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You don't look like you have an eating disorder. Aren't you supposed to be thin? This paper discusses representations of two eating disorders--binge eating disorder and anorexia--as they appear the [...]

Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture WILL B. MACKINTOSH New York University Press, 2019 244 pp. When I first read Daniel Boorstin's remark in The [...]

Everyday Crimes: Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America KELLY A. RYAN New York University Press, 2019 400 pp. When Abigail Adams asked her husband to 'remember the ladies' [...]

Relation of Virginia: A Boys Memoir of Life with the Powhatans and the Patawomecks HENRY SPELMAN; TRANSCRIBED, EDITED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN New York University Press, [...]

Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN New York University Press, 2019 233 pp. Four hundred years ago two major developments occurred in [...]

Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society VAUGHN SCRIBNER New York University Press, 2019 264 pp. Vaughn Scribner's Inn Civility argues that the American Revolution was spurred not [...]

Emergent Worlds: Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture EDWARD SUGDEN New York University Press, 2018 256 pp. Emergent Worlds is an aspirational and counterfactual history of what might have been--and [...]

Lothian, Alexis. Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 352 pp. Softcover. ISBN 978-14798-2585-1. $30.00. Alexis Lothian's Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer [...]

Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom: History, Poetry, and the Ideals of the American Revolution G. J. BARKER-BENFIELD New York: New York University Press, 2018 240 pp. Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom is [...]

Cowan, Douglas E. America's Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King. New York University Press, 2018. 243 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-1-4798-9473-4. $30.00. As a professor of Religious Studies, Douglas [...]

Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford and Joshua Green, 'Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture,' New York University Press, New York, 350 pages, $29.95. This summer, 'Weird Al' [...]