European journal of American studies

SPORTS THAT LEVEL THE POLITICAL PLAYING FIELD Adam Burns and Rivers Gambrell’s edited volume, Sports and the American Presidency: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, delivers “the firs...

http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/22699

Mesoamerican Astronomy: The History of Celestial Observations Made by the Maya, Aztec, and Inca, published by Charles River Editors, is an enriching contribution to the popularisation of Mesoamer...

http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/22721

AMERICAN HISTORY XXL At the time of writing, the Israel-Hamas war was into its fourth month, and food shortages and extreme hunger were starting to take a toll in Gaza in spite of humanitarian a...

http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/22709

Few figures in history have enjoyed the adoration and criticism afforded to the writings and scholarship of W. E. B. Du Bois. As a revered figure in the African American experience and an influen...

http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/22749

Marc Shapiro’s latest writing feat aims to shed light on the complicated relationship between the iconic American author Charles Bukowski and the American movie industry. Shapiro is known to th...

http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/22734

The book is an interdisciplinary history of discourse, with elements of natural science, political discourse, history of ideas, history of everyday life and material history. The theme is “Amer...

http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/22757

While the origins of this project go back to 2021, causing it to be marked and delayed, like so many others, by the COVID-19 pandemic, it also enters the scene in the company of an ever-growing b...

http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/22387

In the late eighteenth century, the Gothic parody, ridiculing the generic traits of the Gothic novel, often directed their humor at the parody heroine. Specifically, the didactic Gothic parody ai...

http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/22394

Shakespeare’s Beatrice, Jane Austen’s Lizzie Bennet and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones are three literary incarnations of the same female comic character. They share characteristics that ma...

http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/22436

Focusing on the type of funny woman that came to life in the Hollywood screwball comedy genre of the 1930s and 1940s, this article explores the intersections of genre and gender. The particular t...

http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/22482