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Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama...
Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre–dominated by women–achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history.
Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess’s much anticipated...
Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess’s much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them.
Exploring the cultural and political contexts of these writings...
Exploring the cultural and political contexts of these writings and their echoes in popular media, Apocalyptic Fiction also examines how contemporary apocalyptic texts looks back to earlier writings by the likes of Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells and J.G. Ballard. Apocalyptic Fiction includes an annotated guide to secondary readings, making this an essential guide for students of contemporary fiction at all levels.
Organized in a loose chronology with the state’s...
Organized in a loose chronology with the state’s governors, this study shows the persistent nature of women’s candidacies despite a recurring historical amnesia that complicated their progress. Remembering this history deepens our understanding of women running for office today and solidifies their credibility in a long history of women politicians.
When critics decry the current state of our public discourse,...
When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It’s too dumbed-down, they say; it’s no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid. The critics may be right. But, as Charles L. Ponce de Leon explains in That’s the Way It Is , TV news has always walked a fine line between hard news and fluff.
A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive...
A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you. By one expert’s prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about specific products as they browse their local stores.
Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and...
Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist… or so the feminists keep insisting.
Link has won an ardent following for her ability, with each new...
Link has won an ardent following for her ability, with each new short story, to take readers deeply into an unforgettable, brilliantly constructed fictional universe. The nine exquisite examples in this collection show her in full command of her formidable powers.
Bausch plumbs the depths of familial and marital estrangement,...
Bausch plumbs the depths of familial and marital estrangement, the violence of suicide and despair, the gulfs between friends and lovers, the complexities of divorce and infidelity, the fragility and impermanence of love.
It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life...
It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country–its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations. It is The Book of Daniel .
Today Elan Mastai’s acclaimed debut novel is a story of...
Today Elan Mastai’s acclaimed debut novel is a story of friendship and family, of unexpected journeys and alternate paths, and of love in its multitude of forms. It’s 2016, and in Tom Barren’s world, technology has solved all of humanity’s problems – there’s no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocadoes. Unfortunately, Tom isn’t happy.
In this convincing treatise on the United States’ unprecedented...
In this convincing treatise on the United States’ unprecedented ascension as the world’s foremost stand-your-ground nation, Light exposes a history hidden in plain sight, showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged and used as a weapon against the most vulnerable.
Even before Pearl Harbor, the comic book industry enlisted its...
Even before Pearl Harbor, the comic book industry enlisted its formidable army of artists, writers, and editors to dramatize the conflict for readers of every age and interest. Comic book superheroes and everyday characters modeled positive behaviors and encouraged readers to keep scrapping. Ultimately those characters proved to be persuasive icons in the war’s most colorful and indelible propaganda campaign.
Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing...
Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his friends–just like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when the United States went to war with Japan in 1941 and the government forced all people of Japanese ancestry to leave their homes on the West Coast and move to distant prison camps.
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas...
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry’s master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town—with Brown, who believes he’s a girl.
Goaded on by a contemporary culture that establishes value...
Goaded on by a contemporary culture that establishes value through ranking and sorting, universities assess applicants using the vocabulary of private, highly individualized merit. As a result of private merit standards and ever-increasing tuition, our colleges and universities increasingly are failing in their mission to provide educational opportunity and to prepare students for productive and engaged citizenship.
At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie...
At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader.
Kelly illuminates the radical subjects–slavery, poverty,...
Kelly illuminates the radical subjects–slavery, poverty, feminism, the Church, evolution, among them–considered treasonous at the time, that Austen deftly explored in the six novels that have come to embody an age. The author reveals just how in the novels we find the real Jane Austen: a clever, clear-sighted woman “of information,” fully aware of what was going on in the world and sure about what she thought of it.
“After entering a Catholic religious community in 1964 Paul...
“After entering a Catholic religious community in 1964 Paul Giurlanda assumed his life path was set, but after decades of teaching theology, a startling experience of past-life regression forced an exploration into new view of life, especially those found in the writings of Jane Roberts.”
An experienced environmental sociologist, Alissa Cordner...
An experienced environmental sociologist, Alissa Cordner describes how stakeholders use scientific evidence to support nonscientific goals. A revelatory text for public-health advocates, Toxic Safety demonstrates that while all parties interested in health issues use science to support their claims, they do not compete on a level playing field and even good intentions can have deleterious effects.Recent News
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PsycInfo moved to a new platform as of July 17, 2017. Technology instantly started having trouble when it did. We apologize for any...
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Open to SMC students, staff, and faculty Keep a reading log (available in the SMC Library or download here) May 29-Aug. 27 and turn it ...
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On Thursday, April 27th, Saint Mary's College will launch it's third 1Day1SMC 24-hour Giving Challenge. The SMC community will have an...
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The Library is ending this academic year with a bang-- staff and faculty are welcome to come and see cool research plugins!...
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