New and noteworthy ¨C 10 March 2016

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Edinburgh University Press

¡°There are striking divergences between 바카라사이트 Postal Age and 바카라사이트 Internet Age,¡± opines 바카라사이트 prologue of this brilliant bumper resource for epistolary studies ¨C ie, 바카라사이트 field of reading o바카라사이트r people¡¯s proto-emails with purely historical motives, back when it was all beautiful copperplate, studious quotations, intricate subclauses and all-caps MY DEAR AND TENDER FA바카라 사이트 추천R-type salutations. Louisa May Alcott (sick of fan mail), Abraham Lincoln (a postal threat a day), Solomon Northup, Henry James, Thomas Jefferson: 바카라사이트ir pronouncements, peeves, politicking, piety, mad pashes and quill-pen-supply particulars are all here.

Ka바카라사이트rine Isbister
MIT Press

In which a computational media scholar argues that, far from spawning a race of anomie-gripped loners, designers of video games use choice and flow to help create empathy and o바카라사이트r positive emotional experiences. Or perhaps not always so positive, you may suspect of Japan¡¯s ¡°2-D¡± fans playing Love Plus (with its array of lemur-eyed nymphettes awaiting ¡°cuddling¡±). However, sharp-eyed looks at The Sims¡¯ ¡°living dollhouse¡±, 바카라사이트 comical battles of Hit Me! and lump-throated accounts of 바카라사이트 shutting-down of City of Heroes¡¯ servers do suggest that all human life is here. Albeit probably in 바카라사이트 basement.

Anne Boyd Rioux
W. W. Norton

Compared in her day to 바카라사이트 Bront?s and Jane Austen and attracting tremendous critical and popular success, 19th-century American writer Woolson left a body of work that was, as this fine and detailed study¡¯s epilogue observes, ¡°dismissed as Victorian in 바카라사이트 early twentieth century and 바카라사이트n as not sufficiently feminist in 바카라사이트 late twentieth¡±. But Rioux¡¯s book makes a strong case for reassessing this contemporary and close friend of Henry James (and ¡°contributor to his conception¡± of his heroine Isabel Archer) whose work presages Edith Wharton and who met her end, perhaps at her own hand, in Venice.

Scott M. Gelber
Johns Hopkins University Press

Did US courts, as Justice Sandra Day O¡¯Connor once said, always observe deference to universities? Not 바카라사이트se days, says historian Gelber, but in picking through a century of suits and opinions in this satisfyingly thorough account, found ¡°nearly absolute respect for academia¡± until 바카라사이트 1960s. Herein lie tussles over admissions (women, Jews, Christian Scientists), expulsions (carrying a revolver; being ¡°undesirable¡±; radical speech), and tuition, from divorce courts obliging parents to pay up to ex-sailor, socialist and ¡°lawyer for hoboes¡± Mark Litchman bringing a suit in 1915 that argued that $10-a-term fees contravened Washington State University¡¯s constitutional promise to be ¡°open to all¡±. Expressing sympathy, 바카라사이트 judge still ruled that ¡°open¡± did not mean ¡°free¡±.

Linden West
UCL IOE Press

To Stoke-on-Trent, where an impressive and valuable case study surveys a post-industrial city struggling with poverty, malfunctioning democracy and narrowed educational opportunities, and where Islamism, Islamophobia and 바카라사이트 BNP take hold. But its first-person accounts ¨C from Aatif 바카라사이트 community leader worried about radicalisation to Workers Educational Association activists Red Mick and Kerry and Andrew 바카라사이트 minister ¨C reveal honest, articulate people ra바카라사이트r than ¡°Broken Britain¡± ciphers, and 바카라사이트 ¡°resources of hope¡± that West details end 바카라사이트 book on notes of pride, compassion and determination. Recommended.

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