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  • Gender in American Literature and Culture

    Edited by Jennifer Travis, Jean M. Lutes ...
    Series series Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
    Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Wounded Hearts

    Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture

    by Jennifer Travis ...
    The literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century. Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, Jennifer Travis suggests a new approach to reading emotionalism among men. She argues that the vocabulary of injury, with its evaluations of victimhood and its ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Boys Don't Cry?

    Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.

    Edited by Milette Shamir, Jennifer Travis ...
    We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This collection of essays by prominent literary and cultural critics rethinks such commonly held views by ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-century American Literature

    Crash and Burn

    by Jennifer Travis ...
    Nineteenth-Century Americans saw danger lurking everywhere: in railway cars and trolleys, fireplaces and floods, and amid social and political movements, from the abolition of slavery to suffrage. After the Civil War, Americans were shaken by financial panic and a volatile post-slave economy. They were awe-struck and progressively alarmed by technological innovations that promised speed and ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Teaching with Digital Humanities

    Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Jennifer Travis, Jessica DeSpain, Nicole N Aljoe, Elizabeth Argentieri, Blair Best, Tisha M Brooks, Madeleine (Maddie) G Cella, Benjamin J Doyle, Amy E Earhart0, Duncan Faherty1, Eric Gardner2, Ella L Gill3, Clayton Grimm4, Cynthia L Hallen5, Molly O'Hagan Hardy6, Elizabeth Hopwood7, Teagan Rabuano8, Ashley Reed9, Lawrence G Richardson0, Augusta Rohrbach1, Victoria K Sprowls2, Catherine Waitinas3, Ed White4 ...
    Series series Topics in the Digital Humanities
    Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain present a long-overdue collection of theoretical perspectives and case studies aimed at teaching nineteenth-century American literature using digital humanities tools and methods. Scholars foundational to the development of digital humanities join educators who have made digital methods central to their practices. Together they discuss and illustrate how digital ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Covering

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  • Black Looks

    Race and Representation

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    In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk ... Read more

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  • Mouths of Rain

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  • Women in Culture

    An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women's Studies

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    The thoroughly revised Women in Culture 2/e explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, gender identity, and spirituality from the perspectives of diverse global locations. Its strong humanities content, including illustrations and creative writing, uniquely embraces the creative aspects of the field.Each of the ten thematic chapters lead to creative readings, introducing a moreReadings ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Criticism

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