Books published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

This volume presents two seminal works and three religious speeches by Henry George, in their original forms, with rich annotations to help readers grasp their historical significance. Scholars will find this volume a convenient starting point for research on wealth inequality and poverty, the history of George, and his political movement.

Donald Trump's New World Order addresses U.S. foreign policy initiatives under Mr. Trump's Presidency. In the book, Ambassador T. Hamid Al-Bayati warns and explains how President Trump's foreign policy and trade war could lead to regional conflict and global wars.

Charles H. Thompson on Desegregation, Democracy, and Education captures the evolving struggle for civil rights from the perspective of Charles H. Thompson, an education insider, brilliant scholar-activist, and arguably the leading dean in African American higher education between 1938 and 1963.

This collection features nine essays that explore how the material conditions of the early modern English stage shaped the theater. Topics range from the simulation of pregnant bodies by boy actors (and the effects of those simulations) to how bruises created by make-up might have been used on stage

Mormon Women's History: Beyond Biography demonstrates that the history and experience of Mormon women is central to the history of Mormonism and to histories of American religion, politics, and culture.

Willa Cather and E. M. Forster examines the novels of these influential twentieth-century writers in the context of liberal humanism and modernism, as well as the important questions their work continues to raise about being in the world, connections with the Other, and gender and sexuality.

The Author in Criticism offers a comparative analysis of the reception and circulation of Italo Calvino's works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Italy, proposing new views that arise from the analysis of the different phases and faces that characterize Calvino's transnational authorial profile.

This is the firsthand account of a United States Marine during the American Civil War. Beside the average routine of shipboard life, Gregg experienced major battles and the hunt for Confederate raiders. Anyone who wants a better understanding of the navy during the Civil War, especially a scholar doing research, would appreciate this book.

The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns examines a small group of twentieth-century traditionalists in their quest to reconcile and translate conservative traditional ideas within a progressive modern scientific context. The method of reconciliation derives from their continued value of myth, religion, liberal education, and ancient texts.

Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Works on Paper is devoted to the acclaimed conceptual poet, pedagoge, and provocateur, Kenneth Goldsmith, and his published work in the wake of his controversial reading of a poem based on the Michael Brown autopsy report at Brown University in March 2015.

Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy engages with public policy and its intersection with contemporary discourse on sexuality and rights, and by extension the inclusion or exclusion of groups of individuals in mainstream sociocultural groups in societies.

Betraying Dignity claims that contemporary distress causes individuals and nations around the world to abandon the dignity-based culture of human rights, and embrace new manifestations of honor-based cultures, like extreme nationalism, Jihad, and shaming. This book distinguishes dignity as a way of fortifying the culture of human rights.

This collection of essays charts the shifting representation of World War II in Italian literature and film from 1943 to the present. The essays examine film genre, cultural history, gender, the Holocaust, emotion studies, shame theory, and environmental studies.

The volume situates My Antonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual, and stylistic issues. The volume provides an analysis and assessment of complexities in the novel as well as its reception and legacy.

Long before the word "interdisciplinary" entered the landscape of higher education, William Morris embodied that ideal. Teaching William Morris offers a wide array of perspectives on the challenges and the rewards of teaching this Victorian polymath whose ideas and creations remain so powerful today.

This book introduces the framework of aesthetic ecology to communication studies as well as the study of communication ethics underlining the importance of the interplay between our sensuous and interpretive engagements in/with the world.

Surveying the entirety of McNally's works, including the most important of McNally's still unpublished works, this book positions McNally at the forefront of contemporary American writers-in particular, gay writers-treating the issues of suffering, loss, spiritual renewal, and forgiveness.

This book provides readers with a critical study of the challenges that confronted Namibian activists who tried to sue Germany for genocidal acts that were committed during the German South West Africa (GSWA) years.

Cosmopolitanism and the Development of the International Criminal Court examines a set of prominent discourses and events that emerged in the context of the development and establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The analysis shows state and nonstate actors' competing commitments to cosmopolitanism and national identity.

Worlds of Common Prayer exposes the surprisingly radical potential of nineteenth- and twentieth-century book-length liturgical poetry. Major authors as dissimilar as Christina Rossetti and T.S. Eliot used the Anglican liturgical calendar as a weapon to break the order of clock time and destabilize the secular world order.

This collection examines a wide variety of literature-travel, memoir, and fiction-and explores the ways travel and ideas of "culture" have evolved since the heyday of the Grand Tour. The sites of the Grand Tour remain a powerful cultural draw, and they continue to define ideas of taste and learning for those who visit them.

Lawrence Durrell's Poetry offers an in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell's entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973. Thirty years of Durrellian poetry are brought together in order to unveil the genesis of Durrell's writing, both poetic and fictional.

Shakespeare in the Light convenes an accomplished group of scholars, actors, and teachers to celebrate the legacy of American Shakespeare Center's founder, Ralph Alan Cohen. Each essay pivots off a production at the ASC's Blackfriars Playhouse to explore the performance of Shakespeare's plays under their original theatrical conditions.

Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump focuses on utopias and dystopias that either prefigure or suggest alternatives to the rise of individuals such as Donald J. Trump and the changing conditions of America we now see around us. These topical studies provide compelling reading for both the general reader and the specialist.

Illyria in Shakespeare's England studies the eastern Adriatic region known as "Illyria" in five plays by Shakespeare and other early modern English writing. It examines the origins and features of past discourses on the area, expanding our knowledge of the ways in which England and other polities negotiated their position in the early modern world.

Italian Women at War explores Italian women's participation in war and conflict throughout Italy's modern history, beginning with the Unification and ending with the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, help to further the discussion on women's participation in violence, warfare, and political protest throughout Italy.

This book explores the oneiric in Italian cinema from filmic representations and visualizations of dreams, nightmares, hallucinations, and dream-like and hypnotic states, to dreams as cinematic allegories and metaphors and the theoretical frameworks applied to the investigation of this relationship.

New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment examines religious belief and practice during the age of Enlightenment from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including theology, the natural sciences, politics, the law, art, philosophy, and literature.

Carl Theodor Dreyer was a visionary director whose films were based less on his screenplays than on his preconceptions, his complete formal, aesthetic cinematic projections of the films he deputized actors, cinematographers, and crew to produce. Cinematography of Carl Theodor Dreyer examines the life and work of a brilliant director and visionary.