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...J. M. Beatty, Jr. Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Arthur Hugh Clough As Revealed in His Prose* J. M. Beatty, Jr. Goucher College Seventy-five years ago in the conflict for freedom of thought, the English intellectuals fought their battles among the educated classes and carried...

...Frances Acomb The Spirit of Revolution in 1789. A Study of Public Opinion as Revealed in Political Songs and Other Popular Literature at the Beginning of the French Revolution . By Rogers Cornwell B. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1949 . Pp. 363 . $5.00. . Copyright ©...

...G. P. Voigt TIMROD IN THE LIGHT OF NEWLY REVEALED LETTERS G. P. VOIGT ARTLY THROUGH purchase and partly through the gift of Mrs. G. M. Goodwin, grandniece of Henry Timrod, the library of the University of South Carolina has come into possession of cer­ tain hitherto unrevealed letters of the poet...

...Henry W. Lawrence Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 SAMUEL SEWALL, REVEALER OF PURITAN NEW ENGLAND HENRY W. LAWRENCE ON THE twenty-third day of December in the year 1714, Samuel Sewall, eminent Puritan magistrate, went to church. There is nothing in this fact, however...

... temporality. This essay triangulates the various emancipations of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , Frado in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig , and Solomon Northup in Twelve Years a Slave to reveal how the nonlinearity of their manumission circumscribes the freedom concept in such a way...

... production—including theory, history, and fiction written in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s—constitutes the principal philosophy of history adequate to the task of revealing this particular feature of the gendered afterlife of slavery and, too, of imagining alternatives to it. Black feminist production should...

... artful and stylized. These nuances reveal different understandings of what nonbelief entails in matters of conduct and whether the negative and epistemic category of “nonbelief” properly describes their difference from theists. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Asad Talal...

..., the Guardian ’s special projects editor, led the Reading the Riots project, along with Tim Newburn of the LSE. Lewis is interviewed here about their key findings and what they might reveal. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 Reference Lewis Paul . 2011 . Reading the Riots: Investigating...

... “nonpolitical” or “prepolitical”—we contend instead that they contained information that reveals a particular “moral economy” of their participants. In particular, rioters and looters were acting in defense of the “customary entitlements” of what we call a neoliberal “deal”—a deal based on aspiration, plentiful...

... concludes by discussing the centrality of direct action for sustaining and multiplying the protests, which spread like a plague in the city, revealing the truth of power (war) and triggering new processes of the production of subjectivity. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 References Altamira...

... of land in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya, where a sixteenth-century mosque once stood and was destroyed by the mobs of the Hindu Right, and the Hindu Right’s claim that the site marks the spot where the Hindu god Ram was born. The case reveals how the right to freedom of religion has been used...

... in Palestine. The interrogation site constitutes a condensation point for reading the colonial relations. Each interrogation encounter reflects a singular relation and simultaneously encodes the collective history of past, present, and future colonial relations. The interrogation encounter is a revealing...

... the ways the corridor economy model is being projected as the future of development. In so doing, the article positions this model as a neoliberal institution that marks new frontiers of capital and asks how the struggles crisscrossing the spaces of the DMIC reveal the paradoxical and heterogeneous...

...Alison Kafer This essay explores the politics of “hovering” in public restrooms, or the practice of refusing to sit on public toilets. How do such practices reveal a fundamental disregard for others? Drawing on transgender and disability studies, I trace the effects of such practices...

...Matthew Burtner Climate change music employs changing environmental conditions as instruments and procedures for music composition and performance. Using a combination of musical analysis and field journals to reveal methods of active listening and composing with climate change, this article shows...

...Toby Craig Jones Ensuring the flow of oil and providing security for oil producers like Saudi Arabia has long been central to American interests in the Persian Gulf. The security-for-oil argument is a formulation that obscures more than it reveals, however. The division of energy and security...

..., the mystical. However, his other work on counting and number reveals his sensitivity to the problematic of a difference of one between two numbers in a count. In this fashion, there is in Badiou a hidden messianism of number that links his work, in spite of its diametrically opposed reading of Paul, to Agamben...

... that the racial policing of black populations underlines a democratic-racial social order constituted by and accountable to a white citizenship. Its logic of white sovereignty is increasingly revealed by black protests attached to the signifier BlackLivesMatter , which can be read in part as black life politics...

..., and demand civic entitlements (even in the absence of citizenship), reveals forms of reciprocity and activism that do not fit prevailing models for Palestinian political subjectivity in this context. Energies and impulses redirected into small-scale, seemingly nonideological “minor politics” challenge...

... the national temporality that marriage equality institutes on us and on our inquiries. And it argues for critique as a specific politics of knowledge, one that interrogates the link between the concrete production of a rational temporality and state power. Through queer of color critique it reveals...