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South Africa's Resistance Press - Les Switzer - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

How to Identify Plants - H. D. Harrington - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Nameless Sight - Alan Swallow - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

God's Torment - Alain Bosquet - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Green Archipelago - Conrad Totman - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Public and Its Problems - John Dewey - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Collaborative Dickens - Melisa Klimaszewski - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Passionate Revolutions - Talitha Espiritu - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Passionate Revolutions - Talitha Espiritu - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

In the last three decades, the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos has commanded the close scrutiny of scholars. These studies have focused on the political repression, human rights abuses, debt-driven growth model, and crony capitalism that defined Marcos’ so-called Democratic Revolution in the Philippines. But the relationship between the media and the regime’s public culture remains underexplored.In Passionate Revolutions, Talitha Espiritu evaluates the role of political emotions in the rise and fall of the Marcos government. Focusing on the sentimental narratives and melodramatic cultural politics of the press and the cinema from 1965 to 1986, she examines how aesthetics and messaging based on heightened feeling helped secure the dictator’s control while also galvanizing the popular struggles that culminated in “people power” and government overthrow in 1986.In analyzing news articles, feature films, cultural policy documents, and propaganda films as national allegories imbued with revolutionary power, Espiritu expands the critical discussion of dictatorships in general and Marcos’s in particular by placing Filipino popular media and the regime’s public culture in dialogue. Espiritu’s interdisciplinary approach in this illuminating case study of how melodrama and sentimentality shape political action breaks new ground in media studies, affect studies, and Southeast Asian studies.

DKK 588.00
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Noble Purposes - - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Noble Purposes - - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Throughout the history of the United States, the acts of a few have proved to be turning points in the way our legal system has treated the least of us. The nine individuals whose deeds are recounted here have compelling stories, and though they remain unknown to the general public, their commitment to the rule of law has had a lasting impact on our nation. Noble Purposes brings their stories to life. It describes the contributions of such individuals as James Alexander, the guiding and central force in the colonial-era trial of John Peter Zenger, which sowed the seeds for the American Revolution and the constitutional guarantee of a free press. In the 1870s, Hugh Lennox Bond stared down threats as judge in the trials of the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan, while Clara Shortridge Foltz overcame tremendous resistance during her fifty-year law practice, which included advocacy of public defender offices. Early last century, Louis Marshall paved the way for the rights of minorities in America and abroad, while Francis Biddle, FDR’s attorney general, sought to maintain civil liberties during World War II, arguing against the internment of Japanese Americans and later serving as the American judge in the Nuremberg trials. Edited by legal scholar Norman Gross and written by leading legal historians from around the country, the profiles presented in Noble Purposes tell the stories of these and other individuals who stood firmly in support of the rule of law, often against great odds.

DKK 254.00
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The Power to Name - Stephanie Newell - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Bleak Houses - Lisa Surridge - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Bleak Houses - Lisa Surridge - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates’ courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat “private” family violence? Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction traces novelists’ engagement with the wife-assault debates in the public press between 1828 and the turn of the century.Lisa Surridge examines the early works of Charles Dickens and reads Dombey and Son and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the context of the intense debates on wife assault and manliness in the late 1840s and early 1850s. Surridge explores George Eliot’s Janet’s Repentance in light of the parliamentary debates on the 1857 Divorce Act. Marital cruelty trials provide the structure for both Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White and Anthony Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right.Locating the New Woman fiction of Mona Caird and the reassuring detective investigations of Sherlock Holmes in the context of late-Victorian feminism and the great marriage debate in the Daily Telegraph, Surridge illustrates how fin-de-siècle fiction brought male sexual violence and the viability of marriage itself under public scrutiny. Bleak Houses thus demonstrates how Victorian fiction was concerned about the wife-assault debates of the nineteenth century, debates which both constructed and invaded the privacy of the middle-class home.

DKK 217.00
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Comic Shop - Dan Gearino - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Victorian Scandals - Kristine Ottesen Garrigan - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Victorian Scandals - Kristine Ottesen Garrigan - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

In the popular mind, the word \u201cVictorian\u201d still evokes associations of repression, hypocrisy, and prudery. We persist in thinking that the Victorians were perpetually shocked by everything from minor breaches of domestic decorum to ministry-toppling causes c\u00e9l\u00e8bres. In examining various Victorian scandals, some familiar, some more obscure, these essays provide lively discussion and diverse points of view on the context, nature, and function of \u201cscandal\u201d in Victorian society, particularly in terms of gender and class. Topics covered include: - women as both victims and beneficiaries of the Victorian legal establishment, demonstrated through divorce petitions, cases of wrongful confinement, and a highly publicized breach of promise suit- the actress in contemporary pornography- the effects on male hegemony of programs of higher education for women- ambivalent reactions to biographies of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot and to Julia Margaret Cameron’s \u201cennobled\u201d photographic portraits- the surprising toleration of gambling and infanticide. The afterword examines the diverse responses to scandalous behavior from the perspectives of recent critical theory. Taken as a whole, Victorian Scandals illustrates the pervasive role of the contemporary press in rendering private conduct a subject of public fascination and suggests the need to expand the definitions, functions, and interpretations of \u201cscandal\u201d in Victorian society.

DKK 380.00
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The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume VII - Robert Browning - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost - Dugmore Boetie - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost - Dugmore Boetie - Bog - Ohio University Press - Plusbog.dk

A fast-paced romp through apartheid-era South Africa that exemplifies the creative human capacity to overcome seemingly omnipotent enemies and overwhelming odds. The picaresque hero of this novel, Duggie, is a dispossessed black street kid turned con man. Duggie’s response to being confined to the lowest level of South Africa’s oppressive and humiliating racial hierarchy is to one-up its absurdity with his own glib logic and preposterous schemes. Duggie’s story, as one critic puts it, offers “an encyclopedic catalogue of rip-offs, swindles, and hoaxes” that regularly land him in jail and rely on his white targets’ refusal to admit a black man is capable of outsmarting them.Duggie exploits South Africa’s bureaucratic pass laws and leverages his artificial leg every chance he gets. As “a worthless embarrassment to the authorities and a bad example to the convicts,” Duggie even manages to get himself thrown out of jail. From Duggie’s Depression-era childhood in urban Johannesburg to World War II and the rise of the white supremacist apartheid regime to his final, bitter triumph, Boetie’s narrative celebrates humanity’s relentless drive to survive at any cost.This new edition of Boetie’s out-of-print classic features a recently discovered photograph of the author, an introduction replete with previously unpublished research, numerous annotations, and is accompanied by Lionel Abrahams’ haunting poem, “Soweto Funeral,” composed after attending Boetie’s interment, all of which render the text accessible to a new generation of readers.

DKK 233.00
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