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Situated at the intersection of ecocriticism, affect studies, and Romantic studies, this collection breaks new ground on the role of emotions in Western environmentalism. Recent scholarship highlights how traffic between Romantic-era literature and science helped to catalyze Green Romanticism. Closer to our own moment, the affective turn reflects similar cross-disciplinary collaboration, as many scholars now see the physiological phenomenon of...

Lavishly illustrated study of historical narrative stereography and the story it tells about women and gender roles

A complete archeological guide to New Hampshire, from prehistoric times to the present

A piercing new look at nineteenth-century Vermont politics and society, and the evolution of a people

Offers a fresh perspective on the active involvement of American women authors in the nineteenth-century transatlantic world. Internationally diverse contributors explore topics ranging from women's social and political mobility to their authorship and activism.

In this thematically rich book, Mary Kathleen Eyring examines authors whose writings were connected with their charitable endeavors, which addressed the worst by-products of the brisk maritime commerce in Atlantic seaport cities in the first half of the nineteenth century.

A centennial edition of a classic New England novel.

In nineteen finely honed, deftly realized short stories, Rebecca Rule crafts with gentle wit and striking clarity a conglomeration of sometimes ragtag but always appealing small-town denizens, each of whom squares off against a nemesis of a singular sort. With an eye for the signature detail, an ear for the rhythms of regional speech, and a strong feel for the nuances of rural culture, Rule maintains a fine balance between humor and pathos tha...

A rich analysis of how post Revolutionary Americans conceptualized the early Republic through metaphors of home building

Case studies from the University of New Hampshire explore all the dimensions of sustainability in campus life, combining frugality and creativity

A startlingly original work establishing the impact of domestic servants on the life and writings of Emily Dickinson

A timely look at the Vermont flood of 1927 as a window on the history of America in the 1920s

A history of nineteenth-century fashion through the works of Emily Dickinson

The origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holiday

Illuminates the political dimensions of American and British antislavery texts written by blacks

An intriguing history of the survival of a Native American people.