Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
University of Pennsylvania Press Subjects of Advice
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As Lupić points out throughout his cogently argued, crisply written, and comprehensively researched book, the shaping and the performance of early modern selfhood depended upon personal and political conditions that the world required of an individual; moreover, identity fashioning seldom took place fully without the benefit of a counsel . . . [T]his engrossing study opens up new critical paths, stretching beyond English drama. This is a book of comparative literary history and historiography; it connects text and theatre within a wide early modern world of cross-linguistic exchange. The critical idiom and methodological approach are unique and refreshing, often polemical and consistently rewarding." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Looking beyond the canonical Renaissance and its texts, Ivan Lupić offers readers a rich and subtle understanding of the nature of counsel in the period, as both a political and a cultural experience. Subjects of Advice is a valuable and welcome addition to the field of early modern studies." * Greg Walker, University of Edinburgh *"Subjects of Advice offers both a genuinely original view of such familiar works as Utopia and King Lear and an importantly recuperative account of works that were significant in their own time, but have been marginalized by literary history, such as Cambyses. It is a fascinating and revelatory book." * Stephen Orgel, Stanford University *
£48.60
University of Pennsylvania Press Peopling the World
Book SynopsisA compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth centuryIn John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a race to fill the world, a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement. Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about pTrade Review"If it is already clear that we live in what Thomas Nail terms the century of the migrant, Charlotte Sussman finds in the eighteenth century a crucial prehistory of global displacement. Peopling the World examines the stakes of migration in an era shaped by empire, the transatlantic slave trade, and land enclosure...Meticulously researched and impressive in its historical scope...this book’s capaciousness and its sharp analysis of the ongoing processes of social expulsion that 'peopled the world' make it essential reading both in eighteenth-century studies and in cultural histories of population and migration. " * Modern Philology *"Peopling the World is complex, incisive, and clever because Sussman integrates from the beginning the question of reproduction, and therefore gender. And she analyzes with sharp precision a cultural politics of mobility...It is deeply researched, acutely aware of the mountain of historical and literary scholarship that precedes it. The multiple lines of inquiry here are highly complex, and it is rare indeed forso many to be entwined into a novel and satisfying whole." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"Peopling the World is a deeply researched and compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth century, and their expression, contestation, and dissemination in literary texts from the period. Charlotte Sussman makes a persuasive case for emigration as a controversial subject which divided writers, thinkers, and politicians, and which underpinned all the major socioeconomic debates of the day, concerning poverty and wealth, nation and empire, place and belonging." * Josephine McDonagh, University of Chicago *"A timely and important intervention into our understanding of how literature helps to shape the movement of population from Milton to Malthus, Peopling the World develops subtle and complicated ideas with clear prose and razor-sharp insight." * Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. A Race to Fill the Earth: Mobility and Fecundity in Paradise Lost Chapter 2. The Afterlives of Political Arithmetic in Defoe and Swift Chapter 3. The Veteran's Tale: War, Mobile Populations, and National Identity Chapter 4. Remembering the Population: Goldsmith and Migration Chapter 5. The Emptiness at The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration, and Population Chapter 6. "Islanded in the World": Cultural Memory and Human Mobility in The Last Man Chapter 7. Prospects of the Future: Malthus, Shelley, and Freedom of Movement Afterword Notes Index Acknowledgments
£59.50
University of Pennsylvania Press Making the Miscellany
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Making the Miscellany, Megan Heffernan makes a significant contribution to the study of the poetic design of early modern printed books, how volumes of compiled poems responded to changes in media, the material organization of printed poetry, the contribution of conventions and innovations of arrangement to vernacular poetic craft, and the consolidation of individual authorship...Heffernan has untangled the tangled tale of book matter, design, printing, culture, and history in relation to the making and reading of poetry then and now." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Upon first notice,Making the Miscellany appears as another well-stated and strong scholarly contribution to literary studies, but that would be deceiving; it is much more. The author has thrown new light upon previously understood conventions and scholarship focused on poetry and compilations and miscellanies of poetry...Beyond the in-depth scholarly apparatus utilized inMaking the Miscellany, the author has provided a very engaging and highly readable style. Rich in technical asides in text and notes, this book opens up new scholarly ground and serves as a requisite and indispensable measure of scholarship that traverses different scholarship fields as well as opportunities for further exploration." * Publishing Research Quarterly *"By decentering the author as the imagined source and originator of the poetry collection, Megan Heffernan is able to attend to the agency of stationers and compilers, as well as the agency of poetry itself. In one of her most exciting claims, Heffernan argues that the poetry shapes the material form of the printed book in these early poetry collections. Indeed, she shows, these innovative arrangements shaped the development of vernacular poetic craft and notions of authorship in the seventeenth century and after." * Jenny C. Mann, author of The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Infinite Variety
Book SynopsisUnnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were drawn to voluntarism, a theology that emphasized a willful creator and denied that nature embodied truth and beauty. Voluntarism, Wolfram Schmidgen contends, provided both theological framework and aesthetic license. In Infinite Variety, he reconstructs this voluntarist tradition of literary invention. Once one accepted that creation was willful and order arbitrary, Schmidgen argues, existing hierarchies of kind lost their normative value. Literary invention could be radicalized as a result. Acknowledging that the will drives creation, such writers as Blackmore and Locke inverted the rules of composition and let energy dominate structure, matter create form, and parts be valued over the whole. In literary, religious, and philosophical woTrade ReviewThis book is a striking achievement, confident in its abstractions and their utility in illuminating a shared intellectual and aesthetic preoccupation. * Modern Philology *Part of the recent movement in eighteenth-century studies to resist the teleological secularization narrative that has governed much of the literary and cultural criticism in the field, Infinite Variety is also one of the most stimulating, original, and erudite books I've read in some time. Wolfram Schmidgen makes a cogent, compelling, and historically grounded case for the imaginative power of literature at a moment of epistemological crisis. * Helen Deutsch, University of California Los Angeles *In Infinite Variety, Wolfram Schmidgen offers a fresh perspective on literary invention in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England...[T]he perspective of this book is generous and valuable and...readers of all persuasions interested in the early modern history of literature, culture and ideas will be thankful to it for its fertile insights and provocations. * The Seventeenth Century *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Toward a Voluntarist Aesthetic Chapter 2. Glorious Arbitrariness: Science, Religion, and the Imagination of Infinite Variety Chapter 3. Energy and Structure: Remaking the Given in Blackmore and Pope Chapter 4. Embarrassed Invention: Stillingfleet, Locke, and the Style of Voluntarism Chapter 5. The Constructive Swift: Between the Hope and Fear of Decomposition Chapter 6. The Providence of Gathering and Scattering: Dynamic Variety in Defoe Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments
£45.00
University of Pennsylvania Press Bad Humor
Book SynopsisRace, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between Protestants and Catholics, guaranteed the noble quality of English blood, and justified English colonial domination. Coles delineates the process whereby religious error, first resident in the body, becomes marked on the skin. Early modern medical theory bound together psyche and soma in mutual influence. By the end of the sixteenth century, there is a general acceptance that the soul's condition, as a consequence of religious belief or its absence, could be manifest in the humoral disposition of the physical body. The history that this book unfolds describes developments in natural philosophy in the early part of the sixteenth century that force a subsequent reconsideration of the interactions of body and Trade Review"By analyzing how theology and natural philosophy of the period inform works of early modern English literature, [Bad Humor] traces the development of a racial logic that ultimately upholds and justifies English colonial rule by rendering impossible the religious conversion of Irish Catholics, Spanish Catholics, Africans and Indigenous people. Coles examines canonical works by John Donne, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser and Shakespeare alongside readings of Mary Wroth, Elizabeth Carey and Aphra Behn to document an emerging relationship between melancholy and religious error that assumes the heritability of (un)belief. Writing within a contemporary American context that has witnessed a rise in white Christian nationalism, Coles offers a timely exploration of how race and religion become intertwined." * Times Literary Supplement *"Locating religion and race along a single axis, Kimberly Anne Coles measures the role of the connection between body and soul in the oppression and alienation of groups of people. Her argument gets at the foundations of race-making in a book that is thoroughly grounded in literary criticism, early modern race studies, religious history, early modern medical theory, and early American law." * Jonathan Burton, Whittier College *"Bad Humor is a timely contribution to ongoing conversations about how religion informed early modern race-thinking. Arguing that earlier conceptions of hereditary blood and rank enabled ‘Black melancholy’ to be tethered to irreligion, Coles shows that faith comes to be seen as less a feature of belief than an inheritable somatic condition. First articulated in relationship to Europeans and later to Black Africans, the idea that there exists a ‘complexion of the soul’ reveals early modern theology, natural philosophy, humoral medicine, and Protestant literature to be early contributors to white supremacy." * Valerie Traub, University of Michigan *"Uncovering how humoral theory entwines with philosophical and theological discussions of the relationship between body and soul, Kimberly Anne Coles makes clear that English Protestants rendered belief and non-belief heritable, and that this understanding of the heritable nature of belief was used to justify colonialism and the enslavement of Africans. Bad Humor provides important new insight into the racialization of religion in early modern English literature." * Dennis Austin Britton, The University of British Columbia *"In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles traces a logic whereby humoral imbalance—in particular, the excess of black bile supposedly registered in dark complexions—constitutes an essential moral inferiority that renders Christian conversion and civic affiliation impossible; those so cast outside the body politic are marked as legitimate objects of enslavement and genocide. Bad Humor compels us to attend to the enmeshment of science and religion in shaping early modern iterations of hierarchy and heredity attuned to the demands of emergent racial capitalism." * Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania *
£48.60
University of Pennsylvania Press American Fragments
Book SynopsisIn the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called fragments. American Fragments recovers this archive of the romantic period to raise a set of pressing questions about the relationship between aesthetic and national realities: What kind of artistic creation was a fragment?, And how and why did deliberately unfinished writing emerge alongside a country that was itself still unfinished?Through discussions of eighteenth-century transatlantic aesthetics, the Revolutionary War, seduction novels, religious culture, and the construction of authorship, Daniel Diez Couch argues that the literary fragment was used as a means of representing individuals who did not fit neatly into the social fabric of the nation: beggars, prostitutes, veterans, and other ostracized figures. These individuals did not have a secure place in designs for the country's future, yet writers wieldedTrade Review"There’s a lot to admire here, including Couch’s ability to say something new about topics like the connections between aesthetics and liberal individualism, which may have otherwise seemed exhausted...American Fragments positions itself less as an intervention and more as a contribution, a missing piece that makes the conversation about early US aesthetics more complete." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"How is it possible that no one before now has written a literary history of the 'fragment' in early US literature, or one which focuses on this form as important to a more broadly targeted literary history? The fact that such a question can even form itself in a reader’s mind is usually a concrete sign of an author’s success. In the present case, that success rests on the combination of the argument’s novelty and the obviousness of its importance to the field...Before this book’s publication, the 'fragment' may not have looked like a form essential to early American literary history; afterward, it most certainly does." * Early American Literature *"In American Fragments, Daniel Diez Couch urges us to examine the role that the fragment played both for readers and writers between 1787 and 1813...Couch’s work reminds us that there is meaning in the partial, intentionally incomplete silences of these fragments. Early American scholars will find this well-written analysis a thought-provoking addition to our understanding of this tumultuous and transitional period." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *"In a field that has for decades glanced only fleetingly at the formal category of the fragment without focusing its critical attention, American Fragments is both a flash of illumination and a corrective lens. It restores to us, through the early republic’s minor forms, some of the freedom—and the historical contingency—that has been obscured by the myth of the national plot." * Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan University *
£49.30
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Daybooks of Discovery Nature Diaries in Britain
Book SynopsisRooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This book offers a critical study of this genre. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history.
£20.85
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Shakespeares Ocean
Book SynopsisStudy of the sea - both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation - has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In Shakespeare's Ocean, Dan Brayton foregrounds the maritime dimension of a writer whose plays and poems have had an enormous impact on literary notions of nature and, in so doing, plots a new course for ecocritical scholarship.
£27.50
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia More Things in Heaven and Earth Shakespeare
Book SynopsisArgues that Hamlet's famous phrase not only underscores the blurred boundaries between the warring Protestantism and Catholicism of Shakespeare's time; it is also an appeal for basic spirituality, free from any particular doctrinal scheme.Trade ReviewFiddes’s theological breadth and openness are a breath of the freshest of air, bracing, and giving new life. The book is very engagingly written and thoroughly absorbing throughout. It deserves to garner a wide readership among lovers and scholars of Shakespeare and theologians who wish to think with, and through, art, drama, liturgy, poetry." - Sarah Beckwith, Duke University, author of Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness
£34.16
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Limited Access Transport Metaphors and Realism
Book SynopsisDraws on media studies and the history of books and reading to bring to life a history of realism concerned with the inclusivity of readers. Kyoko Takanashi shows how novelists employed metaphors of transport to constantly reassess what readers could and could not access.
£83.30
University of Virginia Press Milieus of Minutiae
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£87.55
University of Minnesota Press Racine
Book SynopsisA study of all of the major tragedies of Jean Racine, France's preeminent dramatist—and, according to many, its greatest and most representative author—Mitchell Greenberg's work offers an exploration of Racinian tragedy to explain the enigma of the plays' continued fascination.Table of ContentsA Note on Text and Translations Preface Introduction: Spectacle, Myth, Sacrifice: Racinian Tragedy and the Origins of Modernity 1. La Thébaïde: Politics and Monstrous Origins 2. Andromaque: Myth and Melancholy 3. Britannicus: Power, Perversion, and Paranoia 4. Oriental Oedipus: Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate 5. Iphigénie: Sacrifice and Sovereignty 6. Phèdre (et Hippolyte): Tabou, Transgression, and the Birth of Democracy? 7. Esther, Athalie: Religion, and Revolution in Racine's Heavenly City Notes Index
£19.79
The University of Alabama Press Separate Spheres No More Gender Convergence in
Book SynopsisAlthough they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been ghettoised by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favour of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching.
£26.96
Ohio University Press Shakespeare the Illusionist
Book SynopsisIn Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare’s plays on film, assessing what filmmakers and TV directors have made of the spells, haunts, and apparitions— Puck and the fairies, ghosts and witches, or Prospero’s island—in his plays. A bold step forward in Shakespeare and film studies.Trade Review“This is a wonderful book: learned, bright, and winningly written. It tackles an interesting issue (the nature of illusion in an art form which is all illusion) in Shakespeare on film and does so by not only providing rich and satisfying readings of some major Shakespeare films (Olivier’s Hamlet and Welles’s Macbeth, for example) that I had thought had been well mined by previous critics, but does so by placing those films in the context of the larger film history.”
£31.50
Duke University Press The Ruins of Allegory
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£27.90
Duke University Press Ladies Errant
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ladies Errant is a brilliant piece of scholarship which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Ariosto, of early modern representations of gender, and of the ideological dynamics that link gender tightly with other social-political structures. It will be important to anyone interested in questions of gender in the European early modern period."—Albert Russell Ascoli, University of California, Berkeley"A far-reaching and innovative work with important and suggestive revisions of previous notions of errancy and feminine behavior in Renaissance Italy. Ladies Errant succeeds brilliantly in weaving together texts by providing sophisticated theoretical framings that are at once subtle and powerful."—Margaret F. Rosenthal, University of Southern California
£76.50
Duke University Press EighteenthCentury Literary History
Book SynopsisCovers a broad cross-section of eighteenth-century literary history. This book explores the intersection of literary studies with history, philosophy, psychology, and the visual arts. It discusses a range of topics, including feminism, nationalism, domestic ideology, and the classical novel-drama-lyric poetry triad.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Provocations / Marshall Brown A Novel Nation; or, How to Rethink Modern England as an Emergent Culture / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse Nobody's Story: Gender, Property, and the Rise of the Novel / Catherine Gallagher Reading Shakespeare's Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox-Johnson Debate / Jonathan Brody Kramnick Godwin and the Republican Romance / Jon Klancher Feminine Identity Formation in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre / Jill Anne Kowalik Mary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho / Jerome McGann Reading the Moment and the Moment of Reading in Graffigny's Lettres d'une peruvienne / Thomas M. Kavanagh De-familiarizing the Family; or, Writing Family History from Literary Sources / Ruth Perry The Anxiety of Change: Reconfiguring Family Relations in Beaumarchais's Trilogy / Christie McDonald The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest / Michael B. Prince Descartes's Cogito, Kant's Sublime, and Rembrandt's Philosophers: Cultural Transmission as Occasion for Freedom / Sanford Budick Contributors Index
£25.19
Duke University Press The Monster in the Machine
Book SynopsisTracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Explaining that the word 'monster' is derived from the Latin for 'omen' or 'warning,' this title offers an exploration of the monster's early identity as a portent or messenger from God.Trade Review“A well-researched, engagingly written, rich, and enlightening study.”—Deanna Shemek, author of Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy“This is a superlative and highly inventive piece of scholarship.”—Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, author of The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista VicoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Monstrous Matter Chapter 2: Monstrous Machines Chapter 3: Medicine and the Mechanical Body Chapter 4: Vico’s Monstrous Body Chapter 5: Monstrous Metaphor Afterword Notes Works Consulted Index
£76.50
Duke University Press Obscene Things
Book SynopsisAfter first appearing around 1590, Jing Ping Mei was circulated among some of China's best known writers of the time and subsequently published in three major recensions. By arguing from the standpoint of feminism, this title can contribute to studies of Chinese literature, Asian studies, feminism, politics of sexuality, and cultural studies.Trade Review“Ding’s reading of Jin Ping Mei is unique and extremely important. By reading this novel as a cumulative accretion of text and commentary and as a cultural icon, she shows how all of us who read it from an aesthetic perspective are implicated in covering up its disturbing and hatefully misogynist core. This is a true coup.”— Maram Epstein, University of Oregon“In this absorbing study of the multiple lives of a literary classic that is also a popular pornographic text, Naifei Ding steals across the border between cultural studies and feminist/queer literary criticism. Bringing a gendered social history of modern print culture in China into a ‘porous intimacy’ with both a critique of interpretive power and a feminist ‘counter-ethics’ of reading, Obscene Things is a scholarly work of exceptional creativity. Ding herself is a wonderful storyteller, and her critical narration of the fortunes of Jin Ping Mei will inspire anyone concerned with the how of studying historical modalities of gender, sexuality, status, and cultural power.”—Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University“Those who read Ding’s investigation will never look at critical interpretations of Chinese fiction with the same complacency again.”—Robert E. Hegel, author of Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial ChinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Part One: Practices 1. Jin-ology 2. The Manic Preface: Jin Shengtan’s (1608-1661) Shuihu zhuan 3. A Cure for Melancholy: Yuan Hongdao (1558-1610) and Qifa (Seven Stimuli) 4. Tears of Resentment: Zhang Zhupo’s (1670-1698) Jin Ping Mei Part Two: Intervention 5. Seduction: Tiger and Yinfu 6. Red Shoes, Foot Bindings, and the Swing 7. A Cat, a Dog, and the Killing of Livestock 8. Very Close to Yinfu and Enu; or, How Prefaces Matter for Jin Ping Mei (1695) and Enu Shu (Taipei, 1995) Notes Glossary Works Cited Index
£27.90
University of Pittsburgh Press The Formation of College English Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces Pittsburgh Series in Composition Literacy and Culture
Book SynopsisCo-Winner of the 1998 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language, literature, rhetoric and composition, The Formation of College English reexamines the civic concerns of rhetoric and the politics that have shaped and continue to shape college English.
£46.10
ME - Fordham University Press The Melancholy Assemblage Affect and
Book SynopsisTilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, The Melancholy Assemblage examines how the interpretive experience of emotion produces social bonds. Placing readings of early modern painting and literature in conversation with psychoanalytic theory and assemblage theory, this book argues that, far from isolating its sufferers, melancholy brings people together.Trade Review"In this stimulating, inventive, and moving volume by one of Shakespeare studies' most brilliant and original emerging voices, Drew Daniel uses the history of melancholy in order to map the haptic loops and iconic postures that bind together thinking, feeling, and making in art and life. Along the way he answers questions that really matter, such as how melancholy forges friendships among misanthropes, and why fashion makes us sad." -- -Julia Reinhard Lupton author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life "... a powerfully engaging and deeply rewarding study of melancholy in English Renaissance literature." -- -Graham Hammill University at Buffalo, SUNY "In 'The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance', Daniel makes the kids of vibrant connections between earlier and later theoretical regimes that Floyd Wilson largely eschews." -Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 "This is an alert and edgy work by a major new voice in Renaissance studies." -Julia Reinhard Lupton, SEL (Recent STudies in Tudor and Stuart Drama)
£71.10
Fordham University Press Hollow Men Writing Objects and Public Image in
Book SynopsisAnalyzes texts and art objects from the 15th to the late 16th centuries to show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep skepticism about representation, as these theories forced men to construct a public image that seemed fixed but could adapt to changing circumstances.Trade Review"This smart and engaging book argues that from the mid-fifteenth century onward, Italian courtiers, authors, and artists understood exemplarily as the negotiation between the hidden inside of a person and the words, actions, or images that reveal that person to the world." -- Maarten Delbeke -Renaissance Quarterly " In Gaylard's persuasive reading, the faltering transmission of ancient virtues find increasing compensation in the pre formative posture, that monumental pose in which timeless values and pellucid examples rematerialize as self-conscious representation." -- Eileen Reeves -Modern Language Quarterly "Susan Gaylard has produced a powerfully suggestive study of the relation between writing and the desire for a kind of secular personal permanence that was the closest thing to immortality in the estimation of Italians during the century and a half before 1600." -- -Walter Stephens The John Hopkins University "Gaylard undertakes a richly detailed, fascinating inquiry into the ways in which early modern theories of imitation (rhetorical and corporeal) intersect with practices of representation used by contemporaries to convey verbal and visual images of exemplary individuals, especially notable figures from the classical past, to quattrocento and cinquecento audiences." -Choice
£66.60
Fordham University Press Becoming Christian Race Reformation and Early
Book SynopsisExamines early modern English literary representations of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity alongside English translations of Calvin’s writings, polemical writings, treaties on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons. Demonstrates that the development of a theology of race in post-Reformation England helped resolved doctrinal controversies about baptism.Trade Review"Above and beyond its substantial contribution to early modern literary studies, Becoming Christian gives the effort of conversion and the work of baptism new meaning and momentum. As such, this book is not only about romance: it also participates in romance, a literary form that draws its extraordinary resilience from its capacity to serve as a tool for living." -Julia Reinhard Lupton, The Spenser Review "Becoming Christian is an exciting study that offers a theological account of race and racialization in early modern England, and explores the way this theology of race informs the cultural imagination." -- -Joan Pong Linton Indiana University "Britton's book serves as a model of intersectional approaches to early modern race, animating connections among skin color, bloodline, faith, and geography...The journey is exhilarating and Britton a remarkably enlightened guide." -- Jean E. Ferrick -Renaissance Quarterly "What is strikingly original in Britton's work is the underlying insistence on unearthing the ways English theologians and writers made use of a religious motif -baptism- as a coded racial marker." -- -Margot Hendricks University of California, Santa Cruz "...this is an important book, showing in no uncertain terms how profoundly the construction of Protestant religious difference impacted England's relations not just with other Europeans, but with the populations across the globe that it would increasingly encounter as a Christian nation in the age of empire." -Barbara Fuchs, SEL: Studies in English Literature "Dennis Britton's excellent Becoming Christian uncovers with rigor, clarity, and breadth a hitherto neglected, protoracialist component to early modern Christianity." -Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Not Turning the Ethiope White 1. "The Baptiz'd Race" 2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene 3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality: Translation, Reading, and Conversion in Harington's Orlando Furioso 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance: Re-'turning' Othello and the Location of Christian Identity 5. Reproducing Christians: Salvation, Race, and Gender on the Early Modern English Stage Afterword: A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion Notes Bibliography Index
£45.00
Fordham University Press Lyric Apocalypse Milton Marvell and the Nature
Book SynopsisHow can one experience the apocalypse in the present? Lyric Apocalypse argues that John Milton’s and Andrew Marvell’s lyrics depict revelation as an immediately perceptible event. In so doing, their lyrics explore the nature of events, the modern question of what it means for something to happen in the present.Trade Review"Lyric Apocalypse is a fine piece of work: timely, original, and persuasive-a powerful combination of theoretical argument with illuminating close reading. Netzely's sensitivity to verbal and syntactical alternatives is remarkable." -- -Judith H. Anderson Indiana University "This book explores both poets' views of apocalyptic change in the present." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Netzley offers a theoretically sophisticated contemplation of the relationship between lyric and history. As he shows, lyric's concern with the momentary and evental holds the potential to disrupt historical narrativization, which in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is also the potential to query the Providential and the prophetic. This book ought to be read by scholars of Milton and Marvell, and will be appreciated well beyond early modern studies for an approach to lyric poetry informed by the work of Agamben, Adorno, and Deleuze and Guattari." -- -Feisal Mohamed author of Milton and the Post-Secular PresentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Lyric Apocalypses, Transformative Time, and the Possibility of Endings 1. Apocalyptic Means: Allegiance, Force, and Events in Marvell's Cromwell Trilogy and Royalist Elegies 2. Hope in the Present: Paratactic Apocalypses and Contemplative Events in Milton's Sonnets 3. What Happens in Lycidas Apocalypse, Possibility, and Events in Milton's Pastoral Elegy 4. How Poems End: Apocalypse, Symbol, and the Event of Ending in "Upon Appleton House" Conclusion. Revelation: Learning Freedom and the End of Crisis Notes Bibliography Index
£35.10
Fordham University Press Dante and Islam
Book SynopsisControversy has raged about Christian perspectives on Muslims in Dante’s Divine Comedy. One extreme emphasizes “clash of civilizations,” another peaceful cohabitation. Dante’s fit within orientalism remains debated. Sifting the issues requires investigating the Qur’an and Islamic learning, Dante’s images of Muhammad, and engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Italy.Trade Review"This volume gathers together some of the major figures in the study of Dante and Islam, including the seminal work of Cantarino and Corti, as well as ground-breaking articles such as Burman on medieval readers of the Latin Qur'an and Mallette on the figure of Muhammad. Dante's visionary poetry is placed in the context of western reception of Arabic literature as well as the dynamic field of Mediterranean Studies. A must-read volume for scholars and students of European views of the Muslim world." -- -Suzanne Conklin Akbari author of Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450Table of ContentsIntroduction Jan Ziolkowski Approaches to a Controversy Dante and Islam: History and Analysis of a Controversy (1965) Vicente Cantarino Dante and Islamic Culture (1999) Maria Corti Dante and Knowledge of the Qur'an Translations of the Qur'an and Other Islamic Texts before Dante (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries) Jose Martinez Gazquez How an Italian Friar Read His Arabic Qur'an Thomas Burman Images of Islamic Philosophy and Learning in Dante Philosophers, Theologians, and the Islamic Legacy in Dante: Inferno 4 versus Paradiso 4 Brenda Deen Schildgen Dante and the Falasifa: Religion as Imagination Gregory B. Stone Falconry as a Transmutative Art: Dante, Frederick II, and Islam Daniela Boccassini Images of Muammad in Dante Dante's Muammad: Parallels between Islam and Arianism Maria Esposito Frank Muhammad in Hell Karla Mallette Islam in Dante's Italy Mendicants and Muslims in Dante's Florence John Tolan Dante and the Three Religions Giorgio Battistoni The Last Muslims in Italy David Abulafia Notes Index of references to Dante's major works General Index
£63.00
Fordham University Press Shadows of Trauma
Book SynopsisThe book traces the process of creating of a new German memory of the Holocaust after the fall of the Wall. Combining theoretical analysis with historical case studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues out of which Germany’s new ‘memory culture’ emerged as a collective project and work in progress.Trade Review"The appearance in English of this major text by Aleida Assmann will be welcomed by all scholars of cultural memory. Shadows of Trauma, lucidly translated by Sarah Clift, offers both an important introduction to Assmann's influential thinking about how individuals and societies recall traumatic pasts and a sustained exploration of the memory of the Holocaust and World War II in the German context." -- -Michael Rothberg author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization "For readers of German, Shadows of Trauma is a classic in the field of memory studies. We are fortunate now to benefit from Aleida Assmann's elegant elucidation of key theoretical concepts and analysis of important debates animating the memory of the Second World War and the Holocaust in contemporary Germany. At the same time, Assmann's own original and often surprising conceptualizations of the workings of individual, social, political, and collective memory are as definitive as they are provocative and productive." -- -Marianne Hirsch Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to the English Language Edition Introduction Part I: Theoretical Foundations 1. From Individual to Collective Constructions of the Past 2. Basic Concepts and Themes of Individual and Collective Memory Part II: Analyses and Case Studies 3. How True are Memories? 4. False Memories: Pathologies of Identity at the End of the Twentieth Century 5. Incorrect Memories: On the Normative Power of Social Frameworks of Memory 6. Five Strategies of Represssion 7. German Narratives of Victimhood 8. Points of Intersection Between Lived Memory and Cultural Memory 9. Lieux de Memoire in Time and Space 10. The Future of Holocaust Memory 11. Europe as a Memory Community Conclusion: Shadows of Trauma Notes Bibliography Index
£27.90
Fordham University Press Receptive Spirit
Book SynopsisPremised on the assumption that the mind is fundamentally active and self-determining, the German Idealist project gave rise to new ways of thinking about our dependence upon culturally transmitted models of thought, feeling, and creativity. Receptive Spirit elucidates the ways in which Kant, Fichte, Schlegel, and Hegel envisioned and enacted the conjunction of receptivity and spontaneous activity in the transmission of human-made models of mindedness. Their innovations have defined the very terms in which we think about the historical character of aesthetic experience, the development of philosophical thinking, the dynamics of textual communication, and the task of literary criticism.Combining a reconstructive approach to this key juncture of modern thought with close attention paid to subsequent developments, Marton Dornbach argues that we must continue to think within the framework established by the Idealists if we are to keep our bearings in the contemporary intellectual Trade Review"Receptive Spirit is a finely argued and erudite rereading of what is arguably the most important period in modern philosophy, the early reception of Kant's critical philosophy, when the timeless now of Kantian cognition met a great challenge in the historical mind that came onto the scene." -- -Paul North Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Idealism and Finitude 1. Kant on the Formation of Taste 2. Kantian Revisionism and Revisionist Kantianism 3. Esoteric Enlightenment in Fichte 4. Friedrich Schlegel on Textual Communication 5. Exoteric Enlightenment in Hegel Conclusion: The Afterlife of a Distinction Notes Bibliography Index
£45.00
Fordham University Press Renaissance Posthumanism
Book SynopsisRenaissance Posthumanism brings together two historical periods—“Renaissance” signifying a rebirth of the ancient and “Posthumanism” a death of the modern—to ponder each through the possibilities of the other. This collection rethinks the humanities under the auspices of the posthumanities of the posthumanities under the auspices of Renaissance humanism.Trade Review"Fiery flint and weeping marble, hairy mandrakes and ardent monkeys, flayed skins and inky parchments, chimp-like sheep and one-eyed cows: these are among the quirky and vibrant actors assembled in this exciting and timely new volume. In search of Renaissance posthumanism, the authors examine unfamiliar archives in response to current environmental and technological urgencies, and their inventive and thoughtful readings will spur new lines of inquiry." -- -Julia Reinhard Lupton University of California, Irvine "Exciting, scholarly and untimely in the best way, the essays in Renaissance Posthumanism cross-multiply history and theory into bracingly new forms." -- -Drew Daniel Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Joseph Campana and Scott Maisano 1. What Posthumanism Isn't: On Humanism and Human Exceptionalism in the Renaissance Kenneth Gouwens 2. Titian's Flaying of Marsyas: Thresholds of the Human and the Limits of Painting Stephen Campbell 3. Rabelais' Silenic Regime: The Fundamentals of Gargantua Judith Roof 4. A Natural History of Ravishment Holly Dugan 5. Farmyard Choreographies in Early Modern England Erica Fudge 6. Oves et Singulatim: A Multispecies Impression Julian Yates 7. Wooden Actors on the English Renaissance Stage Vin Nardizzi 8. Beyond Human: Visualizing the Sexuality of Abraham Bosse's Mandrake Diane Wolfthal 9. Shakespeare's Mineral Emotions Lara Bovilsky Epilogue: H Is for Humanism Joseph Campana Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index
£27.90
Fordham University Press Light and Death
Book SynopsisDeath, light, figuration and, especially, analogical expressions of figuration, are the primary subjects of this book. They generate associated interests: the relation of literature and science, the methodology of thought and argument, and the processes of narrative, discovery, and interpretation. Creativity, optics, rhetoric, and language are focal as well.Trade Review"Analogy, 'the connector of the known to the unknown,' is given in-depth exploration in this fascinating study of life and death, darkness and light, language and meaning; a learned, richly textured study that contributes immeasurably to early modern studies." -- -Regina M. Schwartz Professor of English, Northwestern University "This fascinating book is above all a contribution to the history of early modern science that helps an ongoing critical process of revisionism by showing how both scientific and poetic thought use analogy in similar ways. It is also fascinating in its unusual structure: it allows us access to Anderson's subtle critical mind in the process of building interpretations." -- -Leah Marcus Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Issues of Death, Light, and Analogy 1. “The Body of This Death”: Donne’s Sermons, Spenser’s Maleger, Milton’s Sin and Death 2. Mutability and Mortality in The Faerie Queene 3. Satanic Ethos: Evil, Death, and Individuality in Paradise Lost 4. Connecting the Cultural Dots: Classical to Modern Traditions of Analogy 5. Proportional Thinking in Kepler’s Science of Light 6. Analogy, Proportion, and Death in Donne’s Anniversaries 7. Milton’s Twilight Zone: Analogy, Light, and Darkness in Paradise Lost Acknowledgments Notes Index
£48.60
Fordham University Press The Insistence of Art
Book SynopsisThe essays in The Insistence of Art suggest ways in which the artworks and practices of the early modern period show the essentiality of aesthetic experience for philosophical reflection, and in particular for the rise of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline, while also showing art’s need for philosophy.Trade Review"This collection on early modern aesthetics of doesn't just fill a gap: In its emphatic refusal to cordon off the Renaissance, and in its conviction that art is no passive mirror but a 'matrix through which social reality is established,' it is a welcome corrective. Dante and Ficino, Donne and Shakespeare, Bellori and Caravaggio, Goya and Pater-with Herder, Hegel, Paul de Man and Kierkeegard making memorable cameos-populate an early modernity that looks ahead to modernism." -- -Andrei Pop University of Chicago "A superb and timely collection-rigorous wide-ranging essays demonstrating some of the most compelling trends in their respective fields. It's the sort of collection that gives substance and urgency to interdisciplinary thinking." -- -Christopher Pye Williams College
£92.70
Fordham University Press The Insistence of Art
Book SynopsisThe essays in The Insistence of Art suggest ways in which the artworks and practices of the early modern period show the essentiality of aesthetic experience for philosophical reflection, and in particular for the rise of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline, while also showing art’s need for philosophy.Trade Review"This collection on early modern aesthetics of doesn't just fill a gap: In its emphatic refusal to cordon off the Renaissance, and in its conviction that art is no passive mirror but a 'matrix through which social reality is established,' it is a welcome corrective. Dante and Ficino, Donne and Shakespeare, Bellori and Caravaggio, Goya and Pater-with Herder, Hegel, Paul de Man and Kierkeegard making memorable cameos-populate an early modernity that looks ahead to modernism." -- -Andrei Pop University of Chicago "A superb and timely collection-rigorous wide-ranging essays demonstrating some of the most compelling trends in their respective fields. It's the sort of collection that gives substance and urgency to interdisciplinary thinking." -- -Christopher Pye Williams College
£25.19
Fordham University Press Indecorous Thinking
Book SynopsisIndecorous Thinking argues that early modern writers including Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth challenged humanism's increasingly dogmatic conflation of truth with plainness by treating figures of speech as the instruments of thinking and as the engines of poetry's imaginative worlds.Trade Review"It is rare to encounter a book as learned, engaging, thorough, and innovative as Colleen Rosenfeld's Indecorous Thinking. Rosenfeld deftly challenges a long-held truism of literary history: that sprezzatura, or the concealment of labor, was a goal uniformly shared by celebrated English poets. To the contrary, Rosenfeld shows, early modern writers frequently practiced 'open art,' or art that makes conspicuous-even audacious-use of figures of speech. Refusing to confine itself to what uncontestably is, this poetry works instead in the subjunctive mood to imagine a world constructed otherwise." -- -Melissa Sanchez University of Pennsylvania "Indecorous Thinking is an excellent and timely book about how poetic figures 'craft' thought and work together as engines of poetic 'world making.' It is a rich and sustaining book, one anyone working in the field of English Renaissance literature will want to own and have ready to hand. Indecorous Thinking is original but it is also traditionally learned; tightly argued but also elegantly written; daring but also mature." -- -Gordon Teskey Harvard University
£102.60
Fordham University Press Indecorous Thinking Figures of Speech in Early
Book SynopsisIndecorous Thinking argues that early modern writers including Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth challenged humanism's increasingly dogmatic conflation of truth with plainness by treating figures of speech as the instruments of thinking and as the engines of poetry's imaginative worlds.Trade Review"It is rare to encounter a book as learned, engaging, thorough, and innovative as Colleen Rosenfeld's Indecorous Thinking. Rosenfeld deftly challenges a long-held truism of literary history: that sprezzatura, or the concealment of labor, was a goal uniformly shared by celebrated English poets. To the contrary, Rosenfeld shows, early modern writers frequently practiced 'open art,' or art that makes conspicuous-even audacious-use of figures of speech. Refusing to confine itself to what uncontestably is, this poetry works instead in the subjunctive mood to imagine a world constructed otherwise." -- -Melissa Sanchez University of Pennsylvania "Indecorous Thinking is an excellent and timely book about how poetic figures 'craft' thought and work together as engines of poetic 'world making.' It is a rich and sustaining book, one anyone working in the field of English Renaissance literature will want to own and have ready to hand. Indecorous Thinking is original but it is also traditionally learned; tightly argued but also elegantly written; daring but also mature." -- -Gordon Teskey Harvard University
£27.90
Fordham University Press Radical Botany Plants and Speculative Fiction
Book SynopsisRadical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. The book traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants within literature and art for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought.Table of ContentsPreface | vii 1. Radical Botany: An Introduction | 1 2. Libertine Botany and Vegetal Modernity | 28 3. Plant Societies and Enlightened Vegetality | 56 4. The Inorganic Plant in the Romantic Garden | 86 5. The End of the World by Other Means | 114 6. Plant Horror: Love Your Own Pod | 144 7. Becoming Plant Nonetheless | 171 Acknowledgments | 203 Notes | 205 Works Cited | 253 Index | 269
£91.80
Fordham University Press Fate of the Flesh Secularization and
Book SynopsisThis book argues that in the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-garde poetry.Table of ContentsPreface: Christianity as Critical Theory | vii Introduction: Secularization and the Resurrection of the Flesh | 1 1. Secularization, Countersecularization, and the Fate of the Flesh in Donne | 29 2. Wanting to Be Another Person: Resurrection and Avant-Garde Poetics in George Herbert | 64 3. Luminous Stuff: The Resurrection of the Flesh in Vaughan’s Religious Verse | 101 4. The Feeling of Being a Body: Resurrection and Habitus in Vaughan’s Medical Writings | 124 5. Resurrection, Dualism, and Legal Personhood: Bodily Presence in Ben Jonson | 148 Epilogue: Resurrection and Zombies | 181 Acknowledgments | 191 Notes | 193 Index | 219
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Fordham University Press The Form of Love
Book SynopsisThe Form of Love explores what poetry can articulate about love that philosophy cannot. Reading seven poems, this book shows how figures ranging from Donne to Dickinson use poetic form to transform philosophy’s concern to convey truth about love into the concern to create a virtual experience of love.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Form of Love: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Closeness of Loving Reading | 1 1. Disjunctive Love: Philosophical Project and Poetic Experience in Donne’s “The Ecstasy” | 29 2. Obscure Love: Virtual Masochisms in Philips’s “Friendship’s Mysterys” | 56 3. Forgetting to Love: Problems of Praise in Herbert’s “The Flower” | 78 4. Loving Rhyme: Reading Mastery in Crashaw’s “The Flaming Heart” | 98 5. Green Love: Lost in Marvell’s “The Garden” | 117 6. Love and/or Lyric: Dickinson’s “I cannot live with You -” | 145 Acknowledgments | 171 Notes | 173 Index | 209
£78.30
Fordham University Press The Form of Love
Book SynopsisThe Form of Love explores what poetry can articulate about love that philosophy cannot. Reading seven poems, this book shows how figures ranging from Donne to Dickinson use poetic form to transform philosophy’s concern to convey truth about love into the concern to create a virtual experience of love.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Form of Love: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Closeness of Loving Reading | 1 1. Disjunctive Love: Philosophical Project and Poetic Experience in Donne’s “The Ecstasy” | 29 2. Obscure Love: Virtual Masochisms in Philips’s “Friendship’s Mysterys” | 56 3. Forgetting to Love: Problems of Praise in Herbert’s “The Flower” | 78 4. Loving Rhyme: Reading Mastery in Crashaw’s “The Flaming Heart” | 98 5. Green Love: Lost in Marvell’s “The Garden” | 117 6. Love and/or Lyric: Dickinson’s “I cannot live with You -” | 145 Acknowledgments | 171 Notes | 173 Index | 209
£21.59
University of Hawai'i Press Men and Women in Qing China Gender in the Red
Book SynopsisThis title is an analysis of Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in Cao Xueqin's famous 18th-century Chinese novel of manners, The Red Chamber Dream, or The Story of the Stone. Drawing on feminist literary critical methods, it examines Qing notions of masculinity and femininity.
£16.96
University of Hawai'i Press The Phantom Heroine Ghosts and Gender in
Book SynopsisThe hypersexual female ghost continues to be a source of fascination in East Asian media, much like the sexually predatory vampire in American and European culture. But while vampires can be of either gender, erotic Chinese ghosts are almost exclusively female. The significance of this gender asymmetry in Chinese literary history is the subject of Judith Zeitlin's meticulously researched new book.Trade ReviewIn this study of how female ghosts have been represented in Chinese narrative, poetry, and drama, Judith Zeitlin’s skills as researcher and reader of texts are fully on display. The result is a compact study of some 250 pages that distills an astonishingly broad array of sources into readings that are thoroughly grounded and brilliantly framed."" —Journal of Chinese Religions; ""No review of The Phantom Heroine could do full justice to the many gems that readers will find in each chapter. Judith Zeitlin continues to produce work that is clear, meticulously researched, and full of provocative insights and connections. . . . Many of her literary analyses are so elegant and insightful that they are almost as pleasurable to read as the original literature. . . . The Phantom Heroine masterfully accomplishes Zeitlin’s goal of explicating the cultural logic behind the creation of female ghosts who surpass flesh-and-blood women by phantasmagorically embodying so many literary yearnings."" —Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies; ""A tour-de-force of interdisciplinary inquiry into the representations and uses of the female ghost in late imperial Chinese literature. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, the study draws upon diverse texts and images, ranging from traditional Chinese medical literature to contemporary cinema. In addition to carefully reconstructing the cultural and historical contexts of her primary materials, Zeitlin makes judicious and fruitful use of a wide array of critical tools, including anthropological theories and psychoanalytical approaches. Indeed, this book is exemplary in how contemporary Sinology may be significantly broadened, deepened, and updated by incorporating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives."" —Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews; ""Zeitlin sets a new standard for general thematic studies in Chinese literature. In breadth, depth, and incisiveness of her insights, The Phantom Heroine clearly deserves to be on every graduate reading list. . . . An accomplishment of the first rank. . . . The Phantom Heroine is a major contribution to the study of Chinese literature."" —Journal of Chinese Studies; ""Through her perceptive textual and theatrical analysis . . . Zeitlin provides the most penetrating and conceptual frame for the Chinese ghost culture and literature as a whole."" —New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies; ""Zeitlin does a masterful job of integrating her erudition, offering a learned, original, and accessible piece of scholarship."" —Choice;""This is an accomplished book by a maverick thinker and writer. Zeitlin’s genius is to turn something hideous and freaky into the stuff of life. She adopts an archaeological approach, excavating motifs from and finding resonances in disparate genres and periods. An elegant book, it should attract readers from Chinese studies, gender studies, comparative literature, performance studies, and religion."" —Dorothy Ko, Columbia University;""This astute and carefully researched study defines new perspectives by synthesizing and developing insights from other disciplines, especially anthropology, psychology, art history, the history of religion, and the history of medicine. Whenever applicable, there are illuminating cross-cultural comparisons. The author has a magisterial command of the contexts of her materials. Her ability to situate literature as one strand in a web of cultural practices makes her conclusions particularly convincing."" —Wai-yee Li, Harvard University
£22.36
University of Missouri Press Dorothy Dunnetts Lymond Chronicles
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£56.25
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and
Book SynopsisTraces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture.
£23.36
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Sir Paul Rycaut The Present State of the Ottoman
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction John Anthony ButlerText Bibliography
£57.60
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Rivall Friendship by Bridget Manningham
Book SynopsisThe manuscript forRivallFriendshipwas first acquired by the Newberry Libraryin1937.At the timeof the acquisition,the authorof this seventeenth-century romancewasanonymous. Scholar JeanR.Brink nowsuggests, based ondating of the manuscript andheranalysis of itsfeministthemes, that the author was a woman.Specifically,Brinkattributesthe text toBridget Manningham, whowas the older sister of Thomas Manningham, a Jacobean and Caroline bishop, and the granddaughter of John Manningham,adiarist who recorded performances of Shakespeare's plays.RivallFriendshipis apostEnglishCivil War romancethatexamines proto-feminist issues, such as patriarchal dominance in the family and marriage. Manningham is scrupulous about maintaining verisimilitude,and unlike more fantastical romancesof the periodthat feature monsters, giants, and magic, thistextaspires to a level of probability in its historical and geographical details. The text ofRivallFriendshipis accessible to most modern readers, particularly to stuTable of ContentsPrefaceIllustrationsIntroductionRivall Friendship, Part 1Book 1Book 2Book 3Book 4Book 5Book 6Book 7Book 8Rivall Friendship, Part 2Book 1Book 2Book 3Book 4ContinuationAppendicesAppendix 1: Corrections of the third handAppendix 2: Ellis familyAppendix 3 List of CharactersAppendix 4: List of Historical Figures
£18.58
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Clément Marots Epistles
Book SynopsisThe first complete, versified English-language translation of the epistles of Renaissance poet Clément Marot. Clément Marot (14961544), a royal poet in Renaissance France who ushered in new verse forms and renewed existing ones, stands as one of the most important literary voices of the first half of the sixteenth century. Clément Marot's Epistles represents a first attempt to offer a sustained English-language translation and critical edition of what is widely considered his most personal, historically relevant, and crowning verse form. Aiming for integrality and poetic precision, the volume translates and sets to verse all seventy-four of Marot's epistles, employing the same meter and rhyme scheme used by the poet in the original compositions. Likewise focused on capturing Marot's poetic voice, thus maintaining idiomatic and literary integrity, the resulting translation is an attempt to relate the playfulness and pathos of Marot's verse, rendering it accessible to an anglophone public. Beyond the more traditional verse epistles included in the primary base text, Marot's authorized complete works from 1538, the volume also offers translations of the introductory prose epistles penned by Marot for his Adolescence clémentine of 1532 and the 1538 edition (Lyon, Dolet), as well as the coq-à-l'âne and other versified satirical epistles, the artificial epistle retelling of a popular medieval romance, and more. A robust critical apparatus includes ample footnotes, an extensive introduction, illustrations, a bibliography, a chronological table, and a concordance with the principal modern French-language editions of Marot's epistles. The book should appeal to English-speaking historians and literary scholars alike, as well as to poetry lovers, who will appreciate a new acquaintance with this distinctive voice from poetry's past. Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on the TranslationIntroductionClément Marot’s EpistlesIntroductory Epistle to the Adolescence clémentineIntroductory Epistle to Marot’s Œuvres of 1538EPISTLESBibliographyChronologyConcordanceIndex
£60.80
Cornell University Press Edmund Burke for Our Time
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewByrne's prose is highly readable, and his reading of Burke both plausible and illuminating. * National Review *
£33.25
Cornell University Press Noble Subjects The Russian Novel and the Gentry
Book SynopsisIn Noble Subjects, Bella Grigoryan examines the rise of the Russian novel in relation to the political, legal, and social definitions that accrued to the nobility as an estate, urging readers to rethink the cultural and political origins of the genre.Trade Review"In this highly original, well-researched study, Grigoryan explores the problematic status of the Russian nobility as citizens in an autocratic state as it was articulated in various journalistic, fictional, and nonfictional texts, while offering fresh interpretations of Russian literary works. This is a rare case of a truly balanced interdisciplinary work that makes an equal contribution to the fields of history and literary studies." --Valeria Sobol, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Noble Subjects makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the interplay between the rise of the nineteenth-century Russian novel and the formation of identity in Russian noble culture. Grigoryan is the first scholar to explore the relationship in Russia between the novelistic tradition and a rich but understudied body of prescriptive texts concerning agriculture. Her book makes a convincing case that the nobility used these overlapping discursive spaces to constitute a viable public sphere and give shape to their identity." --Thomas Newlin, author of The Voice in the Garden: Andrei Bolotov and the Anxieties of Russian Pastoral, 1738-1833
£33.25
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library Johnson After Three Centuries
Book SynopsisJohnson After Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts examines several aspects of Johnson's career through fresh perspectives and original interpretations by some of the best-known and widely-respected scholars of our time. Included are essays by James Basker, James Engell, Nicholas Hudson, Jack Lynch, and Allen Reddick.
£23.36
John Wiley & Sons Inc Studying Early Printed Books 14501800
Book SynopsisA comprehensive resource to understanding the hand-press printing of early books Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guide to the fascinating process of how books were printed in the first centuries of the press and shows how the mechanics of making books shapes how we read and understand them. The author offers an insightful overview of how books were made in the hand-press period and then includes an in-depth review of the specific aspects of the printing process. She addresses questions such as: How was paper made? What were different book formats? How did the press work? In addition, the text is filled with illustrative examples that demonstrate how understanding the early processes can be helpful to today's researchers. Studying Early Printed Books shows the connections between the material form of a book (what it looks like and how it was made), how a book conveys its meaning and how it is used by readers. The author helps readTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part 1 Overview 8 Getting Ready to Print 8 At the Press 16 Also at the Press 19 After Printing 20 The Economics of Printing 23 Part 2 Step-by-Step 26 Paper 26 Type 34 Format 42 Printing 55 Corrections and Changes 61 Illustrations 65 Binding 71 Part 3 On the Page 79 Advertisements 79 Alphabet and Abbreviations 80 Blanks 83 Dates 83 Imprint Statements 85 Edition, Impression, Issue, State, Copy 86 Initial Letters 88 Marginal Notes 90 Music 91 Pagination and Foliation 92 Preliminary Leaves 92 Press Figures 93 Printer’s Devices 95 Printer’s Ornaments 95 Privileges, Approbations, and Imprimaturs 96 Signature Marks 96 Title Pages 98 Volvelles and Movable Figures 100 Part 4 Looking at Books 102 Good Research Habits 103 Handling Books 104 Appearance 106 Contents 108 Page Features 111 Usage 113 Digitization 114 Part 5 The Afterlives of Books 118 Loss Rates 118 Catalog Records 120 Books in Hand 132 Books on Screen 139 Conclusion 149 Appendix 1: Further Reading 152 Appendix 2: Glossary 171 Index 180
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