Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America
by Steven Tepper, associate professor of sociology and associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy (2011, University of Chicago Press)
Tepper鈥檚 book suggests that artists who simply cite the First Amendment, guaranteeing free speech, to defend their work aren鈥檛 cutting it in a 鈥淵ouTube world,鈥� where it is difficult for anyone to truly stop art from being disseminated. 鈥淧erhaps we can have more art, more controversy, more protest, more conversation, more obstacles, more alternatives, more community and more democracy,鈥� he says.
What You Will: Gender, Contract and Shakespearean Social Space
by Kathryn Schwarz, associate professor of English (2011, University of Pennsylvania Press)
Noting that the pattern in 16th- and 17th-century representations of femininity is that women pose a threat when they conform too willingly to social conventions, Schwarz begins her book with an examination of early modern disciplines that treat will as an aspect of the individual psyche, of rhetoric, and of sexual and gendered identities. She then analyzes will through Shakespearean works in which feminine characters articulate and manage the values that define them, revealing the vital force of conventional acts.
In the Highest Traditions of the Royal Navy: The Life of Captain John Leach MVO DSO
by Matthew B. Wills, BA鈥�54 (2011, The History Press, UK)
Wills tells the story of John Leach, analyzing the influences that shaped him and led ultimately to his heroic end. He traces Leach鈥檚 life from his time at Royal Naval College, Osborne and Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, his baptism by fire in the service when he survived a direct shell hit to the bridge where he was standing, and his time as captain of the Prince of Wales. The book presents a portrait of one of Britain鈥檚 finest, using new research on failures in navy intelligence as a major factor in the loss of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse.
Painting Dixie Red: When, Where, Why and How the South Became Republican
edited by Glenn Feldman, MA鈥�86 (2011, University Press of Florida)
Has the South, once the 鈥淪olid South鈥� of the Democratic party, truly become an unassailable Republican stronghold? If so, when, where, why and how did this seismic change occur? What are the implications for the U.S. body politic?
In Painting Dixie Red a distinguished group of scholars engages in this debate, some making the case that the South has become Republican and some contending that it has not.