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  • Apocalypse TV

    Essays on Society and Self at the End of the World

    Edited by Michael G. Cornelius, Sherry Ginn ...
    The end of the world may be upon us, but it certainly is taking its sweet time playing out. The walkers on The Walking Dead have been "walking" for nearly a decade. There are now dozens of apocalyptic television shows and we use the "end times" to describe everything from domestic politics and international conflict, to the weather and our views of the future.This collection of new essays asks ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Edward II and a Literature of Same-Sex Love

    The Gay King in Fiction, 1590–1640

    by Michael G. Cornelius ...
    The narrative re-tellings of the life, reign, and death of the English King Edward II (reigned 1307–1327) present a unique opportunity for scholars of sexuality in the early modern era. This is because the works of authors like Christopher Marlowe, Michael Drayton, Sir Francis Hubert, Elizabeth Cary, and Richard Niccols were all inspired by the public, cultural memory fashioned from Edward’s same ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • To Boldly Stay

    Essays on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Edited by Sherry Ginn, Michael G. Cornelius ...
    Despite the fact that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ended over twenty-five years ago, there has yet to be a stand-alone assessment of the series. This collection corrects that omission, examining what made Deep Space Nine so unique within the Star Trek universe, and how that uniqueness paved the way for an altogether new, entirely different vision for Star Trek. If the Star Trek slogan has always ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Places of Childhood Fancy

    Essays on Space and Speculation in Children's Book Series

    Edited by Michael G. Cornelius, Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards ...
    Many of us grew up exploring fascinating worlds--in books, films, and, most importantly, our imaginations--places filled with mythological characters and magical landscapes where we had stunning experiences punctuated by the harmless pleasures that any child's mind can conjure. These worlds sometimes end up in our childhood fictions, which have in turn shaped countless imaginations and childhood ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Spartacus in the Television Arena

    Essays on the Starz Series

    Edited by Michael G. Cornelius ...
    Spartacus, the Thracian gladiator turned rebel leader, endures as a near-mythic hero who fought for the oppressed against a Roman oligarchy built on the backs of slave labor. The image of Spartacus as a noble if doomed avenger is familiar and his story has been retold through history as a cautionary tale about social injustice.The television series Spartacus takes a different view, with a violent ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson, S.J. (1786–1864) and the Reform of the American Jesuits

    by Cornelius Michael Buckley ...
    Cornelius Michael Buckley, S.J. delves into Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson’s life, using him as the point of departure to describe the tensions among Jesuits in Maryland after the restoration of the order in 1814. A refugee of the violent slave rebellions in Haiti, where he was born, and the Terror in France, Dubuisson became a clerk in Napoleon’s personal treasury and a resident in the Tuileries. ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • New Directions in Childhood Studies

    Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century

    by James M. Curtis, Kirsten Bilger, Sumaria Butt, Cara Byrne, Michael G. Cornelius, S. Leigh Ann Cowan, Jamie M. Fine, Joseph V. Giunta, Kristin Kondrlik, Imogen Nutting0, Ryan Twomey1, Meghan Whitfield2, Allyson Wierenga3 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American childhood. The chapters in this collection examine contemporary children’s literature, film, and video games ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Father Joseph Fessio, S.J.

    California Blackrobe

    by Cornelius Michael Buckley S.J. ...
    This in-depth, page-turning biography of Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., founder of Ignatius Press and the University of San Francisco's Saint Ignatius Institute, is written by one of Fessio's earliest Jesuit mentors, historian Father Cornelius Buckley, S.J.Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area during the golden age after World War II, the bold, often reckless Joe Fessio would suddenly enter ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Beyond Nancy Drew

    U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century

    by LuElla D'Amico, Emily Hamilton-Honey, Jill Hobgood, Erika Johansson Lunding, Todd Latoski, Susan Ingalls Lewis, Gregory Eiselein, Robin Cadwallader, Melanie J. Fishbane0, Karen Keely1, Jill E. Anderson2, Liz W. Faber3, Michael Cornelius4 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This book examines the narratives of series heroines that preceded and followed Nancy Drew, each in relation to their social, historical, and economic environments. Covering heroines including Miss Pickerell, Madge Sterling, and Polly the Powers Model, among others, this book illustrates that the recovery of stolen inheritances during the Great Depression serves different social ends than, for ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Representing Agency in Popular Culture

    Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between

    by Jessica Clark, David Buckingham, Michael G. Cornelius, Anja Höing, John Kerr, Leanna Lucero, Lucy Newby, Fearghus Roulston, Terri Suico, Catherine Hartung0, Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly1, Shih-Wen Sue Chen2, Tabitha Parry Collins3, Mary L. Fahrenbruck4, Sin Wen Lau5, John C. Nelson6, Ingrid E. Castro7 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, ... Read more

    $52.59 CAD

  • Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture

    by Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Eva Lupold, Paige Gray, Carolyn Cocca, Nichole Bogarosh, Linda Simon, Mariko Turk, Mary Bronstein, Lisa Laurier, Lori Johnson, Grace Halden, Michael G. Cornelius, Christiane E. Farnan, Megan E. Friddle, Janine J. Darragh ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls. Though series books are often derided for lacking in imagination and literary potency, that the majority of ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Elizabeth's Song

    by Michael Wenberg ...
    Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright ...
    Historical-fiction based on the young life of Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, the noted African American folksinger, who wrote the famous song "Freight Train" when she was just eleven years old.Elizabeth's Song is the true-life story of Elizabeth (Libba) Cotten, the noted African American folksinger, guitarist, and songwriter. Against all odds, young Elizabeth teaches herself to play guitar left-handed ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD