The 1960s, including the black social movements of the period, are an obstacle to understanding the current conditions of African Americans, argues Clarence Lang. While Americans celebrate the current
Only a few plays by Sophocles—one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens—have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. S
A critical intervention in international communications, in which an array of eminent scholars challenge the Western-dominated conceptions of the field
"Patrick Paul Hogan's A Student Commentary on Pausanias Book 1 introduces the first book of Pausanias' 'Description of Greece' to students of Classical Greek. Pausanias' second century CE work is the
This study chronicles four large manufacturers during a period of crisis and restructuring when they needed vast sums of money just to survive- let alone adapt to remain competitive. By focusing on ho
Amphibians and reptiles in the Great Lakes region are increasingly under threat from human activity. These species, many of which have historically restricted ranges or specialized habitat requirement
Today mammals include over 5,500 living species and occupy every major environment. The Great Lakes region is home to 83 species, ranging from tiny shrews that weigh less than a tenth of an ounce to i
Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of 50 Shades of Gray has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential huma
Television audiences and its industry alike have been confused by the emergence of new ways to watch television. On one hand, the programs seem every bit like the television we’ve long known, while th
This examination of US campaign finance reform is written to be accessible to scholars, students, and even non-experts with some background knowledge of US politics. The authors reveal the results of
The author examines celebrities during Restoration and 18th-century London and how they tried to protect their privacy through the strategy of performance she calls “overexpression,” which allowed the
The author examines how literature by American authors from the 1830s to the 1930s used the analytical strategies and tools of the classical detective fiction genre while dismissing its formulaic natu
This study examines the role of vermin in early modern literature, science, and political ideology. Literary works discussed include Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Cowley’s The Jew of Malta, and Defoe’s Journ
This study analyzes avant-garde photomontage art created by German artists in the 1920s and 1930s associated with the Dada, Constructivism, and New Objectivity movements. There is special focus on how
Svensson proposes big digital humanities as a model for the digital humanities that draws on the humanities; on the space between ideas and institutions; on the traditions and emerging configurations
It has become something of a critical commonplace to claim that science fiction does not actually exist in Argentina. This book puts that claim to rest by identifying and analyzing a rich body of work
Big Digital Humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles Patrik Svensson published in the Digital Humanities Quarterly between 2009 and 2012. As these articles were coming out, enthusias
