1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457059403321

Autore

Reiss Benjamin

Titolo

The showman and the slave [[electronic resource] ] : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-674-04265-4

Edizione

[1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

306/.0973/09034

Soggetti

Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century

Women slaves - United States

Freak shows - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Whites - Race identity - United States

African Americans in popular culture - History - 19th century

Racism in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century

Death in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Northeastern States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- AckrunvZedgments -- Introduction: The Dark Subject -- 1. DEATH AND DYING -- 1. Possession -- 2. The Celebrated Curiosity -- 3. Private Acts, Public Memories -- 4. Sacred and Profane -- 5. Culture Wars -- 6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber -- 7. Spectacle -- II. RESURRECTION -- 8. Authenticity and Commodity -- 9. Exposure and Mastery -- 10. Erasure -- III. LIFE -- 11. A Speculative Biography -- Note to the 2010 Printing -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American



history.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781180203321

Titolo

Coming into contact [[electronic resource] ] : explorations in ecocritical theory and practice / / edited by Annie Merrill Ingram ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-72617-X

9786612726170

0-8203-3668-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

IngramAnnie Merrill <1961->

Disciplina

810.9/355

Soggetti

Ecology in literature

American literature - History and criticism

Environmental literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Human ecology in literature

Environmental protection in literature

Nature in literature

Ecocriticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Part one. Who are we? where are we? : exploring the boundaries of ecocriticism -- Of swamp dragons : mud, megalopolis, and a future for ecocriticism / Anthony Lioi -- Challenging the confines : Haiku from the prison camps / Angela Waldie -- Beyond Walden Pond : Asian American literature and the limits of ecocriticism / Robert T. Hayashi -- To name is to claim, or remembering place : Native American writers reclaim the Northeast / Lee Schweninger -- Lynching sites : where trauma and pastoral collide / Daniel J. Martin -- ; Part two. The solid Earth! the actual world! : environmental discourse and practice -- Composition and the rhetoric of eco-effective design / Tim Lindgren -- A mosaic of landscapes : ecological restoration and the work of Leopold, Coetzee, and Silko / James Barilla -- Apocalyptic or



precautionary? : revisioning texts in environmental literature / Amy M. Patrick -- Facing the true costs of living : Arundhati Roy and Ishimure Michiko on dams and writing / Bruce Allen --Romanticism and the city : toward a green architecture / Onno Oerlemans -- Annie Dillard and the Book of Job : notes toward a postnatural ecocriticism / David Mazel -- ; Part three. Contact! contact! : interdisciplinary connections -- Seeking common ground : integrating the sciences and the humanities / Laura Dassow Walls -- Mindless fools and leaves that run : subjectivity, politics, and myth in scientific nomenclature / Jennifer C. Wheat -- Reading after Darwin : a prospectus / Michael P. Cohen -- Of spiders, ants, and carnivorous plants : domesticity and Darwin in Mary Treat's Home studies in nature / Tina Gianquitto --The great, shaggy barbaric Earth : geological writings of John Burroughs / Jeff Walker.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154306403321

Autore

Weber Cynthia

Titolo

Queer international relations : sovereignty, sexuality and the will to knowledge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-046205-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Oxford studies in gender and international relations Queer international relations

Disciplina

327.1086/642

Soggetti

International relations - Social aspects

Queer theory

Marginality, Social

Human rights

International Relations

Law, Politics & Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book puts International Relations scholarship and Queer Studies scholarship in conversation to tell a story about how sovereignty and



sexuality are entangled in international relations theory and policy through numerous figurations of 'the homosexual' - as 'the underdeveloped', 'the un-developable', 'the unwanted im/migrant', 'the terrorist', 'the gay rights holder', 'the gay patriot' and Eurovision-winner Conchita Wurst's 'bearded lady'"-- $c Provided by publisher.