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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture
(Cornell University Press, 1993)Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction—the Victorian “fallen woman” represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar ... -
Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction
(Cornell University Press, 1986)Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three ... -
Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents
(Cornell University Press, 2019)Unpacking of the dynamics of conflict under conditions of nuclear monopoly, Paul C. Avey argues in Tempting Fate that the costs and benefits of using nuclear weapons create openings that weak nonnuclear actors can exploit. ... -
Textbook of Arthropod Anatomy
(Cornell University Press, 1952)The facts of arthropod structure are presented in clear, easy-to-use fashion in this text by R. E. Snodgrass. Examples of each of the classes from trilobites to insects are given. Musculature and mechanism of legs, eyes, ... -
The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France
(Cornell University Press, 2019)The Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it. Focusing on the Reign of Terror, Ronen Steinberg challenges the presumption ... -
The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought
(Cornell University Press, 1992)The enduring appeal of liberalism lies in its commitment to the idea that human beings have a “natural” potential to live as free and equal individuals. The realization of this potential, however, is not a matter of nature, ... -
The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India
(Cornell University Press, 2020)Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire? Studying closely the oral narrations and writings of four Indian authors in colonial India, The Audacious Raconteur argues that ... -
The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford
(Cornell University Press, 1987)The Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford, attempting to explain how the novel turned away from its traditional concern with ... -
The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom
(Cornell University Press, 2016)There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and ... -
The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene
(Cornell University Press, 2021)In The Cold War from the Margins, Theodora K. Dragostinova reappraises the global 1970s from the perspective of a small socialist state—Bulgaria—and its cultural engagements with the Balkans, the West, and the Third World. ... -
The Comstocks of Cornell: John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock
(Cornell University Press, 1953)The Comstocks of Cornell is the autobiography written by naturalist educator Anna Botsford Comstock about her life and her husband's, entomologist John Henry Comstock—both prominent figures in the scientific community and ... -
The Consequences of Humiliation: Anger and Status in World Politics
(Cornell University Press, 2020)The Consequences of Humiliation explores the nature of national humiliation and its impact on foreign policy. Joslyn Barnhart demonstrates that Germany's catastrophic reaction to humiliation at the end of World War I is ... -
The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century
(Cornell University Press, 1984)From the central concept of the field—which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field— have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and ... -
The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America
(Cornell University Press, 2021)In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The ... -
The Democracy Development Machine: Neoliberalism, Radical Pessimism, and Authoritarian Populism in Mayan Guatemala
(Cornell University Press, 2019)Nicholas Copeland sheds new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and post-conflict settings in The Democracy Development Machine. This historical ethnography examines how governmentalized spaces of ... -
The Discourse of Modernism
(Cornell University Press, 1982)Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss ... -
The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926
(Cornell University Press, 1992)The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology under Soviet rule. Jonathan ... -
The Ethics of Criticism
(Cornell University Press, 1988)Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in ... -
The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama
(Cornell University Press, 1988)A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches ... -
The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors
(Cornell University Press, 1983)Harry Shaw’s aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its formal possibilities and limitations. His wide-ranging book establishes a typology of the ways in which history ...
