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An interdisciplinary look at the rise of the slaughterhouse in nineteenth-century Europe and the Americas

In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville's novels and poetry demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of industrial and commercial forms of print.

A consideration of the lobster in history, myth, art, literature, and cuisine

Fascinating analysis of the significance of the gift, and its increasingly complicated role in an emerging capitalist order, in nineteenth-century American fiction

The impact of the Aesthetic movement on women and women's fashion

An interdisciplinary collection illuminating how fashion shaped concepts and practices of femininity and modernity

A beautifully illustrated guide to New Hampshire's natural landscapes

The Essential Guide to Viewing New England Wildlife

Written a generation apart, Little Women (1868) and The House of Mirth (1905) share a deep concern with materialism, moral development, and self-construction. Placing both novels at the historical intersection of modern consumer culture and older religious discourse on materialism and identity, Sarah Way Sherman analyses how Alcott and Wharton rework traditional Protestant discourse to interpret their heroines' struggle with modern consumerism.

A state-of-the-field collection opening new vistas in the study of nineteenth-century American landscapes

This extremely readable account of early New England settlements emphasizes the development of a distinctive culture derived from the varied groups that settled there.

A vivid reconstruction of a once-vibrant African American community in northern New England.

Highlights the social and textual complexity of the transatlantic world for American women writers

A new way of thinking about landscaping home grounds and public spaces, Revised and Expanded

An introduction to the diverse lives of the Puritan founders by a leading expert

Examines how, after the War of 1812, concerns about the scale of the nation resulted in a fundamental reorientation of American identity away from the Atlantic or global ties that held sway in the early republic and toward more localized forms of identification.

Since 1952, the primary election in a small, not very diverse New England state has had a disproportionate impact on the U.S. presidential nomination process and the ensuing general election. Although just a handful of delegates are at stake, the New Hampshire primary has become a massive media event and a reasonably reliable predictor of a campaign¿s ultimate success or failure. In The First Primary, Moore and Smith offer a comprehensive hist...

A provocative new reading of the great American avant-garde arist Marsden Hartley's late work.

Charts new scholarly ground at the nexus between fashion, textiles, and literature, appealing to a broad interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students. This collection of essays demonstrates that fashion history and literary history, when examined together, prompt fresh understandings of the complexities of race, class, and sexual identity.