Book Series
Studies in American Popular History and Culture
New & Published Titles:
The Making of the Primitive Baptists
A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Anti-Mission Movement, 1800-1840
This study describes the creation of the Primitive Baptist movement and discusses the main outlines of their thought. It also weaves the story of the… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94871-5 (Routledge)
No Way of Knowing
Crime, Urban Legends and the Internet
This book examines both "old media" treatment of crime legends like news reports, fictional film and television depictions, as well as "new" media interactive discussions… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94787-9 (Routledge)
Homelessness in American Literature
Romanticism, Realism and Testimony
This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe,… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94589-9 (Routledge)
Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture
This study examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture (i.e. activities such as dieting and muscle-building). Hollywood's long-standing prominence on the world state makes… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94676-6 (Routledge)
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Rethinking the Red Scare
The Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade Against Radicalism, 1919-1923
Using New York as a lens, this book examines the Red Scare that griped America between 1919-1923 and the pattern it established for future episodes… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94767-1 (Routledge)
Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City
The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital
Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94606-3 (Routledge)
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Food in Film
A Culinary Performance of Communication
Using an interdisciplinary approach combining film, semiotics, social-anthropology and history, this book examines food sciences in selected films to reveal food's power to direct and… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94583-7 (Routledge)
Crime and the Nation
Prison and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia. 1786-1800
Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93386-5 (Routledge)
Race-ing Masculinity
Identity in Contemporary U.S. Writings
This study explores the intersection of race and gender identity in writings by contemporary American men of color, showing how ostensibly sexist or homophobic texts… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93476-3 (Routledge)
Piety and Power
Gender and Religious Culture in the American Colonies, 1630-1700
Piety and Power explores gender and religion in the seventeenth century in three American colonies with a dominant religious traditions. The book examines not only… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93392-6 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Media and the Creation of Babe Ruth
By Patrick Adam Trimble
To be published May 1st 2009
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State
By Michael Stancliff
To be published May 1st 2009
Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama
By Megan Sanborn Jones
To be published April 29th 2009
John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation
By Michael Stoneham
To be published April 2nd 2009
Black Women in American Literature of the South
By Sherita L. Johnson
To be published March 15th 2009
Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
By Jaime Osterman Alves
To be published March 4th 2009