Kuhn argues that the recycling of these set-pieces encouraged audiences to process new cultural sites through the lens of old performance tropes
and practices infuse our society
Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in the period before it solidified into the sexuality we know
Korman tells a suspenseful story of scientific experimentation and legal struggle in creating a portrait of an eminent American whose eccentricity anticipates the new economy pioneers of today
assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout
Circumventing the Law David Sinden Kuhn argues that the recyclingCircumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. The logic of haaramah, a subset of rabbinic legal circumventions mostly defined as a tool for private life, underpins both well known circumventions, such as selling leaven before Passover, and lesser known mechanisms, such as designating an animal intended for sacrifice blemished