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Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now
Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement
Edited by Kate Parker and Miriam L. Wallace
“Where do eighteenth-century teachers know from? True to its title, this remarkable collection shares the processes of some of the field’s most gifted and creative teachers. Anyone still trying to woo (and serve) their students with the eighteenth century should read this in its entirety.” —Manushag Powell, coeditor of Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s: The Long Eighteenth Century
Nature Fantasies
Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America
by Gabriel Horowitz
“A formidable and provocative examination of the role of nature thinking (and nature writing) in the historical transition from cultural decolonization to the modern biopolitical state in Latin America. A must-read for anyone interested in the ways nature and politics intersect.” —Alejandro Quin, coeditor of Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America: Exposing Paraguay
Making Modern Spain
Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production
by Azariah Alfante
“Making Modern Spain is a groundbreaking scholarly achievement and required reading for anybody interested in the intersections of literature, culture, and religion in Spain in the long nineteenth century.” —José Colmeiro, coeditor of Rethinking Iberian Studies from the Periphery
Women and Music in the Age of Austen
Edited by Linda Zionkowski with Miriam F. Hart
“Through these essays by musically-informed literary scholars and musicologists, readers get a sense of the possibilities and desires of women engaged with music over a historical period that brackets the life of our beloved Jane.” —Maribeth Clark, coeditor of Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives
Events
- Tuesday, 30 April 2024
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National Poetry Month (April 1-30)
Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Each year the month of April is set aside as National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate poets and their craft. Various events are held throughout the month by the Academy of American Poets and other poetry organizations.
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- Friday, 17 May 2024
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Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology, edited by Judith G. Miller with Sylvie Chalaye
Friday, 17 May 2024
Bringing together in English translation eleven Francophone African plays dating from 1970 to 2021, this essential collection includes satirical portraits of colonizers and their collaborators (Bernard Dadié’s Béatrice du Congo; Sony Labou Tansi’s I, Undersigned, Cardiac Case; Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou’s We’re Just Playing) alongside contemporary works questioning diasporic identity and cultural connections (Koffi Kwahulé’s SAMO: A Tribute to Basquiat and Penda Diouf’s Tracks, Trails, and Traces…). Read more.
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- Friday, 14 June 2024
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Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751, by Dayne C. Riley
Friday, 14 June 2024
Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries—a period of vast economic change—recognized the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral pitfalls. This engaging and original study explores how literary satirists represented these consumables—and related anxieties about the changing nature of Britishness—in their work. Read more.
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- Wednesday, 19 June 2024
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Juneteenth
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
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- Sunday, 30 June 2024
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LGBTQ+ Pride Month (June 1-30)
Sunday, 30 June 2024
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