Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them int

The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising confli

Examines lynching, capital punishment, and torture to investigate how rhetoric and violence work together to sustain inhospitable spaces and create challenges f

First work to couple materialist and rhetorical frameworks with interdisciplinary understandings of precarity to study pressing issues of our time.

"The first book to situate early American experimental science in the context of a transatlantic public sphere, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders offers a view of