We nod. We wave. We do not ask.September, in a suburb west of Philadelphia. An old cemetery lies at the center of the neighborhood, and the people who live around it go there every day: to run, to grieve, to rehearse, to be alone.A drama teacher directing The Crucible and quietly losing her nerve, in a house her children have left. A retired scientist trying to prove his body still works, a year into a retirement he never asked for. A hospital chaplain carrying something sh...

The Handmaid's Tale: Teaching Dystopia, Feminism, and Resistance across Disciplines and Borders offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, as well as its film and television adaptations, can be employed across different academic fields in high school, college and university classrooms. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and cultural contexts contribute to wide-ranging analytical strategies, ranging from religion and science to the role of journal...

This book explores how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed anger to kings in the exercise of their duties, and how such attributions related to larger expansions of royal authority. It argues that ecclesiastical writers used their works to legitimize certain displays of royal anger, often resulting in violence, while at the same time deploying a shared emotional language that also allowed them to condemn other types of displays. These texts are part...