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British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and...
Cyclone's Core
Cyclone's Core – A Sci-Fi Military Thriller Dr. Joshua Davidson is his generation's most brilliant scientist. He gets abducted. Months later his signal is picked up in a forsaken desert in Central Asia and U.S. President Carl Carlson orders a raid to get the top-value asset out. But as soon as legendary Navy Seal "Cyclone" Ben Harrow's boots hit the ground in Asia, the Cyclone faces a horrific enemy... This exciting story has it all: It's a thriller. Watch Ben as he faces his worst nightmares come to life. It's a war story. It features Navy Seals, hulking helicopters, propeller gunships, fighter jets, and superbombs. It's a sci-fi story. Some nano-tech machines just beg to be turned loose. And it's a love story. Witness the commitment of a husband to his dying wife. It's full of action and adventure. Be there! science fiction marines, mens action adventure, navy seal seals science fiction adventure, military mystery thriller, dystopian, uzbekistan, nano tech, international thriller suspense mystery, technothriller
British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and...
Adventures in Domesticity
Against a background of 18th-century British colonial wealth and exploitation, Professor Harrow presents the colonial experience as a field against which the interior landscape of the domestic novel - and the domestic ideal - developed and matured, culminating in the Victorian period.
Samuel Johnson in Context
A work of reference on 'the age of Johnson', putting literature in the context of the society that produced it.
Devil's Highway Vol.2 #2
A truck stacked with bodies is discovered along the US/Canada border, and Sharon Harrow and Quentin Skinner are on the case. Their mission: figure out how all of these corpses are connected. And when they uncover the terrifying truth, they will unearth a murder syndicate that has infiltrated the walls of the very institutions meant to protect us. Now our heroes are on the run—hunted by law enforcement and the trucking community—framed for crimes they didn’t commit.
E Pluribus Unum
“Out of many, one.” But how do the many become one without sacrificing difference or autonomy? This problem was critical to both identity formation and state formation in late 18th- and 19th-century America. The premise of this book is that American writers of the time came to view the resolution of this central philosophical problem as no longer the exclusive province of legislative or judicial documents but capable of being addressed by literary texts as well. The project of E Pluribus Unum is twofold. Its first and underlying concern is the general philosophic problem of the one and the many as it came to be understood at the time. W. C. Harris supplies a detailed account of the genea...
New World Courtships
Feminist literary critics have long recognized that the novel's marriage plot can shape the lives of women readers; however, they have largely traced the effects of this influence through a monolithic understanding of marriage. New World Courtships is the first scholarly study to recover a geographically diverse array of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels that actively compare marriage practices from the Atlantic world. These texts trouble Enlightenment claims that companionate marriage leads to women's progress by comparing alternative systems for arranging marriage and sexual relations in the Americas. Attending to representations of marital diversity in early transatlantic novels disrupts nation-based accounts of the rise of the novel and its relation to "the" marriage plot. It also illuminates how and why cultural differences in marriage mattered in the Atlantic world - and shows how these differences might help us to reimagine marital diversity today. This book will appeal to scholars of literature, women's studies, and early American history.
The Imperial Gridiron
The Imperial Gridiron examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918. Students often arrived at Carlisle already engrained with Indigenous ideals of masculinity. On many occasions these ideals would come into conflict with the models of manhood created by the school's original superintendent, Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt believed that Native Americans required the "embrace of civilization," and he emphasized the qualities of self-control, Christian ethics, and retaliatory masculinity. He encouraged sportsmanship and fair play over victory. Pratt's successors, however, adopted a different approach, and victory was enshrined as the main ...
