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Many twentieth-century literary writers were directly involved in political parties and causes, and many viewed their writing as part of their activism. This book explores literature's direct relationship to politics, offering new ways of thinking about the troubled relationship between literature and politics.

Many twentieth-century literary writers were directly involved in political parties and causes, and many viewed their writing as part of their activism. This book explores literature's direct relationship to politics, offering new ways of thinking about the troubled relationship between literature and politics.

A long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world's foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken. Byron's great subject is what he called "Cant": the habit of abusing the world through misusing language. Setting up his poetry as a laboratory to investigate failures of writing, reading, and thi...

How might seminal criminal law cases have come out differently had feminist insights been brought to bear on the development of criminal law? The book answers that question by re-writing opinions that implicate critical dimensions of criminal law jurisprudence, from the sexual assault law to provocation to cultural defenses to the death penalty"--

How might seminal criminal law cases have come out differently had feminist insights been brought to bear on the development of criminal law? The book answers that question by re-writing opinions that implicate critical dimensions of criminal law jurisprudence, from the sexual assault law to provocation to cultural defenses to the death penalty"--

Specialists and non-specialists alike continue to debate the key themes and importance of founding political thought. This book makes the case that the American founders were deeply indebted to the classical Christian natural-law tradition in their fundamental theological, moral, and political outlook.

Specialists and non-specialists alike continue to debate the key themes and importance of founding political thought. This book makes the case that the American founders were deeply indebted to the classical Christian natural-law tradition in their fundamental theological, moral, and political outlook.