinone asks why Americans viewed big strikes as "battles" in "irrepressible conflict" between the armies of capital and laborùa terrifying clash between workers, strikebreakers, police, and soldiers. Examining how the mainstream press along with the writings of a select group of influential reformers and politicians framed strike news, Rondinone argues that the Civil War, coming on the cusp of a revolution in industrial productivity, offered a gruesome, indelible model for national conflict. He follows the heated discourse on class war through the nineteenth century until its general dissipation in the mid-twentieth century. Incorporating labor history, cultural studies, linguistic anthropology, and sociology, The Great Industrial War explores the influence of historical experience on popular perceptions of social order and class conflict and provides a reinterpretation of the origins and meaning of the Taft-Hartley Act and the industrial relations regime it supported.
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The purpose of this essay was to expand the ways critics think about Harlem and the Heights following the Great Depression by recovering women's creative responses to social and political angst in predominantly Catholic spaces.
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The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake's Prophetic Symbolism is the first full-length study devoted to interpreting Blake's three long poems, showing the ways in which the Bible, myth, and politics merge in his prophetic symbolism. In this book, G. A. Rosso examines the themes of empire and religion through the lens of one of Blake's most distinctive and puzzling images, Rahab, a figure that anchors an account of the development of Blake's political theology in the latter half of his career. Through the Rahab figure, Rosso argues, Blake interweaves the histories of religion and empire in a wide-ranging attack on the conceptual bases of British globalism in the long eighteenth century. This approach reveals the vast potential that the question of religion offers to a reconsideration of Blake's attitude to empire. The Religion of Empire also reevaluates Blake's relationship with Milton, whose influence Blake both affirms and contests in a unique appropriation of Milton's prophetic legacy. In this context, Rosso challenges recent views of Blake as complicit with the nationalism and sexism of his time, expanding the religion-empire nexus to include Blake's esoteric understanding of gender. Foregrounding the role of female characters in the longer prophecies, Rosso discloses the variegated and progressive nature of Blake's apocalyptic humanism.
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"American women's suffrage activists were fascinated with suffrage themed postcards. They collected them, exchanged them, wrote about them, used them as fundraisers and organized 'postcard day' campaigns. The cards they produced were imaginative and ideological, advancing arguments for the enfranchisement of women and responding to antisuffrage broadsides. Publishers were also interested in suffrage cards, recognizing their profit potential"--
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"Representing the Modern Animal in Culture is a collection of twelve essays that investigate representations of animals and of the lives they share with humans. Starting with the eighteenth century but focusing on primarily the nineteenth century through the present day, these essays two sets of differences: the multifarious modes of representations that have materialized from the publication of Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, and the range of animal lives, and human-animal relationships, that have emerged over this time. The collection is divided into three sections that focus on some of the most noteworthy relationships and prototypical representations and themes over the past three centuries: 1. depictions of domesticated animals, with their emphasis on nonfiction and identity; 2. imaginative reconstructions, with their focus on authors' self-conscious acts of creation in the age of Darwin; and 3. contemporary modes, with their interest in the posthuman and their specific aim to both cross and merge the animal-human divide"--
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Hochman met his goal to develop, research and write a new study on J.D. Salinger. The manuscript "Harvesting Salinger's Rye" was completed and has been submitted to various publishers. He also engaged in non-Salinger scholarship delivering conference papers on creative writing. Hochman also used the sabbatical time to make improvements in his teaching and course content and to engage in professional reading.
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Leave employed to complete draft of full manuscript of new poetry collection, now entitled About to Say.
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"This work analyzes 70 different categories of suffrage memorabilia, while providing numerous images of relevant objects along the way, and discusses these innovative production methods. Most important, this study looks at period accounts, often fascinating, of how, why, when, and where the memorabilia were used in both America and England"--
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An account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in the 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge.
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"Set amidst North Baton Rouge's inferno of industries and refineries, smack in the middle of low-rent crime and violence, The jumper is a fast-paced and gritty tale about characters who'd intimidate the thugs of a 1930s hard-boiled novel. Parrish's visceral yet lyrical prose, his structuring of fictional time, and his clear moral vision transform these tough-guy elements into an experience somehow luminescent, emotionally disturbing, and completely uplifting."--Back cover.
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Mad River Literary Festival Collection
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Sabbatical research investigating the literary culture of New Haven, Connecticut, during the first half of the 19th century, encompasing book importers, booksellers, publishers, newspapers, periodicals, libraries, and literary societies. Based on extensive local collections dispersed throughout local repositories.
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