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Showalter looks closely at three American classics---Little Women, The Awakening, The House of Mirth---and traces the transformations in such major themes, images, and genres of American Women's writing as the American Miranda, the Female Gothic, and the patchwork quilt. Ending with a moving description of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, she shows how the women's tradition is a literary quilt that offers a new map of a changing America.

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the historiography of the First World War. The First World War remains controversial in its conduct and its broader implications, and this volume explores many issues which continue to cause debate, such as Haig's generalship, the role of T.E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt, and the failure of the Dardanelles campaign. It also examines the new approaches to the war stimulated by the fiftieth anniver...

The first scholarly study of the Royal Navy during the reigns of Charles II and James II, this book assesses the traditional picture of the Restoration Navy in the light of recent scholarship, using the evidence not only of Samuel Pepys, the greatest diarist and naval administrator of the age, but also that of his contemporaries. Davies examines the reactions of naval personnel to the demands imposed by Pepys, and analyzes the structure of the...

The correspondence of the Puritan divine Richard Baxter is an unusually rich source of evidence for seventeenth-century history, particularly the period's involved ecclesiastical history and its intellectual, cultural, and bibliographical tastes. These two volumes present the 1250 extant letters by and to Baxter. Presented chronologically, with extensive biographies, annotations, summaries, and contextual notes, many of the letters have never ...

This expertly written volume presents a useful, coherent account of the theory of the cohomology ring of a finite group. The book employs a modern approach from the point of view of homological algebra, and covers themes such as finite generation theorems, the cohomology of wreath products, the norm map, and variety theory. Prerequisites comprise a familiarity with modern algebra comparable to that offered in introductory graduate courses, alt...

This anthology recovers a tradition of writing to which some of the greatest medieval and Renaissance poets--women as well as men--contributed. Centering on Shakespeare's neglected A Lovers Complaint, it includes "female"-voiced lyrics, chronicle poems and fictional letters by a range of authors from Chaucer to Aphra Behn and Henry Carey. In his scholarly introduction, Kerrigan outlines the development of 'female complaint', indicates how cult...

Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was a woman with a "passion for government": a compulsion to wield power not only in her own family but in public affairs as well. The first complete scholarly biography of the Duchess, this book makes full use of recently available manuscript sources to tell the colorful story of a woman at the center of power, whose life spanned more than eighty years from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole. Harris sets Sar...

The first full-scale biography of the poet and playwright James Thomson for forty years, including a full critical analysis of the whole body of his writings. It places him in his social and cultural setting: as an acquaintance of Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot and as a protege of Lord Lyttelton. Also explored is Thomson's involvement in politics.

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This study relates the work of Clausewitz and other military thinkers to their cultural background, and demonstrates how the main currents of modern military thought have evolved from the cultural frameworks of the German Movement and the Enlightenment.

The shaky handwriting of the thirteenth-century scribe known as the "tremulous hand of Worcester" is well known to scholars and students of Old and early Middle English. This book examines the full range of the scribe's work and answers such important questions as why he glossed the words he did and how well he knew or came to know Old English. This first full-scale study of the subject provides a wealth of information about the state of the E...

In 1971, when General Telephone and Electric relocated its GTE Lenkurt plant to Albuquerque, New Mexico, the city fathers were elated. GTE Lenkurt became the largest manufacturing employer in the state. This title uncovers 200 GTE workers (95 per cent of them women, 70 per cent of them Hispanic), each of them had an array of health problems.

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A wealth of information for anyone interested in tropical lobster. The only reference that brings together the hundred of scientific studies on the Caribbean spiny lobster, including Moe's previously unpublished aquaculture research. The information is valuable for the marine science student and professional aquarist, yet is presented in a format that the recreational diver, commercial fisherman, or marine hobbyist can understand and appreciat...

In these fourteen stories Gerald Vizenor leads his crossblood characters out of romantic thickets into a new tribal world of psychotaxidermy, laser holograms, and urban ceremonies.

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