Nancy S Armstrong

Field Guide to Stains: How to Identify and Remove Virtually Every Stain Known to Man

At last, a field guide to identifying and doing battle with more than 100 stains, from tomato juice to tar, from avocado to urine! Field Guide to Stains is divided into handy sections for easy access to information when time is of the essence: Fruits and Vegetables, Meat and Protein, Household Item...

100 Questions You'd Never Ask Your Parents

What does an orgasm feel like? Does alcohol really kill brain cells? Is it normal to get an erection for no reason at all? Is smoking safe if I don t inhale? What is the G-spot? 100 Questions You d NEVER Ask Your Parents answers these and ninety-five other daunting questions that face teenagers ever...

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: The History and Lore of the World's Most Famous Evergreen

Rockefeller Center had its first Christmas tree even before any buildings rose to fill the space: in 1931, just after they cleared the site, construction workers decorated a small balsam fir with the most humble of ornaments, from garlands of paper to tin cans. Since then, the tree has become one of...

Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel

Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic ca...

Field Guide to Gestures: How to Identify and Interpret Virtually Every Gesture Known to Man

Furrowed brows, wiggled fingers, wrinkled noses, shrugged shoulders with so many rich and varied gestures at our disposal, it s no wonder anthropologists claim at least 90% of all human communication is non-verbal. But what do all of these signs and signals really mean? And what secrets do they reve...

Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism

Victorians were fascinated with how accurately photography could copy people, the places they inhabited, and the objects surrounding them. Much more important, however, is the way in which Victorian people, places, and things came to resemble photographs. In this provocative study of British realism...

How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900

Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person...

The Treasure's Key

The Treasure's Key

Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel

Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel

How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900

How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900

How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719-1900

The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life