Explores the extent to which sympathy and sentiment--through the representation of the family--are increasingly employed to construct the notion of a politically affective state in philosophical, political and literary texts. The book offers fresh interpretations of classic and lesser-known works, from Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple to Herman Melville's Billy Budd.
Explores the extent to which sympathy and sentiment--through the representation of the family--are increasingly employed to construct the notion of a ...
"Its range--both chronological and methodological--as well as the consistently high quality of its essays makes this collection stand out. A timely and important collection . . . on literary representations of incest that will] become the touchstone for further work in the field."--Teresa A. Goddu, Vanderbilt University
"These original and provocative essays fill a significant gap in our literary histories of sex and gender."--Bruce Burgett, University of Washington, Bothell
This wide-ranging collection tracks the contradictory roles of incest in Anglo-American literature,...
"Its range--both chronological and methodological--as well as the consistently high quality of its essays makes this collection stand out. A timely...
Business Law is part of a new national program of highly developed texts and modules for undergraduate students following business studies prgograms. It provides 100 hours of quality study to be used by students in a supported learning environment.
Business Law is part of a new national program of highly developed texts and modules for undergraduate students following business studies prgo...
A Family Guidebook on Bullies, Self-Esteem & Hidden Hurts! is the first interactive guidebook for families and their elementary-school children. This guidebook offers information on specific topics and related worksheets that represent the social and emotional interests and issues of children in grades one through five. Each worksheet and role-play is designed to improve communication, resilience, self-esteem and encourage relationship building among elementary-school children. Some of the topics include: Anger Management, Making Mistakes, Teasing, Bullying, Cliques, Kindness, Courage,...
A Family Guidebook on Bullies, Self-Esteem & Hidden Hurts! is the first interactive guidebook for families and their elementary-school children. This ...
Temperance Green Smith wonders what would have happened if she and her best friend, Rhonda Edwards, had gone to the early movie that hot Saturday in July of 1954 in Lenoirville, North Carolina. The only descendant of North Carolina textile workers, Mae and Stedman, as well sa a daughter of twentieth-century social strife, Temperance knows things would have gone differently, much differently. Many years later, she still bears guilt over the hate killing of one who had performed a courageous but costly act on her behalf. Pressed by her counselor, she submits to write her story, "dirty days and...
Temperance Green Smith wonders what would have happened if she and her best friend, Rhonda Edwards, had gone to the early movie that hot Saturday in J...
Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbor as oneself" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Elizabeth Barnes focuses her attention on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to suggest ways of understanding paradoxical relationships between empathy, violence, and religion that took hold so strongly in nineteenth-century American culture.
Looking at works by Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott, among others, Barnes shows how...
Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbor as oneself" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corp...
This book showcases a range of views on topics at the forefront of current controversies in the field of metaphysics. It will give readers a varied and alive introduction to the field, and cover such key issues as: modality, fundamentality, composition, the object/property distinction, and indeterminacy. The contributors include some of the most important philosophers currently writing on these issues. The questions and philosophers are:
Are there any individuals at the fundamental level? / (1) Shamik Dasgupta (2) Jason Turner
Is there an objective...
This book showcases a range of views on topics at the forefront of current controversies in the field of metaphysics. It will give readers a varied...
Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements; but there is a massive disconnect with the way disability is typically viewed within analytic philosophy. The idea that disability is not inherently bad or sub-optimal is one that many philosophers treat with open skepticism, and sometimes even with scorn. The goal of this book is to...
Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, b...
