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Interpreting the Nazi era using the basic diagnostic tools provided by the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Judaeo-Christian culture, and contemporary German-language writers, this book provides an alternative approach to the topic of the individual German's entanglement with the Hitler regime.

Examining the emergence of modernity within the philosophical and political debates of the 16th century, this book analyzes the ""great confusion"". It features such thinkers as Calvin, Althusius, Hooker, Bracciolini, Savonarola, Copernicus, Tycho de Brahe, Giordano Bruno and Jean Bodin.

An exploration of the interior life of the American writer James Agee through the different but continuous versions of the Agee personae as they appear in his books. The biography counters the prevalent misconceptions about Agee's work and its confusion with details of his actual life.

William Marion Reedy was editor of the ""Mirror"" from 1891 to 1920, and was instrumental in breaking down the genteel literary tradition in the US, developing a native poetry, and helping to form 50 significant poets. This book studies Reedy's work and his notable contribution to the literary world.

Featuring 12 critical investigations of influential Spanish female essayists, this text illustrates their command of the genre, their incorporation of both the ideological and the aesthetic into one form, and their use of various strategies for influencing their readers.

Spanning the colonial era to the mid-20th century, this book documents women from widely varied social, economic, religious, and ethnic backgrounds from the American South. It examines how they acted outside the accepted gender boundaries of their day.

This volume identifies two distinct beginnings of the movement toward modern political consciousness, the Renaissance and the Reformation. It analyzes the political ideas that first emerged during the Renaissance and Reformation and considers their presence in modern thought.

Beginning with a comprehensive survey of US trade following the Civil War, this text is a detailed examination of the economic and political forces behind the rapid increase in American trade with both Canada and Latin America during the last third of the 19th century.

This text provides an insight into the concerns of 1930s American women, It is a collection of letters and responses from an advice column in the ""Ladies Home Journal"" that addressed mental health issues and reader's questions, such as cheating husbands, problem children and in-laws.

The third volume in the Russian-American dialogue series, this work provides English translations of Russian scholarship on cultural relations. Each essay originally appeared as an article in the former Soviet Union.

This work argues that much of the humour from which the young Mark Twain derived much of his early models had the same sort of arrogance as American Puritan thought. It also considers the work of writers such as Hawthorne, Melville and Howells.

This text provides a historiography of the Truman administration as well as a history of public health. It details the road to comprehensive health care in the USA and the legislative victories and defeats that occurred during the Truman years.

The second volume in the ""Russian-American Dialogues"" series, this collection of essays covers topics pertaining to the American Revolution, the single most important event in American history. Each Russian essay is followed by a commentary from an American historian of the American Revolution.

In a series of humorous observations, this work explores the art of writing, its relationship to place and its importance in our lives. The author also reflects on being a women writer.

This is an analysis of selected texts viewed as cultural responses to military tyranny, and especially to the military dictatorship in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The work goes on to study the process of institutional redemocratisation.

Wit is one of the fundamental keys to the theory and practice of 17th-century English poetry. The 12 essays collected in this volume argue that to study the wit of 17th-century poetry is to address concerns at the heart of the period's literary culture.

Treating the sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson as an autobiographical text, this book establishes that his years in the pulpit were pivotal and that his sermons are key texts in revealing the essential development of his thought, particularly his conception of self-reliance and the heroic ideal.

This work attacks the foundational principles of poststructuralism and offers in their stead a new theory that situates literary criticism within the matrix of evolutionary theory. Opposing textualism and indeterminacy, the author affiliates himself with a realist and naturalist perspective.

This critical text examines the work of six anti-slavery novelists from 19th-century Cuba and analyses the authenticity of the slave protagonists' testimony. Williams incorporates recent narrative theory and original historical documents, such as the correspondence of Domingo del Monte.

Originally published in 1889, ""Asolando"" was Browning's final volume of poetry. This book is a combination of biography and Kennedy's critical commentary on Browning's personal poems, his love poems, and those on religion, philosophy, and art.

Offers a set of photographs which are intended to enhance the reader's knowledge of the largely autobiographical work of Thomas Wolfe. The photographs are of Wolfe's family and close associates (his strong-willed father and Aline Bernstein, the older woman he loved), his childhood and so on.

In this study, four writers and committed conservationists team up with photographers to capture the compelling history, beauty and recreational value of Missouri's unique state park system. The geology, physical geography and historic geographical aspects of the parks are detailed.

A selection of 12 essays examining the work of respected poets from the 16th and 17th centuries. The two main themes which are developed analyze the context of religious controversy within which this poetry developed, and the relationship of poetry to the visual arts.

Originally published in German in 1966, this is the first English paperback version of this text. It is an overview of the author's philosophy of human consciousness and the effect that it has had on history.

Lamb, Hazlitt and Coleridge were often repelled by contemporary productions of Shakespeare that were decked out to appeal primarily to the senses. Heller examines their own theories of drama which conceived of a medium which would transcend the senses and engage the imagination.

Considers Spanish literature written during the Spanish golden age as expressions of ideological and epistemological concerns articulated throughout Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The author examines the major genres, the numerous canonical authors and their works in this context.