Robert F Whalen

The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert

In this extensive study of two of the most celebrated seventeenth-century religious poets, Robert Whalen examines the role of sacrament in the formation of early modern religious subjectivity. For John Donne and George Herbert, sacramental topoi became powerful conceptual tools with which to explore...

Sacred Spring: God and the Birth of Modernism in Fin de Sicle Vienna

The culture of fin de sicle Vienna continues to fascinate and has been examined at length. There are indeed massive studies of Freud, Mahler, Loos, Klimt, and many other notables from that era. But these studies often ignore the religious dimension of Viennese modernist culture, implying -- if not a...

Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York

In 1940 and 1941 a group of ruthless gangsters from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood became the focus of media frenzy when they--dubbed "Murder Inc.," by New York World-Telegram reporter Harry Feeney--were tried for murder. It is estimated that collectively they killed hundreds of people during a...

BITTER WOUNDS: German Victims of the Great War, 1914-1939

"an image from the first weeks of the Great War"

Bitter Wounds: German Victims of the Great War, 1914-1939

The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert

DNA Vaccines: Methods and Protocols

Langues Et Litteratures Au Nouveau-Brunswick

Like Fire in Broom Straw: Southern Journalism and the Textile Strikes of 1929-1931

Sacred Spring: God and the Birth of Modernism in Fin De Siecle Vienna