Bodies and Books : Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America [1 ed.] 9780812206180, 9780812244151

Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America 9780812206180

This book argues that the practice of reading in nineteenth-century America was rooted in fantasies of communion. In han

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The Communion of the Book: Milton and the Humanist Revolution in Reading 9780228015857

How reading instituted modern values – and how readers were the makers of the modern world. It was neither the civiliz

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Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America 9780822375722

In a book that completely changes the terms of the pornography debate, Laura Kipnis challenges the position that porn pe

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Bound and gagged: pornography and the politics of fantasy in America 9780822375722, 9780822323433

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Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America 9780812294934

How did descriptions of individuals' appearance reinforce emergent categories of race? In Colonial Complexions, mor

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Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933 9780814789803

The United States lost thousands of troops during World War I, and the government gave next-of-kin a choice about what t

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The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century 9781771965415, 9781771965422

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Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America 9781512823172

Under the Skin investigates the role of body modification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America, revealin

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Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales 9780804771061

Ambiguous Bodies draws from theories of the grotesque to examine many of the strange and extraordinary creatures and phe

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Books and Religious Devotion: The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England 9780271065106

In Books and Religious Devotion, Allan Westphall presents a study of the book-collecting habits and annotation practices

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