Month: November 2014
Chapter and Verse is a series that features JHU Press authors and editors discussing the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. Guest post by Angela Sorby In 1863, when her fellow (if less fervent) anti-slavery advocate Abraham Lincoln announced the first federal observation of Thanksgiving, Lydia…
Chapter and Verse is a series that features JHU Press authors and editors discussing the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. Guest post by Angela Sorby In 1863, when her fellow (if less fervent) anti-slavery advocate Abraham Lincoln announced the first federal observation of Thanksgiving, Lydia…
Guest post by Garry L. Hagberg Denis Dutton (1944–2010) spent over more than thirty-five years editing or jointly editing Philosophy and Literature, the collective intellectual adventure in humane learning that saw its first issue in 1976, and was steadfastly concerned to make room for younger scholars just starting out. It would have been easy for…
Guest post by Beverly Lyon Clark When I detoured from another project to work on The Afterlife of “Little Women”, I didn’t realize how long it would take—or how much fun I’d have. (Thank you, Louisa May Alcott—and happy almost-birthday!) It’s been a treasure hunt, first of all. Consider the lost 1919 film version of the…
Guest post by Beverly Lyon Clark When I detoured from another project to work on The Afterlife of “Little Women”, I didn’t realize how long it would take—or how much fun I’d have. (Thank you, Louisa May Alcott—and happy almost-birthday!) It’s been a treasure hunt, first of all. Consider the lost 1919 film version of the…
Post by Brian Shea Journals PR & Advertising Coordinator A grand jury will soon announce whether Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson should be charged in the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. Protesters and police are trying to work together to avoid a repeat of the clashes between the two sides…
Guest post by Annemarie Goldstein Jutel Diseases are much more than the viruses which cause them. Even in the presence of well-defined physical illness, social and cultural beliefs and behaviors have a strong impact on how we can understand the disease and mitigate its impact. The Ebola virus provides us with an excellent example. A…
Guest post by Annemarie Goldstein Jutel Diseases are much more than the viruses which cause them. Even in the presence of well-defined physical illness, social and cultural beliefs and behaviors have a strong impact on how we can understand the disease and mitigate its impact. The Ebola virus provides us with an excellent example. A…
Guest post by Lawrence W. Green This was a year when Ebola and its one death in the United States has produced an American public riveted by the drama of tracing the infected and their contacts and frightened by the prospect, albeit remote, of the virus reaching them. Apart from the millions of dollars spent…
Guest post by Lawrence W. Green This was a year when Ebola and its one death in the United States has produced an American public riveted by the drama of tracing the infected and their contacts and frightened by the prospect, albeit remote, of the virus reaching them. Apart from the millions of dollars spent…