Catalogue of Publications

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2009–2010 CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS Including complete descriptions of new titles for 2009–2010, and an annotated listing of back list titles. This catalogue includes titles in print and announced for publication through Spring 2010. Book codes shown throughout this catalogue are ISBN–13s. Listings herein are as accurate as possible, based upon information available as this catalogue went to press. All new title information is approximate. Actual prices for new titles are set at time of publication. Titles indicated by ૽ were in process at time of publication. Prices for these are approximate. All other prices were accurate at the time this catalogue was prepared but are subject to change without notice. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press is a participant in the Cataloguing-in-Publication Program of the Library of Congress. Cataloguing information is included in all eligible titles. The Press invites submission of manuscripts and publishing projects in all disciplines. Send to Director, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, M-GH2-01, Madison, New Jersey 07940 or e-mail to [email protected]. NEW TITLES 2009–2010 DEVIANT WOMEN OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION history. Lisa Beckstrand is an academic planner in the office AND THE RISE OF FEMINISM of Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin System. By LISA BECKSTRAND PUBLISHED ISBN 978-0-8386-4192-7 $43.50 This work aims to uncover the work of Parisian women who challenged prevailing views of female nature, sought social reforms, and were deemed ‘‘deviant’’ for their writing and/or DISENTHRALLING OURSELVES activism during the French Revolution. While some consider- Rhetoric of Revenge and Reconciliation in Contemporary ation is given to a discussion of those women activists and Israel public figures accused of being crazy, sexually deviant, or of By NITA SCHECHET corrupting future generations, the bulk of analysis focuses on Disenthralling Ourselves portrays contemporary Israel in a the work of Olympe de Gouges and Manon Roland, both of process of transition. Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli whom played active political roles in the Revolution and used communities share a nation-state divided by the separate writing as a means to influence public opinion. While de truths of its conflicting fundamental narratives. This book Gouges took unpopular stances on women’s rights, citizen- considers ways of converting those separate and antagonistic ship, and the abolition of slavery, Roland wrote lengthy mem- narratives from fuel for conflict to seeds of change. Its pur- oirs documenting her covert means of participating in the pose is to undo the convenient coherence of collective mem- political salons and her hidden attempts to shape political and ory and master narratives through fostering a capacious moral social policies. The work of both authors reveals ideological imagination able to apprehend diverse, even contentious, sto- shifts in how gender was understood and gives a broader un- ries and truths. Contemporary Israel functions as a case study derstanding of the ways in which women writers struggled to in an in-depth and interdisciplinary exploration of conflict define themselves during the most turbulent period in French resolution, viewing Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli doc- ................. 17302$ $NEW 04-16-09 14:07:05 PS PAGE 1 2 FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY PRESS umentary film, poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, peace initia- geneous and determined by the market. The first chapter tives, and other elements of collective narrative-building compares British and American attitudes towards culture of through a prism of three analogously themed Shakespearean ‘‘the middling sorts.’’ The third, biographical, chapter deals plays. This comparativist methodology is integrated with the- with the way in which Deeping represents his own class posi- oretical perspectives on reconciliation, resilience, critical tion as author. Subsequent chapters examine the way Deep- reflection, and peace education in presenting concrete alterna- ing’s early novels dramatize his sense of authorship before tives to the convenient comforts of the inimical master narra- the term ‘‘middlebrow’’ had coinage, as well as the reception tives that perpetuate what can now be seen as a hundred-year of his international bestseller, Sorrell and Son (1925). The war. Nita Schechet is a senior lecturer at the David Yellin final chapter examines how Deeping’s fiction of the 1930s College of Education in Jerusalem. dramatizes his deep sense of cultural embarrassment and PUBLISHED ISBN 978-0-8386-4204-7 $43.50 compares his rhetorical strategies with those of Q. D. Leavis, chief scourge of the faux bon. Mary Grover is an Associate Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE AND THE NORTHERN PUBLISHED ISBN 978-0-8386-4188-0 $53.50 IRELAND CONFLICT Building the Peace Dividend By SEAN BYRNE WINDOWS TO THE SUN Economic aid is one component of peacebuilding that has D. H. Lawrence’s ‘‘Thought-Adventures’’ been given increasing prominence in its ability to build both Edited by EARL INGERSOLL and VIRGINIA HYDE sustainable peace and development. This book analyzes the This work illustrates some of the ways in which Lawrence’s impact of economic aid on peacebuilding initiatives, looking ideas were before their time as he sought to look beyond the at the example of Northern Ireland. Through qualitative data ‘‘umbrella’’ of his current age to realities that were still be- analysis of thirty-six interviews with European Union Peace I yond it. Writers are leading international scholars represent- Fund and International Fund for Ireland funding agency civil ing five countries and including editors of Cambridge servants, development officers, as well as community group Lawrence Edition volumes—John Worthen, Keith Sagar, leaders whose projects received funding from one or both Christopher Pollnitz, and Hyde. Scholars and readers of Law- funders, this book addresses whether international financial rence, and of English literature, will welcome these new stud- assistance is able to target the structural forces that have been ies that point to the ways in which Lawrence valued genuine known to exacerbate ethnic conflicts, and points to both the thought as opposed to counterfeit thought and sought to re- successes and failures of international financial assistance in place obsolete stereotypes with fresh viewpoints. The title the perception of the civilian population. Sean Byrne is Pro- combines a Lawrence quotation about ‘‘a window to the sun’’ fessor and Founding Director of the Arthur Mauro Centre for and the idea of computer ‘‘windows,’’ suggesting both the Peace and Justice, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba. insight and variety in the essays. Virginia Hyde teaches En- PUBLISHED ISBN 978-0-8386-4186-6 $42.00 glish literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Earl Ingersoll is a Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the State University of New MEDICAL CULTURE IN REVOLUTIONARY York, College at Brockport. AMERICA PUBLISHED ISBN 978-0-8386-4197-2 $52.50 Feuds, Duels, and a Court-Martial By LINDA MYRSIADES This study examines eighteenth-century doctors’ feuds and BEYOND REPRODUCTION duels with a focus on epidemics, Philadelphia, trials by press, Women’s Health, Activism, and Public Policy issues of medical malpractice, anti-medical riots, and a court- By KAREN L. BAIRD, with DANA-AIN DAVIS and martial of the medical director of the army hospitals during KIMBERLY CHRISTENSEN the revolutionary war. It explores issues of the medical mar- Beyond Reproduction examines the women’s health move- ketplace that arose from competition between regular physi- ment of the 1990s and how activists achieved unprecedented cians and quacks and it considers the outrage over grave- policy changes in the areas of medical research, HIV/AIDS, robbing to provide cadavers for medical dissection. The focus breast cancer, and violence against women. It analyzes the of the study, however, is on the feuds that characterized composition, approach, strategies, and context of the wom- American medical practice from the colonial to the federal en’s health movement, specifying the many factors that led to periods. Even before yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s the significant federal-level policy changes. This book also turned Philadelphia into a crucible testing medical theories enhances our understanding of women’s movements, wom- and therapeutics, physicians had an uneasy professional his- en’s health movements, and other social movements and how, tory of unstable alliances and networks. Study of the feud when, and why activists are able to produce substantial politi- between Philadelphians John Morgan and William Shippen, cal change. Karen L. Baird is Associate Professor of Political successive directors of the Continental Army hospitals in the Science and Women’s Studies at Purchase College, SUNY. years of the American Revolution and founders of the first Dana-Ain Davis is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at American medical college, gives us an opportunity to capture Queens College, CUNY. Kimberly Christensen is Associate the condition of American medicine in the eighteenth century Professor of Economics and Women’s Studies at Purchase at both the individual and institutional levels. Linda Myrsi- College, SUNY. ades is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at AUGUST 2009 ISBN 978-0-8386-4184-2 $42.50 West Chester University of the Pennsylvania State

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