An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Science Writing

Abstract This is the first modern critical anthology of the writings of James W.C. Pennington (1808–1870). An internationally renowned intellectual, theologian, abol...

The combined experience of authors throughout the ages offers a wealth of valuable information about the practice of writing. However, such lore can also be problematic for student...

Applying the approach of ‘reading-as-a-writer’ to the craft of writing for young people, this textbook combines critical analysis, unique author-insight and practical application o...

This chapter describes and contests the common assumptions about nineteenth-century private international law intellectual history. Conventional historical accounts focus on broad ...

Offering an anthology of the first history of Latin literature, Sicco Polenton’sScriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae libri XVIIIis a collection of biographies that spans the perio...

African American culture draws upon a rich body of traditions from Africa, Latin America, and the South, and folklore is fundamental to the African American heritage. The first wor...

While we now recognize that MS is a common neurological disease, as late as the early twentieth century it was considered a relatively rare condition in Europe and the United State...

Abstract Charles Dickens in Cyberspace opens a window on a startling set of literary and scientific links between contemporary American culture and the nineteenth-ce...