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The First Last Man
Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812254020
Pub Date: April 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Beyond her most famous creation—the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein’s Creature—Mary Shelley’s most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her...
A Marsh Island
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781512824261
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Toward the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded The Country of the Pointed Firs, Jewett declared her “best story” to be...
For the Pleasure of His Company
An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512823875
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) was, during his life, an acclaimed and prolific writer in multiple genres: poetry, travel sketches, personal memoir, and conversion narrative. His most popular...
The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812254051
Pub Date: November 2022
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “Box Brown,” as he came to be...
Faith in Exposure
Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512823516
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Recent legal history in the United States reveals a hardening tendency to treat religious freedom and sexual and reproductive freedom as competing, even opposing, claims on public life. They are united,...
The First Last Man
Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812254020
Pub Date: April 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Beyond her most famous creation—the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein’s Creature—Mary Shelley’s most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her...
A Marsh Island
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781512824261
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Toward the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded The Country of the Pointed Firs, Jewett declared her “best story” to be...
For the Pleasure of His Company
An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512823875
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) was, during his life, an acclaimed and prolific writer in multiple genres: poetry, travel sketches, personal memoir, and conversion narrative. His most popular...
The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812254051
Pub Date: November 2022
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “Box Brown,” as he came to be...
Faith in Exposure
Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512823516
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Recent legal history in the United States reveals a hardening tendency to treat religious freedom and sexual and reproductive freedom as competing, even opposing, claims on public life. They are united,...