Elizabeth C Barnes

States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel

States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel

Last Summer's Girl

No Love in Return

Now and Forever

A Vintage Affair

Last Summer's Girl

In Spite of Themselves

Tripping Over Myself: The Best of Autism Mom II

Elizabeth is an Autism Mom on the journey of learning how to best help her son diagnosed on the Autism spectrum. Early on after his diagnosis, she quickly realized there was no one thing or series of things that worked for him all the time. Because there was no clear-cut approach, and she was consta...

A Free Woman On God's Earth: The True Story of Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, The Slave Who Won Her Freedom

A Free Woman On God's Earth is a juvenile biography for ages 8 and up containing over 40 illustrations. It is the story of Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, the enslaved African woman who had the courage and conviction to speak what was in her heart, suing for her freedom in a Massachusetts court of law. In...

The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)

Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movem...

States of Sympathy

Explores the extent to which sympathy and sentiment--through the representation of the family--are increasingly employed to construct the notion of a politically affective state in philosophical, political and literary texts. The book offers fresh interpretations of classic and lesser-known works, f...

Last Summer's Girl

Love's Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination

Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbor as oneself" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Elizabeth Barnes focuses her attention on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to suggest ways...

Current Controversies in Metaphysics (Current Controversies in Philosophy)

This book showcases a range of views on topics at the forefront of current controversies in the field of metaphysics. It will give readers a varied and alive introduction to the field, and cover such key issues as: modality, fundamentality, composition, the object/property distinction, and indetermi...

In Spite Of Themselves (Harlequin Presents)

She was nicknamed the Ice Princess Anne Chapin was reserved, shy and conventional. And she was astounded when cynical New York businessman Nicholas Thayer asked her to pose as his supposed mistress. Anne was involved with Joel, a man who badly wanted his own gallery and Nick's offer would provide ...