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Book SynopsisExamines the medical discourse on abortion in the United States from the 1800s to the 1960s. Demonstrates that abortion was seen as a sign of social pathology indicating undoing of civilization.Trade Review“In Sign of Pathology, Nathan Stormer provides an original genealogical reading of the U.S. medical profession’s public discourses about abortion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Anyone who appreciates Foucauldian perspectives should find admirable Stormer’s precisely developed argument that these medical discourses ‘made the chaotic material conditions of abortion’s morbidity rhetorically capacious for biopolitics.’”—Celeste M. Condit,University of Georgia“Nathan Stormer has written a stunning book, beautifully illustrating how rhetorical struggles over and through abortion have long been about situating ourselves—and pregnant women—in time and place. Civilization is recursive to the maternal body, with abortion positioned as a sign of collective disorder. It is precisely because abortion is a medicalized national metric that the issue is so intractable. Defined through biopolitics, abortion is perceived as a collective, irreparable wound, and ongoing political struggles reliant on familiar frameworks only deepen this intractability. Stormer’s elegant genealogy, both diagnostic and gently prognostic, has the capacity to shift how we see human reproduction and our place in it.”—Monica J. Casper,University of Arizona“If your primary scholarship is in abortion rhetorics or historic American medical rhetorics, then this text is an indispensable and invaluable contribution to your area. Similarly, for those interested in rhetorical genealogy and/or rhetorical historiography, broadly conceived, Signs of Pathology is an exemplar text in the genre.”—S. Scott Graham Rhetoric & Public AffairsTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Struggling Through LifePart 11. When Abortion Became a Political-Economic Problem2. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Secrets of LifePart 23. “White Man’s Plague”: Anti-Malthusian Memory Work at the Fin de Siècle4. “More Wisdom in Living”: Neo-Malthusian Memory Work at Midcentury5. “The Lesser of Threatened Evils”: Therapeutic AmnesiasConclusion: Seeking ImmunityNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining the writings of William James. Provides a reinterpretation of pragmatism to devise philosophical resources for pragmatist feminism that challenge sexism and male privilege.Trade Review“William James has often been praised for highlighting the more ‘feminine’ dimensions of philosophy, while being criticized for ignoring important ‘feminist’ considerations. The present volume focuses on and highlights this conundrum, and it does so in a rich and informative manner. James’s many contributions are acknowledged, but his work is viewed, and elaborated upon, from a broader perspective of feminism.”—William Gavin,University of Southern Maine“The authors show that James's work clearly presents difficulties for feminists and how feminists might engage with James's ethical philosophy, the role of the body, and matters of epistemology. The editing is well executed, and explanatory notes appear throughout. Though the book is best suited to scholars with a background in James's work, the descriptions and analyses are convincing and will be useful even to those without significant prior exposure to James.”—M. K. Bloodsworth-Lugo Choice“This volume represents some of the best applications of feminist pragmatist scholarship. It also takes seriously the documented sexism of a seemingly socially progressive and well-intentioned pragmatist philosopher, William James. . . . This method of rereading the canon serves as a model for feminists to generate complex and rich interpretive horizons that don't excuse the sexism of the philosopher as accidental to his philosophical theories, nor advocate a wholesale rejection of the philosopher's work as essentially sexist, but seek a middle interpretive ground that critically engages the philosopher's social prejudice while attempting to transform pragmatist thought toward meeting the goals of feminist projects.”—Celia Bardwell-Jones Hypatia Reviews Online“A welcome and lively contribution on William James, and adds significantly to the series’ wider reconstructive project. . . . James is here revealed warts-and-all, and that certainly is to the good of Jamesian scholarship, pragmatism, and feminist philosophy more generally.”—Clara Fischer Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce SocietyTable of ContentsContentsPreface Nancy TuanaAcknowledgments Introduction Erin C. Tarver and Shannon SullivanPart I: The Promise and Peril of James’s Philosophy for Feminism1 The Feminine-Mystical Threat to Masculine-Scientific Order Charlene Haddock Seigfried2 “The Woman Question”: James’s Negotiations with Natural Law Theory and Utilitarianism Jacob L. Goodson3 Women and William James Erin McKenna4 Lady Pragmatism and the Great Man: The Need for Feminist Pragmatism Erin C. TarverPart II: Pragmatist Ethics of Care5 The Energies of Women: William James and the Ethics of Care Susan Dieleman6 William James and the Will to Care for Unfamiliar Others: The Masculinity of Care? Maurice HamingtonPart III: Embodiment and Emotion7 Habit, Relaxation, and the Open Mind: James and the Increments of Ethical Freedom Megan Craig8 James and Feminist Philosophy of Emotion Shannon Sullivan9 “A Perverse Kind of Pleasure”: James, the Body, and Women’s Mystical Experience Jeremy CarrettePart IV: Epistemic and Narrative Contestations10 The Will Not to Believe: Pragmatism, Oppression, and Standpoint Theory José Medina11 Incredulity and Advocacy: Thinking After William James Lorraine CodeAfterword Charlene Haddock SeigfriedIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores how modern means of communication are changing religion, and how contemporary mediations of religion challenge and refine the aspirations and prospects of religious authority.Trade Review“A fascinating mélange of essays, and a versatile collection that could be utilized in a variety of settings.”—Mary E. Hess Reading Religion“If you, like me, are fascinated by the often baffling relationship between media, religion, and authority, then Stewart Hoover’s book is a must-read. Often, authority is assumed to be held by institutions. Hoover argues against this by weaving together diverse case studies into a cutting-edge theoretical perspective that illustrates how authority is constituted by lived media practices. Clearly written and insightful, The Media and Religious Authority brings together the minutiae of everyday lived religion with an overarching vision that only one of the leading scholars in the field could achieve.”—Gregory Price Grieve,University of North Carolina at Greensboro“How do contemporary media challenge religious authority? The answer to this question is not as straightforward as it might appear. The contributors to this volume examine how the media undermine established religious positions and help reshape the concept of ‘the religious’ as well as the forms of authority. This is such a transformation that one may indeed conclude, as Stewart Hoover does, that religion today is being remade by the media.”—Knut Lundby,University of Oslo, Norway“This brilliant book shows a master editor at work. It identifies and gives substance to the critical issue of religious authority in the global media age in terms of its constitution. The book knows intellectual history; it understands the classics and their relevance today as it opens pathways to the future. Rarely is one book erudite in theory and also sophisticated in research methodology, but The Media and Religious Authority is a model of both. This is scholarship of the world mind; the case studies span the continents, and the theorizing represents the big picture.”—Clifford Christians,University of IllinoisTable of ContentsContents AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Media and Religious Authority Stewart M. HooverSection One: Re-thinking authority in an era of media and religious changeReligious Authority in the Media Age Stewart M. HooverThe Media and Religious Authority from Ancient to Modern Peter HorsfieldMedia and (vicarious) religion – two levels of religious authority Alf LindermanReligious Authority & Social Media Branding in a Culture of Religious Celebrification Pauline Hope CheongSection Two: Case StudiesSatellite Publics: Moral Identity and New Media in Moroccan Islam Bahíyyih MaroonExamining all the Realms of Nature: Evidence, insight, and the quest for knowledge in modern Thailand Emily ZeamerCyber Memorial Zones and Shamanic Inheritance in Korea Joonseong LeeBaadaass Mamas: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity in Sankofa Montré MissouriTechno-Vodou: Transnational Flows in the Spiritual Marketplace Alexandra BoutrosEvangelical Media for Youth and Religious Authority in Brazil Karina Kosicki BelottiThe Authority of the Image: Sex, Religion, and the Text/Image Conflict in Craig Thompson’s Blankets Christine Hoff KraemerAfterword Lynn Schofield ClarkNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores how modern means of communication are changing religion, and how contemporary mediations of religion challenge and refine the aspirations and prospects of religious authority.Trade Review“A fascinating mélange of essays, and a versatile collection that could be utilized in a variety of settings.”—Mary E. Hess Reading Religion“If you, like me, are fascinated by the often baffling relationship between media, religion, and authority, then Stewart Hoover’s book is a must-read. Often, authority is assumed to be held by institutions. Hoover argues against this by weaving together diverse case studies into a cutting-edge theoretical perspective that illustrates how authority is constituted by lived media practices. Clearly written and insightful, The Media and Religious Authority brings together the minutiae of everyday lived religion with an overarching vision that only one of the leading scholars in the field could achieve.”—Gregory Price Grieve,University of North Carolina at Greensboro“How do contemporary media challenge religious authority? The answer to this question is not as straightforward as it might appear. The contributors to this volume examine how the media undermine established religious positions and help reshape the concept of ‘the religious’ as well as the forms of authority. This is such a transformation that one may indeed conclude, as Stewart Hoover does, that religion today is being remade by the media.”—Knut Lundby,University of Oslo, Norway“This brilliant book shows a master editor at work. It identifies and gives substance to the critical issue of religious authority in the global media age in terms of its constitution. The book knows intellectual history; it understands the classics and their relevance today as it opens pathways to the future. Rarely is one book erudite in theory and also sophisticated in research methodology, but The Media and Religious Authority is a model of both. This is scholarship of the world mind; the case studies span the continents, and the theorizing represents the big picture.”—Clifford Christians,University of IllinoisTable of ContentsContents AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Media and Religious Authority Stewart M. HooverSection One: Re-thinking authority in an era of media and religious changeReligious Authority in the Media Age Stewart M. HooverThe Media and Religious Authority from Ancient to Modern Peter HorsfieldMedia and (vicarious) religion – two levels of religious authority Alf LindermanReligious Authority & Social Media Branding in a Culture of Religious Celebrification Pauline Hope CheongSection Two: Case StudiesSatellite Publics: Moral Identity and New Media in Moroccan Islam Bahíyyih MaroonExamining all the Realms of Nature: Evidence, insight, and the quest for knowledge in modern Thailand Emily ZeamerCyber Memorial Zones and Shamanic Inheritance in Korea Joonseong LeeBaadaass Mamas: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity in Sankofa Montré MissouriTechno-Vodou: Transnational Flows in the Spiritual Marketplace Alexandra BoutrosEvangelical Media for Youth and Religious Authority in Brazil Karina Kosicki BelottiThe Authority of the Image: Sex, Religion, and the Text/Image Conflict in Craig Thompson’s Blankets Christine Hoff KraemerAfterword Lynn Schofield ClarkNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays on various aspects of the position of magic in the modern world. Essays explore the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and the ways in which modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimate their practices.Trade Review“A powerful collection that succeeds in connecting history, science, and psychology, and will be relevant to scholars of each.”—A. E. Leykam Choice“Hopefully, this book will be read both by historians of magic and scholars of contemporary magic in the fields of anthropology and sociology. As such, it is a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary study of magic; such interdisciplinary engagement is especially important when dealing with as elusive and controverted a concept as magic.”—Francis Young Reviews in History“Magic in the Modern World stands out among other edited volumes in the quality of its contributions and the erudition of its contributors. . . . I anticipate returning to my copy again and again to draw fresh insights into my research and pedagogy in the field.”—Michael E. Heyes Nova Religio“Ever since the nineteenth century, it has been a staple of the discourse on modern society that magic and supernaturalism were on their way out. The contributors to this splendid volume explain why this idea has been so persuasive, and why it is utterly wrong.”—Olav Hammer,author of Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age“Most readers of this review surely would say that magic has long passed its prime, surviving in the modern Western world only in the enfeebled state of sleight of hand. But Magic in the Modern World . . . is determined to prove them wrong.”—Steven P. Marrone Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society“Well-conceived and thought-provoking.”—Bernd-Christian Otto Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte“Perhaps the main value of this collection is not so much in each individual contribution, but in adding a great deal of scholarly weight to the voices increasingly challenging the 'disenchantment' theory of the history of magic, and establishing contemporary magical practices as subjects worthy of scholarly study.”—John Rimmer Magonia Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction, Edward Bever and Randall StyersMagic and the Making of ModernityChapter 1, “Bad Habits, or, How Superstition Disappeared in the Modern World,” Randall StyersChapter 2, “Descartes’ Dreams, the Neuropsychology of Disbelief, and the Making of the Modern Self,” Edward BeverChapter 3, “Why Magic Cannot Be Falsified by Experiments,” Benedek LángChapter 4, “Witches as Liars: Witchcraft and Civilization in the Early American Republic,” Adam JortnerMagic in ModernityChapter 5, “Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg: The Contested Arena of Modern Enochian Angel Magic,” Egil AspremChapter 6, “Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the ‘Method of Science,’” Erik DavisChapter 7, “Manning the High Seat: Seidr as Self-Making in Contemporary NorseNeopaganisms,” Megan GoodwinChapter 8, “Reviving Dead Names: Strategies of Legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the Dark Aesthetic,” Dan HarmsSelected BibliographyNotesList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the multiple religious influences on Billie Holiday’s life and sound, combining elements of biography with the history of race and American music.Trade Review“A focused, enlightening examination of the gifted singer.”—Nick Ripatrazone The Millions“This beautiful, brilliantly charted exploration of religion around Billie Holiday is overflowing with insights into the woman, the music, the milieu, and religious aspects of personal and collective struggle. Informed, critically discerning, and in gorgeous prose, this is exemplary humanities scholarship, a rare and exciting achievement.”—John Corrigan,author of Emptiness: Feeling Christian in America“Fessenden’s work has significant value, particularly for the scholar invested in lived religion or the history of religion, jazz, and American popular culture.”—Adam Sweatman Reading Religion“It’s refreshing to read a nonfiction text so freewheeling, and to encounter a scholar who so delights in making observations for the sheer wit of them. Fessenden is interested in Holiday’s contemporaries and the coincidences of her career, and these aren’t artificially forced into an argument.”—Katherine Lucky Commonweal“From first to last, the prose is consistently compelling, the insights sharp and often surprising. One comes away from this book knowing more about lots of things and admiring the seamless interweaving. It will be impossible to hear Holiday’s music the same way.”—David W. Stowe Journal of the American Academy of Religion“With beautiful prose and nuanced analysis, Fessenden navigates the reader through the religious landscape that shaped Holiday’s life and career and tunes our ear to listen for how the soundscape and spirituality of those religious sources shaped her artistry. What emerges is a rich and compelling portrait at the intersection of Holiday’s personal history, American Catholicism, blues and jazz culture, and the currents of race and gender in American life.”—Judith Weisenfeld,author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration“Illuminating, graceful, insightful, and bold, Tracy Fessenden’s marvelous interpretation of Billie Holiday is no mere biography. Religion Around Billie Holiday is an extension of, and improvisation on, the big questions shaping Fessenden’s work. Holiday is not only, in Fessenden’s imagination, an exemplary narrative subject. She also challenged the naturalization of American racial, gendered, and religious norms. Through her, Fessenden brilliantly shows us the fault lines in identity that were there all along, like more strange fruit.”—Jason C. Bivins,author of Spirits Rejoice! Jazz and American Religion“A hungry, centrifugal curiosity animates Fessenden’s writing. At times, her sense of ‘religion around’ seems capacious enough to include nothing less than America itself. . . . The reward is richness of scope: every page brings a new tumble down another rabbit hole of twentieth-century American cultural history.”—Brett Grainger American Catholic Studies“Joining Matthew J. Cressler’s important study of Vatican II and Black Power in mid-century Chicago with Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration (New York University Press, 2017) is Fessenden’s towering close reading of an African American vocalist whose Catholic-informed life, and others’ memory of it, reflect her discursive and performative treatment as the patron saint of jazz.”—Vaughn A. Booker Material Religion“Religion Around Billie Holiday is Fessenden's own performance of what listening around a life allows one to hear of religion and of America more broadly. She does it in a beautiful way.”—Hannah C. Garvey American ReligionTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Religion Around2. True Confessions3 The Story of Jazz4. Crossing Jordan5. Our LadyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the second period of the development of Quakerism, specifically focusing on changes in Quaker theology, authority and institutional structures, and political trajectories.Trade Review“It is welcome, valuable, and stimulating, and a necessary companion for anyone inquiring into this dynamic period of our faith community.”—Brian Drayton Friends Journal“It is important reading for experienced scholars of the period’s religious history, but will also be vital for post-graduates looking for up-to-date scholarship on the history of dissent, undergraduates seeking a handle on complicated political, social and religious matters, and a general readership with a keen interest in history. It is a tribute not just to the quality of the individual chapters, but to the work of Allen and Moore in ensuring consistency in tone and content, that so many groups will be so well served by what will surely be received as the definitive history of this period of Quaker history for the coming generation.”—Adam Morton Journal of the Friends Historical Society“The Quakers, 1656–1723 is a really significant contribution to Quaker studies scholarship and an impressively coherent collection of some of the best and latest thinking about the enigmatic ‘second period.’ This book offers us a clear way through the nuances and complexities of a period of massive change for the Quaker movement.”—Ben Pink Dandelion,author of The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction“A new, up-to-date history of early Quakers, the first in over a century, is particularly welcome. Quakers have been the subject of many recent specialized studies, but this new work sets out to address some of the latest concerns: the role of women, changes in Quaker authority and theology, the decline in religious radicalism and the growing compromises with 'the world,’ and the engagement of Friends in Europe and America.”—David Wykes,Director of Dr Williams’s Library, London“This is an important book that revitalizes our understanding of a neglected period of Quaker history. The book’s focus on the Atlantic world is particularly welcome, and this will be an invaluable resource for historians of early modern religion in both Britain and America.”—Andrew C. Thompson,author of George II: King and Elector “This is an exceptionally authoritative, balanced, vivid, insightful, and painstakingly crafted account of Quakers from 1656 to 1723, during which time Quakers consolidated their organization, combated schisms, and suffered persecution. The first such one-volume narrative with ample coverage of the maturing Quaker community on both sides of the Atlantic, this fascinating book chronicles the final years of influential and charismatic founders (George Fox, George Whitehead), as well as momentous achievements by newly convinced Quakers (William Penn, Robert Barclay) and the ministry of leading Quaker women (Margaret Fell, Dorothy White).”—Stephen W. Angell,coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism“The period from 1656 to 1723 has been one of the great voids for historians of Quakerism. Now Rosemary Moore and Richard Allen have provided us with what will certainly prove to be, for a generation, the definitive history of Quakers and Quakerism in this period. Based on wide-ranging research in sources both Quaker and non-Quaker and fully in dialogue with the scholarship on Quakerism, Dissent, Stuart England, and the early Atlantic world, this book is one of the most welcome, and important, works on Quaker history to appear in the twenty-first century.”—Thomas D. Hamm,author of The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907“A welcome and timely contribution to the history of the Quakers between 1656 and 1723.”—Kate Peters English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction, Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore1. “The Early Development of Quakerism,” Rosemary Moore2. “Quakerism Beyond England to 1666,” Richard C. Allen3. “Gospel Order: The Development of Quaker Organization,” Rosemary Moore4. “Living as a Quaker During the Second Period,” Richard C. Allen5. “Beyond Britain: The Quakers in the European Continent and the Americas, 1666-1682,” Richard C. Allen6. “Quakers and Dissenters in Dispute,” Raymond Brown and Alan P. F . Sell7. “Quaker Expressions of Belief in the Lifetime of George Fox,” Rosemary More8. “The Quakers and Politics, 1660-1689,” George Southcombe9. “Adjusting to New Conditions in Britain and America, 1690-1700,” J. William Frost10. “Quaker Life and Communities at the Turn of the Century,” Emma Lapsansky-Werner11. “The Friends and Business in the Second Period,” Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore12. “The Quakers and the Law,” Erin Bell13. “Into the Eighteenth Century,” Robynne Rogers HealeyAppendix: TimelineSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with special attention to themes of religion, education, race and the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture.Trade Review“The volume is successful in exposing the hidden and often underappreciated role that multilingualism played in colonial Philadelphia and its surrounds. Interpreting complex transatlantic networks and cultural change through the lens of multilingual and multicultural societies forces scholars from different disciplines and traditions to collaborate to achieve a more comprehensive, panoramic assessment of these developments. These concerted efforts reveal the complex, sometimes contradictory part that certain key figures such as Benjamin Franklin played in the establishment of societal and linguistic norms.”—Michael T. Putnam H-Transnational German Studies“This fine volume is a highly welcome addition to the literature on translation and intercultural communication in the multiethnic environment of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. Babel of the Atlantic combines the perspectives of history, literary studies, and material culture; it brings together experts on Pennsylvania German history and culture, ethnohistory, and the history of abolitionism; and it is sensitive to issues of gender.”—Mark Häberlein,author of The Practice of Pluralism: Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730–1820“Taken together, these essays make a strong case for more effectively and thoroughly acknowledging the approximately 120,000 German-speaking immigrant settlers who arrived in Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century, [constituting] nearly one-third of its population. In reminding us of Pennsylvania’s multicultural past, they also call on us to more fully reckon with how linguistic and cultural variation influenced the state’s early history, and they challenge us to consider the processes by which the English language and Anglo culture became normative.”—Judith Ridner Early American Literature“The connections across the diverse contributions in this skillfully edited volume are facilitated by a thorough index at the end. The endnotes for each chapter appear with their respective chapters. The book’s aesthetic appeal is enhanced by the inclusion of over forty high-quality black-and-white images. It is to be recommended to anyone with an interest in the multicultural history of early America, especially those wanting to learn more about the diversity of German Pennsylvania.”—Mark L. Louden Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsContentsList of illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Multilingual Soundings in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic; “Differences of Manners, Languages and Extraction. Was Now No More”? Bethany WigginPART 1 NEW WORLD, NEW RELIGIONS1 . “Wie ein Nimrod / Like a Nimrod”: Babel, Confusion, and Coercive Bilingualism in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic Patrick M. Erben2 . The Moravian Threat to the Old World Establishment Craig Atwood3 . Women, Migration, and Moravian Mission: Negotiating Pennsylvania’s Colonial Landscapes Katherine FaullPART 2 THE LANGUAGES OF EDUCATION AND ESTABLISHED RELIGIONS4 . Benjamin Franklin, the Philadelphia Academy, Halle, and Göttingen Jürgen Overhoff5 . German or English? Halle’s Pastors in Pennsylvania and the Search for the Right Language, 1742–1820 Wolfgang FlügelPART 3 THE LANGUAGES OF RACE AND (ANTI-)SLAVERY6 . Writing Against Slavery: Germantown, Quakers, and the Ethnic Origins of Early Antislavery Thought Katharine Gerbner7 . “Ein schrecklicher Zustand”: Race, Slavery, and Gradual Emancipation in Pennsylvania Birte Pfleger8 . How the Quakers Worked with Moravians, Germans, the French, the British, and Enslaved and Free Africans: All in the Antislavery Cause Maurice JacksonPART 4 THE LANGUAGES OF WOOD AND STONE9 . Communicating Through Wood and Stone: Building a New World Identity in Pennsylvania Cynthia G. Falk10 . Germans in Colonial Philadelphia: Ethnicity, Hybridity,and the Material World Lisa MinardiList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines how English Catholic exiles in Spain used print and other written media to promote the conquest of England and the spiritual renewal of Christendom. Trade Review“Domínguez has provided a focused, informed, and lively account of the publishing activities of Elizabethan English Catholic exiles—and through these activities the exiles’ deep involvement in Spanish political-ecclesiastical culture—during a critical moment in the history of Anglo-Spanish politics.”—Daniel Knapper Reformation“Domínguez makes a clear and forceful argument for the impact of Spanish Elizabethan authors on Spanish politics during the final decades of Philip II’s reign. Yet this book achieves something even more significant for those of us looking to the future of early modern studies. It demonstrates the benefits of transnationalism in furthering our understanding of Europe’s religious and political environment.”—Kelsey J. Ihinger Bulletin of the Comediantes“Scholarship on English Catholicism has started to take greater account of its broadly European and international dimensions, and Domínguez makes an important contribution to this line of scholarship. Radicals in Exile presents a convincing case for the central role of English Catholics in late sixteenth-century Spanish and wider European politics. It casts new light on English Catholics’ links with Spain, and future scholarship will no doubt expand on these links, looking at connections beyond the printed word.”—Jonathan Roche Journal of British Studies“Freddy Domínguez’s important book expands our knowledge of English and Spanish Catholic print culture beyond immediate confessional considerations to illuminate instead the tangled polemics of secular rule and spiritual authority.”—Anne J. Cruz Renaissance and Reformation“Domínguez’s work, with its transnational perspective, rejection of confessional and nationalist narratives, and recovery of marginal voices, contributes positively to encouraging trends in modern Reformation scholarship.”—Alexander DeWitt SJ Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu“Skillfully researched and written with enviable clarity, Freddy Domínguez’s Radicals in Exile explores in detail a series of texts English Catholics wrote from Spain during the dramatic years of the 1580s and ’90s. His readings of these works are original and illuminating, and they integrate this singular corpus into the wider religious and intellectual history of the period.”—James S. Amelang,author of Parallel Histories: Muslims and Jews in Inquisitorial Spain“This book puts the punch back into early modern religious polemic. Radical English Catholic exiles deftly bob and weave across the pages with hired-gun Protestant apologists. London swings at Madrid, Madrid jabs back at London, while Rome, Paris, and Antwerp stand by, eager to climb into the ring. The many contenders in this post-Reformation prizefight in print yield refreshingly unfamiliar viewpoints, internecine agendas, and a dynamic polyglot literature that has been too often overlooked.”—Earle Havens,Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, Johns Hopkins University“Through a meticulous engagement with both English and Spanish works and ideas, Domínguez reminds us that exiles were influenced not only by developments in England, but also by the historical circumstances and ideas present in their adoptive home. Radicals in Exile is a much-needed study, which is sure to make an indelible impact in the field.”—Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer Journal of Modern History

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring how fiction, life-writing, and comics portray illness, medical treatment, and disability. Trade Review“This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines textual and graphic representations of illness, disability, and pain, describing how the narratives in question use the aesthetics of their medium to embrace contention and community. The authors reclaim ground previously ceded to traditional paradigms and in the process liberate the mind, the body, and the text.”—MK Czerwiec,author of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371“PathoGraphics advances discussions about how to read, visualize, and create comics about illness and disability in complex and welcome ways. The contributors are extremely well informed about the fields from which the book draws: narrative medicine, literary studies, disability studies, comics studies, and graphic medicine. PathoGraphics engagingly shows how these fields can mutually constitute new knowledge when creative practices, intersecting with illness and disability narratives, create a site for artistic innovation with a social justice bent.”—Ann Fox,Davidson CollegeTable of ContentsIntroductionSusan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff1. The Reflecting PhysicianEinat Avrahami2. Assembling a Shared Life in Anders Nilsen’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t FollowTahneer Oksman3. Ways of Looking: Reading PathoGraphicsNina Schmidt4. The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About PainAriela Freedman5. The Tightrope to Equilibrium: Parkinson’s Disease in Literature and ComicsIrmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff6. Her Leg”: Chris Ware’s Body of WorkRieke Jordan7. Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel CartoonsHelen Spandler8. Subverting Stigma: Community Building in Serial ComicsLeah Misemer9. Psychosis Blues: Schizophrenia, Comics, and CollaborationElizabeth J. Donaldson10. The Quickeningstef lenk11. Interview with stef lenk on The QuickeningIrmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff and Susan Merrill Squier12. Desire Paths: PathoGraphics and Transgenerational TraumaMaureen Burdock13. Scaling Graphic Medicine: The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness NarrativeSusan Merrill SquierList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the theoretical framing of “nature” in South Africa and beyond. Analyzes myths and fantasies that have brought the world to a point of climate catastrophe and continue to shape the narratives through which it is understood.Trade Review“Louise Green has compiled an important collection of analyses, focusing on the problem of nature in the age of climate change, and relating this to cultural circumstances in colonial and postcolonial Africa. These fascinating, well-researched, and surprisingly original studies show how nature is produced as a cultural relic in late capitalist society. Her book is an important contribution to the fields of Anthropocene studies, African studies, and cultural studies.”—John Noyes,author of Herder: Aesthetics Against Imperialism“What if the Anthropocene means the end of Third World futures, a shift from freedom to responsibility? In Fragments from the History of Loss, Louise Green shows how nature is produced as concept, commodity, and alibi for exploitation. With bracing nuance and salutary attention to inequality and immiseration, this scintillating book sifts through slices of time and fragments of nature in order to assemble shards of wisdom for living—lightly, with less—in the Anthropocene. An indispensable rejoinder to depoliticizing, universalist accounts of environmental crisis.”—Jennifer Wenzel,author of The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature“This brief but thought-provoking study challenges readers to view nature through a broad "constellation" . . . of historical and contemporary elements that illustrate the ways humans created a nature industry to reflect their interests rather than as something objectively natural.”—A. S. MacKinnon Choice“This book is an extraordinary curation of the relationship between the global nature industry and the postcolony. It embroiders seemingly unrelated moments and places them into a compelling whole, from the extinction of the mammoth and the ironies of a shopping bag promoting the plight of Africa’s wild dogs, to personal observations of queuing for water at Cape Town’s public fountain and the history of the Land Rover in South Africa.”—Jasmin Kirkbride Green Letters: Studies in EcocriticismTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. The Nature Industry2. Nature in Fragments3. Living in the Subjunctive4. The Primitive Accumulation of Nature5. The Cult of the Wild6. Privatizing Nature7. Living at the End of NatureNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the paradoxes inherent in the search for symbolic immortality, arguing that there is only one truly serious literary problem: the transmission of texts to posterity.Trade Review“In addition to providing a fascinating examination of how writers such as Diderot, Casanova, and Sartre confronted the possibility of ‘writing from the grave,’ Hoffmann’s provocative and well-written book asks all writers to reflect on their own intentions (and personal mythmaking) when they themselves take up the pen.”—Andrew Curran,author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely

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Book SynopsisExamines motion pictures produced or sponsored by Ford Motor Company from a rhetorical perspective, demonstrating how the films reveal a long-term rhetorical project that has helped embed corporations into many of the social systems guiding societies today. Trade Review“This book does important work by advancing a theory of how society may be organized around terms, values, images, and ways of thinking promulgated by corporations. It makes a valuable contribution to communication and rhetorical theory, to film studies, and even to economics.”—Barry Brummett,author of Rhetoric of Machine Aesthetics“This book brings together a set of literatures that, taken together in service of the case study at hand, offer a fascinating perspective on the relationship between rhetoric, film, corporatization, and hegemony. The central concept—incorporational rhetoric—will undoubtedly be useful to a wide range of scholars studying consumerism and commercial discourse, and rhetoric writ large.”—Christine Harold,author of OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of CultureTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Spreading the Industrial Aesthetic in Ford’s Education FilmsChapter Two: Ford’s Montage Films and the Formation of a “Rhetorical Economy”Chapter Three: Ford’s Cinematic Production of Economic SpaceChapter Four: Spectacle and Spectatorship in Ford’s World’s Fair FilmsChapter Five: War, Industrial Globalization, and the Managerial GazeConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the rhetorical strategies used by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Illustrates strategies based on identification, dissociation, entitlement, and interpretation in response to evolving historical contexts. Trade Review“This is an intriguing study by a non-specialist in the field that will be profitable for students of the Scrolls interested in the role of rhetoric.”—Daniel M. Gurtner Religious Studies Review“Religious historians looking for examples of rhetorical case studies on ancient Jewish texts and rhetoricians looking for an introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls will find this a valuable book.”—Robert M Royalty, Jr. Rhetorica“Bruce McComiskey is the first in rhetorical studies to conduct a systematic reading of seven Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts, examining how identification, distinction, persuasion, performative strategies, dissociation, and ideas about material rhetorics are present and enacted through these manuscripts. In doing so, he makes an important case for the rhetorical significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as the methodological utility of a hermeneutics/rhetoric approach for reading these texts.”—Jim Ridolfo,author of Digital Samaritans: Rhetorical Delivery and Engagement in the Digital Humanities

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary of rhetorical theory. Trade Review“A New Handbook of Rhetoric is a major contribution to the ongoing conversation about how contemporary rhetorical theory relates to the rhetorical tradition. The digital world and global crises such as climate change motivate a search for theories that can explain, accommodate, and advance rhetorical judgments and rhetorical practice. The ‘alpha-privative’ strategy employed here is novel and productive, offering an innovative way to both learn from the past and move into the uncharted and unprecedented future.”—Carolyn R. Miller,coeditor of Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Genre Studies

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays delineating the centuries-long dialogue of Jews and Jewish culture with China, all under the overarching theme of cultural translation.Trade Review“The fact that these articles and chapters are still as relevant today as when they were initially penned is a credit to Eber. Those interested in Judaism in China would find this volume essential reading. Those with an interest in the more general field of religion and translation would also have much to gain from this volume. Finally, this volume acts as a fitting final publication for a scholar who led the field in life.”—Joseph Chadwin Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction by Kathryn HellersteinSection 1: Overview1. Overland and by Sea: Eight Centuries of the Jewish Presence in China2. Chinese Jews and Jews in China: Kaifeng-Shanghai3. Flight to Shanghai: 1938-1939 and Its Larger ContextSection 2: Translating the Ancestors4. A Critical Survey of Classical Chinese Literary Works in Hebrew5. The Peking Translating Committee and S. I. J. Schereschewsky’s Old Testament6. Translating the Ancestors: S. I. J. Schereschewsky’s 1875 Chinese Version of GenesisSection 3: Modern Literature in Mutual Translation7. Bridges Across Cultures: China in Yiddish Poetry8. Sholem Aleichem in Chinese?9. Translation Literature in Modern China: The Yiddish Author and His Tale10. Meylekh Ravitch in China: A Travelogue of 193511. The Critique of Western Judaism in The Castle and Its Transposition in Two Chinese Translations12. Martin Buber and Chinese Thought13. Chinese and Jews: Mutual Perceptions in Literary and Related Sources14. Learning the Other: Chinese Studies in Israel and Jewish Studies in ChinaCredits Index

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