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Doctoring the Novel
Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle
By Sylvia A. PamboukianIf nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Little Dorrit, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Wilkie Collins’s Armadale, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stark Munro Letters.…
Gravel and Hawk
Poems
By Nick NorwoodGravel and Hawk dwells on the physical and cultural landscapes of the Texarkana border region, an area of stark natural beauty and even starker manifestations of its human habitation: oil derricks and pump jacks, logging trucks, chicken houses, come-to-Jesus billboards, and greasy catfish joints, a patchwork of dying farm towns and ragtag municipalities laced together by county roads, state highways, and that treacherous, rust-hued slurry known as the Red River.…
Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America
Edited by David M. Gordon and Shepard Krech IIIndigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as “indigenous” resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters.…
Ministers of Fire
A Novel
By Mark Harril SaundersMinisters of Fire opens in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1979, where, the author writes, “the world we know was born.” CIA station chief Lucius Burling, an idealistic but flawed product of his nation’s intelligence establishment, barely survives the assassination of the American ambassador.…
Power, Change, and Gender Relations in Rural Java
A Tale of Two Villages
By Ann R. Tickamyer and Siti KusujiartiWomen’s status in rural Java can appear contradictory to those both inside and outside the culture. In some ways, women have high status and broad access to resources, but other situations suggest that Javanese women lack real power and autonomy.…
- Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic
- Absent Man
The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt - Access with Attitude
An Advocate’s Guide to Freedom of Information in Ohio - Africa Writes Back
The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature - The African AIDS Epidemic
A History - An African American in South Africa
The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche 28 September 1937–1 January 1938 - African Apocalypse
The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet - African Entrepreneurship
Muslim Fula Merchants in Sierra Leone - The African Experience with Higher Education
- The African Genius
New Paperback Edition - African Gifts of the Spirit
Pentecostalism & the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement - African Intellectuals and Decolonization
- African Islam and Islam in Africa
Encounters between Sufis and Islamists - African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine
- African Sacred Groves
Ecological Dynamics and Social Change - African Soccerscapes
How a Continent Changed the World’s Game - African Underclass
Urbanisation, Crime, & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam - African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900–1950
- After Tears
- After the Grapes of Wrath
Essays on John Steinbeck in Honor of Tetsumaro Hayashi - After the TRC
Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation - The AIA Guide to Columbus
- Alberta Alone
- Alberta and Freedom
- Album Quilts of Ohio’s Miami Valley
- Alexander the Great
A Novel Tr. from the Greek by Theodora Vasils - Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits
War in Northern Uganda, 1985-97 - All Flesh is Grass
The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming - All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing
An Explanation of Meter and Versification - Ambiguous Dancers of Fame
Collected Poems: 1945-1986 - American and British Poetry
A Guide to the Criticism, 1925-1978 - American and British Poetry
A Guide to the Criticism, 1979-1990 - An American Colony
Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture - American Coverlets and Their Weavers
Coverlets from the Collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl - American Fantasies
Collected Poems, 1945-1981 - American Moralist
On Law, Ethics, and Government - American Pantheon
Sculptural and Artistic Decoration of the United States Capitol - American Pogrom
The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics - An American Vein
Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature - The Americans Are Coming!
Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa - America’s Collectible Cookbooks
The History, the Politics, the Recipes - America’s Sketchbook
The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre - An Amulet of Greek Earth
Generations of Immigrant Folk Culture - Amy Levy
Her Life and Letters - Amy Levy
Critical Essays - The Anatomy of a South African Genocide
The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples - Ancient Sisterhood
The Lost Traditions of Hagar and Sarah - And Still Birds Sing
New and Collected Poems - Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs
Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel - Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913
A Critical Anthology - Annotated Bibliography of Jane Austen Studies, 1984-94
- Anthropology and Historiography of Science
- Antonin Artaud
Man of Vision - Apartheid’s Genesis
- The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree
Stories - Aquamarine Blue 5
Personal Stories of College Students with Autism - An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley
- Architecture in Cincinnati
An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City - Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977–1984
- The Armillary Sphere
Poems - Arrows of Longing
The Correspondence between Anais Nin and Felix Pollak, 1952-1976 - Art and Empire
The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815–1860 - Art and Science of Book Publishing
- Art and the Reformation in Germany
- Art As Image
Prints and Promotion in Cincinnati, Ohio - Art in Context
Understanding Aesthetic Value - Asylum on the Hill
History of a Healing Landscape - At the Palaces of Knossos
- Athens, Ohio
The Village Years - Aurora Leigh
- Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979
- Awakening
- Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast
Pitting the Imaginary Worlds against the Actual - Azores
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